Pennsylvania Bicentennial plan aims to model world city status
Governor Shafer releases ad hoc Bicentennial committee report urging Pennsylvania to become the model community by 1976. The plan calls for eliminating slums and pollution, building at least one model city, and completing a statewide transportation system, guiding the state toward the 300th birthday while inspiring national renewal.
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Pennsylvania
Continental Congress
Raymond J. Shafer
Vision of a mobile city future by Edwin J. Gott
Edwin J. Gott of U S Steel predicts by 2000 population could split into ten megaregions each housing about 30 million, forming a second America of movable portable homes. He urged openness to new ideas while noting many would still prefer permanent homes and mobile living outside core megalopolises.
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America
Edwin J. Gott
U. S. Steel
Mr. Gott
Gott
Walter Schirra and the cold raise space disease risks
Walter Schirra’s cold during Apollo 7 highlights space infection concerns. Dr. Charles Berry and a team at Houston’s Manned Spacecraft Center warn about intra-craft transmission, mutation, and the unknowns of microbes in harsh spacecraft conditions. Future 28 to 60 day missions demand new medical knowledge and safety.
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Walter Schirria
Charles Berry
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Manned Laboratories
Transportation center to open in Pittsburgh next spring
Editorial items cover a proposed national transport research center in Pittsburgh to test rapid transit concepts, a new obesity research institute, a multinational vaccination effort in Africa, a Soviet space treaty, cloud seeding in Colorado, South Vietnamese warfare, arbitration for Pittsburgh area contracts, Curran’s leadership at National Cathedral School, youth voice in education, advised age in urban policing, botany as a profession, and Princeton coed admissions as a response to competition and equality.
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Transportation Center
Pittsburgh
Eyes of Marx Upon the World
Don Oakley surveys Karl Marx's 1850s dispatches in the New York Daily Tribune collected in Karl Marx on Colonialism and Modernization. The pieces, spanning topics from the Crimean War to British India and the Chinese empire, reveal a keen analyst whose views on Russia endure across eras.
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New York
Karl Marx
Marx
New York Daily Tribune
Shlomo Avineri
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Doubleday
India
Middle East
Russia
Europe
Czechoslovakia
Barbs by Phil Pastoret on holiday etiquette
A collection of quips on Christmas shopping tipping church services and office pool choices. Read as humorous bars offering sharp commentary about social rituals and etiquette.
News-Post Files November 9 1918 and 1948 items
Report from Washington says Germany must answer peace terms within 72 hours as an early armistice signing is anticipated. Whittier poem Harbara Fritche captivates Hong Kong readers. Volunteers in Frederick County raise funds to ship 500 holiday boxes to GIs in France. A missing boy is returned home after claiming his father is in France.
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Germany
Whittier
Harbara Fritche
China
Hong Kong
Chiese
France
Frederick County
West Fifth Street
Veterans Day Reflections and Warning From Omar Bradley
A long-form excerpt reflects on Veterans Day and General Omar Bradley's 1948 Armistice speech. It urges citizen action, prayers for country, and active involvement in democracy, warning that science outpaces ethics and urging vigilance against government excess. The piece emphasizes unity, responsibility, and participation from all citizens.
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Omar Bradley
Army
General Bradley
U S Police Lessons From London Antiwar Protests
Analyzes how London police managed a 30 000 strong anti Vietnam and anti American demonstration without heavy force. The author contrasts British methods with American policing focusing on nonlethal restraint and crowd control to avoid escalations and protect embassies.
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U.S
London
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Firsb Hehiss
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