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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1968
Page
14
The fragment lists staff roles with Miles B. Sives titled Adventing Editor and Sterling Bemis as Managing Editor, indicating a newsroom leadership structure.
George Romney’s withdrawal pushes moderate and liberal Republicans to back a distinct candidate or risk a Nixon coronation at the convention. A Rockefeller bid could unite the party and offer a stronger November challenge to Lyndon Johnson, while Republicans must decide soon and declare intentions clearly.
The piece notes Leap Year today, a quadrennial date linked to a supposed freedom for single women to woo. It traces a historic Scottish law from 1288 mandating punishment for men who refuse wooing, its decline amid the sexual revolution, and jokes about campaign season shadows the year of national elections.
A Wilson High student challenges reported narcotics use estimates and accuses the paper of sensational headlines. Parents, city officials, and community figures respond, defending investigations and stressing due process while calling for accurate data.
Paris argues the United States misreads the nature of the conflict in Vietnam, treating it as a conventional war while Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces pursue revolutionary warfare blending military action with political and economic efforts. The piece warns Washington must redefine strategy to counter nonmilitary aspects and parallel hierarchies or risk lasting damage at home and abroad.
Readers debate calendar reform proposing a new system with 13 months, each evenly split into four weeks. Advocates argue a standardized year aids global coordination while critics warn of disruption to traditions and systems.
The author argues for a World Calendar with year starts on Sunday and all holidays fixed to weekdays. It would simplify planning, remove Leap Day and irregular month lengths, align Christmas and New Year’s on Wednesdays in 1968, and reduce labor and production costs while benefiting all without harming anyone. Human inertia and habit hinder adoption despite broad advantages.
Harlington Hoops is an ordinary, hardworking man who rides a bicycle, plays the ocharina, and ties trout flies to earn a comfortable living. He spends evenings by the fire with his ocharina or a book, and Sundays cycling the park thrice. Yet he complains life drags on.
Arthur Harrington adopts rapid skills speed reading and speed listening to an extreme, finishing 100000 words a minute and Beethoven in 12.2 seconds. He speeds through life until boredom drains his strength and he dies, autopsy noting boredom as the cause. The tale ends with a moral about life’s long duration and futility of haste.
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