Progress and Peril in American Lifes Despite Prosperity
An editorial warns that private militias and easy access to arms endanger democracy. It cites surplus Department of Defense weapons, Minutemen threats, and large numbers with ammunition, urging Congress to curb private armies while noting improvements in literacy, housing, and diet since 1900.
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Henry Gonzales
Texas Worts
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Johnson’s Poverty Plan Drives 1964 Campaign Tone
Marquis Childs surveys President Johnson pushing a $947.2 million anti poverty bill as a central campaign theme. Goldwater labels it a gimmick, while Johnson touts tax cuts civil rights and mass transit. The piece notes youth unemployment, cabinet cautions, and Johnson’s disciplined campaign posture amid Cyprus and world tensions.
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Johnnson
Congresso
Two Battery Cases Define Consent in Slugging and Kisses
An American Bar Association public service feature by Will Bernard explains battery laws through two cases. In case one two business friends exchange playful punches until a death occurs. the court rules no battery due to implied consent from past conduct. In case two a conductor kisses a teacher passenger. the court finds battery due to lack of consent despite no malice.
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schooHeacher
American Bar Association
Will Bernard
Manana in Mexico City Avoirdupois of Red Tape
Bob Considine catalogs the chaos of getting a Mexican travel permit in Mexico City. He recounts trying to obtain a return visa via the Secretaria de Gobernacion, facing delays, officials’ shifting quotes, and a negotiable bribe offer. A maze of offices and elusive truth leaves him entangled with Sr. Farias and red tape.
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Havana
New York
Mexico City
Secretaria de Gobernacion
Bucarelli No. 99
McGill on Barry and the slum violence issue
Ralph McGill argues that Goldwater cannot fix street violence as a federal problem and urges long term local federal partnership. He highlights Harlem Rochester and other slums as centers of crime, poverty, and racial discrimination and calls War on Poverty essential for improvement.
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Harlem
Rochester
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Miller
Scottsdale Daily Progress data line from 1964 issue
Jonathan Marshall editor and publisher Maurice L Carter advertising director Scottsdale Daily Progress published every afternoon except Sunday by Scottsdale Publishing Company at 302 Ball Park Plaza Scottsdale telephone WH 6 3441 second class postage paid Scottsdale Ariz Volume IV Number 140 July 30 1964 its newspaper for the Arizona Newspapers Association for Greater Public Service
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