Education's Failings prompt call for parental duty
The editorial argues parents must ensure proper education for children beyond character. CUNY open admissions admit many unprepared freshmen. after testing, over half need remedial math and reading work. Findings reflect broader national concerns about school quality and overreliance on tax-funded expansion.
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Factors Behind Decline in Banks Prime Lending Rates
The article attributes the rate cut to supply and demand dynamics as the Fed expands money supply this year. Business loan demand remains strong but cooler than expected, Treasury costs and bond yields have fallen, and lower rates may curb business costs while wage and material pressures rise.
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Care Needed Announcement By Italian Communists
Italian communists warn Nixon’s four day Italy visit could be heated by mass demonstrations and possibly a general strike. The piece urges caution for the president and notes Secret Service may push for fewer public appearances with safeguards, though Nixon typically shuns such limits on foreign trips. It warns against yielding to pressure and risks of provoking further disruption.
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Community Chest Names Alford as October Campaign Chairman
R J Alford Jr of Alford Harmon Co CPAs has been named chairman of Volunteers assignments for the October Community Chest campaign.
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Maintain the Light or Lose the Faith, Says Daily Meditation
The meditation warns that without free religious practice the light may fade. It contrasts spending on crime and liquor with supporting religion and education in arithmetic, urging believers to sustain faith and actively protect the light for future generations.
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Nobility of Old Age Interview with My Mother at Ninety Four
James Reston records his mother in Santa Cruz aged 93 turning 94 October 9. She rejects modern progress praising work and religious virtue, scorns women's liberation, hopes for a decent job, and aligns with Roosevelt’s era while criticising war and politics.
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Autumn Daydreams From A Sparkling Imagination
HAL BOYLE notes autumn sparks days of fancy but warns daydreams can run wild. imagined schemes include daring pranks and business schemes with famous names and places, from sipping ambrosia cola to launching a flying carpet, all in a playful, satirical mood.
Culebra Islanders Demand End to Navy Targeting
The 1899 census showed 704 residents on Culebra, a 7 000 acre island off Puerto Rico. Despite this the Navy used the area for gunnery with rockets shells and air strafing on hundreds of days last year. Local opposition, led by Governor Ferre and Luis Muñoz Marin, seeks alternatives to keep the population safe and allow tourism. A Senate amendment from Cranston and Goodell would bar Navy use, while House leaders back the Navy though a compromise may emerge.
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Living habits combat vascular disease and aging risks
Daily health notes explain how modern living patterns influence atherosclerosis and stroke, urging changes in diet, exercise, and habits such as smoking and alcohol. It discusses historical shifts from infectious disease to heart and vascular disease and offers guidance for longer, better living with practical lifestyle choices.
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