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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Sep 10, 1964
Page
4
The page shows the Winchester Evening Star masthead with staff names including Jack F. Davis as general manager and executive editor and Eugene Miller as managing editor. It also lists subscription rates for in state and outside Virginia and West Virginia, plus postage and single copy pricing.
A survey by the American Book Publishers Council shows 8.3 percent fewer general books sold last year versus 1962. Juvenile titles dropped 30.2 percent as television competition grows. Prices rose about 9 percent with paperbacks included, while libraries reportedly held steady.
Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg, chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, says private industry will be allowed to own nuclear reactor fuel starting 1969 under new legislation. The law marks a five year transition from government control to private use while promising a five year target to 70,000 megawatts of capacity and direct conversion research advancing toward cheaper power.
The 1939 Warsaw situation reports radio vows that the Polish capital will not yield despite constant bombing while Nazis claim to have penetrated from the southwest and reached the Vistula line. Dutch flooded a basin near Utrecht as a defense. Local notices include returning visitors and fair crowds at Shenandoah Valley Agricultural Fair plus a 1915 Buick touring car offered at $950 by Auto Livery Co in Washington.
A Welsh hall scene shows Prime Minister Lloyd George calmly lifting a brick dropped at his feet during a speech. He uses the moment to argue that force does not defeat truth, and that only weak minds rely on stones and curses to suppress ideas.
In a detailed analysis, David Lawrence notes a rising number of prominent businessmen backing President Johnson. He cites motives from stable economic conditions to desire for favorable government intervention, while warning that most business leaders remain sparse in votes and caution that shifts could reverse if economic tides turn.
William S. White argues that Barry Goldwater’s draft pledge mirrors Adlai Stevenson’s 1956 call and warns that military security must remain nonpartisan. He praises Johnson and Eisenhower for treating the draft as a national duty, not a political tool, urging conservatives to uphold unity on defense.
James Marlow reports a shift to concise one idea per sentence speechwriting in Johnson, Goldwater, and Kennedy eras. Johnson favors rapid-fire lines, Goldwater stacks short sentences for grand rhetoric, while Kennedy blends brevity with clarity and Nixon struggles with stretched syntax.
A reader explains cardiospasm of the esophagus where a valve fails to relax allowing food to stall above a constricted area. Nervous tension is not primary but can worsen symptoms. treatment ranges from gradual dilation to surgical cutting if other methods fail.
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