How Much Good Comes From All The Giving
A discussion on charitable giving questions how much funds actually aid causes. It notes that 8 billion dollars were donated last year and warns some groups waste money on administration and fundraising. The Tucson Fund Raising Review Board offers guidance to identify responsible campaigns.
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United Community Campaign
UCC
Tucson Fund Raising Review Board
Tucson Community Council
Arizona Album LAWYERS RELAX AFTER HARD DRIVE
A Tucson to Oracle trip, 46 years ago, featured lawyers Elwood Frawley and Kirke Moore relaxing with host Tenney Williams a prominent local banker connected to Consolidated National Bank. Williams recalls deflating tires at sand washes and re inflating them by hand during the Stutz raceabout journey.
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Tucson
Oracle
Tenney Williams
Consolidated National Bank of Tucson
Williams
Alex McKay
Cabahi
GOP on defense cuts signals broader budget battle in 1942
In a 1942 Capitol scene, Curtis of Missouri led a bid to send a Pentagon bill back for an $800 million cut, backed by Lindsay of New York, but fell short 149 to show a GOP willingness to trims. Curtis vows more fights on urban transport and medical schooling while promising tax cuts if spending falls.
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Congress
National Institutes of Health
NIH
House of Representatives
GOP
Curtis
Missouri
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Halleck
Armed Services Committee
Webster Groves
Lindsay
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America
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Admiral Rickover warns against a national education standards committee
A columnist argues against Congress creating a National Standards Committee to oversee schools. He warns such a body would be dominated by political interests, stifle local experimentation, and risk imposing a single economic orthodoxy favoring Keynesian ideas. He praises local control as a hedge against uniform, potentially harmful curricula.
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H. G. Rickover
Congress
National Standards Committee
Rickover
Committee For Economic Development
The
American Economic Association
CED
George Leland Bach
Dr. Bach
Nurse Alert device gains some doctors approval
Sydney Harris discusses a new electronic monitoring system for critically ill hospital patients. The device tracks pulse temperature heart rate and blood pressure and relays data to a central nursing station. Doctors resist fearing loss of control but some now welcome the renamed Nurse Alert. He offers broader observations on nurses doctors and societal attitudes toward expertise and entertainment.
Teenage marriage views spark Debate in Letters
Readers express mixed opinions on premarital pregnancy and legitimate marriage as a path for young couples. Several letters defend legal marriage for teens, while others critique societal judgments and call for education reform and community equality.
Paging The Baron on Munchausen Syndrome
A British medical curiosity dubbed Munchausen Syndrome describes an incurable urge for hospital care. People may even swallow safety pins to secure admission, parodying Bar on Munchausen the 18th century teller. The piece links such talk to U S Medicare debates and socialized medicine fears in Washington.
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Baron Munchausen
Washington
United States
Pentagon sees rapid shifts in weapon aims and alliances
The article notes how the Pentagon and McNamara era planners shift from Skybolt to Polaris submarines to surface ships, and from Dyna-Soar to Gemini with NASA. It warns allies face rapid change and urges a firm national stance on future weapons and production.
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Skybolt
Polaris
Pentagon
NASA
Gemini
Air Force
Evil spirits recognize Jesus in Mark’s gospel
A devotion notes that evil spirits respond first to Jesus in Mark 1 24 28 recognizing a threat and prompting prayer for discernment to recognize God. The piece contrasts swift opposition by evil with slower human recognition and ends with a prayer for alertness to God’s work.
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Jesus of Nazareth
Jesus
Mark
John the Baptist
God
Tucsan Council of Churches
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