Editorial: Governors Lose Force In National Affairs
The Nation editorial notes governors conference highlights waning influence of state executives in national politics. Democratic governors block a civil rights resolution linked to Rockefeller while others push tax hikes. The piece contrasts past presidential training grounds with today’s Senate focus and deems the event a setback for governors’ prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Resolutions Committee
Gov
Rockefeller
Mississippi
Ross Barnett
Alabama
George Wallace
U. S. Senate
White House
Ward trial centers on immoral earnings scandal in Britain
The Stephen Ward case shifts focus from John Profumo to the osteopath accused of profiting from vice workers. The piece notes public tolerance of elite behavior, Profumo’s lies harming the government, and the broader spy sex scandal’s impact on British politics while stressing the moral price paid for memoirs of vice workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Stephen Ward
John Profumo
House of Commons
Her Majesty
Macmillan
Barometer Of Business Barometer Of Business
The New York stock market closed slightly higher on Wednesday after ten days of daily declines yet trading remained dull. The SEC studies floor trading on the NYSE and rail strike shadows linger as mid summer slows business, with quotes reflecting the economy rather than driving it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Securities & Exchange Commission
New York Stock Exchange
Portraits by Ward Stir Public Life Figures
Dr Stephen Ward painted portraits of men in public life using models Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies. The piece reflects a nation once isolated now globally engaged and hints at a bold TV show as a test of American resolve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephen Ward
Christine Keeley
Mandy Rice-Davies
Water tricks the tongue with cedar scent and tritium talk
In Dave Felts column a homespun reminiscence of rainwater soft to the nose meets a scientific note on rising radioactive tritium in precipitation. The piece blends rural memory, a joke about a deck of Kennedy playing cards, and musings on ZIP codes and cultural quirks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Geological Survey
Marion
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Summer Water Lilies Open To The Life-Giving Sun
Virginia S. Eifert paints a morning on a lake where water lilies bloom and life awakens. Dragonfly nymphs transform into creatures of wind and sun as pollen boats, eel grass flowers, water striders, and snails interact in a thriving aquatic world, all driven by oxygen and light.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia S. Eifert
Living Museum
Tax Reduction Very Unlikely
Andrew Tully reports that Congress is unlikely to pass tax cuts in the current session. Republican leaders call the chances remote and Democrats hedge, with civil rights debates likely delaying any tax bill into October or November. Some lawmakers want tax action postponed until rights legislation clears.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Tully
Kennedy
Congress
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Everett Dirksen
Ilinois
White House
Capitol Hill
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Democratic House
Carl Albert
Oklahoma
Mansfield
Albert
Jackie Kennedy
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate Finance Committee
Senate House Committee
Bloody Rise in Ekaterinburg Remembered in July
Ralph McGill recalls the 1918 executions of Czar Nicholas II and family in Ekaterinburg now Sverdlovsk, and the brutal aftermath as Leninist power faced the Czech Legion. The account notes the massacre, the murder of Grand Duke Michael, and the eerie, relic house in Sverdlovsk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph McGill
Mao
Khrushchev
Nicholas
Ural
Ekaterinburg
Lenin
Russia
Siberia
Pacific
Sverdlovsk
Michael
Ipatiev
Czar
Moscow
Yurovsky
Anastasia
Sergius
Nixon
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William Scranton
Pennsylvania
Mr. Profumo
Harold Macmillan
Barometer of Business
Tower
Pisa
United States
Dave Felts
George Washington
Gilbert Stuart
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
Warren G. Harding
Winston Churchill
Stuart Little
New York City
Francis Drake
Cadiz
England
Ethelbert Nevin
Red Order
Dennis Mahoney
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