Dartmouths New ABC Plan Aims to Broaden College Access
Dartmouth College launches Project A.B.C. A Better Chance in cooperation with independent secondary schools and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students. About 50 disadvantaged students from 13 states will spend eight weeks on campus this summer with eight tutors and Dartmouth instructors to qualify for admission to their chosen college. Rockefeller Foundation funds $150,000 for three years, Oberlin College runs a parallel program with 57 students studying English, math, social studies, art, music, and PE this summer and next.
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Fund For Negro Students
Hanover
Maine
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Fund
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Hampton Institute
Harvard University
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Oberlin College
Ohio College
Oberlin
Retarded Child and Czech Economic Failures Highlighted
The AMA notes mental retardation affects millions with 126000 births yearly. a nationwide mobilization for care expands medical fields and agencies. In Riverton and Ranger, Czechoslovakia’s central planning is cited as producing costly, low quality output and widespread rejection of products, illustrating systemic flaws.
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American Medical Association
America
AMA
Riverton
Wyo
Czechoslovakia
What Can a Man Do by Milton Mayer
This review praises Milton Mayer's What Can a Man Do for its bracing challenge to readers. It acknowledges Mayer as brilliant, serious, and irritating, forcing hard self reflection on war religion politics race and society. The piece notes Mayer’s pushy pacifism and the difficulty of agreeing with him while affirming the book’s provocative value.
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Milton Mayer
Pastor Martin Niemeller
University of Chicago Press
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Alcibiades
Socrates
Angel
Thoreau
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United States
Lewis
Warren
Senator Goldwater
The News praises city school gains amid crisis debate
A letter defends the school board and administration citing numerous programs and growth. It lists evening high school diploma options adult education summer school expansion junior high accelerations and improved guidance salaries and a national grant for primary reading research, arguing against a crisis outlook.
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Los Angeles City
New Castle
Delegates and Damages of Pennsylvania Politics
Governor Scranton faces uncertain GOP delegate moves as Henry Cabot Lodge resigns and Nixon hint looms large. The piece notes Scranton’s fading odds, possible Goldwater or Lodge switches, and Perry County and national dynamics. It also covers a perplexing corporation listing, PA scholarship counts, and conscience money trusts guiding state investments.
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Capitol Hill
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Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
Pennsylvania
Keystone State
San Francisco
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Big Bad John Returns Good Deed After Wallet Slip In Tampa
A motorist in Tampa drops an $18,000 wallet, a husky passer-by retrieves it and refuses a reward. The man behind the act, known as Big Bad John, shows a quiet generosity. The note adds trivia on Guatemala’s population and U S pet ownership.
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Big Bad John
Tampa
Fla
Big Bad
John
Pollock School Open Debate Sparks Board Action
A New Castle School Board committee representing the majority traveled to Harrisburg to argue Pollock Elementary should stay open. DPI officials denied threats of specific cuts in state aid and noted lack of space at Thaddeus Stevens to absorb 144 Pollock students.
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Pollock
DPI
Thaddeus
Thaddeus Stevens
Dominick E Choffi
Tomai
Pagliaro
Lasky
Cooper
Mathews
Speidel
Charlie
Robert Tomas Joseph V. Cooper
Anthony H. Pagliaro
Andrew S. Lasky
New Castle
Robert Tomai
Joseph Cooper
Anthony Pagliaro
Andrew Lasky
Harrisburg
Department of Public Instruction
Pollock School
North Street
Lincoln-Garfield
New Castle Chapter 176 Thanks for State Convention Coverage
The New Castle Chapter 176 of the Service Star Legion expresses deep appreciation for pictures and articles covering its 46th annual state convention held in New Castle from June 7 to June 10. Nancy Jones served as General Chairman.
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New Castle
Service Star Legion
Nancy Jones
Today's Living By Gone Stone
The reflection urges being useful to God and others as the true aim of life. It cites Jesus teaching that greatness comes from servanthood and warns that chasing material success brings frustration. The prayer asks for help to find real success in usefulness.
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Jesus
Bible Thought on Endurance and Salvation for Believers
A devotional line emphasizes enduring trials for the sake of God’s people that they may also obtain salvation and eternal glory. The message centers on steadfast faith and communal spiritual reward in Christian belief.
Profiles of Courage echoes in Goldwater Civil Rights clash
In a defense of conscience voting, the author contrasts Kennedy's Profiles of Courage with Goldwater's Civil Rights Bill opposition. The piece derides The New York Times and Anthony Lewis while urging respect for dissent within constitutional bounds and federalism amid California Republicans urging action.
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United States
Senator Goldwater
New York Times
Supreme Court of Appeals
Eastern Seaboard
Goldwater
Times
East
Anthony Lewis
Supreme Court
the Times
Posse
Justice Harlan
Earl Warren
Alfred Avins
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Dirksen
Scranton
South
California
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