1964 a Year for Front Pages and Markets
New York AP article outlines 1964 as a landmark year with the Dow above 800, unemployment steady, profits reaching records, and tax cuts and a major stock split by American Telephone and Telegraph. It notes President Johnson’s output forecast and shifting fiscal policy as the economy strengthens.
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New York
Uncle Sam
Dow-Jones
Johnson
Treasury
American Telephone & Telegraph
War and Slump History Reflects on Generational Economics
A columnist compares today’s age structure with past crises noting most Americans were not alive for the Great Depression World War II or the Korean War. He argues widespread peace time prosperity shapes economic views and could foster complacency toward government market management.
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U. S
America
Porter Fulfills Longtime Dream At Kentucky Basketball
Hopkinsville Kentucky AP reports Tommy Porter of Christian County High signed a basketball scholarship with Kentucky. Porter first visited Adolph Rupp in Lexington as a sixth grader six years earlier and told the coach he wanted to play for Kentucky.
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Hopkinsville
Kentucky
Tommy Porter
Christian County High
Adolph Rupp
Tommy
Young Porter
Rupp
Lexington
Johnsons daughter visits New York World's Fair
Lynda Bird Johnson toured the federal, General Motors, and Ford pavilions at the New York World's Fair with White House aides and Secret Service in attendance. Meanwhile former Ambassador Joseph P Kennedy recovered from minor oral surgery at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannisport. Israel’s Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said his talks with France’s Charles de Gaulle were productive. Mrs. Mary Ingraham Bunting was sworn in as the first woman member of the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington.
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Associate Press
NEW York
Lynda Bird Johnson
White House
Secret Service
Federal
General Motors
Ford
Hyannisport
Mass
Joseph P. Kennedy
Cape Cod Hospital
Kennedy
Paris
Israel
Levi Eshkol
Charles de Gaulle
France
Eshkol
Middle East
Washington
Mary Ingraham Bunting
Atomic Energy Commission
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Dayton Tire & Rubber Co
H.P. Retail
C.F.M
Dacron & Cotton
S. M
Broadmoor
Monterey
N. Main
S. Main
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