Senate Grants Ex Presidents Right to Address Body Anytime
The Senate passed a resolution giving all ex presidents the privilege to address it on demand with advance notice. Proposals had stalled before, but Sen. Claiborne Pell argued the retired chiefs bring unique wisdom to a legislature too often disconnected from executive perspectives. Former presidents already receive pensions and staff allowances. the measure stops short of making them senators at large.
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Washington
Herbert Hoover
Harry
Hoover
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Senate
Congress
William Howard Taft
Taft
Claiborne Pell
D-R.i
Pell
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Mrs Nhu’s Car Splattered by Eggs and Paint
In Paris Mrs Nhu Ngo Dinh Diem, wife of South Viet Nam’s leader, faced an egg and paint assault by Vietnamese student exiles amid protests against anti Buddhist policies. Police barred the embassy approach as demonstrators chanted and pursued reactions to political tensions.
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Paris
Ngo Dinh
South Viet Nam
Medame Nhu
Court Embezzles Our Liberties in Harrison Speech
Former Virginia Representative Burr P. Harrison indicts the Supreme Court as systematically embezzling liberties and government. He cites long opinions by Justices Brennan and others and says criticism is restricted to a legal elite. Harrison, Hampden-Sydney graduate and Winchester attorney, criticizes court rulings.
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Harrison
Hampden
Sydney, Va
Virginia
Burr P. Harrison
Supreme Court
Justice
William J.) Brennan
Winchester
Brennan
High Court
Hampden-Sydney College
Bungled Space Management Costs Taxpayers $100 Million
The GAO reports waste in NASA and private industry cost taxpayers over 100 million, delaying the Lunar program two years and diverting a satellite project at a 76 million loss. The findings tie to the Mil legated House committee and cite Centaur stage faults from 1960.
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Washington
General Accounting Office
Congress
GAO
House Committee On Science and Astronautics
George P. Miller
D-Calif
Miller
Joseph Campbell
Subcommittee On Space Sciences
Astronautics Division
General Dynamics Corp
Centaur
Advent Communications
Venus
Mars
Young Willoughby Motorist Praises Power of a Woman
In Willoughby Ohio a local motorist lauds the throwing power of a very young woman noting her strength and impact in a place they call home.
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Willoughby
Ohio
Stone hurls from child shatters windshield on Willoughby St
A driver reported his windshield was shattered by a stone tossed from a 3 or 4 year old girl as he traveled down Willoughby Street. The incident was investigated by police with no further details available.
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Willoughby St
Kentucky Keeps Term Commonwealth In Move Toward Independence
Kentucky chooses to retain the term Commonwealth in its push toward independence from Virginia. A commonwealth is defined as a state originating from one of the original colonies.
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U.S. Commonwealth
Frankfort
Kentucky
Commonwealth
Virginia
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Braddock St
America
New York Stock Exchange
White, Weld & Co
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