War And The Individual We Refuse To Fight Abroad
A careful reader is urged to resist calls for war in distant places. The piece argues that war is chosen by governments but fought by people, urging voluntary, individual decision over conscription and warning that profit motives drive some toward pushing others into conflict. It condemns surrendering personal responsibility to leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Cuba
Laos
Korea
iIt
jSo
Kennedy farm bill critique warns of government farming control
The piece decries HR 6400 and the 1961 act as disasters for U S agriculture arguing they grant the secretary of agriculture plenipotentiary powers over farm property and production, end private farming, crash market order, raise costs, and exclude private ownership, urging removal of government from farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Representatives
Benson
Kennedy
United States
HR. Can
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington lobbyists skip D and R $100 dinners
Registered lobbyists largely avoided both the Democratic Kennedy dinner on May 27 and the Republican Eisenhower dinner on June 1. The Democratic event listed 40 lobbyists. Republicans offered no printed seating list, fueling questions about who attended. Oilmen and corporate guests attended the Kennedy dinner, with a notable cluster at table 270, while Republicans kept the master seating list missing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Kennedy
Eisenhower
J. K. Evans
Washington Oil and Gas l Company
Stewart L. Udall
Evans
Udall
L. T. Vice
Standard California
Claude C. Wild Jr
Gulf Oil
Carstens Slack
Phillips Petroleum
Harring- Gas
John E. Kane
American Petroleum Institute
Wilds
Joe T. Lickerson
W. L.henry
Henry la Cossitt
John R. Lewis
John L. Wilson
James W.richards
Standard of Indiana
A. W. Gall
Independent Natural Gas Assn
Marvin B.weaver
Cities Service Petroleum Co
Kennedy Kerns a Standby Alert for Nuclear Bombers
President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev discuss a congressional request to fund a standby airborne alert for about 60 SAC B-52s, enabling rapid launch within 15 minutes. Proposals include doubling Hound Dog missiles and accelerating B-47 phaseout for Titan ICBMs, with an October or November Berlin crisis backdrop. General Clyde Eddleman retires at year end per Army notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Defense
McNamara
House
Senate
Germany
Sacs
Atlas
Titan
Mountain Home Airbase
Idaho
Pentagon
Clyde Eddleman
Army
Elvis Stahr
Eddle
World War III era Gulf War veteran and Space Moon Goal
Iman, a Louisianan, served in the Pacific throughout World War III as G-3 on General Walter Krueger's staff now retired in San Antonio. Defense Secretary McNamara urged a foreign aid bill in Senate hearings then criticized its wording as he left for the Pentagon. NASA set July 20, 1967 as the target date to place an American on the moon after House Space Committee inquiry.
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Iman
Walter Krueger
San Antonio
Tex
McNamara
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Pentagon
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
NASA
House Space Committee
Office Cat WW and unpaid debts haunt a sick husband
A fragmented note recalls a household burden as unfinished payments mount. The car, washing machine, house, and TV are unsettled, raising questions about support and financial strain within a strained domestic scene.
Bids For A Smile Dentist's Epitaph In Connecticut Cemetery
A humorous epitaph in a Connecticut cemetery reads When on this tomb you gaze with gravity Cheer up I m filling my last cavity. The witticism plays on dental puns to ease visitors grief and memorialize the late dentist.
How To Address Our Lawmakers
Directory style notice lists federal and state lawmakers with office locations. J T Rutherford in House Office Building Washington 25 D C. Ralph Yarbrough in Senate Office Building Washington 25 D C. Join G Tower in Senate Office Building Washington 23 D C. Late Frank Owen III in State Senate Capitol Station Austin. George Cook in Capitol Capitol Austin.
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J. T. Rutherford
House
Washington
Ralph Yarbrough
Senate
D.C
G. Tower
Frank Owen HI
State Senate
Capitol Station
Austin
Rep
George Cook
House of Eeeee Capstol
Sta
Q s And A s On Monarchs And Bananas
A quiz style exchange notes Frederick the Great of Prussia as the origin of the modern military band. It also answers that bananas do not grow on trees but on a plant that resembles a tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick the Great of
Prussia
National anthem as soul of a nation and era
A writer argues that playing the national anthem at venues honors the nation and spirit, defending patriotism against critics. He praises Hatikvah and contrasts it with Internationale and other anthems, suggesting music alone cannot judge love of country, while critiquing cosmopolitan indifference.
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Andrew J. Gutman
Lyn
Long Island
Jones Beach Marine Theater
Israel
Smeta“Moldau
Naphtali Herz Imber
Imber
Sibelius
Soviet Russia
United States
Capitol Circus by Michael ONeill on Mata Hari and spies
Washington column frets over gadgets replacing human spies as U2s and electronics gain sway. It recalls Mata Hari’s era and cites a Warsaw scandal and a Moscow incident, noting the allure of female agents versus machines and questioning CIA’s past reliance on human charm.
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Washington
Scarbeck
State Department
Manhattan
Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Russia
Klaus Fuchs
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Henry Joseph
Egypt
Agard Wallace
Edson
Allen.Scott Report
Khrushchev
Congress
West Berlin
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Manning
Shostakovich
Aaron Copland
Orlando
Willebeest
Chutia Nagpur
North Sea
Woodrowjer
Ife
St Wilson
Ates
Allen c
Capitol Circus
Michael O'Neill
Lshe
Holland
Irvin C. Scarbeck
Warsaw
Mata Hari
Sen. J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Moscow
Roy A. Rhodes
Embassy Motor Pool
Rhodes
Dulles
Geneva
Vienna
Paris
CIA
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