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Fragmentary OCR lines discuss a $12 amount and a statement about being not so large. Names, places, or clear events are not identifiable. content remains ambiguous.
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Newspaper
Scottsdale Progress
Location
Scottsdale, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1961
Page
4
Fragmentary OCR lines discuss a $12 amount and a statement about being not so large. Names, places, or clear events are not identifiable. content remains ambiguous.
In Atlanta a diplomat discusses U.S. race issues and Congo tensions. He warns race could threaten national survival and lauds Williams for complicating anti imperialist narratives while urging federal action to curb discrimination and boost Black professionals. He cites Lumumba and Africa as pivotal to Cold War dynamics.
The article weighs proposed tax revisions as Congress negotiates relief for individuals or businesses. It discusses personal income taxes and corporate taxes, union urges for broad income tax cuts, and administration ideas for favorable writedowns to spur expansion. It questions whether relief to one group aids overall demand and how long benefits last.
President Kennedy grapples with public messaging on nuclear disarmament and conventional versus nuclear weapon reliance. A planted guerrilla warfare report failed to sway opinion, while McCloy’s remarks prompt calls for a cautious, fully examined administration position before public release.
A humorous long-form column on wives taking vacations from husbands and the lure of the single life for men in middle age. It blends comic anecdotes of Alf and his showbiz daydreams with a traveling wife tale and a reader anecdote about a husband’s lonely homecoming.
The columnist cites a New York Herald Tribune parody of economic terms and compares it to testimony by Walter W. Heller. He notes how jargon obscures meaning and highlights phrases that blur real conditions, pointing out which paragraphs are genuine and which are satirical.
Almanac details for Wednesday March 8 1961 noting the 67th day with 298 left, moon phases, visible planets and notable historical entries including Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. birth in 1841 and key events in 1894 1917 and 1944 with a thought attributed to Holmes about great thoughts requiring heroes and idealists.
Federal Aviation Administrator Najeeb Halaby spoke at a news conference on aircraft noise options, but a passing airliner drowned out his remarks. In Louisville, police Sgt. Lawrence Kerr considers arrest options after a theater employee was robbed of about $500 during a bank deposit drop.
A Senate and House probe reveals graft in state highway programs in Delaware and Oklahoma. Delaware officials including State Highway Commissioner J Gordon Smith and chief engineer Richard Haber face accusations of bid rigging and personal gain. Haber admitted accepting gifts from contractors and steered contracts. Smith used office to benefit his own firms and family interests, including a controversial 1956 option on 200 acres north of Dover for a police headquarters site.
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