Health care debate splits Congress over funding and choice
Editorial argues for broadening and strengthening the U S pluralistic health care system through AMA backed legislation with tax credits, preserving voluntary action and private initiative, while warning against a government controlled approach costing families billions and fueling bureaucracy. Health care is framed as a test for the future of representative government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
U.S
Elliot Richardson
American Medical Association
Call Him Old-Fashioned by Ernest G Swigert
Portland businessman Ernest G Swigert uses his retirement to warn of national decline. He cites heavy government spending, wage-cost spirals, and mounting deficits, urging electing leaders of integrity to steer the United States toward solvency. He emphasizes plain arithmetic and calls himself old fashioned.
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Ernest G. Swigert
Portland
Oregon
U.S
Free World
Congress of the
United States
Mr. Swigert
Disaster for Millions: Antiscience Voices Threaten U.S. Future
Dr. Wernher von Braun, NASA pioneer, warns that anti science and anti technology rhetoric in the name of conservation risks disaster. He argues a return to nature cannot solve environmental issues and will degrade living standards and food supply for vast populations.
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U.S
Wernher von Braun
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Marriage Camp Tales From Utah A Satirical Exchange
A speaker recounts a humorous dialogue about couples placed on a mountain camp with rain and lean-to shelter to test marriages. The tale contrasts ritual endurance with a couple’s disagreements and mundane worries about clothes, inlaws, and baby plans, ending with a quip about Jell-O to induce sleep.
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Utah
Wanda
Leroy
Delores
Don
Loving
Truth and counterfeit papers in Cold War discourse
Buckley argues that truth does not fully catch up with falsehood, citing the National Review hoax and Soviet reactions. He notes how Pravda would reframe images, mocks Western fears, and compares atom bomb rhetoric to real postwar firepower, warning against overreaction to propaganda.
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National Review
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Indochina
Kremlin
Chicago
Tom Dewey
Chicago Tribune
Russia
Associated Press
Red Star
The
Neglected Gifted Pupils Highlight Education Gap
U S Commissioner Sidney Marland will report to Congress that public schools fail to identify and develop gifted students. A New York Daily News report notes 60 percent of states lack gifted programs and many principals can’t recognize gifted children, prompting nationwide controversy and calls for policy change.
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New York City
U.S. Commissioner of
Sidney Marland
Congress
New York Daily News
Bert Shanas
U.S. Education Office
New York’s
Shanas
Jane Williams
U.S. Office of Education
Harry Truman
Williams
U.S
Office of Education
Anne
U.S.A
Seavorg to Return to Teaching Chemistry After AEC Chief Post
After a decade as head of the Atomic Energy Commission Dr Glenn T Seavorg will resume teaching chemistry at the university level The change raises a concern about keeping confidential information from leaking into class discussions as he returns to academia.
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AEC
Glenn T. Seavorg
Priest becomes White House speechwriter in Nixon era
The Nixon White House hired Father Join McLaughlin a Jesuit priest and former Republican candidate against John Pastore as a White House speechwriter. Known for sex lecture topics and a flamboyant image he is dubbed The Swinging Celibate. Cardinals and Rhode Island clergy criticized the move while Nixon aides defend it as broadening Catholic outreach.
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Washington
Nixon White House
McLaughlin
Father
White House
Rhode Island
John Pastore
Republican National Committee
Father McLaughlin
Ronald Rafferty
University of Connecticut
John O. Pastore
Nixon
Pastore
Catholic Church
U.S
King Features Syndicate
Senator McBoxmire Dreams Across History in Psychiatric Tale
The piece portrays Senator Teddy McBoxmire reliving and miscasting moments from 1777, 1865, and 1941 under psychiatric examination. Dr. Couchmaster warns he is dangerous and urges confinement, while the senator laments disarmament moves and fear of harming America’s wartime effort.
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Washington, D.C
Sen
Teddy McBoxmire
Clarence W. Couchmaster
Dr. Couchmaster
1777
Continental Congress
McBoxmire
Johnny Burgoyne
Canada
New York State
New England
George Washington
Brandywine Creek
Germantown
Schuyler
Gates
Gentleman Johnny
Saratoga
High Seas
France
Schuyler and
Church
Aes
Reamt I
Vicksburg
Grant
Richmond
Lee
Appomattox
Lincoln
Couchmaster
Congress
Hitler
Britain
Leningrad
Moscow
Stalingrad
Pearl Harbor
Roosevelt
Europe
Urals
English Channel
Arange
Teddy Church Fulbright McBoxmire
America
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
Federal Wage Board clash looms over four percent pay plan
The White House backs a four percent raise for about 600,000 Federal Wage Board workers and hints at a compromise on a five step pay plan. House approval came as administration officials weigh a veto threat and possible union concessions. The wage bill would cost roughly 180 million dollars annually and expand union influence in local pay surveys. Separate suit by NAGE seeks unemployment status for Civil Service Chief Hampton and challenges federal labor body rulings amid minority employment gains in government.
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Washington
White House
Senate Post Office
Civil Service Committee
Nixon
Administration
Federal
House
Congress
Senate
U.S. District Court
Civil Service
Robert E. Hampton
NAGE
Labor Department
Norfolk Naval Shipyard
Afl-Cio
Independent Union
William J. Usery
Machinists Union
Hampton
Federal Labor Relations Council
CLC
FLRC
Civil Service Commission
CSC
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Jane Toner Scott
Charles W. Laughlin
Herald
Buckley
Pravda
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Curtis LeMay
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Phillips’ Survey
Playboy
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