Job-hunting time for top U S officials
Editorials note that Robert C. Weaver, first housing secretary and first Black cabinet member, will leave after the election to chair Bernard M. Baruch College in Brooklyn as others in the Johnson administration consider futures in colleges, business, or law as a Republican threatens election outcomes.
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Robert C. Weaver
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bernard M. Baruch College
Brooklyn
Lyndon Johnson
Mr. Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Dean Rusk
State
Orville Freeman
Stewart Udall
Interior
Willard Wirtz
U.S
Congress
Jane Addams Honored With Hall of Fame Portrait
Illinois honors Jane Addams as a social reformer and Hull House founder. Her portrait joins the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at New York University, celebrating a life that shaped child labor laws, juvenile courts, voting rights, and anti-punishment efforts while aiding Chicago's immigrants and Black newcomers.
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National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Miss Addams
Springfield
United States
Hull House
Chicago
Jane Addams
Rockefeller campaign a listless preconvention effort
Republican governors remain uncommitted as Rockefeller lingers on the edge of candidacy while Nixon leads with broad appeal. Reagan’s stance wavers, risking a split at Miami Beach and prompting talk of a Rockefeller Reagan ticket. Delegates and major figures show limited endorsement for Rockefeller despite pressure to act.
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Nelson Rockefeller
Gov. Rockefeller
Richard MM. Nixon
Indiana
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Nixon
Albany
Sacramento
Ronald Reagan
Rockefeller
Reagan
Alent
Miami Beach
R. W. Apple Jr
The
New York Times
New York
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Goy Rockefeller
Psychiatrist urges deeper look at student unrest in America
University of Wisconsin psychiatrist Seymour U Halleck argues that simple explanations miss the core of student activism. He outlines seven hypotheses from permissiveness to media influence and notes the era's rapid tech and social change may demand new psychological adaptations.
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Gregory Lindsay-Schaub
Seymour U. Halleck
University of Wisconsin
Halleck
Argas
American Association For Higher Education
Vietnam
House moves to assure happy holidays column note
David Felts reports the House approved 212 to 84 and sent to the Senate a bill to shift three of eight legal national holidays to Monday, creating a ninth Columbus Day. The piece blends political action with reminiscences of five day weeks, shifts in work culture, and mentions Lord Byron and a reception in Peoria with Sen. Charles Percy.
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HOUSE
U.S. Senate
Springfield
Greece
Turkey
England
Westminster Abbey
Byron
Lord Byron
Poet’s Corner
Westminster
Rudyard Kipling
Thomas Hardy
Lord Asquith
David Lloyd-George
Poetry Society
Abbey
Peoria
Charles Percy
CPA
Test Your Youth Quotient By Russell Baker
A humorous 1968 New York Times piece lists 19 traits to test if you are out of touch with youth culture. It lampshades attitudes toward beer busts campus riots Cold War era trends and changing social mores with witty, period voice. It catalogs cultural markers from fashion to music to slang and highlights generational gaps in mood language.
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Russell Baker
New York Times
Washington
Sus
Chinatown
Howard Johnson
White Elephant party proposed in response to Black Panthers
John H Bauernfeind argues for a White Elephant party as a nonviolent, freedom focused movement. He says freedom cannot be bought or shot and must be gained through mutual understanding, warning against surrender or gun power.
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Southern Minnessan
Black Panther Party
White Elephant Party
John H. Bauernfeind
Stotlar ‘Herrin
Linois
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