Realistic Look at Airport Noise Critique in Long Beach
Residents near Long Beach Airport protest jet noise while officials weigh limits. Douglas Aircraft argues only a small night jet delay occurs, noting 43 000 local jobs and airport as an economic anchor. City planners must balance growth, safety, and quiet living for the region.
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Congress Adopts Long Term Pay Increases for Federal Workers
The House approved a three year plan to raise pay for 2 million federal employees, adding 2.6 billion to payroll costs and tying higher postal rates to raise 890 million in the first full year. The move mirrors public and private sector trends, with Udall arguing for stability beyond election pressures. Congress also delegates congressional salary decisions to the President via a citizens commission, retaining only veto power.
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Morris K. Udall
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Citizens’ Commission
Open Forum on Welfare and Freedom of the Individual
Editor voices disagreement with Miss Marks on welfare services and self help. Politicians and welfare bureaucrats allegedly seek to perpetuate dependency via rehabilitation programs while claiming to promote freedom. The writer argues the welfare state has failed after thirty years, leaving poverty wars and discrimination. Long Heach
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Miss Marks
Premarital Training Need Highlighted in Opinion
A brief essay urges society to give greater attention to premarital training, noting the lack of space to discuss moral and religious aspects of divorce while insisting on the importance of preparing couples before marriage.
Divorce Comes Apart for Friends in the East
Friends describe a harmonious couple a professional musician and a college teacher who separate amicably. The writer argues divorce weakens social bonds, harms the network of relationships, and stresses need for broader marriage education addressing emotional aspects and psychological drives.
Do any birds have teeth and the oldest Greek fraternity
The text notes Phi Beta Kappa at William and Mary College in 1776 as the nation’s oldest Greek letter fraternity, with women admitted in 1875. It also answers that no living bird has teeth, using a gizzard to grind food, located near the bird’s center of gravity.
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Phi Beta Kappa
William and Mary College
Pressure Is on Negroes Striving for Better Life
Washington report notes rising alarm over millions of American Negroes pressed into a cruel middle position. Even middle and upper class Blacks feel limited by lack of full acceptance and equal treatment from white society, tempering the hope for genuine equality.
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Washington
NBA
Negro leadership vs militant fringe in the civil rights struggle
Bruce Biassot reports bitter resentment and hopelessness among many Negroes while leaders press for jobs, schools, and housing. He contrasts calmer, practical aims with violent revolutionary fantasies that threaten destruction, urging white allies to take the initiative toward real improvement.
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America
GOP Could Trap Itself on Vietnam
Washington conservatives warn that older GOP voices fear fellow Republicans are steering the party toward a Vietnam policy stance that could backfire. If the party locks in a hard line, it risks political backlash and internal division ahead of upcoming debates.
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Vietnam
Washington, D.C
G.O.P
Republicans face 1968 odds as war stance hard to pin down
Richard Wilson argues Republicans risk an indecisive image on Vietnam as election trends push for clarity. Democratic leaders press the contrast with Johnsons measured wartime justification, while Republican nominees may face dissension if they diverge from a firm war policy.
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Everett M. Dirksen
Hugh Scott
A Man of Integrity Defends U.S. Policy
Washington secretary of state Dean Rusk emerges as the principal defender of Vietnam policy in Johnson’s cabinet. The piece sketches his loyalty and eloquence, notes doubts about his judgment, and questions whether his vision to unify Asia can be paired with uniting his own department and national priorities.
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United States
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Latin America
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