Lyle Edwards Named National Textile Citizen of the Year
Lyle Edwards of Graniteville Company honored as 1990 National Textile Citizen of the Year representing South Carolina. He received a $1,000 award for work with Helping Hands aiding neglected and abused children. Edwards has fostered 44 children over nine years and serves on the South Carolina DSS child advisory committee while leading Graniteville’s welding shop.
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Lyle Edwards
Graniteville Company
Mr. Edwards
South Carolina
Edwards
American Textile Manufacturers Institute
The
du Pont Co
Helping Hands
Trouble Over Soviet Name Change Sparks Headlines
This column debates renaming the Soviet Union to the Union of Sovereign Socialist States. It notes language shifts for Cold War coverage and questions popularity among Soviets as market reforms unfold, stressing the headline utility of the old term Reds.
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Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Soviet Union
Soviets
Union of Sovereign Socialist States
Mikhail Gorbachev
U.S.U.S.S.R
U.S.U.S.S.S
States
Moscow
Letters To The Editor At Midland Valley High School Praise
A reader defends Midland Valley High School football coaches amid fan criticism, praising their dedication and effort to mold players into better citizens, with thanks to Coach Kenneth Schofield. The letter seeks public attention to concerns about inmate conditions at Aiken County Detention Center, describing overcrowded cells, roaches, poor meals, and calls for condemnation of the facility.
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Midland Valley High School
Kenneth Schofield
Urson
Sand Valley
Aiken Standard invites letters to the editor
The Aiken Standard invites signed letters with the writer’s mailing address. Letters should be legible and preferably typewritten. Brevity is preferred and all letters are subject to editing and condensing for publication.
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Aiken Standard
Aiken, 8.C
Souter poised to reshape the Court after Brennan era
CBS veteran Eric Sevareid notes Justice Black's remark that the Constitution hadn't changed, only the mood as David Souter is expected to join the Supreme Court. The piece compares Brennan's liberal influence with Souter's potential closer, forecasting a shift in agenda, voting patterns, and conference dynamics.
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Ashington
Eric Sevareid
CBS Record
Hugo Black
David Souter
William Brendan
U.S. Supreme Court
Brown v. Board of Education
Levi
Plessy
Sevareid
Black
Ashland
Ala
Souter
Brennan
Marshall
Blackmun
Stevens
Justice White
High Court
Tdeoloor
Owen Roberts
Sandra Day O'Connor
Earl Warren
Bill Brennan
A Conflicted History of Hatred Across the Ages
The narrator traces a lifetime of shifting hatreds toward nations from Germany and Japan to Russia and China, Cuba and Vietnam, then shifts to Iraq as the new focal point. He notes changing allegiances under presidents and public sentiment, while joking that New York Mets remain the sole constant.
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Iraq
Setra
Extra
Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Yugoslavia
Cuba
North Vietnam
North Korea
Albania
Nixon
New York Mets
Watch Out For New Movie Ratings
KRON Ohio critiques shifting film ratings noting the removal of X and the rise of NC 17 and PG 13. It mocks alphabetic codes and hypothetical systems like BN M and LN M F, warns of overcomplicated scales, and laments fading simple judgments like It stunk.
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Kron
Ohio
Holly ‘Wood
Rts
PGK
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Allah
Ing Hands
State Commission of Social Services
Department of Social Services
Graniteville
Bud Coward
Mr. Coward
Aiken County
Michael S. George
Aiken County Detention Center
John F. Boyette III
Jeffrey B. Wallace
Melanie L. Arney
Tellpatrick
Universal Press Syndicate
Bush
Europe
Iran
Abe Zaidan
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