Dream of an Unemployed Spy Named Yuri Astigmatov
A narrator recounts hosting a likeable but seedy unemployed Soviet agent Yuri Astigmatov who claims to hate Russia and work for him. The encounter reveals espionage history, jokes, and a plan to pass him to Ralph Nader for a stealth assignment.
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Ralph Nader
Yuri Astigmatov
Russia
Yuri
Moscow State University
U.S
Sen. Proxmire
Senate
Kremlin
Berlin
Cuba
Mr. Nader
General Motors
Scramble for Nixon Visit Sparks China Negotiations
In a satirical exchange set in the Great Hall, Kissinger and a Chinese official debate how to stage a U S visit to China with crowd sizes, airport receptions, hotel needs, and a televised speech, revealing tensions over recognition and political theatrics.
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Peking
China
U.S
Hughes Kissinger
Tsing En-plei
Kissinger
Tsing
Nixon
Aiken in 1916 A walk through the old Highland Park era
Yesteryear recalls 1916 Aiken now a city, then a health resort. The piece lists Main Street life with the Highland Park Hotel, Croft block, bankers, merchants, a parrot in a store cage, and early brick buildings replacing wooden fronts as fires spurred urban progress. It notes neighborhoods, shops, and notable residents linked to the town’s evolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Park
Bank of Western Carolina
Klatte
Libershutz
William Turnbull
McEwen
Turnbulls
Charles Wessels
Croft Block
Wessels
Memphis
Tenn
Richland Avenue
Beckman's
G.K. Henderson
FB. Henderson
Fred Vogt
Powell Bros. John Lupo’s
Somers
Main Street
Aiken Standard Editorial Leadership
Samuel A. Cothran serves as President and Editor while Eugene J. Oyler holds the role of Executive Editor at the Aiken Standard, a newspaper dating back to 1867.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel A. Cothran
Eugene J. Oyler
Blount Urged Boycott of French Goods Over Heroin Flow
The Postmaster General Winton Blount called for a boycott of French products to curb heroin imports. The piece questions the tactic noting American buyer apathy and potential French backlash, urging instead tighter U S surveillance at docks and stronger U S French narcotics cooperation and training.
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Winton Blount
Paris
France
U.S
Underworld
Marseilles
Mr. Blount
Blount
Blackout on Trotter Shoals A looming dam debate
The Charleston Evening Post reports a secrecy blackout over the Trotter Shoals dam on the Savannah River. Agencies clash over flood control recreation and power while politics muddy the issue with federal ties to Duke Power and a planned nuclear site in Barnwell County.
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Savannah
Basf Chemical
Victoria Bluff
South Carolina
Trotter Shoals
Army
Wheeling
W. J. B. Dorn
Duke Power Company
Oconee
Pickens
Mr. Dorn
Barnwell County
Edgar A. Brown
Sen. Brown
State Budget and Control Board
Clyde W. Elzroth
Wildlife Resources Commission
Elzroth
Brown
State Department Board
Forestry Commission
Water Resources Commission
Charleston Evening Post
Silent Citizen Praises Path to Better Country and Prosperity
A reader signing as Silent Citizen argues that personal improvement leads to better citizens and a stronger nation. He says that becoming better people yields a better country, and that prosperity should extend beyond material wealth.
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Florence
S.C
Morning News
Unfaithful to Football Wife Seeks Help From Billy Graham
A wife writes that her husband spends all time watching sports on TV or radio, missing Bible study and church. Graham advises patience and prayer, noting many fall into a slavery to diversion, urging the wife to model Christian faith and win him without nagging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Graham
K.B
Peter
Dark Day At Attica Prison
Paul Harvey argues that the Attica uprising proved a bluff by inmates failed when authorities used force. He cites guards, inmates, and officials, noting 42 deaths and the miscalculation of expectations about weapons, hostages, and fatigue shaping the outcome. He frames Attica as a wider lesson on courage, restraint, and consequences.
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Paul Harvey
Attica
Russell Hulme
Hell
Genghis Khan
Hitler
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USA
Moscow
Pentagon
New York Times
America
Arthur Hoppe
Air Force One
Yesteryear
Aiken
Kent
Platts Drug Store
Henry Hahn
Henry Schrader
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