Campus calm grows as 1970 factors ease unrest on campuses
The piece notes calmer college campuses in the first half of the academic year, aided by troop withdrawals from Vietnam, draft reform, and 18 year olds voting. It cites the Kent State deaths as a turning point, campus coalitions, stricter conduct rules, and Nixon’s Scranton report urging self leadership by teachers, clergy, officials, scholars.
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United Press International
Kent State
Weatherman
SDS
Wisconsin Research Center
Vietnam
Nixon
Scranton
Nixon plans Center For Voluntary Action to mobilize youth
President Nixon proposes uniting Peace Corps VISTA and other efforts into a Center For Voluntary Action to clean up blight pollution illiteracy and malnutrition on the home front. The plan would dissolve existing volunteer programs into one agency offering home and returning veterans meaningful service opportunities.
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Nixon
Congress
Peace Corps
VISTA
America
University of Nebraska
Carnegie Commission On Higher Education
Republic
National Teacher Corps
National Health Service Volunteer Corps
Office of Voluntary Action
National Student Volunteer Program
The End Of An Error In Fashion History
A satirical take on fashion’s collapse in 1971 Paris as designers push a single edict for a new look then abandon it. The piece follows M. Adolphe and his mentor plan, the rise of P-frame looks, and the ultimate consumer backlash leading to individual style choices. The tale ends with the designer’s suicide and a mistress in a midi skirt.
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Paris
Vogue
Harper’s Bazaar
Women’s Wear Daily
Fifth Avenue
Mini
Midi
Maxi
Moe
Arthur Murray
M. Adolphe
The Unknown Little Boy of Graniteville Cemetery
A nameless boy buried near the restored summer house in Graniteville Cemetery has a tombstone marked The Little Boy October 1855. Mrs. Ernes tine B. Law recounted a legend of a sick child traveling alone by train who was cared for by strangers in a valley town, with villagers providing a coffin and a modest grave marker.
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Graniteville
Ernestine B. Law
Don Law
Conservatives Split Over Nixon Next Term
Former Nixon supporters fear his shift to Keynesian economics and social welfare plans. Conservatives, who helped Nixon secure the nomination, now question reelection, weighing Reagan and Jackson as possible alternatives amid frustration with broken commitments.
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Nixon
Henry Hazlitt
Chicago Tribune
Richard Nixon
Tithing in Hard Times and Blessings From Malachi
The writer cites Malachi 3 10 8 9 to claim tithing brings divine blessing and that giving is owed to God. They argue believers should give generously even on small incomes and view withholding as robbing God while noting societal contrasts with alcohol spending. They encourage pride in parents who give to church.
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Malachi
Israel
God
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