Editorial: Elemental Contribution Toward Strong U S Merchant Fleet
The piece argues the USSR dominates sea power with 75 percent of foreign trade tonnage while U S ships carry just 3 percent of exports. It outlines a 300-vessel shipbuilding push and the National Maritime Council to boost American cargoes, urging public and industry support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Soviets
Ussr
U.S
National Maritime Council
Maritime Administration
NMC
United States
Energy crisis hearing curbs call for nuclear option
Government spokesman and Admiral H G Rickover urged stronger energy measures. Rickover proposed taxes on large families and second cars while promoting natural lighting and higher taxes on high powered vehicles. Connally backed tapping domestic energy sources to protect industry and criticized aggressive conservationists. Both warned of possible catastrophe if energy needs are not met.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval
H. G. Rickover
Treasury
John Connally
Fairest Tax Claim Reexamined Over Poverty Risk
An old claim that income tax is the fairest tax is questioned as the only support given is that it equalizes poverty risk among individuals, prompting debate over its equity and impact.
Social Democrats U S A Formed By Socialist Faction
Alice Widener reports that at a December 30 1972 national convention at the McAlpin Hotel American socialists voted 72 to 34 to become Social Democrats U S A. Leaders James S Glaser and Irwin Suall argued the name would aid democratic socialism while Michael Harrington urged retaining Socialist Party USA. The piece traces liberal movements and diverging views on democracy and socialism through history.
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New York City
McAlpin Hotel
Social Democrats
U.S.A
James S. Glaser
Irwin Suall
United States
Michael Harrington
America
Lyndon Johnson
Socialist Party, USA
Ovgan
Eugene V. Debs
Norman Thomas
Socialist Party
Intercollegiate
I.S.S
League For Industrial Democracy
Student League For Industrial On Ten
Students For A Democratic
Harry S Truman
Russia
Kremlin
Eren
Communist Party
Hanoi
New
Vietnam
Thieu
South Vietnam
R. H. S. Crossman
New Fabian
Hayakawa on Plato and the ruling class in education
Henry M. Hayakawa argues that higher education has long served a Platonic ruling class through knowledge defined as words and definitions. He cites Popper and Barzun, condemning campus elites who suppress diverse voices and promote intellectual arrogance.
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Karl Popper
Plato
Popper
T. S. Eliot
San Francisco
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
Cambodia
Henry Cabot Lodge
Jacques Barzun
Columbia University
Register and Tribune Syndicate
Kennedy shifts stance in 1976 bid amid industry critique
The piece critiques Senator Edward Kennedy after a Los Angeles speech praising Nixon foreign policy and lamenting industrial alienation. It notes Kennedy’s defense of executive privileges, contrasts pay with line workers, and questions his focus on industrial discipline versus broader issues.
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Massachusetts
South Dakota
Edward Kennedy
George McGovern
Los Angeles
Kennedy
Nixon
Senator Kennedy
Chevrolet
Ohio
Hands
Soviet Union
United States
Senate
Page
Gen. Fea. Corp
Controlling the Noise of Airplanes in Washington
An analysis by Holmes Alexander discusses the rise of aircraft noise as a major social and economic issue. It notes the transfer of noise abatement responsibility from the FAA to the EPA, 51 antinoise bills in Congress, and large lawsuits. Boeing's J. E. Steiner cites $61 million spent on technology, signaling slower aviation growth until noise control advances. The piece highlights consumer power, nontraveler influence, and potential shifts in aircraft design and life cycles.
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Federal Aviation Agency
FAA
Environmental Protection Agency
Stockholm
Swedish Society of Aeronautics and Astronautics
J. E. Steiner
Boeing Company
Mr. Steiner
Steiner
Boeing
Liberal shift reshapes Senate post Civil War blocs
Phillips surveys the changing party map from 1948 to 1973, showing Republicans gaining in the North and conservative Democrats fading, while the South and Southwest flip, signaling a broader liberal trend toward 1974 despite persistent regional contrasts.
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Senate Washington
RFL
U.S. Senate
Senate
New England
Upper Farm Belt
Wisconsin
Iowa
Dakotas
Upper South
Virginia Tennessee
Carolinas
Southwest
Texas
Oklahoma
New Mexico
Arizona
Mason-Dixon Line
E. H. Moore
Tom Connally
Pappy O’daniel
Carl Hayden
Ernest McFarland
Carl Hatch
Dennis Chavez
Minnesota
Milton Young
Burdick
North Dakota
Senate New Politics
Mondale
Nelson
Hughes and Clark
Meovern
Abourezk
South Dakota
Tennessee
Virginia
Congress
Lloyd Bentsen
Joseph Montoya
Write To Your Legislators In Washington DC
A guide lists contact details for Indiana legislators in Washington DC. It includes Senate offices Sen. R Vance Hartke and Sen. Birch Bayh with room numbers in the Old Senate Office Building and House members Rep. David W Dennis Rep. Elwood H Hillis with Longworth addresses and district notes.
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Senate
Washington, D. C
David W. Dennis
Longworth
Washington, D.C
Madison
Delaware, Hancock and
Henry Counties
Elwood H. Hillis
Sone Counties
Geont and Tipton
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Alice Widener
What's New
U.S.A. Syndicate
THE
Anderson Herald
Anderson Newspapers, Inc
Jackson Street
Anderson
Indiana
George D Crittenberger
Harriet W Toner
Rober
Jackson
Jane Toner Scott
Charles W Laughlin
Associated Press
Swift
Hayakawa
By S. J. Hayakawa
By Russell Kirk
Holmes Alexander
Alexander
Phillips Survey
By Kevin P. Phillips
Phillips
King Fea. Syndicate
Washington
Sen
R. Vance Hartke
Birch E. Bayh Jr
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