Black Power debate stirs SNCC leaders with mixed loyalties
Stokely Carmichael promotes black power as organizing for political strength while denying outright overthrow of white power. He seeks alliances with Black Muslims and RAM as white Negro tensions rise, with Newsweek polls showing mixed esteem for black leaders amid national unrest.
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Stokely Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Co-ordinating Committee
Carmichael
Martin Luther King
Roy Wilkins
Whitney Young Jr
S.N.C.C
Chicago
International Amphitheater
Plain Man's Guide To Politics
A satirical look at politicians as a class and the democratic process. It critiques voters and parties, notes the shift from representatives to diplomats and statesmen, and lampoons expense accounts and self interest in politics. The piece argues about motives, battles of opinion, and the logic of political careers.
Johnson Civil Rights Conference Seen As Bust
Washington observers describe the White House Conference on Civil Rights as failing to deliver concrete follow up. The final report promises studies by federal agencies and private sector roles, but Negro leaders call the plan meager and insufficient after a year of publicity and a wide task force with ambitious aims.
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Washington
NEA
Johnson
White House
Ben Heineman
Courtland Gross
James Linen
G. William Miller
Council
Churches Turn to Housing to Help Poor in Uplifting Projects
United Press International reports churches and interfaith groups forming non profit housing bodies to rehab dilapidated city apartments for low income families. COIN in Washington DC plans to buy and refurbish multiple buildings. Cleveland's Greater Cleveland Council of Churches coordinates a 125 unit project in Hough. Chicago Christian Action Ministry seeks rehab on the west side. St Louis Second Presbyterian backs Christian Neighbors Inc to convert a deteriorated building into seven affordable rentals.
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United Press International
America
Protestant Council of Churches
Episcopal Diocese of
Washington
Council of Catholic Men
District of Columbia
The
American Jewish Committee
All Souls Unitarian Church
Coin — Community Organization For the Improvement of Neighborhoods, Inc
COIN
Cleveland
Greater Cleveland
Hough
Chicago
Christian Action Ministry
St. Louis
Second Presbyterian Church
Christian Neighbors, Inc
Russians Laugh At Chinese Cultural Revolution News
In Moscow, Soviet press minimizes China’s purge and reports only bare facts such as the Peking mayor’s removal and attacks on the Soviet embassy. Editorial comment is rare, with some dispatches noting anti-Soviet propaganda. Older Russians recall Stalin’s era as harsher than China’s current purge of literary giants.
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Henry Shapiro
United Press International Moscow
UPI
China
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Peking
Academy
Kuo Mo-jo
Red Guard
Soviet Union
Leo Tolstoi
Russia
Alexander Pushkin
Tolstoi
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Cultural propaganda and Mao praise in Soviet press
Berry comments on Soviet and Chinese messaging about Mao Tse tung and the cultural revolutionaries. The piece notes the Soviet press repeats Chinese reports, praising Mao's thought for table tennis, agriculture, and fertilizer fixes, while a serious critique of China is still unwritten.
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Stalin
Mao Tse-tung
Mao Tsetung
China
The Ward Cannel Prize Mocking Pulitzer Critics
The column riffs on prize awards and how winners are chosen, critiquing the secrecy of judges and trivia culture. It announces a spoof Ward Cannes Prize inviting readers to request a prize with a stamped self addressed envelope and two box tops.
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New York
Columbia Journalism Review
McCall’s Magazine
Pulitzer Prize Advisory Board
Henry Orient
Giant
Mickey Mouse
Eugene O'Neill
Sinclair Lewis
Pearl S. Buck
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Ralph Ellison
Joseph Wood Krutch
Walker Percy C
William L. Shirer
J. F. Powers
E. Morte
D’urban
Helen Trent
Baby Snooks
Prayer For Today From a Portland Minister
A religious devotion asks God to renew commitment in health, love, economy, democracy and faith. The petition asks to avoid indifference in families, material greed, injustice, and empty religious lip service, urging steadfast pursuing of Christ's leading.
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Christ
Raymond E. Balcomb
Portland, Ore
First Methodist Church
Nixon Asserts Leadership For 1966 Republican Campaign
In the 1966 campaign Nixon steps into the vacuum as the GOP voice on national issues, drafting strategy from foreign to domestic affairs and courting the Far Right while out of office. Dirksen may resist publicly, but Nixon seizes the headline role and could shape moderates’ fate, including Pomney’s 1968 bid.
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G.O.P
Barry Goldwater
George Romney
Nelson Rockefeller
Jacob Javits
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
Dirksen
Nixon
House
Ford
South Vietnam
Johnson
Gov. Pomney
Beckley Newspapers rate card details for subscriptions
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West Virginia
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Conference On Civil Rights
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NEA, Inc
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New York Times
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