A Heap of Fighting GI
A critical column reflecting on the Vietnam War era, noting shifting roles of American soldiers, Saigon politics, and public opinion. It cites Henry Cabot Lodge in Saigon, Ky, Rusk, and President Johnson, arguing the war’s complexity and the dangers of withdrawal. The piece contrasts U.S. sacrifice with global famine threats highlighted by Sol M. Linowitz and warns against cynical attitudes at home.
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Saigon
Lodge
Rusk
United States
da Nang
Hue
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Winston Churchill
The
Republic
Sol M. Linowitz
Xerox
Latin America
India
Vermont
New Hampshire
Wyoming
Nevada
Alaska
Romania seeks western trade and end to Warsaw pact presence
The piece argues Romania favors Western investment and markets, calling for Soviet and Warsaw pact troop withdrawal from its territory and likening Romania to Yugoslavia in its stance. It recalls Gaston Marin’s interest in a 50 50 partnership with GM Ford IBM and Standard Oil as a bold forecast.
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Romania
Hungary
Yugoslavia
Red Army
Charles de Gaulle
France
NATO
Warsaw Pact
Europe
East Germany
Hearst
Bucharest
Gaston-Marin
General Motors
Fords
Standard Oils
Ibms
Go-getters under scrutiny in heart risk study
A 1966 King Features Syndicate piece cites a UPI report noting 85 percent of heart victims among 3,524 men had a preoccupation with competitive activity. It contrasts go-getters’ drive with a shorter life payoff and cites ritual behavior in fishing lore and evolving hospital attire norms reducing white coats.
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Joseph Whitney
UPI
Gainsville, Fla
King Features Syndicate, Inc
Through the Years from The San Antonio Light
A year by year glimpse recalls city efforts to fund and manage public services. Highlights include talks on making the water system a city department, bus line consolidations, a bond issue plan for building programs, federal support for 1918 expos, rural delivery mail rules, migration and hunger concerns, and a horse market surge in 1886.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Grande
Merger Skepticism and Quirks in Pennsy Central New Haven Tie
Special to The Light by Bugs Baer questions the merger of Pennsy Central and New Haven. He ponders who’s diner disappears at Schenectady, what assets New Haven yields beyond a bell rope and sandwich concession, and whimsical transit and travel details.
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Arthur
Bugs” Baer
Pennsy
Central
New Haven
Schenectady
Bellrope
Broadway Lights and Celebs in the Crowd Tossed in EF Intrigue
Walter Winchell surveys Broadway bohemia with si natra charm at Barberry Room while Angie Dickinson Burt Bacharach PAN baby shop in midtown. Eva Gabor, Eli Wallach, Tennessee Williams, Marilyn Maxwell, Rock Hudson and many others appear in a bustling social panorama. The column notes fashion, theater chatter, trivial scandals, and the era’s celebrity milieu.
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Sinatra
Adariental Hatchick
Formosa
Hollywood
Angie Dickinson
Burt Bacharach
E. 57Th
Art Linkletter
Dolly
Eva Gabor
Ray Milland
Eli Wallach
Anne Jackson
Central Park
Mets
Canada
Lester Pearson
5Th Avenue
Marilyn Maxwell
Rock Hudson
Wright Tennessee Williams
Thomas Jefferson Nominated for gallery of great Americans
No. 44 in a series on men and women who enriched history profiles Thomas Jefferson born in Albemarle County Virginia on April 13 1743. He was a Virginia legislator governor and diplomat alongside author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. President. The article emphasizes his philosophy of liberty and the principle that all men are created equal with inalienable rights.
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Albemarle County
Peter and
Jane Randolph Jefferson
Martha Wayles Skelton
Virginia
U.S
Thomas Jefferson
United States
America
Jefferson a founder with wealth and slaveholding
A compact portrait of Thomas Jefferson noting his wealth from inheritance and marriage, extensive slave holdings, and early legislative move to permit freeing slaves. It cites his belief in self government and his famed devotion to religious liberty and opposition to tyranny in minds.
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Jefferson
Martha Wayles Skelton
Virginia
House of Burgesses
Benjamin Rush
Saturday Night Supper Club Packed With Music in San Antonio
A sell-out crowd filled the Terrace Room of the FE Antonio Motor Hotel to hear Chet McIntyre Orchestra with Denise and Bobby Reynolds on saxophone. The event drew students, couples, and an older crowd, as VIPs celebrated graduation while others enjoyed table side steak dishes and live Dixieland jazz.
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FE Antonio Motor Hotel
Jack Chaney
Chet McIntyre
San Antonio
McIntyre
Denise
Hildegarde
Bobby Reynolds
Derrieve
el Antonio
Mister Baker
Evangelistic Crusade Planned for London June to July
The invitation outlines a major evangelistic crusade starting June 1 at Earls Court in London and ending July 2 at Wembley Stadium. The organizers promise the event will be highly organized at a scale unmatched elsewhere. They acknowledge London’s low church attendance and rising secularism.
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London
England
Earls Court
Wembley Stadium
Britain
Billy Graham Prayer Campaign in London Reaches Thousands
British Christians organize over twenty thousand enrollments in Counseling Bible classes as Billy Graham mobilizes prayer for a spiritual awakening in London. Preparations influence spiritual life even without public meetings, urging Christians worldwide to join this evangelistic effort.
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London
Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate
Tne
Portraits OK A Garden Song For May Lovers
Poem expresses longing for a beloved to see a sunlit garden and its flowers in May. The speaker imagines shared dreams among blossoms and moonlit twilights, inviting the beloved to hurry to the home and stay forever. The verse frames a gentle, romantic scene attributed to Publishers New Syndicate.
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Broadway
Les Brown Jr
Greta Chi
Hawaii Kai
Patricia Conners
Presley
Maxwell Red
H’wood
Gene”Kirkwood
Dianne Burdick
Alma Coleman
Adolph Spreckels
Charles Hammel
High Seas
Marion Bartholomew
Nile de Paul
Andre’s
Great Neck
Maureen O'Sullivan
Prudence
Richard Beymer
Lee Chapman
Ed Lakso
Jean Seifeld
Ed Carmel
Circus
Jeannie Ward
Bob Fountain
Plaza 9
Marilyn Day
Arthur Gerald
U. of Penn
Vic Morrow
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Krishna Menon
CIA
Cuba
Washington
Red China
Winchel
Donald
Gallery of
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Morris Willson
Harlandale High School
Ed Schaefer
Jack
Sweet Georgia Brown
Duke, the
Alamo Music Center
del Rio
Phillips 66
Bernie Rayburg
Ray Ellison
Raymond Vogel
Saturday Morning Philosophy Society
Dub Ellison
Ray
Frank Pointing
Navy Club
Phil Stair
University Club
Diane
Josef
12 Caesars
Bob Coindreau
Allan Conkling
Wedgwood Club
Dude Skiles
Gene McKinney
Mary
Don Albert
New Orleans
Billy Graham
John C. Metcalfe
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