Dress code debate echoes past school discipline ideals
The piece contrasts current high school dress code pressures with a historic university system where students and faculty were governed in loco parentis under a points-based discipline plan. It argues that traditional aims of education—mental and physical discipline for good citizenship—remain valid, warning that without self and social discipline, society risks drifting toward dictatorship.
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Helen Botte
Sacramento
United States
Mary
John
Devine
Mead's marijuana stance sparks debate in Florida backdrop
Countdown anthropologist Margaret Mead faces backlash after advocating legalization for adults. Florida Governor Rick Scott labels Mead a "dirty old lady" while critics frame the exchange as evolving social leadership, with women at the fore and dismissed male voices.
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Florida
Rick
Dr. Mead
Van Allen plan for Social Security deserves study
Russell Kirkan notes the Van Allen evaluation of Social Security argues current taxes burden low earners and rising costs for the elderly. The pamphlet proposes PADS reforms including exemptions, rate caps, guaranteed lump sums, removal of age ceilings, five year eligibility, on demand benefit statements, and disability timing with tax deductibility, funded by trimming foreign aid and defense.
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U.S
van Allen
Department of Defense
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Frontier Reawakens to Industrial Boom Across Rural America
American industry is decentering from big cities to rural towns as firms relocate plants to places like Waxahachie Texas and Mountain Home Arkansas. New jobs spur ancillary growth such as banks, schools, and motels, with firms like Owens-Corning and Phillips Petroleum expanding in smaller communities.
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Louis
Tennessee
Arkansas
South Carolina
Waxahachie
Tex
Owens-Corning
Baxter Laboratories
Chicago
Mountain Home
Ark
Dow Chemical
New York
Freeport
Russellville
Findlay Ohio
Philosopher Frankel writes inside view of Washington life
Charles Frankel, ex Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, recounts his years in Washington in High on Fogey Bottom, detailing clashes with officials, muddled security terms, and a stubborn public. A Columbia philosopher, he reflects on power, mail delays, and Navy Intelligence past.
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Washington
Charles Frankel
Mr. Frankel
Frankel
Columbia University
Slate
Naval Intelligence
Navy Intelligence
Fogey Bottom
Harper & Row
Let's cut the cackle on price wage controls now
The piece argues price wage controls failed during OPA era, citing massive employment, black markets, and bottlenecks in auto parts, housing, and clothing. It warns such controls worsen inflation and urges rejecting new controls, ending with a Bastogne style defiant jab: Nuts.
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OPA
Los Angeles
Anthony C. McAuliffe
Bastogne
Tweed Convicted for Defrauding New York City
Historical notes mark 1874 as Tweed's conviction for defrauding New York City of about 6 million dollars and a 12 year prison term. The same year witnessed the birth of the national Women’s Christian Temperance Union in Cleveland and the U S Senate’s rejection of the Versailles Treaty. President Wilson urged a community of power over a balance of power in a thought for the day.
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William Marcy Tweed
Tammany Hall
New York
National Women's Christian Temperance Union
Cleveland
Woodrow Wilson
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Leo
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Frontier
America
George Bush
Better Homes and Gardens
Phillips Petroleum
Pryor
Okla
Crow Indian Reservation
Montana
Venango County
McDonnell Douglas
Bon Maclean
Woody's World
By John Holm
Office of
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Adr
Federal Housing Administration
National Association of Real Estate Boards
U.S. Senate
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