Aiken Seeks Proper Use for Historic Post Office
In Aiken a plan for the Sesquicentennial year proposes using the old Laurens and Park post office as a temporary headquarters. The 1910 1912 brick building faces handicap access law concerns, but locals warn its loss would harm downtown beauty and urge finding a suitable adaptive reuse.
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Aiken
Laurens and Park
Francis Hitchcock
Thomas Hitchcock
Burgeoning Bureaucracy Targets Federal Waste
The piece criticizes the expanding federal bureaucracy and its spendthrift ways. It cites examples like costly handrails at Illinois campuses, a 700 page mousetrap specification, and misapplied language ballots for Lumbee, arguing government waste hinders growth and progress. It urges control to prevent further excesses.
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Washington
America
Occupational Safety and Health Administration
OSHA
University of Illinois
Illinois
Defense Department
Department
National Institute For Mental Health
North Carolina
Food and Drug Administration
Kissinger Tour Guides White House Power Picnic
Celebrity attention swirls around the West Wing as Henry Kissinger appears at a noon briefing with Nancy Kissinger. The piece notes Kissinger as a modern political luminary, discusses potential Reagan-Gorbachev talks, and reflects on Kissinger’s influence, books, consulting fees, and media presence.
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Washington
White House
West Wing
Mr. X
Michael Jackson
Frank Sinatra
Larry Bird
Wayne Gretzky
Larry Speakes
Henry Kissinger
Dr. Kissinger
Speakes
Henry the K
Chile
Vietnam
Cambodia
Richard Nixon
Please, please, please don’t leave Medical Economics around
An editorial targets physicians readers of Medical Economics and warns against letting patients access the magazine. It argues the publication is for doctors and professionals, not the public, and notes readers’ concern over big businessstyle medical earnings. The piece highlights privacy and the need for careful handling of medical cost discussions. It discusses rising health costs, Medicare debates, and potential care rationing, urging patient understanding and physician involvement.
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Physicians
Medicine
Medical Economics
Duels In The Dark
In this New York City column a retrospective traces the long duel for world leadership from Lenin to Reagan and Gorbachev. It argues Reagan meets his first true world test against a Russian leader, as the two nations move from economic focus to global affairs amid a charged era of publicity and shadowed weapons.
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New York City
Chernenko
Gorbachev
Geneva
Reagan
Nikolai Lenin
Woodrow Wilson
Wilson
Lenin
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
Stalin
Franklin Roosevelt
West
Europe
Moscow
Ronald Reagan
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Joan Beck
Aspen
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Mauna Loa
Congress
By Max Lerner
Harry Truman
FDR
Beria
Malenkov
Nikita Khrushchev
Paris
Eisenhower
Vienna
John Kennedy
Khrushchev
Kennedy
Berlin Wall
Brezhnev
Jimmy Carter
Lion
Fox
Mike
Cassie