Gov Kerner names Illinois reapportionment commission
Editorial notes Gov Otto Kerner set up a 10 member bipartisan panel to redraw state House districts, balancing geography while excluding legislators. The piece argues prompt action is needed to avoid chaos as seven members must approve any map and the commission meets soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otto Kerner
Special Commission
House
Illinois General Assembly
Chicago
Illinois
Republican State Central Committee
Democratic State Committee
Rep
Paul Powell
Vienna
Powell
Ilinois
Kerner
Ocratic
General Assembly
German Decision Major Defeat For De Gaulle
The West German government decided to sign the test ban treaty despite French opposition, a move seen as a major Gaullist defeat. Bonn remains in the Western Alliance, easing concerns about a Paris Bonn split, while France’s push against NATO and the EEC alignment appears sidelined by this German stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Germany
West Germany
NATO
de Gaulle
Great Britain
Bonn
Adenauer
Frch
EEC
Western Alliance
East Germany
Metropolitan Life policy on housing access backs nondiscrimination
GOOD INSURANCE Birrmingham Alabama News quietly announced with the NAACP a policy statement on racial entry into Metropolitan Life housing developments and other activities. Metropolitan operates private housing projects nationwide and rents to Negro families where locations permit. The company says the nondiscrimination policy covers housing, employment, and investments, a stance likely to draw wider business discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Insurance
Birrmingham
Ala
NAACP
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Metropolitan
Virginia
Associated Press
FTC accuses six drug firms of tetracycline price fixing
On the day Sen Estes Kefauver chaired a price investigation the FTC charged six large drugmakers Pfizer American Cyanamid Bristol-Myers Bristol Laboratories Olin Mathieson and Upjohn with price fixing in tetracycline. The agency seeks a cease and desist order on all antibiotics from the firms and an appeal is planned. Consumers await the outcome as firms deny the charges saying they will contest in federal courts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sen. Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Federal Trade Commission
Chas. Pfizer & Co
American Cyanamid Co
Bristol-Myers Co
Bristol Laboratories
Olin Mathieson Co
Squibb
Upjohn Co
FTC
Pfizer Co
U. S. Court of Appeals
F.T.C
Hecht Remembers Chicago in Ben Hecht Memoir Review
The column recalls Ben Hecht at age 16 joining the Chicago Journal in 1910 and five years on its staff as a cub reporter. It notes Hecht’s hard-edged view of Chicago’s theatre and lawyers, with chapters on Darrow Masters Landis and Erbstein. The piece discusses Felts’ memories of Chicago journalism and a move in 1923 to the Louisville Courier Journal, with anecdotes about archival loss and ongoing memoirs.
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Ben Hecht
Chicago Journal
Young Hecht
Journal
Chicago
Doubleday
Playboy
Clarence Darrow
Edgar Lee Masters
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Charlie Erbstein
Marion
Mt. Vernon
Louisville
Louisville Courier-Journal
Gus Fowler
Marion Daily Republican
August L. Fowler
Felts
Marie" Henry Waterson
Thunder & Lightning
Courier-Journal
The New Europe and Its Silent Generation
A reflective examination of postwar Europe as Koestler’s portrait of The Silent Generation and Western Europe’s drift from unity. It notes the rise of managers and technocrats, reliance on American power, and a mood of prosperity masking political apathy and moral drift amid intermission before new acts in history.
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Europe
Arthur Koestler
Huxley
Orwell
United States
Scottish Highlands
American South
Britain
Trafalgar Square
Koestler
Aidan Crawley
Virginia Cowles
France
Italy
Germany
European Political Union
Crawley
Sunday Times
Winston Churchill
de Gaulle
European Union
Fleet Street
Macmillan
Wilson
Oxford
Cambridge
Pall Mall
Malcolm Mageeridge
Western Europe
America
U.S
Nasser Leadership Outshines Labels in Egypt’s Rise
The 1963 profile portrays Gamal Abdel Nasser as a tall, confident Egyptian leader. It traces his origins from a modest Alexandrian upbringing to power after 1952, detailing his austere rule, land reforms, and relentless work ethic, and noting his devotion to national dignity and stability.
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Egypt
Gamal Abdel’ Nasser
Hitler
the Nile
Nasser
Alexandria
Farouk
Changes On The Campus Education Must Relate Thinking And Doing
Northwestern alumni discuss campus shifts from a doers mindset to a balanced role for thinkers and doers. They point to wartime mobilization, the GI Bill, postwar peace, and rising tech, science, and atomic threats as driving education to produce both action and thought. They warn that the nation’s changes shape the university’s mission and student attitudes.
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Northwestern Alumni News
Sputnik One
Northwestern
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Charles de Gaulle
Paris-Bonn
Dave Felts
Hecht
Mark’ Ethridge
Newsday
Gamal Abdel Nasser
New World
New York Times
Beni Mer
Cairn
Military Academy
Gamal Abde
Royal Military Academy
Israel
Committee of Free Officera
Mohammed Naguib
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