Civil rights leaders urge cautious optimism after civil rights bill
Editorials argue the long hot summer will continue with demonstrations, but passage of the civil rights bill would push the movement toward rapid enforcement and legal action. Leaders like Roy Wilkins and James Foreman weigh moderation and police protection, while CORE and SNCC plan Northern actions and Mississippi Summer Project. King cautions that the promised land is not yet reached and urges bold, nonviolent pursuit of opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martin Luther King Jr
Roy Wilkins
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Wilkins
James Foreman
Soldier's Field
Chicago
Foreman
Mississippi
White House
Department of Justice
SNCC
Deep South
James Farmer
Congress of Racial Equality
North
Core
New York
St. Louis
Cleveland
Johnson
King
Malcolm
Khrushchev’s Scandinavian Tour Bogs Down in Sweden
Khrushchev’s visit to Denmark Sweden Norway and Iceland is viewed as a cool reception with Swedish anger over Raoul Wallenberg and Col. Wennerstrom espionage cases. Critics say his trip fails to win support for the Kekkonen plan and underscores tensions between Soviet diplomacy and Nordic neutrality and welfare states.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Scandinavian
Lyndon Johnson
Scandinavia
Johnson
Nhrushchev
United Arab Republic
Denmark
Sweden
Soviet Union
Raoul Wallenberg
Europe
Stc Wennerstrom
Khrushchev
Finland
Urho
Norway
Iceland
NATO
Texas
Coney Island
Those Talks At Ford
A UAW claim that Henry Ford is out of touch with workers clashed with Ford's view that union demands threaten the economy. The dispute centers on bargaining starting July 1 and the role of strikes in preserving free collective bargaining amid fears of federal intervention.
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Henry Ford
United Auto Workers Union
Ford Motor Cay
Ford
UAW
Ford Company
Latin Message From Yale to Princeton Class Reunion
Dave Felts notes Yale Class of 1999 sent a Latin congratulatory message to Princeton Class of 1939 via Western Union, with a Greek reply by mail. He discusses Latin program traditions in colleges, then shifts to lighter items about redbird feeding behavior, a theatre revival, and personal garden observations, closing with reflections on free enterprise at home.
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Yale
Princeton
Western Union
Universitas Magna
Patria
Yalensis Universitatis Aequalibus
Classics
Yalensis
Duke of Windsor
Redbirds
Redbird
Syracuse
Rodgers & Start
Theatre Four
W. Shakespeare
New York as seen through inflation fear and city life
Ralph Johnson Lindsay Sehaub portrays New York as a summer festival with inflated prices and a tense security climate. He notes a murder on West 90th Street, rising violence on streets and subways, narcotics problems, and Harlem safety concerns, while highlighting tourism, Broadway vitality, transit quirks, and iconic venues like Carnegie Hall amid urban change.
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Ralph Johnson
Lindsay-Sehaub
New York
City Sphere 2
John F. Kennedy
West 90Th Street
American Press Institute
Columbia University
Morningside Park
Columbia
Greater
Harlem
Arca
Times Square
Grand Central Station
Flushing Meadow
Manhattan
Fire Island
Long Island
Broadway
Central Park
New York Daily News
Midtown
Rockefeller Plaza
Carenegie Hall
Isaac Stern
Concert
Ilinois
Election Year Move Critique of Job Training Plan
James W. Brigham of Diagram Bradley Industries criticizes a U S Department of Labor funded retraining plan for 1000 unemployed in Franklin and Williamson Counties. He argues the program wastes taxpayer money, questions outcomes, and urges local industry to hire and train workers instead.
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Southern Trindsan
Franklin
Williamson
U. S. Department of Labor
Tatarsky
VTT
Southern Ilinois University
West Frankfort
William Westberg
SIU
Illinois State Employment Service
Hervin
Reader's Digest
ARA
Orcill
St. Louis
Christ
Matthew Eds
Kenny Gray
Brigham
Kenny
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