Senate approves 250 million loan guarantee for Lockheed
The Senate narrowly backed a 250 million federal loan guarantee for Lockheed Aircraft Corp to avert bankruptcy and fund the L1011 TriStar. President Nixon called it in the best interest of the country, promising jobs and continued defense contracting, while critics warn of reduced competition and taxpayer risk.
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Senate
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Lockheed
Nixon
Congress
House
Do It Yourself Mail by Richmond Power Company Sparks Debate
A Richmond Virginia electric power company begins delivering its own bills to customers to solve rising operating costs after a postal rate increase. The Postal Service frowns on this self mail delivery practice and questions its legality and impact on competition.
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Richmond, Va
Electric Power
Postal Service
The Day Pot Got Legal
A satirical column notes August 14 1976 as Congress legalizes marijuana and the liberal reaction. It ridicules ad campaigns taxes and licensing while following a fictional young man named Irwin Hanrahatty who ends up jailed for bootleg pot and links to radical groups.
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Congress
Irwin
Conclusions To Jump To By HAL BOYLE
HAL BOYLE surveys modern fears and social quirks in a column noting Americans fear cancer heart attacks strokes hydro phobia and tetanus while corporate worries include one day pneumonia. Inflation hits service workers tipping practice and hatcheck fees spark questions about changing manners.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Aiken's Sweet Singer James Edwin Kerr Remembered
James Edwin Kerr, longtime Aiken poet and journalist, died in late May 1928. Editor A K Lorenz praised Kerr as South Carolina’s poet laureate and a devoted newspaper man who never tired of pursuing stories, collecting tourist news, and keeping late hours. Born in New York, Kerr lived much of his life in South Carolina, spending years in Orangeburg, Charleston, Belvedere, and about 15 years in Aiken where he portrayed himself as a native.”
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James Edwin Kerr
South Carolina
A. K. Lorenz
Journal and Review of
Aiken
Mr. Kerr
Kerr
New York
Our State
Orangeburg
Charleston
Belvedere
Ellsberg and Wilson compared as savior figures in critique
The piece links Daniel Ellsberg and Woodrow Wilson as savior complexes, citing Freud and Bullitt on Wilson, critiquing missionary zeal in U.S. wars. It argues for ruthless military realism over idealized self sacrifical heroes and references Gen. Thomas Lane and the Vietnam War.
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Clemenceau
Paris
Wilson
Germany
France
Sigmund Freud
Freud
William C. Bullitt
Thomas Woodrow Wilson
New York Times
Ellsberg
Vietnam
Thomas Lane
USA
Lane
Korea
Yalu River
Manchuria
Technology versus the people verdict in a New York mock trial
A televised mock trial at Tensse laeirville New York by the Institute on Man and Science pits technology against the public. Noted figures like Louis Nizer preside as the jury of 32 peers weighs weapons data banks and oil pollution versus food production and privacy, ending with 19 to 13 ruling technology guilty of lowering human life quality.
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Institute On Man and Science
Tensselaeirville
N.Y
Louis Nizer
Alvin Weinberg
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ralph Lapp
Richard Barnett
Institute of Police Studies
Washington
Be a Good Samaritan fence in your pets
Letter urges humane care for pets including vaccination rabies control water food shelter and supervision. Advocates small cost for safety of pets public neighbors and property and respectful divine blessing. Signed by Mrs George E Couch president Aiken Co Humane Society.
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George E. Couch
Aiken Co. Humane Society
Public confession and decision to follow Christ urged
The author argues that true faith in Jesus involves action and public confession. He cites Jesus with examples like the lepers and Peter to show that discipleship requires visible commitment, not just private belief. He says the location of the confession matters less than the act itself.
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George Clemenceau
Woodrow Wilson
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Peter
James
John
Christ
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Eugene J. Oyler
Lockheed’s
California
Citizen Smith
Environmental Protective Agency
Arthur Hoppe
Irwin Hanrahatty
Madison Avenue
Weatherman
U.S
Aiken’s ‘Sweet Singer
By Holmes Alexander
Houghton Mifflin
Prince of Peace
League of Nations
U.S. Senate
Bullitt
DR. Freud
Daniel Ellsberg
Paul Harvey
You
Billy Graham
K.R
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