Editorial: The IRS Muscles In On Prize Fight Purses
The piece denounces the Internal Revenue Service for seizing proceeds from a major boxing event and its TV broadcast, aiming to collect 5 million with 3.9 million in taxes. It condemns the broad action as an attack on civil liberties, arguing it would provoke public outrage if applied to corporations or unions and calls for protest against the unprecedented move.
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Yes on Proposition 13 for California higher education
Editorial urges a Yes vote on Proposition 13 to remove a 100 acre cap on tax exempt land for nonprofit colleges. It argues the change enables growth and reduces taxpayer costs, notes lack of opposing argument in official pamphlet, and stresses benefit to higher education.
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California
A Remarkable Person THIS Week Virginia Kelly’s Push for Long Beach Naval Hospital
President signs a military construction bill approving funds for a Long Beach Naval Hospital. Virginia Weldon Kelly, Washington correspondent, is praised for relentless advocacy over nearly a decade, convincing leaders of the hospital’s essential need for military personnel and their families.
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Virginia Kelly
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Senate
Political Adjectives Inflate and Deflate in Campaign Language
The Nation reports on how adjectives used for candidates shift in weight from honest and courageous to affable and other traits. A separate note highlights football coaches promoting fitness while a star back plays through injury.
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Out Our Way On Polls And Space Sliders From Youth
A compact column notes politicians use polling agencies and leak opposing views. It recalls a fourth grade claim of a Dyna Soar space slider made from paper. A family considers parking an old convertible in the yard to plant petunias. A traveler reports distant, out of focus photography with a new lens.
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Walter T. Rider on Castro base for RussianFishing in Troubled Waters
Walter T. Rider argues Fidel Castro's plan to build a Cuban base for the Russian Atlantic fishing fleet is a ruse to project military power. He contends the base will serve as a naval facility to fish in troubled waters, potentially escalating US-Cuba tensions and prompting concern over missile readiness.
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Scranton Emerges as GOP Hope In Pennsylvania Race
In Pennsylvania, Rep. William Scranton, 45, Republican governor candidate, pitches a Kennedy era reform stance addressing the state's economic woes. He unites GOP factions, emphasizes state issues, and faces Democratic challenger Richard Dilworth as Philadelphia remains pivotal. President Kennedy plans a mid campaign return amid doubts over Clark's Senate seat and Scranton's viability.
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Congress Edit Calls Tough Steps to Halt Communist Expansion
A public forum quotes Congressman Craig Hosmer urging immediate presidential action to defend the Western Hemisphere. He calls for a strengthened Monroe Doctrine, a peace zone in the Americas, embargoes on contraband including fuel, and use of US power to counter Cuban and other Communist threats. The plan includes ousting Castro, building anti communist support in Latin America, and rapid information campaigns to deter guerrilla incursions, asserting Cuba must be free and self-determined.
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So Funny Who's Laughing on U S Cuba Clash
L L Fleming of 1128 Hellman Street brands official Washington remarks on the Russian military buildup in Cuba as comical and evasive. He notes forces have landed 90 miles from the United States and questions the claim of defensiveness while warning of Monroe Doctrine violations and foreign penetration of the hemisphere.
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Public Pays to Be Propagandized in Peace Corps Ads
A reader notes repeated mailed propaganda praising the Peace Corps and the Kennedy era. The messages promote overseas volunteerism with playful yet critical remarks on the campaigns and the public funding that supports them, questioning how the author was added to mailing lists.
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Names and origins of animals spark curious linguistic notes
A fragment discusses why white rhinoceroses face extinction and notes hippopotamuses and elephants survive better amid Africa's population boom. It explains Greek roots for rhinoceros elephant and hippopotamus, then mentions a Virginian Potomac River naming coincidence and promises a Berlitz dictionary copy for submitted questions.
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Banister definitions and sound travel Q and A
The Banister Issue explains banister as balustrade and notes sliding down banisters. It asks why sound travels better over water and answers that 99.95 percent reflects at water, with only 0.05 percent entering water, while land effects refract and scatter sound. It cites a quote from poet Wilcox about two kinds of people: those who lift and those who lean.
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