The Reward First Issue Remains Independent Voice
The Jan 15 1877 issue marks the founding of the Romana Pac Breen Ree era paper under Arthur Jenkins with E A Ohara as president and publisher and Alexander F Jones as executive editor The paper pledges independence and public questions coverage while honoring Associated Press news dispatches in a rare historic imprint dated Saturday December 28 1957.
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Synacune Herald
Arthur Jenkins
LIT Romana Pac Breen Ree
E. A. Ohara
Alexander F. Jones
Clarence H. Rinne
Chauncey
Hurley
Lewis
Tapace
Kart 5
Mapasine
Harold x
Emi Nalione
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Apostrophe Doomed A Backward Bridge And Food in Pills
A Scots educator cites danger in removing the apostrophe and warns of a slipping sequence of punctuation loss. A Toronto bridge design error costs 12000 to fix, while a NY Times note recalls a kiddie Army induction for a helmet request. Americans push for space travel, with experts skeptical yet a space dream persists.
Fair Way to Recruit Our Scientific Talent
A plan to recruit scientific talent through education reform is outlined. President Eisenhower's aid to education program targets over 200 million dollars, with more than 30 million for the National Science Foundation to improve technical teaching. The NSF aims to update high school physics using the new Physical Science Study Committee textbook, arguing science can be as engaging as arts. The piece questions current priorities and stresses balanced funding to avoid shortchanging other subjects while addressing engineer and scientist shortages.
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Ewenhower
National Science Foundation
Physical Science Study Committee
Moon trip sales pitch sparks space travel debate
The piece notes spaceflight will bring boredom, confinement, and harsh conditions with extreme heat and cold, water scarcity, and no atmosphere. It jokes that even Eskimos or Buddhist monks would prefer Earth and suggests enlisting a slick Madison Avenue marketer to sell the moon venture.
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Ange Jron
Ses
Madison Avenue
North Pole
Spruced-Up Policemen Ordered in Syracuse Police Scene
Police Chief Kelly has ordered a 30 day spruce up for officers, requiring regulation coats caps and shoes. Haircuts for actors are out. The move aims to present a uniform, clean and erect police force in downtown Syracuse.
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Kelly
Syracuse
Butler presses voters to block tax increases in Congress
Maryland Republican Senator John M. Butler urged that the people hold the key to whether taxes rise, calling on voters to demand lawmakers block personal bills tied to rivers bridges highways and urban renewal. He spoke as a political aside rather than during an election year, noting the 1963 end of his term and the likelihood that fiscal pressures will shape next session.
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John M. Butler
Maryland
Butler
House of Representatives
A Year We'd Like to Forget 1957 for the West
A year of space conquest and global tension dominated by Sputnik and Soviet advances. Khrushchev purges strengthened Kremlin power as NATO faced disarmament talks in Paris. The Suez crisis aftermath, Jordan, Syria, and Cyprus unrest, and a U.S. intervention in Little Rock marked a turbulent year with enduring Cold War fault lines.
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West
Crafc
Soviet Union
Ninta Khrusichev
Ussr
Georgi Zhukov
Hs Post
Khrushchev
Zhukov
Georgi Malenkov
V. M. Molotov
Lazar Ragaro
U.S
Europe
Moscow tour notes amid church visits and museum glare
A physician recounts a Moscow Russian Orthodox church service for embassy staff, Kremlin sights, Red Square, and a Lenin and Stalin mausoleum view. He describes shops, food, a state department store, and a night sleeper ride to Leningrad, with impressions of police, fear, and friendly guides.
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Moscow
Odessa
Communist Party
Mss Packwood
Yugoslava
Ted
Malaga Lublyanka St
Kremlin
Winter Palace
Lenin
Stalin
Red Square
G VU. M. State Department
Poland Eases Border Checks Amid Reform Talk
The author reports on Poland relaxing passport and currency controls for rail and air travelers, noting looser money declarations, faster passport handling, and broader border ease. Comparisons are drawn with Soviet orbit practices, Czech and Russian procedures, and indications of broader liberalization alongside press and speech relaxations.
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Russia
Poland
Moscow
Stilln Rusga
Czechoslovakia
Raiway
World leaders debate Cold War fear and space race bold plans
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer warns that Soviet domination attempts risk global fear and suppression unless they change. Convair’s BOSSART, a top missile designer, says the firm studies lunar exploration and aims to reach the Moon within a year or two if funded, signaling accelerated space efforts.
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Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Union
Bossart
Astronautes Division
Convair Corp
A Lesson From India by William D Patterson
A Sunday Review survey highlights Ved Mehta in Face to Face as a revealing account of an Indian blind student who moves to the United States. Despite early obstacles, Mehta learns Braille and English, travels the U S fourteen times, crosses thirty seven states, and adapts to life in Arkansas as he builds a bridge between East and West through his evolving career.
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Mary Packwood
Binghamton Press
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Malaga
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Moscow
U.S
Mosscow
Russia
Ved Mehta
East
America
India
Mehta
United States
West
Arkansas
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