Four Year House Term Debate Grows In Congress
Rep James H Howard of New Jersey proposes a four year House term arguing it would free members to focus on legislation. Supporters say it would reduce constant campaigning while opponents fear reduced responsiveness to constituents. He plans to file a discharge petition to bring the measure to the floor.
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House of Representatives
Congress
New Jersey
James H. Howard
Washington
Howard
House
One Last Smoke in a Tucson Fire Tragedy
A Tucson paper depicted a grim scene where a man perished in a bedroom fire while smoking in bed. Officials note many such deaths arise from a final cigarette, with embers igniting the mattress and smoke sealing the fate before escape attempts. The piece ends with a biblical quotation from Matthew 25 40.
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Tucson
Ariz
The Illusions Of Crisis By Jeffrey Hart
Hart argues that a widespread crisis mood is overstated and politically charged. He cites Banfield’s The Un Heavenly City to challenge notions of urban decline and examines how crisis rhetoric may mask anti democratic aims and elite motivations.
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Banfield
Banfield Hosts Harvard Course On Government Theory
Banfield, Shattuck Professor of Government at Harvard, leads a Cambridge course built around his book. He outlines his thesis in half the term and then invites renowned experts to test his arguments, a method likened to Joe Louis famed Bum of the Month Club.
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Banfield
Shattuck
Harvard
Cambridge
Joe Louis
Delayed Journal notices subscription rates and mail terms
The Journal Published delay by the News Journal Inc. outlines subscription rates for daily and Sunday issues, with per week and yearly mail options. It lists prices for city and suburban routes, training area, and outside regions including the USA, along with payment in advance terms.
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The
News Journal, Inc
First Ave
Middletown
Oho
Ohio
Crea
Yeal
Racline
USA
Segregation debate and housing in 1950s 60s cities
Banfield challenges common views on Negro neighborhoods noting housing improvements in Chicago from 59.3 to 25.4 percent substandard housing between 1950 and 1960 and a tripling of Negro families with incomes over 10 000 from 1959 to 1967 while asking if segregation is a national disgrace and if most Negroes favor living in mostly Negro areas.
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Chicago
The Dick and Jane Reading Debate Ends in Victory
The piece surveys a decade of revolt against progressive teaching, praising a shift toward basics. It highlights Scott, Foresman's new reading systems replacing Dick and Jane, integrating varied methods and parental involvement, with ties to Sesame Street and broader educational reform.
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Wall Street Journal
Vermont Royster
Jane
Scott, Foresman & Co
Scott
Dick and
Lippincott
Foresman
Spot
A Veteran Panels War Satire as Political Obscenity
Joan P Roche recalls a hard wartime record and a personal anti militarist stance while critiquing Catch 22 as a satire that degrades the Nazi war effort. He recounts fellow soldiers who died at Monte Cassino Salerno and Anzio and laments the film’s portrayal as a crime syndicate powered by the Establishment.
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Winston Churchill
Festung Europa
Monte Cassino
Salerno
Anzio
Tribute to Middletonian physicist Haigh killed in crash
A Middleton native Dr Joseph P Haigh a Carson New man College physics professor died in an auto accident on November 2 in Jefferson City Tenn He was 43 and left behind four children His career included NSF support a book authoring and research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Florida and Illinois He grew up in Middleton attended Lemon Monroe High School earned degrees at Miami University and studied at the University of Florida where his nuclear quadruple resonance work led to a new apparatus He was married to Isabel Hale and survived by his four children and his parents The college president called his death a great loss to physics teaching and the college community
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Banfield
FDR
Leon Keyserling
Council of Economic Advisors
U. S
Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City
Tenn
Joseph
Florida
Haigh
John A. Fincher
the Baptist College
Tennessee
Carson- Newman College
Middletown
First Baptist Church
Lemon-Monroe High School
Miami University
University of Illinois
University of Florida At
Gainesville
Dr. Haigh
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
University of Florida
Joseph P. Haigh
Sixth Avenue
Monroe
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Washington, DC
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California
Max Rafferty
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Council For Basic Education
Mortimer Smith
U.S
A.A. Milne
Robert Louis Stevenson
Elizabeth Coastworth
Mark Twain
Joan P. Roche
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Edmund Love
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Italy
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15Th Air Force
Roche
Auschwitz
National Science Foundation
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