De Gaulle Triggers Thaw in East West Military Posture
Walter Lippmann argues De Gaulle's Moscow visit signals broader shifts from the postwar order. A thaw appears in both German states and U.S. policy, with debates between rivals, proposed Soviet troop reductions, and calls for German-Soviet settlement. European unity and diversified economies replace old blocs as military power shifts amid social turbulence.
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Charles de Gaulle
Moscow
Germany
Social Democratic Party
Rainer Barzel
Soviet Union
United States
Gen. de Gaulle
Robert McNamara
Jackson
Europe
McGeorge Bundy
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Oder- Neisse
de Gaulle
Atlantic
Urals
State Department
United Nations
NATO
SEATO
Johnson
Asia
America
Middletown High School marks 25th anniversary amid war notes
The first Middletown high school class of 1941, 243 graduates, celebrated its 25th anniversary as the nation faced a possible new world war. James M. Spinning spoke at commencement while Lawrence Weed received the John W. Slauson Scholarship. Battery D heroics and 156th Field Artillery moves to Fort Dix framed local reflection on change.
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Edward P. Dougherty
Middletown
New High School
Sundstrom
Grand and Wisner Avenues
James M. Spinning
Rochester
Frederic P. Singer
John W. Slauson
Lawrence Weed
Carolyn Worcester
Slauson
Robert Wengenroth
YMCA
Joseph Guattery
Richard Billingsley
First Congregational Church
Orange Sullivan County
Company T
New York National Guard
156Th Field Artillery
Fort Dix
N. Y
Middletown Post
American Legion
156Th
Legionnaires
The Lighte Sido the Lighte Sido
A driver helps a nun with a flat tire. she offers payment, but the teen refuses saying a friend of Batman is a friend to me. The nun expresses gratitude for the unexpected kindness and the boy's refusal to accept money.
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Batman
Mins
Pa. GOP’s Shafer Leads New Fall Ticket In 1968 Race
Ruth Montgomery reports Pennsylvania Republicans name Lt. Gov Ray Shafer as 1968 gubernatorial candidate with Yale alumnus Raymond Broderick for lieutenant governor and Yale Cambridge graduate John Tabor as internal affairs chief. Senator Hugh Scott becomes national spokesman. Shafer to chair party platform panel. Scott’s influence could steer 1968 Senate campaigns and funds distribution amid GOP liberal and conservative tensions. The piece ties Shafer to Eisenhower’s revival of a progressive GOP agenda in Pennsylvania.
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Washington
William Scranton
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Ray Shafer
Scranton
United Party
Eisenhower
Shafer
Yale University
Senator Scott
Raymond Broderick
Notre Dame
John Tabor
Yale
Harvard
England
Cambridge
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Broderick
Philadelphia
South Pacific
Tabor
Genevieve Blatt
Scott
Senate
State Committee
Grand Old Party
Eisenhower National
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Oregon
Mark Hatfield
Kenneth Keating
Winston Prouty
House
Johnson
Barry Goldwater
GOP
George Murphy
Murphy
Republican National Committee
Rat Finks
New Jersey
Young Republican Federation
General Eisenhower
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John Bright
Charles H. Shaw
Judge Bright
Charles Doty
Gene Brown
Ruth Montgomery
Pa. Gop
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