Chicago Mayor Faces Turbulent Democratic Convention
Editorial worries Daley must manage a massive Yippie love-in with a pig presidential nominating stunt and antiwar marches. Taxi and bus driver strikes threaten Aug 16 and Aug 25 amid $18 million in delegate spending and aggressive security plans. Strong odors from nearby stockyards compound tensions.
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Chicago
Richard Daley
Windy City
Miami
Yippies
International Amphitheater
New York
Daley
Convention Hall
Dick Daley
McCarthy Backs Biannual Conventions To Shape National Policy
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy proposes that political parties hold conventions every two years to openly seek positions on major issues. He argues such “issues conventions” would express public will, though critics note increased costs, candidate campaigning, and unworkable consensus. most prefer the current four year cycle.
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Eugene J. McCarthy
Sacramento
Sen. McCarthy
Vietnam
Nelson Rockefeller
Ronald Reagan
Civics class Vietnam vote contrasted with war aims
A reader condemns Paula Phillips letter praising a civics vote to “go all out to win” in Vietnam. She argues the view echoes juvenile militarism, risks mass displacement and destruction, and draws a parallel to Hitler Youth’s militaristic spirit of the 1930s.
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Southern Illnoisan
Paula Phillips
South Vietnam
South East Asia
Hitler Youth
Community asks to save livable houses in Carbondale
Readers urge action on housing conditions as urban renewal moves land in the southeast. The note outlines plans to relocate seven sound houses to northeast sites, rehab them, and sell to low income families with government subsidized loans, coordinated by Carbondale Dwellings Association and the conservation board.
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The
Southern Illinoisan
Carbondale
University
Anne Floyd Carbondale
Community Conservation Board
Southern Illinois University
Carbondale Dwellings Association
Conservation Board
Kerner on Death Penalty and Executions in Illinois
Former Illinois governor Otto Kerner, an opponent of capital punishment, recalls two executions during his tenure Vincent Ciucci in 1962 and James Dukes in 1964. He describes private lines for execution nights, court delays, and mercy decisions saving lives while maintaining constitutional duties.
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Chicago Daily News
M. W. Newman
Otto Kerner
Illinois
Kerner
U. S
James Dukes
Dukes
John Blyth
Ciucci
Cook County
Crank
Vincent
Nathan Leopold
Paul Crump
Crump
Ciuicci
Chicago
Oms
Conrad Hilton
Charles H. Percy
Democrats in Gloom as Nixon Victory Looms in 1968
James Reston analyzes a tense Washington scene after Nixon’s nomination with Agnew. Democrats face internal rifts, wary of Wallace gains, and fear losing ground to a conservative tide while Humphrey attempts to balance Vietnam policy and party unity.
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James Reston
New York Times
Washington
Richard Nixon
Spiro
Agnew
Great Republic
Potomac
Woodley Road
Miami Beach
Chicago
Humphrey
Gene McCarthy
George McGovern
Vietnam
Johnson
George Wallace
Alabama
Nixon
Maryland
Lindsay
New York
Percy
Illinois
Hatfield
Oregon
Wallace
Mr. Dooley
McCarthy
Roosevelt
Taft
Woodrow Wilson
McGovern
Dorothy Carnegie course for women offered in 1968
A new Dorothy Carnegie course for women aims to improve personality as a His and Hers proposition. The year 1968 is described as rapidly changing with news evolving daily.
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Dorothy Carnegie
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Theodore Isaacs
Raymond Terrell
Sangamon County
Terrell
Harold Visotsky
Illinois Division of Mental Health
Jacob M. Arvey
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