Lewis and Clark students fund Middle East lectureship
At Lewis and Clark College in Portland a student-led History Lectureship Committee organized to endow a one-term chair. They raised 5000 by 1969 to invite Sir John Glubb of London as fall 1970 lecturer, aiming for an 85000 endowment and ongoing lectureships with broad student and faculty support.
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Copley News
Portland
Ore
Lewis and Clark College
Lewis and Clark
Sir John Glubb
London
England
Sir John
Arab Legion of Jordan
John R. Howard
John Glubb
Middle East
Jordan
Arab Legion
Glubb
Doug Anderson
Anderson
Pretty Marsha Mayer
Lubbock, Tex
Geothermal power plan eyed using underground nuclear shots
Aims to tap earth heat by detonating devices 11 to miles deep to create steam generating cavities in lava rock. Battelle engineers say feasibility exists on paper with about 14 million to 40 million dollars depending on shot timing, yielding power costs around 6 to 7 mills per kilowatt hour, though environmental concerns and radioactivity remain contentious.
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Seattle, Wash
UPI
Atomic Enery Commission
New Wave of Crying Themed Books Suggest Shifting Taboos
A 1970s cultural forecast notes books and films celebrating tears. It cites projects by Dr Alfred Maudlin on male lachrymation, a study by Dr Elegiac and Mrs Mewl on why people cannot cry, and a guide by Dr David Snivel on how tears work. A pen name author K promotes the idea of women crying openly for pleasure.
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Alfred Maudlin
Maudlin
Dr. Elegiac
Mewl
Elegiae
Mansfield proposes new spending limits on campaigns
In Washington Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield unveils a bill merging the vetoed broadcasting restriction with Howard Cannon’s reform plan and extending seven cent per vote limits to advertising in newspapers magazines billboards and bumper stickers. The measure aims for broader campaign finance disclosure as Congress prepares to reconvene.
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Washington
John C. Pastore
Senate
House
Cannon
Mansfield
Congress
Hugh Scott
Capitol
John Anderson
Ilinois
House Republican Caucus
Draft dodgers discover they can't go home again
Vancouver readers meet Larry and fellow draft dodgers living in a dim pub as they face hard choices. The 22 year old Nevadan and friends from Indiana Colorado and North Dakota discuss exile, infertility and the fear of long prison terms if they return home. They reflect on what home means after fleeing the Vietnam era and confront a harsher Canada than expected.
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Larry
U.S
Nevada
Jim
Indiana
Harry
Colorado
Wade
North Dakota
Marty
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Ship of the Desert
Edmund Muskie
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