Sarasota High School Class of 1957 graduates march forward
SHS class of 1957 completes a milestone in self government amid student community challenges. The seniors depart to colleges, jobs, or the armed forces with community support and best wishes for progress in an era of atomic energy and growing engineering opportunities. Principal William Henry Cone leaves SHS for two years to study public school administration.
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Sarasota High School
William Henry Cone
SHS
Submerged Land Controls Move Slow in Florida Bay Work
Sarasota County wins passage of local controls on bay bottom filling and dredging the issue draws state attention A statewide bill would let local authorities set bulkhead lines but Pinellas County opposes it St Petersburg is cited as preferring rapid bay filling and loss of fishing while our region advocates caution to protect resources and growth.
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Florida
Sarasota County
Pinellas County
St. Petersburg
Bond Buying Soviet Style
A columnist argues Soviet authorities issue new bonds despite void old ones. Workers pay installments and receive worthless paper, while Khrushchev calls the choice voluntary for the good of the state. The piece contrasts Soviet bond coercion with American savings security.
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Soviet Russia
Kremlin
Russia
Bulganin
Khrushchev
America
Siberian
Khrudhshev
Critics rail at 128000 cowbarn abroad in aid effort
A columnist condemns a $128,000 cow barn in Lebanon as wasteful foreign aid aimed at “demonstrating” farmer needs. He questions taxpayer value, notes limited U.S. farmer wealth, and argues aid shifts focus from genuine domestic priorities and smarter policy. The piece blasts policymakers and Read ers Digest sourced critiques.
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Lebanon
Massachusetts
Two Big Topics Face Eisenhower Era Reform
The piece urges urgent action on presidential disability and office space. It notes constitutional gaps over who decides a president’s inability and calls for Congress to authorize a new White House staff building across Pennsylvan ia Avenue with a remodeled west wing. The Fleming commission favors a unified campus near Blair House and tunnels for access, citing 1,500 White House staffers and outdated facilities.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Advisory Commission
Robert V. Fleming
Riggs National Bank of Washington
White House
State, War and Navy
Pennsylvania Avenue
Blair House
Theodore Roosevelt
National Security Council
Bureau of the Budget
Memorial Day prose poem praise for feature writing
Reader commends Bob Swift for a front page Memorial Day feature that blends sincerity and humor. The letter lauds the writer for creating a fresh angle rather than a dull repetition, calling the prose poem both moving and lightly ironic.
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Bob Swift
The Great est Thing in the World a Love of God and Life
A reflective passage extols spiritual and nonsexual love as the greatest thing in the world. The author praises love for God family and nature, asserts sex love as sacred and creative, and compares it to stars and electricity while declaring life meaningless without love, summarized in the phrase I love you.
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Drummond
God
Solomon
Croesus
Economists Debate Inflation and Tax Cuts
Congress calls in six 20th century seers to gauge inflation and tax policy. The panel, led by Rep. Wilbur Mills, suggests cutting taxes if mood turns bleak, while others foresee modest to strong inflation pressures easing with new production.
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Congress
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Joint Economic Subcommittee On
Mills
Walter E. Hoadley Jr
Armstrong Cork Company
Lancaster
Peter Henle
Afl-Cio
Eisenhower faces booby traps in atomic energy plan
The piece critiques the proposed 80 nation International Atomic Energy Agency, noting U.S. footing one third of the bill and potential inspection gaps. It covers Senate concerns led by Bridges and Hickenlooper and Strauss’s cautious testimony, with promises of more backstage detail.
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International Atom
Mr. Eisenhower
International Atomic Energy Agency
IAEA
United States
Eisenhower
Nagasaki
U.N
Russia
Senate
Dulles
Atomic Energy
Léwis Strauss
Hickenlooper
Office Routine Rhetoric in Detached Verse
An experimental poem by James J Metcalfe depicts office life as a rigid, breakless cycle. It contrasts constant service to the boss with swift lunch breaks and impersonal calls. The piece critiques corporate monotony and the muffled humanity within busy workdays.
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U.S
Great Britain
Suez
John Foster Dulles
Taipei
Harold Stassen
Eign
John Hollister
Herbert Hoover
Potomac
Reader's Digest
ICA
Afghanistan
George E
Sokolsky
Washington
Roscoe
Sarasota
George Mathew Adams
Bud Blak
Jewel Tea Company
Melrose Park
Mr. Henle
Mr. Tongue
Irwin Friend
University of Pennsylvania
Robert P. Olin
McGraw Hill Publishing Company
New York
Robinson Newcomb
Washington, D.C
Uncle Sam
Friend
Milly
Robert F. Hurleigh
Styles Bridges
Bourke Hickenlooper
Fulton Lewis JR
James J Metcalfe
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