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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1963
Page
4
The piece argues English education is vital yet deteriorating with many graduates failing college English tests and colleges offering remedial reading. It blames teachers and method emphasis over content and calls for teachers who love the subject and teach properly.
President Kennedy greeted a delegation from the League of Women Voters and told a historical anecdote about a suffragette demonstration in Washington. He recalled the leader urging the marchers to "pray to the Lord" for protection, noting the crowd’s reaction with a smile.
A collection of famous lines on liberty from Rousseau Webster Jefferson and others. It includes references to self evident rights life and happiness and a call to liberty or death. The quotes contrast liberty with bondage and advocate virtue and union.
Marquis Childs reports on the Senate debate over the test-ban treaty, noting factions from total opponents to reluctant yes votes. He highlights Dean Rusk’s precise testimony, the geopolitical stakes, and lines of questioning reflecting deeper concerns about nuclear pollution and the arms race.
The article traces wartime era anxieties over NATO era test bans, noting Kennedy Khrushchev correspondences, the push for fortress America, and Senate figures like Henry M. Jackson, Leverett Saltonstall, George Aiken, and Hubert Humphrey. Generals LeMay and Teller loom as opposition voices amid arms race tensions.
The article cites J Edgar Hoover defending the FBI against critics while outlining the bureau s civil rights duties. It lists eight categories of rights violations and stresses the FBI operates as a federal investigative body not a national police force. It notes 553 civil rights training sessions for police nationwide.
Paris reports six month old French German alliance battered by disagreements. De Gaulle and Adenauer clashed over British entry to the European Common Market farm policy alignment and NATO nuclear force plans. Adenauer signed the Moscow test ban pact despite De Gaulle opposing it.
Army private Piet Van De Berg, misjudging the floor, leaped from a second story window to answer roll call and suffered two broken ribs and a broken leg. In another item Minnie Raymond blamed new sodium vapor street lights for killing her 130 year old prized monkey puzzle tree.
Ralph McGill reviews a new biography of Mao Tse tung by George Paloczi Horvath. The piece traces Mao from a peasant 16 year old at a rural school gate to the ruler of a huge population. It notes Mao's harsh father and Mao's early unfamiliarity with China and the world.
A brief biographical sketch traces Mao Zedong from poverty and radical study to early exposure to Sun Yat Sen and Western ideas. It notes his 1918 France trip failing to fund travel, influence of anarchism, and later alignment with Soviet power and the Kuomintang.
The Senate commerce committee, after 22 sessions and 46 witnesses on the civil rights public accommodations section, prepares more hearings on the railroad strike plan. Chairman Warren Magnuson, though ill, guided a calm, thorough process led by senators Pastore, Monroney, Thurmond, Lausche, Yarborough, Engle, Bartlett, Hartke, Hart, McGee, and party colleagues.
In a Southern backdrop the piece notes a filibuster tactic focusing on civil rights and private property. It cites historian Commager on foreign reaction to slavery and outlines a strategy to move civil rights legislation first through the House, then the Senate commerce committee, before a possible filibuster.
In Jackson Meredith, the upcoming University of Mississippi graduate, 30, says America must stop judging by color and should recognize people as Americans. In Miami two Coast Guard pilots describe being circled by Cuban gunboats while refugees were gathered.
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