Natives Restless Questions for President on Civil Rights and Viet Nam
Paul Harvey poses a series of contradictions facing the administration as he travels across the United States. He questions civil rights versus workers’ rights, inflation versus minimum wage, birth rates versus welfare, deficits versus spending, and military draft policies. He highlights Viet Nam defoliation changes and notes Gen Maxwell Taylor’s warning of a costly stalemate, arguing Truman’s wartime decisions might offer a lesson.
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Washington
Florida
Atom
George Gessner
Leavenworth
Viet Nam
Maxwell Taylor
Red China
Asia
Truman
Japan
Paul Harvey
American Broadcasting Company
Ford's Folly splits House Republicans over Viet Nam
Washington report says Rep. Gerald Ford's charge of mismanagement in Viet Nam shakes GOP unity. Laird Ford rift grows as leaders debate silence strategy and criticism of Defense. Republicans aim to repair image while Ford's leadership credibility cools.
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Ford
Washington
Viet Nam
Gerald Ford
Michigan
House
Wisconsin
Rep
Melvin Laird
Republican Caucus
Laird
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Illinois
Senate
Dirksen
Charles Goodell
New York
House Republican Research Committee
Ford’s
Glenard Lipscomb
California
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Saigon
Lipscomb
Defense Department
Gerry Ford
Mel Laird
John McConnell
Air Force
Republican Party
Publishers Newspaper
Republicans Push Forward Right to Records Legislation
Republicans report a major victory for information access as the House Government Operations Committee advances a bill granting Americans the right to prompt federal records access with court action. The measure, opposed by the Johnson Humphrey administration, passed Senate approval last October with broad GOP backing, and excludes national defense, foreign policy, trade, and private business data from disclosure.
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House Government Operations Committee
Johnson-Humphrey
Senate
GOP
House
Donald E. Rumsfeld
Bill
Post Office Department
Albert H. Quie
Minnesota
Washington
Successful Investing Advice and Stock Split Clarifications
A reader asks about safe investing at five percent with 16000 extra cash. adviser suggests adding 6000 to stocks and the rest to high yielding bonds and notes specific picks. Another question asks about long range benefits of stock splits. explanation notes quick gains possible but splits may lower price per share and signal growth attracting investors.
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Allied Chemical
Baltimore Gas & Electric
Gen. Fen. Corp
Persistence and perseverance in life and achievement
Inspirational reflection on perseverance from a sermon style study. The text argues that talent genius and education often fail without constant determination. It contrasts brilliant minds and rewarded genius with derelicts holding degrees, asserting steady resolve solves problems for individuals and nations.
Home delivery by choice sparks medical debate in Boston
A reader letter from Mrs. Mickey advocates home births as a safer, calmer option and criticizes hospital obstetric practices and high fees. The piece argues for greater access to home delivery and questions reliance on specialists and anesthesia in modern hospitals. A second item reports New York detectives discovering master keys for city parking meters in a safe deposit box as investigators search for a meter-looting ringleader.
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Boston
New York
Norma Learns Compliments Win Date Over Self Praise
Dr. George W. Crane recounts Norma L. a 17 year old coed who failed to secure second dates due to self praise. He cites his Compliment Club urging three sincere compliments daily to change her approach, noting on a date with an escort she praised him and earned a second date, highlighting smiles and nonverbal praise as key.
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Norma
Norma L
Northwestern University
Dr. Crane
Spelling mishap prompts clerk and judge in odd court moment
A court clerk asks a witness to spell his name and a humorous exchange unfolds. The witness offers a fractured spelling leading to the judge and clerk clarifying the name Ottswell Wood while others share quips about spelling and meaning. An editor laments subscriber forgetfulness and a country paper cites unlawful wounding by tongue striking.
Call for sweeping inquiry into antiwar groups and subversives
The column urges a major government investigation into pro Communist China aligned peace groups and leftwing radicals in the United States. It argues peacenik organizations exploit tax exemptions, fund campaigns for demonstrations, and may import propaganda from abroad, threatening U.S. goals in Asia and the South Viet Nam conflict.
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United States
Southeast Asia
China
Mnist
Communist Party
USA
Viet Nam
Washington
White House
America
South
North
South Viet Nam
Peking
Dress Regulations for Navy and 16th Century Sailor Wardrobe
The question notes that the first dress regulations for all grades of the Navy appeared in 1740 by the British Navy. It then details John Griffin’s 1540 sea kit from the Barbara voyage to Brazil, listing items such as a silver whistle, various coats, hose, shirts, caps, a hand gun, sword, dagger, mantle, and canvas sack with pillow.
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James B. Martin
John Griffin
Barbara
Brazil
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Editorialia
By Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Roger E. Spear
Shepherd
Eph
Anderson Newspapers, Inc
George D. Crittenberger
Harriet W. Toner
Robert&. Jackson
Jane Toner Scott
Charles W. Laughlin
Edwin A. Bailey
Anderson
Indiana
Madison
Associated Press
Herald
Bradys Health Service
Mickey
Brady
William Brady
el Camino
Beverly Hills
George W. Crane
Crane
Mellor. Ind
Folklore
By William Wade
Wade
Ottswell Wood
Peaceniks
By James B. Martin
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