Early Spring Blooms Sweep Aiken Promise Bright Start
Our View notes how 1990 ushers in an exceptional Aiken spring with Japanese magnolia leading an array of blooms. Ravenel’s historical records in 1852 1853 contrast with today as south Carolina’s climate signals an unusually early season, though a late frost risk lingers before Masters Week.
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Henry Ravenel
South Carolina
Smithsonian Institution
U.S. Commissioner of Patents
Ravenel
Poshee
St. John’s Parish
Aiken
Twain Critiques Cooper Deerslayer Notes and Rules
A reader recalls Mark Twain’s humorous essay on Fenimore Cooper’s The Deerslayer. Twain’s imagined rules of literary art critique Cooper’s faults in dialogue consistency, observation, plausibility, and word choice, noting a flat prose style and weak word sense compared to true craftsmanship.
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Milwaukie
Ore
Mark Twain
Fenimore Cooper
Carle Nelders
Barkwats
James Fenimore Cooper
Cooper
Twain
Deerslayer
Business office staff listings for Ellen C Priest and Daniel S Holland
The notice names Ellen C Priest as business office manager and Daniel S Holland as circulation director in the staff roster.
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Ellen C. Priest
Daniel S. Holland
Free Europe Should Shoulder Burden
Stalin’s accord with Hitler and the Cold War victory frame a debate on Europe’s defense burden. The author argues for Europe's self-reliance, NATO reductions, and ending endless American entanglements while highlighting tensions between neoconservatives and old guard Republicans.
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Europe
Ithuania
Stalin
Hitler
America
New York Times
West Germany
Kohl
Germany
Soviet Union
United States
Moscow
Poland
Fdr
Tehran
Yalta
Upper Silesia
Truman
Vietnam
Nixon
Ford
Reagan
Democratic Party
Afghanistan
Angola
Nicaragua
U.S
Asia
NATO Eles
West Cabinet
Hemisphere
The I Told You So Moment That Shaped a Century
A reflective conservative voice recalls patience and restraint while critiquing liberal belligerence, noting how despite mockery the USSR faced pressure from Reagan era policies. The piece argues the Soviet empire weakened under defense buildup and misjudgments, validating long warned conclusions.
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Kremlin
Josef Stalin and Company
Reagan
Diane Walkowiak’s cross country road trip tests American dream
Diane Walkowiak quit her Lincoln bank job to drive 18 000 miles across 48 states in 79 days along back roads. She visited New Mexico Utah Virginia and Tennessee, toured Jack Daniels Distillery in Lynchburg and ate Porky Pups in a parlor. After 11 weeks she returned home with $19 from $2000, declaring America safe and beautiful. She plans a Alaska honeymoon drive after her July wedding to Kevin Way.
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Lee
Oreakrom
Chevrolet
America
National Bank of Commerce
Lincoln
Neb
Diane Walkowiak
Fla
Nags Head
N.C
Monkey's Eyebrow
Purgatory
Maine
Paradise
Lynchburg
Tenn
Wamsutter
Wyo
Virginia
Dian
Kevin Way
Alaska
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National Review
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LBJ
White House
United States of America
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Iron Curtain
Barry Selacete Mast
Mr. Nice
Ronald Reagan
Porsche
Diane
Tennessee
Colbert, Ohlo
Ories
New Mexico
Utah
Louisiana
Crowley
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