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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1967
Page
5
An opinion argues for automated warning systems on freeway entrances and overhead signs to divert traffic after crashes. It urges state agencies or a legislative committee to fund and design a rapid alert network to protect motorists and reduce deaths, injuries, and property damage.
The diary entries portray Che Guevara expressing disdain for governance and criticizing Bolivian President Rene Barrientos. The notes suggest his lack of a steady political head and compare his influence to Fidel Castro’s. Analysts warn against romanticizing his death and question his enduring legacy.
Open Forum letters oppose council members taking trips on the Queen Mary suggesting officials should stay home and handle city business. They cite past Hawaii travel criticism and urge sending a mayor or Harbor Commission head instead.
A Johnson commission member warns the U S faces a crisis between urban anarchy and rising repression. He urges a broad, costly shift to open society for Negroes with private sector job growth and strong education reform to avert violence. He notes many militants are bright yet cynical and seek orderly paths.
The piece recalls Gun Nar Myrdal a Swedish sociologist who warned about American affluence and poverty and racial discrimination. It notes international critics who attacked him for exposing the contradictions and progressive ideas that Sweden later partly adopted.
In 1938 Ralph McGiel recalls meeting Gunnar Myrdal in Stockholm and notes his fascination with American democracy, New Deal reforms, and later work on race. Myrdal’s 1944 An American Dilemma examined the Negro problem and influenced the Supreme Court while facing Southern denigration.
In a Washington Star Service report from Lisbon, the article compares Antonio Salazar’s Portugal to Harry Byrd’s Virginia, noting conservative leadership, rising investment, and a shift from agriculture to industry. It highlights surging GDP, a 1968 development plan, tourism growth, a booming textile and paper sector, and expanding education and television penetration as signs of modernization.
Jacqueline Van Voris argues Constance Markievicz moved from debutante to revolutionary, linking theater and Irish literary revival to her politics. The book traces her prison years and 1916 Easter Rising leadership, highlighting her role as "The Red Countess" and ties to Yeats and Synge.
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