Poverty program flaws noted in coop grocery example
An editorial argues cooperative stores fail when members do not cooperate, citing a San Francisco Negro area coop losing over $1,000 monthly as residents shop elsewhere. It warns against piecemeal poverty programs and urges coordinated action across housing, education, jobs, and services.
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Watts
San Francisco
Co-Op
George Wagner
Congress
Congressional Committee
Ralph Nader
North Vietnam braces for long war amid mass calisthenics
The Manila Times reports Hanoi engineers a protracted conflict with a nationalist plan for 10 to 20 years. Citizens from hotel clerks to factory workers train in guerrilla tactics, while cities, transport and industry are dispersed and protected. Underground factories and mobile air defenses reveal a nation adapting to sustained U.S. bombing.
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Amanda Coronila
Manila Times
Associated Press
Attock
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
China
Soviet Union
Lyndon residents doubt Johnson as farm prices stay low
In Lyndon Illinois a farming community on the Rock River residents doubt President Johnson’s reelection prospects. Mayor Harold Attigson critiques the war in Vietnam and farm prices while weighing GOP options including Nixon Reagan Romney and Rockefeller.
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Lyndon
Illinois
Rock River
Pedernales
Rock Island
United States
Lyndon Johnson
Harold Attig
Johnson
Attig
California
Ronald Reagan
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Percy
Tye
Michigan
Romney
Reagan
Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
Tampico
Rockefeller
Vietnam
American Farm Bureau Federation
Wake Up Gift Makers of America
Russell Baker argues in this 1967 New York Times column that gift makers ignore a widening market gap. He riffs on absurd future gifts from a collapsible parking space to a grass shampoo, speed readers edition of War and Peace, and floor teeth, urging innovation to match affluence.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
Washington
Santa Claus
Speed
Collier’s
Collier’s Magazine
Gift Makers of
America
Johnson war debate fades in Lyndon Illinois
In Lyndon Illinois residents express Republican opposition to Johnson amid the Vietnam war, blaming the administration for falling farm prices and unrest, while local worries focus on wet weather and delayed corn harvest. A Lyndon high school principal notes limited political talk among students.
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Johnson
Sterling
Vietnam
Illinois
John Dee
Lyndon Community High School
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Knoxville
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World Bank
First International
Virginia
van Wolverton
Lindsay-Schaub
Lindsay- Schaub
Richard Nixon
George Romney
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Russel Baker
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