De Gaulle Kneels as Wine Boycott Hits France
A satirical column portrays President De Gaulle facing a France wine crisis as American demand shifts to New York wines. Stratton urges boycotts, mock negotiations with winegrowers, and possible policy U-turns including selling gold, pausing atomic tests, or Viet Nam policy shifts, ending with De Gaulle kneeling for a staged photo opportunity.
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Art Buchwald
Washington
Samuel Stratton
Upstate
New York
de Gaulle
United States
New York State
Stratton
Elysee Palace
Monsieur le President
France
Bordeaux
Bordeaux Wine Association
Monsieurs
United Nations
Burgundy Wine Tasters Association
Burgundy
Monsieur le
Evening talk invites Walker youth parents at base center
An expert, Dr. Robert Ledbetter, will discuss Youth Development in Family Life at the Walker base Community Center. The audience will learn about youth programs and Dr. Ledbetter’s role as a marriage counselor and UT health center consultant.
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AL Stubbs
Walker
Robert Ledbetter
University of Texas
Santa Fe Cartoon and Election Notes From Charles Cullin
Santa Fe artist Charlie Hague offers a prize cartoon showing deceased ghosts marching with the caption You registered us and we are going to vote. State Rep. Steve Helbing appears poised to become House Minority Leader if he wins, likely succeeding Ken Black, with GOP tensions around Dave Cargo. Public opinion shifts spark talk of a conflict of interest statute, backed by Gene Lusk, while Jose Ortiz y Pino’s highway beautification bill looms with federal funding but state costs ahead.
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Charles Cullin
Santa Fe
Charlie Hague
Hague
Steve Helbing
Roswell
House
Helbing
Ken Black
Gene Lusk
Lusk
Grandpa uses ABC murals to fight literacy in Mexico City
In Mexico City a restaurant owner nicknamed Grandpa runs a “Mural School of the Open Book” by painting alphabets and phrases on blackboards in his Viajero Restaurant and adjacent lot. Children copy letters with chalk, learning reading and writing in a novel environmental approach inspired by Kennedy era literacy goals.
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John Abney
Mexico City
Abcs
Frijoles
Grandpa
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
Latin America
Viajero
Roswell Daily Record Advertising and Editorial Staff Contact
The Roswell Daily Record lists Jimmy C. Cox as Advertising Manager and Albert A. Stubbs as Managing Editor. It provides subscription rates by county and carrier delivery costs, with publication details noting weekday evenings and Sunday morning issues from 424 North Main Street, Roswell, NM.
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Chaves
Roswell
Trade
Tee Hal Manas Co
Ubewie
North Main Street
N.M
Antipollution Gasoline Research Program Launched
Government and petroleum industry join to fund antipollution gasoline research, aiming to identify formulas that yield the cleanest exhaust across engines. The program size is 480000 dollars plus government facilities, and it signals long term cooperation to cut air and water pollution.
National Forest Products Week Highlights Tree Farms And Timber Use
The article underscores the public value of timber lands during National Forest Products Week from October 16 to 22. It lauds private tree farms, notes America grows more wood than it uses, and cites 2 600 chemicals from wood wastes valued at about 260 million dollars.
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United States
America
Standoff in Election Congress Makeup Outlook
Washington observers see a near equal shock in Congress next month with no national trend. Democrats hold a large House and Senate margin, but losses may tilt to less liberal incumbents affecting welfare retrenchment vs. public reaction and inflation, amid a fragile Viet Nam war issue.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Johnson
Reublicans
Democratic Party
History Highlights for October 11
On this date various historical events are noted: Benedict Arnold’s colonial defeat in 1776 at Valcour Island, the first steam ferry line between New York City and Hoboken in 1811, a 1939 British Soviet trade treaty, Moscow evacuation in 1941, Aachen bombardment in 1944, Sarah Gibson Blading as Vassar’s first woman president in 1946, and a 1956 US military transport plane missing with 49 airmen.
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Associated Press
Benedict Arnold
Valcour Island
Lake Champlain
New York City
Hoboken
N. J
Moscow
Aachen
Sarah Gibson Blanding
Vassar College
U.S
Lakenheath
England
Atlantic
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Mexico
Abc’s
Jimmy C. Cox
Advertising Manager
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Roswell, N. M
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William S. White
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