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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1969
Page
4
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August arrives and summer enters the home stretch as people rush to finish plans. The month is unpredictable with heat and cooler nights as days shorten. Schools reopen soon, followed by colleges, signaling the season’s end and urging action.
Officials in the Amazon state seek to attract settlers to a land area rivaling several U S states. A highway build program links interior regions to Venezuela and Guyana while free land is offered to noncitizen applicants. Fewer than 300 claims have been filed amid dangerous wildlife and a hot humid climate.
The piece argues that psychologists seek countermeasures to prevent minds from being changed. It questions whether reducing reversals of opinion among friends benefits society and notes that a world with fixed beliefs would hinder progress and deprive people of new ideas.
The piece notes how thieves struggle with what to do with stolen paintings, since experts can identify them easily. It cites that owners sometimes buy back their works and recalls the Mona Lisa theft at the Louvre as the era’s most famed heist, though the painting was later recovered intact.
President Eisenhower and Premier Khruschev plan visits this fall signaling a new phase in East West diplomacy. Khruschev will visit this September, with Eisenhower touring Moscow later in the year. Governor Nelson Rockefeller to decide November 1 on pursuing the 1960 Republican nomination based on polls. Robert Griffith warns Newberry's merchants on shoplifting. Virginia Production Credit Associations director banquet speaker W W R Legge outlines vocational agriculture efforts. Edward O Carpenter rounds won hogs take Staunton sale prizes. Glenn Martin Co honors Boyd Headley for speeding up aircraft production.
A Daily Meditation reflecting on Lord Nelson as a swift fighter at Trafalgar due to mobile ships that shed barnacles. It compares ship efficiency to personal faults, urging removal of barnacles from life to meet crises boldly.
Henry J. Taylor outlines Kennedy's hidden behind the scenes efforts in 1968 to gain Chicago support for a presidential bid. Daley rebuffed three appeals while labor blocs in Michigan Pennsylvania and Ohio backed Humphrey. The piece notes Kennedy later shifted to pursue the nomination amid party shifts after Robert Kennedy entered the race.
Hal Boyle recalls predicting moon missions by 1975 and facing his own ridicule after promising to eat space helmets if those goals were reached. He reflects on past prognostications from Hitler's jet era to Vietnam forecasts, admits bias, and cites how hindsight affects public trust in columnists.
Dr Brandstadt explains that many children with mild neurological lag outgrow issues by ages 10 to 12 and that under medical supervision the stimulant methylphenidate known as Ritalin can be safe and helpful. He notes dyslexia causes and treatments and suggests psychiatric pediatricians for evaluation.
A quiz scoring guide describes daily results from 9 10 correct answers to classify as Memory Expert Very Superior Excellent Good. It lists ten sample questions on topics from biblical figures to geography science and music. A final question asks what a wine maker is called.
Column argues Moscow could pressure Hanoi to cease fighting, and that U S withdrawal hinges on Soviet restraint. It urges Nixon to engage Kremlin leaders, improve trust, or address Russian public via radio about the war and peace.
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