Busiest Printer in U S A Government Printing Office
The Government Printing Office handles about 200 million in annual business with 7 800 employees across a 33 acre plant. It publishes 15 titles over 1 000 000 in sales including Infant Care which leads with 14 million copies. Output covers Congressional Record postal cards Social Security envelopes and stamps with many titles sold in Washington and other cities. A survey on the litter from printing is jokingly proposed as a future task.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Sam
Washington
Congress
Revelation 1 8 explains God’s eternal nature
The verse proclaims the Lord as the one who is, was, and is to come, affirming God’s existence before creation, in the present, and for all time. The excerpt notes human finiteness in grasping eternity, cites Thomas Chalmers on trusting Scripture, and links belief to awareness of the eternal unknown.
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Thomas Chalmers
God
Hirschel N. Gridley
Emeryville
Gridley
Emeryville Hilton
Women's Liberation Movement
Mr. Brewer
Julius C. Taylor
Taylors
S.C
D. Maurice Smith
Baptist Associational
Graniteville
Parks, Recreation and Tourism
Columbia
S. C
Robert McNair
Survey Fails to Prove Men’s Gear Attract Unaccompanied Girls
The British Tie Manufacturers Association and other groups tout studies claiming products for men draw female attention. A 1968 Bermuda Short campaign backfired when an independent agency misinterpreted instructions, dressing five men in Bermuda shorts and five in other attire to test attraction in Hyde Park.
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West Sussex
Bermuda Short Distributors Guild
Copput & Sellers
Hyde Park
Bermuda
Birmingham
Some Things You Might Never Know by Hal Boyle
A collage of trivia and observation from Hal Boyle covering middle age power in America, Chinese life aboard Hong Kong junks, conventions, sleeping aids costs, chimpanzee strength, quotable notables, and a humorous take on advertising claims and gender dynamics. It blends social stats with light anecdotes and playful musings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
U.S
Hong Kong
New York City
Robert Frost
United States
Dobbin
Exercise In Lunacy and the Modern Lunatics
Dr. Clarence W. Couchmaster derides modern radicals and political figures as lunatics. He cites five Senators who supported gun control while opposing defense bills, and criticizes Civil Rights rhetoric tied to housing and federal funding. The piece pokes at Hesburgh and Times coverage, ending with Couchmaster returning to his coaching duties.
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Couchmaster
Defense Department
United States
Mark Hatfield
George McGovern
Bill Fulbright
Gaylord Nelson
Cholly Goodell
Armed Services
Hatfield
Civil Rights Commission
Dr. Hesburgh
Nixon
Father Hesburgh
San Clemente
Times
Ben A. Franklin
Made
Mather
Hesburgh
Dr. Coachmaster
Readers Heated Over School Busings And Church State Alliance
Readers debate national politics and local library services. Letter writers attack Attorney General Mitchell and Nixon liberal advisors while praising Aiken County Library for education, religious books, and guidance for teens, and criticize a state promotion of a Bible packet as church state merger.
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Mitchell
Little Red Riding Hood
Marin County
Nixon
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
America
Elizabeth Lippitt
Pacific Ave
San Francisco
Cal
August van Ryan
Billy Graham
Robert G. Lee
Aiken County
Dorothy M. AL
Faubus Defeated by Unknown in Arkansas Governor Race
The surprise defeat of Orval E. Faubus by a political newcomer in the Arkansas governor race prompts analysis of black voter influence post the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The piece notes parallel runoff dynamics in Alabama with George Wallace and questions shifts in Southern political alignment as black turnout grows and white moderates gain ground.
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Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Faubus
Dale Bumpers
Alabama
George C. Wallace
Wallace
North Augusta 1918 City Directory Highlights Town Growth
The 40 page North Augusta directory notes residents of North Augusta and nearby areas and local advertisers. It portrays a progressive town with banks, cotton facilities, mills, plants, shops, hotels, gardens, bathing pond, waterworks, electric lights, and sewerage. It also cites two fine schools, a public library, and churches.
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North Augusta
South Carolina
Aiken
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Arthur Hoppe
Ohio Hosiers Association
Cigar Manufacturers of America
Switzerland
Pottersby Museum
Whittler
By Holmes Alexander
Clarence W. Couchmaster
Thee
Dr. Couchmaster
Bob LaFollette
Norman Thomas
Attila
Kipling
Aiken Library
A.P. Gibbs
Blair
Kent Taylor
William McDonald
Thessalonians
H. A. Ironside
Carolina Ave
Aiken, S.C
R. L. Brewer
Samuel A. Cothran
Eugene J. Oyler
Dorothy K. Macdowell
A.H. McDariel
Jackson Mt
H.C. Harrison Oor
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North Augusta Directory
Georgia
Pine Grove Avenues
Bank OF Wistern Carolina Orth Augéna Boanch
Bath Carehrs Capital
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