Sweden and a New Totalitarianism
Lincoln Steffens cites Sweden as a model of state controlled liberalism in a column reviewing Roland Huntford’s The New Totalitarians. The piece argues Sweden’s social democracy curbs personal freedom through pervasive taxation, education, and surveillance while offering security and conformity. It cites Olof Palme and critiques Western intellectuals for idealizing socialist systems amid global tensions.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Lincoln Steffens
Bernard Baruch
Steffens
Moscow
Paradise
Jack
Nikita Khrushchev
Politburo
Stalin
Beria
Hanoi
Sweden
Huntford
Athens Messenger January 16 1973 front page item
Athens Ohio newspaper item notes publication details for The Athens Messenger dated Tuesday January 16 1973. Mentions publishing leadership and staff roles at the Athens Ohio outlet with historic lineage of owners and editors.
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Athens
Ohio
Daydream fantasies spark odd newspaper musings on world in 1973
A New York AP column questions the dullness of daily life and imagines playful, improbable fantasies. It riffs on public figures like Margaret Mead Henry Kissinger Richard Nixon Joyce Brothers Bing Crosby Phyllis Diller and more. It envisions a world where daydreams become reality and routine is upended.
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New York
Margaret Mead
Henry Kissinger
Richard Nixon
White House
Hitchhiking risks rise as women drivers gain freedoms
A national trend shows about a quarter of hitchhikers are young women who face higher assault risks. Reports across Boston, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles detail robberies, rapes, and deaths, prompting calls for stronger laws and public education while resisting double standards amid a women's liberation debate.
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Boston
Minneapolis
Los Angeles
Colorado
Townspeople and university students must unite for harmony
A reader from Athens argues improved town university relations require mutual understanding and joint community projects. He cites student town interactions, past crises, and volunteer programs as paths to friendly daily contact and cooperative efforts like a city park.
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the Messenger
Athens
Hocking
Copernicus and the Copernican Revolution
The text notes the Age of Discovery and major explorers and states that in 1543 the Copernican Revolution proposed that the earth moves around the sun, marking a pivotal shift in human thought. It highlights Nicholas Copernicus as the Polish astronomer.
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Vasco da Gama
India
Africa
Christopher Columbus
America
Ferdinand Magellan
Nicholas Copernicus
Chain Heifer and the Copernican Anniversary Conference
The Heifer Project International of Little Rock partners livestock with a transfer rule to aid developing areas. A 500th anniversary of Copernicus is marked by a Washington conference at the Naval Observatory, a AAAS session, UNESCO events in Paris, NAS conferences at the Smithsonian, and a Poland tribute to the canon of the cathedral.
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Heifer Project International
Little Rock
Arkansas
Thorn
Prussian
Poland
U. S. Naval Observatory
Washington
American Association For the Advancement of Science
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Paris
Copernicus
National Academy of Sciences
Smithsonian Institute
Paul III
Thomson seeks death penalty reintroduction after court ruling
Governor-elect Meldrim Thomson Jr. pledges to push a death penalty bill modeled on a Florida law, arguing that ending capital punishment by the Supreme Court spurred crime and that more states may follow as they seek to satisfy the court.
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New Hampshire
Supreme Court
Meldrim Thomson Jr
Florida
Readers' letters shape public issues of the day
This page invites reader opinions on issues of general public interest and welcomes letters to the editor. Preference is given to letters of one page or less in selecting material for publication.
The Messenger Publishing Co. Subscription Rates
Publication notice listing pricing for daily and Sunday editions by carrier tube route mail and region. Rates include weekly ten cents daily, twenty cents Sunday, with Ohio West Virginia and nationwide mail options. Second class matter at Athens Ohio post office with address for mail.
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D&s
Ohio
West Virginia
U.S. & Possessions
Athens
The
Messenger Publishing Co
Johnson Road
Low Young Voter Turnout Linked to Registration and Trust
A Census survey shows 48.3 percent turnout for 16 to 20 year olds and 50.7 percent for 21 to 24 year olds in the 1971 enfranchised group. Officials note overreporting of voting and general alienation from politics as key factors. Campaign staff blamed lack of enthusiasm for both candidates and distrust in the process as major causes of the weak youth participation.
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Associated Press
U.S. Census Bureau
George McGovern
Nixon
Edward T. O'Donnell
McGovern
O'Donnell
Ken Rietz
Norman Siegel
Youth Citizenship Fund
Letter on Indochina aggression and U S war policy
Whealey critiques the use of the term aggression in Indochina and argues American actions since 1961 amount to war, while denying the claim that Vietnam will become a Russian satellite. He questions leaders’ costs and questions any light at the end of the tunnel.
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Sweden
Vietnam
America
the Messenger
Michael Dudash
Glouster
Indochina
Kennedy
Laos
Johnson
Cambodia
Nixon
Thieu
Dudash
Hungary
U.S
Russia
McGoverns
Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen Cao Ky
Nguyen van Thieu
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OUR Times
Smith Hempstone
Roland Huntford
London
Observer
Stockholm
Social Democratic
Tweedledum
Tweedledee
Olof Palme
Palme
Haiphong
William Buckley
the Athens Messenger
Messenger Publishing Company
Frederick W. Bush
G. Kenner Bush
Gordon K. Bush
Fred W. Weber
M. W. McDargh
Jim
Charles W. Reamer
Richard R. Paynter
Muhammad Ali
Has Boyle
Women’s Liberation Movement
Dave Zlatk
Pinegrove
Nelsonville
Small Society
Brickman
Jheiz Trial
Robert H. Whealey
Oak St. Athens
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