The Vietnam War Revealed Through a Marine’s Tale
Lt. Huggett recalls 18 days in combat near Khe Sanh, the mud, fear, and frantic effort to save a casualty. Sgt. Love rushes to aid, taking hits yet surviving as air strikes loom. The story contrasts frontline courage with home front attitudes.
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Bill Huggett
Miami
Huggett
Florida
Sgt
Percy Love
Conbent
Khe Sanh
Cas
Chicago
NVA
Viet Cong
Countdown and Firefly Light Show Quips Nomenclature
A playful jumble of notes about a colonel near Nixon and the difficulty of surf with a red telephone. The mockery extends to the Defense Department budget and a jab at the Pentagon renting office space. St Louis is joked as the firefly catching center of the world.
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Nixon
Defense Department
Pentagon
St. Louis
Beginning as a columnist fueled by love of writing
Holmes Alexander recalls becoming a national columnist after starting at local papers and Kiplinger News Agency. He details early isolation, the grind of daily travel, research at the Kiplinger office, barroom storytelling for ideas, and the need for writing that sings despite scant facts. His sustaining force was the gift of gab and a rhythmical, evocative style.
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Sun-Baltimore
Kiplinger News Agency
Commerce
Treasury Departments
Congressional
White House
Washington
Maryland
Capitol
Sweet Meadows Farm
Mount Royal Hafod
Baltimore
The
Rein
Kiplinger
National Press Club
Ely
Russell Kirk Assesses USNSA Decline and Radical Turn
The 1987 USNSA national convention faced disruption by black militants and costly resolutions. Russell Kirk argues NSA's funding crisis and weak leadership threaten its relevance as colleges withdraw and moderates fail to shape policy.
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United States National Student Association
USNSA
NSA
CIA
National Association of Black
National Advisory Board
Reading Today’s News and the Law and Order Riot Paradox
A commentator questions the logic of law and order rhetoric after reporting a riot in Forrest City Arkansas. He argues preventive wars misdefine conflict and warns that law and order slogans can mask violent unrest and mislead public perception.
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Washington
Forrest City
Ark
National Guardsmen
Times
Red China
Defense Department
Ted Kennedy and Chappaquiddick as Political Symbol
The piece argues Edward Kennedy embodies a liberal political type marked by detachment and delay. It cites his handling of the Chappaquiddick incident and Mary Jo Kopechne’s death, noting delayed reporting and silence. It links the episode to broader Democratic mystique and Kremlin attention, framing the mosaic of actions as damaging to Kennedy’s leadership image.
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Edward M. Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy
Kennedy
Gallup
Harris
Mary Jo Kapechne
Chappaquiddick Cottage
Capitol
Paul Markham
Edward Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democratic Party
Charles Bartlett
Ted Kennedy
Pdt
First permanent US settlement founded in St Augustine
On this day in history 1565 the first permanent settlement of what is now the continental United States was established in St Augustine Florida. The record notes other historic events including a deadly 1900 Galveston tornado and tidal wave and the 1934 Morro Castle disaster.
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Continental United States
St. Augustine
Fla
Galveston
Tex
United States
Asbury Park
N.J
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Woody's World
By John Holm
Henry J. Taylor
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Hubert Humphrey
Moscow
Aleksei N. Kosygin
Tass
Humphrey
Kosygin
Edmund Dinis
Mary de Kopwehne
United Prise Internatio
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Richard Cumberland
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