New York Air Pollution Crisis Sparks Citywide Reforms
A 10 member task force led by Norman Cousins tells Mayor Lindsay New York has the nation’s most polluted air. They urge upgrading incinerators and exhaust controls for buses and taxis, reducing power plant emissions, and creating an Environmental Control board to oversee air, water, noise, and congestion with long term ideas like smokestack cleanup and monorail options.
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Trend marks 50th Pulitzer anniversary with 300 winners
The fiftieth anniversary gala gathered 300 living Pulitzer Prize recipients celebrated by Columbia University president Grayson Kirk as the nation’s most worthy in journalism literature and music. James Reston warned that radio and TV push reporters to think beyond events into causes of violence and war.
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Television Critique From The Wasteland Comment
The text cites Newton Minow once calling television a vast wasteland and mentions Kenneth A. Cox's view of the medium as between undistinguished and calamitous. It discusses tele visibility and potential while noting the medium still has a long way to go.
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Stevenson’s Rising Star Shapes Illinois 1966 Campaigns
The piece links Adlai Stevenson III, 35, to Illinois politics as a potential statewide figure, with Paul Douglas courting Stevenson for campaign support and a possible 1968 bid. It notes Stevenson’s independent record, reform bills, and influence on Daley and Douglas, plus speculation about future roles and the state ticket’s trajectory.
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Barrett O'Hara
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Daley
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Geneva Cantonal Communists Win Subtle Seat Gain
By Ray Cromley The Geneva grand council election shows Communist votes up 10 percent and two seat gains despite a nominally small party. Analysts trace strength to allied yet camouflaged groups of women youth intellectuals and pacifists mobilizing voters.
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Switzerland
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Campaign to dry Frederick County to be run by United Dry Forces
Fifty years ago Frederick County voters were to be urged to vote dry in the fall election. The United Dry Forces, 1916, of Frederick County, Maryland, organized at a Y M C A meeting, dividing the county into eleven districts with district superintendents and an organizing committee led by J Welty Fahrney and others. The Chs are lining up against the Hanover Hornets today as King or Chance may pitch for a win to end Frederick’s season-long losing streak starting last Thursday.
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Hanover Hornets
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Chance
Jack Morrison
Frederick
Senior Chamber of Commerce urges Beall on British loan
Directors meet at the Francis Scott Key hotel request and urge Congressman Beall to support the proposed British loan agreement in Congress. The piece notes a concurrent Bnai Brith fifth annual convention at Vindobona Hotel Braddock Heights with events Saturday and Sunday including a Joe Stephens orchestra dance and a Sunday dinner with Manuel M. Weinberg as toastmaster.
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H. Serepca
M. Peregoff
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Irving Weil
Civil rights clash in railroad strike debate
Washington continues to argue that travel to work should be uninterrupted by labor stoppages amid a Long Island Rail Road strike led by a union chairman. The piece criticizes lack of advance notice and voting, questions the abuse of strike power, and notes legal gaps with no redress for citizens harmed.
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