Editorial on Nixon plan to expand U S merchant fleet
The piece lauds President Nixon’s ten year shipbuilding program as a path to reviving a modern U S merchant fleet. It credits investor-owned steamship lines and the American Institute of Merchant Shipping for supporting expanded maritime power, economic benefits, and defense importance, linking heritage to future growth.
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Nixon
U.S
United States
American Institute of Merchant Shipping
Institute As
Nebraska
John Pat Jones
Congressional Hearing critiqued investigations by industry voice
C Joseph Stetler of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association brands congressional inquiries as adversary tactics that punish lawful enterprise. He argues hearings are conducted with bias, controlled by committee staff, leveraging modern communications to damage subjects. He urges reform to limit legislative inquiry powers.
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United States
C. Joseph Stetler
Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association
Stetler
Spohsor
Congress
Ratnum
Health insurance sector to become nation’s largest industry
The Health Insurance Institute predicts health care will be the largest industry by 1975. Trial magazine data estimate a national health bill of 94 billion dollars and about 5.3 million workers, with 1968 spending at 51 billion representing six percent of GNP.
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The
Health Insurance Institute
Trial Magazine
Dividend trends show mixed increases in 1969
Roger E Spear reports that by November directors anticipate 1969 profits shaping dividend action. Compared to 1968, increases are fewer and smaller, with 4 firms raising payments versus 96 last year, though some groups like banks utilities and retailers show notable shares. Strong management can help a firm buck downturn.
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Roger Spear
Ln S.rvessul Investing
Roger E. Spear
Ancerton Merald
Grand Central Station
New York
N.Y
Gen. Fea, Corp
Live Longer If You Want To President Nixon Urges Population Commission
Paul Harvey discusses Nixon’s call for a Congress commission on population growth as America faces rising numbers, pollution, and resource strain. He cites life expectancy trends, aging studies, and researchers like Rene Dubos and John Bjorksten, urging personal health and public action to stretch the human lifespan amid environmental challenges.
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Commission On
America
Igans Firth
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Rockefeller University
Rene Dubos
Folklore of Indiana Echoes in Language Shifts
The article notes language changes in Indiana over 40 years, recalling old terms like bolster and dash eburn, and describing historic tools and practices. It highlights churns, sulky plows, wax beans, grubbing bees, and milk houses, observing how modernization replaced many old words and methods. Antiquity alone does not prove truth.
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Indiana
Readers Comment Supports Agnew
A reader criticizes the Washington march, questions TV coverage of the events and police actions, and urges Congress to act against revolutionary activity. The letter defends Vice President Agnew and calls for accountability for authorities and taxpayers alike.
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Washington, D.C
Washington Monument
Justice Department
Congress
Meramee Caverns Promoter Charts Underground Rock Festival
John Keasler profiles Les Dill a cave promoter proposing Meramee Caverns as the site for an underground rock festival featuring rocks and fossils and a boasted Jesse James alive gag. Dill envisions caverns on U.S. 66 near St. Louis drawing crowds with rock acts and Easter sunrise services amid cave tourism and oddball publicity stunts.
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Col
Yom Parker
Elvis Presley
Pitchman
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Ross
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U.S. 66
St. Louis
Ozarks
Meramec Caverns
Jimny Davis
Nashville
Les Las
Sarge Lester
Boen
Manhattan
Florida
Miami
John
Haunted Supreme Court seat tainted by Lyndon Johnson
Holmes Alexander recounts the long empty Supreme Court chair once held by Clement Haynsworth and previously occupied by Goldberg and Fortas. He links the vacancy to political intrigue, deaths, and the era’s turmoil from 1959 to 1968, noting presidents Nixon and Johnson and several senators amid the curse theory.
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Adlai Stevenson
London
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Felix Frankfurter
Long Bench
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Kennedy
United Nations
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Sue
Fortas
Parisis
Walter Jenkins
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Torterry
Usen
Texas
Coldberg
Maynsworth
Richard Nixon
Haynsworth
U.S
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WIZARDRY IN ORANGE COUNTY BY RUSSELL KIRK
Russell Kirk praises Orange County California as a perpetual playground with Disney lands Knott's Berry Farm and Ghost Town. He tours Walter Knott's Calico Saloon Pirates of the Caribbean and the Flume Ride in Ghost Towns Fiesta Village. He envisions eternal leisure amid Americana and ends with a quip about eternity and solitude.
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Terrestria
Disneyland
Knott's Berry Farm
Walter Knott
Calico
Disty
Jim
Knoll
Berry Farm
Knott
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