Ribicoff Hearings Could Shed Light On Federal Aid
Editorial urgesSenator Ribicoff to probe why federal urban aid has failed to reach nos. Watts hospital gap and substandard housing cited. hearings would examine cooperation among federal agencies and between federal, state, and local governments to improve urban policy and reduce bureaucracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abraham Ribicoff
D-Conn
Watts
Sen. Ribicoff
Senate
Housing and Urban Development
Health Education and Welfare
Labor, and Commerce
Attorney General’s Office
Office of Economic Opportunity
Sen. Ribicott
Miles To Go For America
A four lane highway plan threatens the pastoral home of the late poet Robert Frost. The piece argues progress does not always mean better roads and that beauty, order, and conservation of the past must guide modernization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Frost
America
Hoover in Iowa Senate Race Faces Frankly Fuzzy Field
The piece notes Herbert F. Hoover as a Republican senator candidate from Iowa with a sly name tweak backstory. It mentions various public figures and a supermarket manager seeking a new Luther Burbank style project as a side joke. The text then shifts to national politics and a broad airline strike context with wedding guests traveling to Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Iowa
Herbert F. Hoover
Herbert F. Boulder
Fading Political Limelights
Six years after Nixon tapped New York to reshape the GOP platform Gov. Nelson Rockefeller faces a tough re election bid Four Democrats seek the nomination and polls show Rockefeller trailing Yet Javits as campaign chairman could bolster Rockefeller and the moderate Republican path while signaling a Kennedy challenge within the Democratic party
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Falen
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Richard M. Nixon
Gov
Rockefeller
California
Arizona
Barry Goldwater
Jacob K. Javits
R-N. Y
Sen. Javits
Upstate
New York State
Javits
Sen. Javit
Robert F. Kennedy
Gov. Rockefeller
Double Eagles And Triple Plays In A Dinner Party
Dave Felts notes a rare double eagle by a golfer at a dinner party and compares it to baseballs triple. The piece also ponders Royal Baby lineage and the shifting lines of succession as the 17th in line is born to Princess Alexandra.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cubebs
Alexandra of Gloucester
Elizabeth II
Margaret
Duke of Gloucester
Duke of Windsor
Charles
Prince of Wales
Heavy lobbying splits anti-dognapping bill in Congress
The anti-dognapping bill faces sharp division as a House-Senate conference committee works toward final form. Sen. A. S. Monroney D Okla sponsors a Senate provision allowing the Agriculture Secretary to access research labs to prevent mistreatment of lab animals before and after experimentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Animal Welfare Movement
United States
House
Senate
Sen
A. S
Mike) Monroney
D-Okla
Secretary of Agriculture
Joseph Y. Resnick
D-N.y
Bronx
Resnick
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Congress
Humane Societies
Animal Welfare Organizations
House Agriculture Committee
Senate Commerce Committee
Humane Organizations
Sen. Monroney
National Institutes of Health
National Biomedical Research Community
National Society, For Medical Research
Commerce Committee
Senate Commerce
Federal gun laws face test amid crime debate
In a letter to the editor, the author argues federal gun laws from 1927 to 1938 adequately regulate manufacture and sale of firearms and that crime results from individual culpability, not weapon availability. He cites mass killings, deterrence by penalties, and calls for enforcement over new restrictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Illinoisan
Austin
Texas
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Chicago
Americans Flock to Australia in Record Migration Wave
Frederick Homer notes rising American migration to Australia driven by full employment and security for children. He cites 3,000 arrivals last year and predicts 4,000 more this year as the United States labor market tightens and Australians credit increased opportunities amid Viet Nam era changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Scholes
Alliance
Sydney
Australia
Frederick Homer
San Francisco
Homer
United States
Viet Nam
America
U.S
Canberra
Germany
Netherlands
Reader letter critiques Vietnam war arguments as flawed
In a letter printed August 2, W H Cohen of Carterville argues the United States should stop pressuring North Vietnam and suggests altering wartime tactics. He likens the conflict to a sport and defends Red China, prompting rebuttal that dismisses Western Marxism Leninism and cautions against equating wartime power with moral legitimacy.
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Southern Illinoisan
Viet Nam
W.H. Cohen
Carterville
United States
North Viet Nam
U.S
V.C
South Viet Nam
Cohen
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Pat
Mia
Frank
Brigitte
Gunther
Bill
Douglas
Luther Burbank
Walter Lippmann
James Reston
White House
Dave Felts
Heavy
The
Humane Society of the
American Humane Assn
Christine Stevens
Roger Stevens
John F. Kennedy Center For the Performing Arts
Stevens
Society For Animal Protective Legislation
Animal Welfare Institute
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