Rockefeller South America tour faces mixed reception
The South American trip by Governor Nelson Rockefeller is seen as failing to win friends for the United States and provoking concern over American influence. Proponents argue Rockefeller may still help build bridges on a second visit while critics warn of deeper tensions with communist movements.
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Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Rockefeller
U. S
Fidel Castro
Gov. Rockefeller
South America
Height of Norwegian conscripts measured in metric fun
A Norfolk Virginian Pilot reader questions converting 178.5 cm to inches. The note recalls Norway's 178.5 cm average height for conscripts, up 0.2 cm from 1967, with 44.6 percent over 180 cm and a 1920 baseline of one in ten.
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Norfolk
Virginian-Pilot
Golf on the Moon A golf course may greet moon visitors
Savannah Evening Press reports an airline already selling moon trips sees potential lunar attractions such as a driving range. Scientists speculate a Earth 800 yard drive could become over a mile on the moon, promising space tourism for golf fans.
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Earth
Moon
Outer Space
Savvannah (Ga
June 17 in History Highlights Across Centuries
On this date in 1579 Sir Francis Drake landed on the California coast. John Wesley, founder of Methodism, was born in 1703. The Bunker Hill battle occurred in 1775 near Boston. France sought peace terms in 1940. Allied raids hit Naples and Sicily in 1943. In 1963 the Supreme Court barred Bible recitation in public schools. China announced its first hydrogen bomb in 1967.
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Bunker Hill
Boston
France
Germany
Naples
Sicily
Italy
Supreme Court
China
Eamon de Valera
Irish Republic
Japan
Actors Equity Hos
New York
A Conservative View on Justice Douglas Resign or Face Scrutiny
The piece argues Senator Thurmond is right that Justice William O Douglas should resign. It cites Douglas Playboy essays on public affairs as improper for a Supreme Court justice and notes other writings and Parvin Foundation ties. It decries the court’s dignity being harmed and urges accountability.
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Washington
South Carolina
Thurmond
Wiliam C. Douglas
Kennedy
Douglas
Playboy
Hefner
Frank Church
United States Supreme Court
Justice Douglas
The
Parvin Foundation
Center For the Study of Democratic Institutions
Foundation For the Republic
Center
Foundation
Supreme Court
Memory and the mind like a musical instrument
Boyle's Notebook reflects on memory as a living, willful instrument of the mind. It recalls playful dormitory era anecdotes, social norms, and old lessons about authority, family, and daily life that shape the soul's past.
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New York
Navy
Breakfast Business, Not Lunch, Says WY & Petard Memo
A spoof memo from WY & Petard jokes about breakfast business meetings replacing lunches. It outlines absurd policies banning women, banning alcohol, and extending meetings with odd rules while lampooning executive culture and office politics.
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Manhattan
Wholecloth
Yardwide & Petard, Inc
Smithers
WY & Petard
Anns
Madison Avenue
Petard
Miss Woogle
Portal
Thom asville Times Enterprise: Classifieds and Notices Listing
Historic newspaper masthead text appears with publication details and mailing information for Thom asville Times Enterprise. It includes rights notice, publication days, postal and subscription details, and tax terms for Georgia deliveries.
Controls Debate Signals Tax Surtax Split At Hot Springs
Secretary Kennedy warned Congress may force wage and price controls if the ten percent surtax is not extended. Business leaders gathered in Hot Springs urged arbitration and price freezes, while experts like Lewis Rosenstiel argued high interest rates fuel inflation and that a continuing surtax burdens the middle class.
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Edmund Littlefield
West Coast Construction Company
Lewis S. Rosenstiel
Rosenstiel
Hot Springs
U. S
Richard Nixon
Lyndon Johnson
Robert McNamara
Vietnam
Eliot Janeway
Nixon White House
Rural hospital aid leaves many facilities half empty
An AP survey shows more than 150 federally funded rural hospitals sit half empty while crowded urban hospitals plead for more money. Examples include Soda Springs Idaho and Bay Minette Alabama with new but underused facilities, and Harlem Hospital in New York awaiting state funded expansion.
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James R. Polk
Associated Press
Washington [Ap
Senate
America
House
Durward C. Hall
R-Mo
Soda Springs
Idaho
Caribou County
Boise
St. Alphonsus Hospital
Bay Minette
Ala
Mobile
Atmore
Pineville
Huey P. Long Charity
Louisiana
Romney
W. Va
Union Springs
Durant
Miss
New York
Harlem
Hill-Burton
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