Thought for Today on American Entertainment and Taste
The piece critiques American TV and media for catering to laziness and low standards. It cites The Untouchables and Sing Along with Mitch beating Eisenhower in ratings and notes industry pushes toward lighter fare. Newton Minow argues broadcasters undersell public taste and neglect children's education, while others lament a focus on frothy entertainment and shallow books.
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Mitch
Eisenhower
Newton Minow
FCC
Minow
Austria
Italy
Switzerland
Poles uphold freedom as example against Soviet rhetoric
Bruce Bioss cites Dr. Tadeusz Kotarbinski head of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cultural Review arguing that true freedom rests on open discussion. He asserts that limited rights create a deformed view of reality and calls for freedom of speech as the normal standard while managing abuses without paralyzing it.
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Communist
Poland
Tadeusz Kotarbinski
Polish Academy of Sciences
Moscow
Kotarbinski
Cultural Review
Ivan P. Azarov
Washington
Russia
Year End Stock Rally Overview and Outlook
The year end rally in stocks remains strong, with nine of ten favorable outcomes since 1957 and only one exception due to recession. Tax selling and reinvestment demand influence prices, while 1961 peak markets prompt earlier tax losses. Analysts anticipate a solid 1962 outlook barring a steel strike and note the $7 billion federal deficit fueling liquidity.
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Stock Exchange
U.S. Policy on Population Growth Outlined
The Kennedy administration announces an official stance recognizing rapid population growth as a serious economic issue for underdeveloped nations. It will fund studies and encourage discussion, may aid in technical research, but will not tie population control to aid, nor provide birth control information or devices abroad.
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U.S
State Department
Washington
UPD
United States
William T. Nunley
George W. Ball
World Bank
Eugene Black
U.S. Plans Open Debate On Population Growth Policy
Washington signs indicate U S stance to discuss population issues openly without backing birth control or sterilization. U S Catholic leaders oppose funding for such programs abroad while Sweden and Denmark push a U N discussion. Open dialogue urged to study links between growth and development, with no imposed policies. U S will assist census efforts and refer birth control program requests to private agencies or sympathetic foreign governments. Khrushchev shifts toward direct talks with the United States, sparking milder reactions in Moscow to Kennedy’s Izvestia interview and signaling possible new discussion areas beyond Berlin.
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State Department
United Nations
Sweden
Denmark
General Assembly
United States
Nunley
Ball
Phil Newsom
UPI
Geneva
Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Germany
Moscow
Kennedy
Izvestia
Russia
Khrushchev
Berlin
Southeast Asia
Charles de Gaulle
NATO
Britain
de Gaulle
East Germany
West Berlin
West
Dean Rusk
Abe Lilly seeks Republican nomination for attorney general
Fifty years ago from the 1911 Raleigh Register Abe Lilly announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination for attorney general of North Carolina. The piece also notes court verdicts on livestock deaths caused by the Virginian Railway and cites international affairs analysis on Khrushchev, Kennedy, Berlin, and disarmament.
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Raleigh Register
Abe Lilly
Abe
Raleigh
John Ward
Virginian Railway
Pleasant Bowling
Mystery of Mister Z Stirs Washington Resources Debate
Washington readers discuss the anonymous thinker called Mister Z who proposed merging 18 federal agencies into a Department of Natural Resources. The Natural Resources Journal published the idea. officials including Interior Secretary Udall and Senator Anderson comment on unity of conservation efforts, while agency rivalries and historical attempts at merger are reviewed.
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NEA
U. S
Department of Natural Resources
Natural Resources Journal
University of New Mexico Law School
Albuquerque
New Mexico
Southwest
Jack L. Kroner
Mister Z
Secretary of Interior
Stewart L. Udall
Arizona
Natural Resource Agencies of Agriculture
Army Corps of Engineers
Department of Health
Udall
Clinton P. Anderson
Senate
Committee On Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
New Mexico State University Resources Journal
Forest Service
REA
Rural Electrification Administration
Soil Conservation and Corps of Engineers
Department of Interior
Congress
Interior
Harold L. Ickes
Agriculture
Hoover
Commission On Reorganization
Eisenhower
Raleigh Register notice of subscription rates and delivery terms
Beckley Newspapers Corporation publishes Raleigh Register with detailed subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, mail and home delivery options, tax additions, and change of address instructions. It notes independent contractor delivery and non liability for advance payments.
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Ward-Griffith Company
LINC
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Alanta
Boston
Charlotte
Philadelphia
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Greenville
Pittsburgh
West Virginia
Beckley Deceasers Corporation
Hollywood Sunday Haircut Almost A Film Plot
Erskine Johnson recalls a London barber saga with MGM actor George Hamilton aboard a Boeing jet. In London to shoot a film, Hamilton seeks a Sunday haircut at the Savoy, only to face hotel rules and an appointment backlog before finally getting a full cut while four waiting customers look on.
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NEA
London
George Hamilton
Los Angeles
Atlantic
Hamilton
MGM
Hollywood
Rome
Errol Flynn
Savoy
Prayer for Homes as Shrines of Blessings
James C. Kinard of Newberry South Carolina, former Newberry College president, prays for homes to be blessed by love and selfless sacrifice, inspired by the example of a Christian home at Bethany. He asks Heavenly Father to keep quarrels away and guide families toward happiness and well being.
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Bethany
James C. Kinard
Newberry
S. C
Newberry College
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