Antipollution bill tests public willingness to pay for clean air
The Senate backed a strong Muskie antipollution bill aiming to cut auto emissions 90 percent by 1975 and require top pollution controls on factories. It would fund enforcement with over $1 billion and press auto makers to meet tight deadlines, signaling a broader shift in public policy and consumer costs.
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Senate
Maine
Edmund Muskie
Health, Education and Welfare
Muskie
Senate House
Soaring Seventies Ahead in Space Prospects
Space officials urge Congress for more funding as they outline a space boom in the Seventies. Plans include seven Apollo and Skylab missions, a semipermanent space station by 1976 78, and a shuttle system resembling an airplane. Deke Slayton, NASA leaders, and President Nixon project growing space activity and benefits across medicine communication and agriculture.
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Congress
New York
London
Deke Slayton
Nixon
NASA
Cornucopia
You
Michael Faraday
Letters on Aiken County Council and race at Aiken High
Readers debate nonpartisan government and the clash of race in Aiken. David Irving and Amy Payne defend reform and criticize leadership while Pam Elliott, J J Urban, and Kelly Toth offer broader reflections on schooling, race tensions, and American ideals.
Who Owns It Israel and the Bedrock Debate
A humorous travel sketch in Jerusalem follows an American narrator and his Israeli friend visiting archaeologist Dr. Avigad. They trace layers from Byzantine to Roman to Crusader periods and conclude the land’s ownership is tied to who holds the rights at present, ending with a quip about Israel belonging to whoever has it.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Mordecai Shalom
Nachman Avigad
Hebrew University
Dr. Avigad
NATO
Mordecai
The Pleasure of The Dance In Aiken Hall Portrait Citizens 1907
A 1907 photograph from Titanian Hall on Park Avenue shows Aiken elites at a dance hosted by J. H. Ashurst and the Salleys. The image lists many named attendees across six rows, with several unidentified individuals. Readers are invited to help identify the unknowns.
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Park Avenue
J. H. Ashurst
Aiken
Ashurst
Julian Salley
Voice of God or Satan Misleading Thoughts
A reader asks if a loud inner voice claiming God will not forgive sins could be the true voice of God. The reply says such a message is likely Satanic or a mental symptom and urges medical evaluation, then prayer for deliverance from diabolical suggestions.
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Jesus
Satan
God
Christ
Earth
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Aiken County
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David Irving
Legate
Aiken, S.C
Schofield
Aiken High
Miss Wells
Amy Payne
Official Airs High School
Aiken High School
Georgia
America
Pam Elliott
Edi
Tor
Japan Times
J.J. Urban
Summit
Kelly Toth
Osaka
Japan
Canaan
Hussein
Ankara
Mecca
Byzantium
David
Samuel A. Cothran
Eugene J. Oyler
Your
Dorothy K. Macdowell
G.W.E. Thorpe
Julian B. Salley Sr
Converse B. Woolsey
Ives Edgerton
J. W. Ashurst
Julian B. Salley
Mignon Brown
George Croft
Walter Duncan
Harry Wyman
T. G. Croft
E. G. Wood
Isaac Fowler
Joseph Bock
C. J. Hill
H. J. Ray
Joseph
Tom W. Hutson
T. R. Morgan
W. W. Edgerton
Charles Hall
Amy Guysler
Hastings Wyman
Theodore Stone
C. B. Woolsey
Rebecca Wise
Robert Easterling
D. S. Henderson
J. Rembert DuBose
L. E. Croft
C. B. Hutson
E. S. Croft
Claus W. Busch
Mattie S. Hall
E. H. Wyman
H. M. Wyman
Billy Graham
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