Romney aims for big 1966 victory despite off year turnout
The Michigan governor George W. Romney pursues a larger 1966 margin to bolster his national credentials for 1968. Romney’s strategists target Detroit’s Wayne County, seeking a higher share of Black voters, while party reforms and new candidates aim to strengthen GOP organization, training, and discipline ahead of elections.
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Barry Goldwater
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Romney
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Rocky
Romey
Mackinac Island
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Elly Peterson
Peterson
George
1966
BEARS WORLD On UN treaties and supreme law debate
The letter claims after a U S retreat the United Nations is broke and unable to keep peace. It cites a Senate document stating the UN charter as supreme law and cites John Foster Dulles saying treaties create both international and domestic law, arguing sovereignty is overridden.
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U.S
United Nations
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John Foster Dulles
American Bar Association
Louisville
Mr. Dulles
Untold UN Threats Warned by Mrs Main Letter
Mrs June Main of Frederick Maryland warns that treaties via the United Nations override the U.S. Constitution and shift powers to international bodies. She cites alleged secret ratifications and three thousand UN implementing treaties as evidence of a Communist-style plan to replace the constitutional government with the UN Charter as supreme law.
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American Bar Association
United Nations
Congress
U.N
U. S
Chicago Tribune
Tribune
Senate
United
John F. Sparkman
Alabama
America
The
United States
Alger — Hiss
Leo Pasvolsky
Phillip C. Jessup
Seeds of War: U S inaction on India Pakistan clash
Ray Cromley argues the India Pakistan war could have been prevented with early U S action. He asserts decades of missed opportunities, including 1959 plebiscite efforts and joint defense ideas, which might have deterred China and kept Asia aligned with the United States. He warns that delaying action until a crisis allows Communist gains.
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Kashmir
U.S
Asia
Viet Nam
Thailand
Laos
Burma
Malaysia
Johnson
United Nations
Arthur Goldberg
United States
Subcontinent
India
Pakistan
Red China
Mao Tse-tung
U. S
Mohammed Ayub Kahn
Pandit Nehru
Jessend
Nehru
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Ayub
Peking
Grasshoppers Invade Frederick in 1915 Insect Influx
In Frederick the city faces a grasshopper problem with insects entering open shirtwaist collars and other areas. The 1915 report notes brown butterflies are minor nuisances while grasshoppers stir disruption alongside civic notes on local politics and a militia visit. Officials report on a preliminary hearing for three men charged with violating sanitary statutes, waived to jury trial.
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Frederick
George W Young
Edward Krantz
Dennis Shankle
George R Dennis Jr
Twenty Years Ago Seventeen Hundred Students at Hood College Enrollments
Hood College marks an all time enrollment record with 480 students registered, beating the prior year’s 472. Brunswick Lions Club Charter Night drew about 200 attendees including delegations from ten neighbor organizations. A proposal to merge Frederick Retail Merchants Association with the Chamber of Commerce is under polling and will be discussed at Friday’s meeting. Howard S LeRoy of Culbertson LeRoy and Denslow in Washington spoke to Rotarians at the Francis Scott Key Hotel about the Hiroshima Nagasaki decision and its global stakes.
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Hood College
Brunswick Lions Club
Frederick Retail Merchants Association
Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Group
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Howard S LeRoy
Culbertson, LeRoy and Denslow
Washington
Francis Scott Key Hotel
Space Defense Shift Drives U.S. Moon Plan Reevaluation
Washington lawmakers shift billions into near space defense, moving from lunar exploration to military satellites. U.S. programs like Samos, Midas, Ferret, Transit, and Vela enhance intel, navigation, and space surveillance, with platform concepts for long term space-based forces. Louis C. Wyman foreshadows integrated inner space weapons and orbital observation.
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United States
Russia
Johnson
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Earth
U.S. News World Report
Samos
China
Midas
Louis C. Wyman
Congress
New Hampshire
House Appropriations Committee
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