Johnson outlines 1968 plan to curb overseas finance
President Johnson unveils a three billion dollar 1968 program to ease dollar pressures. It includes curbs on overseas investments and travel, limits on overseas bank loans, reduced overseas federal spending, and surplus nation trade agreements. Congress favors the move but warns of public and business restraint.
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U.S
Congress
Federal Reserve Board
Vietnam
United States
Daily Crossword and Cryptoquote Puzzles Featured
Crossword grid clues listed with numbers and themes. Cryptoquote puzzle provides a substitution code and a sample quote from La Rochefoucauld, plus yesterday's decoded quotation.
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LA Rochefoucauld
Phyllis Diller and humor noted in Scented Broom piece
Jim Bishop quotes Phyllis Diller and other comics to probe the nature of comedy. The essay recalls Diller’s housekeeper persona and jokes on domestic life, bath routines, kitchen chaos, and family quirks with a playful screen of satire.
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Bob Hope
Art Carney
Buddy Hackett
Alan King
Gleason
Joe J. Lewis
Phyllis Diller
Fawcett
Miss Diller
Ab Fab? Whispers and Warnings From Dear Abby
A reader vents about harassment from a wealthy boss and weighs leaving the job though financial dependence binds her. Abby advises walking out despite fringe benefits, while other letters discuss parenting, modesty, and domestic roles in a satirical column mix.
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Abby
Philly
Television Schedule Fragment From Classic Era Listings
A dense list presents a daytime and primetime TV schedule with show titles and host names including The Pleasure Seekers and Not As A Stranger. Notable actors such as Ann Margret Robert Mitchum and Olivia de Havilland appear in entries, with a long sequence of news weather sports and game shows across multiple channels and time slots.
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Pleasure Seekers
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Tony Franciosa
Carol Lynley
Gardner McKay
Robert Mitchum
Olivia de Havilland
Frank Sinatra
Gloria Grahame
Side
Anthony Oliver
Maureen Connell
Soporific Definition From Word-A-Day
The entry defines soporific as causing sleep or inducing sleepiness. It notes the root from Latin sopor meaning sleep and gives examples such as barbiturates creating a soporific feeling.
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