Rights Bill Compromise a Good Start
The Dirksen civil rights bill is hailed as a modest advance causing mixed reaction. It sets a national equal opportunity policy with a staged implementation and protections for home sellers, while provoking resistance from white conservatives and militant groups. The measure aims to move the nation toward racial accord despite opposition.
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Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Walter F. Mondale
R.-Minn
Dirksen
Open Forum on Downey Peace and Local Politics
Letters discuss Downey attack, voter turnout, Prop 14, and local government. Readers from Long Beach share frustrations with prejudice, Florida ties, and wish for wiser editorials. A resident praises a Mary Neiswender piece on Pushers and calls for action.
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Downey
David Shaw
Long Beach
Florida
Nelson
New Slogan on Power Could Aid Black Renaissance
Judge Raymond Pace Alexander of the Philadelphia Court spoke at the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History meeting in New York City. He urged ending the unfocused Black Power slogan and replacing it with Black Renaissance to express ongoing cultural and economic improvement.
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Raymond Pace Alexander
Commu Pleas Court of
Philadelphia
Association For the Study of Negro Life and History
New York City
Alexander
Judge Alexander
Value of Words Outweighs Plain Goods in Style Study
The piece argues that terminology affects price and status, noting why terms like frock dress gown parfum creme timepiece and clientele cost more than their plain counterparts. It cites Twain and Herford to illustrate language as social leverage, urging readers to study linguistic economics.
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Mark Twain
Upward Shift in Language Marks Social and Economic Change
The piece notes a trend toward more formal vocabulary as a sign of status with examples such as shirtings and suitings replacing shirts and suits. It cites roles like security officers and morticians as more elevated terms reflecting rising prestige and value placed on goods and services.
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Herford
Black Power critique and white responsibility in American history
Ralph McGill discusses Judge Alexander and the Negro problem as a white problem rooted in slavery and discrimination. He opposes Black Power as a program, noting the rise of a Black Renaissance offering a path to proactive change rather than militant slogans.
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America
Judge Alexander
JPL Budget Fight Sparks Defense by Rep. Joseph Earth
Washington reports Rep. Joseph Earth of Minnesota defends Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory amid budgeting scrutiny. As chair of the space sciences subcommittee he earned the nickname Ghengis Earth for strong oversight.
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Washington
Pasadena
Jet Propulsion, Laboratory
JPL
Rep. Joseph
Earth
D-Minn
Space Sciences and Applications
Ghengis
The
National Aeronautics and
Earth critic Karth backs JPL to stay on Mars program
Rep. Karth voices anger at NASA budget cuts that would move two Mars probes to Langley. He defends JPL’s decade of mission expertise and urges keeping JPL on the Martian program and a future outer solar system tour.
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NASA
JPL
Earth
Red Planet
NASA Laboratory
Langley, Va
Karth
Civil Service
Langley
Space Agency
Light for the World an Edison biography from Silverberg
Rob ert Silverberg reviews Thomas A Edison in Light for the World a biography that frames him as a wizard practical man of science and promoter. The book blends biography with Edison notebooks and contemporary accounts while tracing his inventions and financing battles with Morgan Gould Vanderbilt Insull and Villard.
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Edison
America
Silverberg
Jay Gould
J. P. Morgan
Vanderbilt
Insull
Villard
Morgan
Meno Park Laboratory
Bill Shelton
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