Used car safety inspections overdue and likely to expand
Editorial argues nearly half of 96 million vehicles lack critical safety standards and urges Illinois to adopt a used car inspection law. It outlines federal plans for used car standards in 1969, funding challenges, agency roles, and costs, urging timely action to reduce highway deaths and injuries.
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National Highway Safety Bureau
Illinois
Illinois Department of Public Works
Secretary of State
Was Khe Sanh Worth It The Siege Debate Reawakens
The piece questions the value of the Khe Sanh siege where over 100 Americans died and hundreds were wounded. It notes claims that 6,000 U S troops defended a marginal outpost, possible strategic futility, and eventual U S retreat amid criticism of symbolic aims and misjudged priorities.
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Khe Sanh
U.S
Sidle
Mr. Carroll
Harris survey finds Humphrey favored by Democrats
Louis Harris reports that with Chicago convention two months away the Democratic rank and file prefer Humphrey over McCarthy 48 to 40 in a national test. Independent voters favor McCarthy 54 to 30, while Kennedy loyalists lean toward Humphrey 50 to 37. McCarthy struggles to win the party's hard core.
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Louis Harris
Washington Post
Chicago
Democratic Party
Hubert Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
Humphrey
McCarthy
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
South
Richard Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Johnson
Franklin D. Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
George Wallace
Deep South
Nixon
Rockefeller
Lament over lame duck label and Spock critique prompt letters
Readers dispute Johnson as lame duck and defend his right to appoint judges. Letters defend Spock’s work, question Droit’s quotes, and recount gun turn in rumors and tax panic showing local reaction and confusion.
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The
Southern Clincisan
G. L. Droit
Dr. Spock
Spock
Thornberry moves toward liberalism in Congress
Congressional Quarterly finds Homer Thornberry, longtime ally of Lyndon Johnson, shifting from mixed to pro Great Society legislation during 14 years in the House. His votes rose from 26 percent supportive of Eisenhower to 95 percent for Kennedy, with coalitions showing a liberal trend.
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Congressional Quarterly
Washington
Homer Thornberry
Supreme Court
President Johnson
Congress
House of
Kennedy
Texas
Thornberry
House
Mr. Johnson
Senate
Senate Judiciary Committee
Earl Warren
Johnson
Abe Fortas
Lyndon Johnson
Eisenhower
Big Lie hats and calls to surrender knives and guns
A garbled letter laments police confusion and urges turning in knives and guns, cites mace injuries, murders with bats, and Prohibition nostalgia. It claims Chicago officials funded gangs to go straight and calls for stricter enforcement of existing gun laws. The writer signs as Glenn Travelstead from Marion.
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Miihoisan
Everone
Chicago
Office of Economic Opportunity
Daley
Washington
Glenn Travelstead
Marion
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John S. Carroll
Baltimore Sun
Winant Sidle
Saigon
Carroll
Southern Illinoisan
U.S. Senate
White House
United States
Marian E. Ridgeway
Carbondale
Mr. Droit
Leonard E. Brewster
Rt. 2
NEA
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