PTA Editorial Calls for Restraint in School Governance
A Scottsdale editorial argues PTAs should not direct district policy or interfere with the Board of Education. It urges self restraint to avoid conflict, champions broad parental involvement, and promotes ongoing PTA efforts to support all children and educate the public on district issues.
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Scottsdale
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Doomed Democrats fret in rare freshman session
Evans Novak reports that 71 Democratic freshmen in the House held a closed Judiciary Committee meeting as House Majority Leader Carl Albert faced complaints over voting on a volatile labor bill without Senate assurances. The freshmen fear losses in November and feel party leaders, especially Speaker John McCormack, ignore their plight. Don Irwin and Patsy Mink among those voicing concern.
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Connecticut
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Hawaii
Frank Evans
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Thomas Foley
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Irwin
Fairfield County
Irwin Oe
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Ater
Iin
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Noted Journalist Answers Why Oswald Omission Stirs Debate
The dialogue centers on Arthur Schlesinger Jr explaining why Lee Harvey Oswald was omitted from A Thousand Days. Readers echo concerns about the Kennedy assassination, politics versus madness, and the era's brutal events in Ravensbrück Auschwitz Lidice and broader Nazi crimes. The discussion touches on Congressional freshman voting, Labor issues, and House tactics related to the 1964 Democratic cohort and the situs-picketing bill.
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New York
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr
Lee Harvey Oswald
Prisoner of the Czar and early American labor legacy
The piece profiles David Dubinsky at 74 as former president of a major union, recalling his birth in Brest Litovek and 1908 arrest while helping organize a workers’ movement. It recounts Ellis Island arrivals, immigrant hardships, past strikes, and deadly stairwell fires affecting women and girls during industrial tensions in early 1910s America.
Education and crime mix in March issue Mailbag
In a reader note about a front page store robbery report the writer questions how police define educated redhaired suspects and notes the description fairfully dressed could imply teachers. The letter jokes that crime does not pay and education doesn’t either.
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China invites UN to decide Red China status
Roscoe Drummond argues Red China faces self isolation or world isolation by its actions. He asks if Beijing would accept UN membership with standard terms, suggesting the UN invite Red China to answer yes or no to admission, and to reveal who shapes its isolation.
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China
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Drummond
United Nations
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Formosa
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