Editorials Our Opinions Remap Fight Must Not Doom Master Plan
An editorial argues the Illinois Master Plan for Higher Education should pass despite weaknesses. It urges full state financing for junior colleges to avoid crowded universities and costly four year branches, warns of partisan reapportionment gridlock harming the plan, and calls for swift compromise on both issues.
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House
Senate
General Assembly
Illinois
Chinese Communist Party
China
Tayuan
Huang Hsin-Pai
Huang
Peking
Chairman Mao
Kennedy plans Salmon River raft trip in Idaho
The junior senator from New York, Bobby Kennedy, is slowing down and planning a raft trip down Idaho's Salmon River. The piece hints at changing opinions among workers if right to work laws shift views on labor.
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Bobby Kennedy
Salmon
Idaho
New York
Judge Klingbiel Flows Alibi In Gasoline Tax Fight
Chief Justice Ray I Klingbiel of the Illinois Supreme Court defends a private citizen stance after letters urged legislators to oppose a Democratic backed gasoline tax hike. The measure would divert two of three cents to the general fund for schools, a constitutional issue that could reach the high court.
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Ray I. Klingbiel
Illinois Supreme Court
Rock Island
Kerner
Klingbiel
Kiingbiel
Name Tags For The Felts Family Gatherings
Dave Felts recounts a large family gathering where everyone wears ID badges. To identify small children a horse racing style badge is used, listing lineage. The piece also notes trends in New York newspaper mergers, and a postcard of The Face on the Bar Room Floor.
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Mary Sue
Suzanne
Charlie
New York
Times
The
Daily News
Post
Chicago
Tribune
Herald-Examiner
Journal
American
Journal of Commerce
Sun-Times
M.B.E
Canton
Changsha
Communist Party
Commodious prose about robes and moon misfires
The passage mocks ceremonial dress, federal concerns over silver, and Adlai Stevenson’s UN remarks while noting Russia’s lunar misstep. It ties politics, diplomacy, and space effort into a satirical commentary on public figures and optics.
New Viet Nam Chief Thieu Voted Moderate Leader
Maj. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu chosen by South Viet Nam military leaders to head the new 10-member National Leadership Committee with absolute powers. He is seen as a cautious, moderate figure likely to ease Catholic Buddhist tensions and oversee day to day government with Air Vice Marshal Ky and other younger officers.
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New York Times
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
South Viet Nam
Thieu
National Leadership Committee
Phan Huy Quat
Thiru
South
Viet Nam
Nguyen Cao Ky
Air Force
U.S
Quat
Catholic Pellerin School
Hue
Diem
Bien Hoa
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen Khanh
Tran van Huong
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Dave Felts
State University of Iowa
W. Willard Wirtz
Secretary of Labor
Mark Gayn
Toronto Daily Star
Signal Corps
Jenmin Jim Pao
Shanghai
Red
Adlai Stevenson
U.N
Charming
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