Caution: Work Ahead On Transportation Bill
Editorial urges preserving the core power of a proposed Department of Transportation to set broad standards for highway fund allocation and project approval. It warns against excluding water resources and stresses the need for a rational national transportation plan including highways.
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Department of Transportation
Highway Trust Fund
Transportation Department
Illinois
Budget Bureau
Charles Schultze
Congressional
American Association of State Highway Officials
Congress
House
Senate
Yorty Endorses Centralization Amid Urban Reform Plea
Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty testified before a senate subcommittee on big city problems and argued for metropolitan government reform while noting his limited jurisdiction over schools welfare transportation and housing. Kennedy urged Yorty to stay in Washington and consider broader urban governance.
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Los Angeles
Samuel W. Yorty
Kennedys
Senate
United States
Mr. Yorty
Yorty
Richard Daley
Chicago
Sen. Kennedy
Washington
Mr. Kennedy
Alaska Statehood Keeps Gov Egan In For Four More Years
Governor William A. Egan won a path to a second full term after a Democratic primary challenge from Wendell P. Kay centered on term limits. Democrats outpolled Republicans by about 10 000 votes, while Sen. E L Bartlett won the Democratic nomination. Alaska seeks new leadership as it enters its second generation of politics.
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Alaska
William A. Egan
Egan
Wendell P. Kay
Anchorage
Statehood
Sen
E. L. Bartlett
Congress
Lampoon
Playboy Magazine
New Yorker
Time
Hugh Hefner
Playboy
Oldster
the Lampoon
Asia
Africa
Europe
South America
Johnsons Privilege and Parody Span a Year in History
Dave Felts notes a string of presidential favors from Johnson as a honeymoon motel rescue and later room shifts near Youngstown. He recalls wartime airline space for a captain’s dog and Harvard Lampoon parodies that echo Playboy, plus watergrass debates and a Racine Johnson Foundation birthday cue.
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Johnson
Campobello
Youngstown
Ohio Turnpike
Patrick Nugent
Little d
Little David
Harvard
George Lyman Kittredge
Harvard Lampoon
Dave
Johnson Foundation
Washington, D.C
Austin
Johnson City
Tex
Racine
Wis
Lyndon Johnson
Blood Debts To Be Paid Slaughter Of Communists Still Haunts Indonesian People
Seymour Topping examines the Indonesian purge after the Sept. 30 PKI coup attempt, noting mass killings across Java Bali and Sumatra, army roundups, and ongoing violence. He details estimates of dead, detentions, and the lingering social wounds for generations.
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Java
Bali
Sumatra
Timor
Sukarno
Partai Kommunis Indonesia
PKI
Jakarta
Indonesia
Sugiharto
Solo
Wibhawa
4Th Brigade
Salatiga
Banjumas
Central
East Java
East
Denpassar
Negara
Dembrana
Radja
Nationalists
Kediri
Willie Sudyono
Sutoyo
Ansar
West Java
Atjeh
Sulaensi
Kalimantan
Lombok
Flores
Sumba
Sumbawa
Makassar
Banjarmasin
Islands
Suharto
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Army Corps of Engineers
Bureau of Reclamation
Tennessee Valley Authority
Dave Felts
Seymour Topping
New York Times
Southeast Asia
Morse
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