Where's Vaunted U.S. Prestige?
The piece argues U.S. prestige abroad has waned since 1960 with Nixon avoiding the topic. It cites Zanzibar leader Karume detaining American officials and reporters, Cambodia's Sihanouk cutting aid, and Panama riots linked to Castro agents, urging principle over short term popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
American Society of Newspaper Editors
America
Soviet Union
Zanzibar
Uncle Sam
Abeid Karume
Frederick P. Pacard
Karume
Donald K. Peterson
U.S
Norodom Sihanouk
Cambodia
Southeast Asia
Laos
Panama
Breakthrough links polonium in tobacco to lung cancer risk
Harvard School of Public Health researchers Dr. Edward R. Radford and Dr. Wilma R. Hunt report finding polonium in tobacco leaves that delivers up to 200 times the radiation dose to lung tissue of a nonsmoker. They note cigs emit polonium gas inhaled with smoke, with tar and resin aiding cancerous cell reactions, suggesting a path toward safer cigarettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard School of Public Health
Edward R. Radford
Wilma R. Hunt
Parcel Post Rates Increase Burdens Retailers and Public
The bulk of a 13 percent parcel post rate rise will hit retailers with large mail order business who may shift to parcel handling services. The ordinary shopper has no alternative and will pay more for postage on many parcels. The change could spur more home buying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parcel-Han
Panama Crisis Misread as U.S. Injustice and Historical Grift
A columnist argues that Panama’s grievance over the canal is overstated. It traces Roosevelt era maneuvers involving Cromwell and Bunau Varilla, the 25 million indemnity to Colombia, and the 1962 Allen Drury tale predicting the current crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panama
Colombia
Roberto F. Chiari
U.S
Canal Zone
de Lesseps
Panamanian
Isthmus
Wilson
United States
Manhattan
Allen Drury
Felix Labaiya-Sofra
Drury
Senor Labaiya
Labaiya
Roberto Chiari
State Department
Dear Abby Garlic Diet Dilemmas and Other Notes
Dear Abby receives letters on garlic intolerance causing illness and a friend who cooks with garlic. Advice suggests declining dinners or bringing a box lunch. Other readers debate slacks and biblical gender language, with Abby offering guidance on fashion, respect, and interpretation.
Positive Outlooks and End of Life in Hospital Tales
Dr David Crane recalls Cook County Hospital interns observing patients near death who chose to live or let go. He notes cheerfulness and forward thinking sometimes fail to change outcomes, while a 91 year old woman proves indomitable will to recover despite grim prognosis.
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David
Chicago
Cook County Hospital
David Crane
Hamlet
Wartime Visitors and Local Reflections in Ewington
Local column lists visitors to Mrs. Anne Edmundson and other households in Ewington including Lenny and Gene Calvin from West Lafayette and Ottawa Ohio, plus visits from Ft. Pierce Florida and Bancroft West Virginia. The piece shifts to a Bible Class anecdote praising a 91 year old parishioner’s resilient faith and a nurse’s caution about a doctor’s prognosis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Johnston Ewington
Anne Edmundson
Lenny Calvin
West Lafayette
Gene Calvin
Oliver
Ottawa
Ohio
Pharob
Melvinia Johnson
Ft. Pierce
Fla
Johnson
Tom Metheney
Richard Lee Rife
Cherry Point
N. C
Army Base
Thomas Amey
Timmy
Holzer Hospital
Ernest Davis
Reuben Davis
Bancroft
W. Va
Bob Osler
North Carolina
Shirley Metheney
George Johnston
Ashland
Sam, Hicks and
Sam, Jr
Joe Keys
Wanda Johnston
Betty Hayes
Jackson
Harold Cottrill
E. E. Hardsock
Vinton
Life With Age Shapes Housing and Inventions Expo
The column notes older adults prefer living among their peers and cites Irving Rosen of Western Reserve University on social isolation in mixed age settings. It also previews an International Inventions exhibit at the New York World's Fair organized by George DiMatteo, offering $150 displays and help protecting rights, with submission details to Box 810 Flushing Meadow, N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ford Foundation
Foundation
Irving Rosen
Western Reserve University
Rosen
George DiMatteo
International Inventions, Inc
Flushing Meadow
N. Y
I Plead the Fifth on My Newsroom Assignments
By Jim Bishop, the piece recalls a reporter’s wild early assignments from pajama rounds to nudist colony stints and Dime N Dance hall duties, showing how city editors drove audacious tours through vice and farce in a bygone era. The author concludes with a decades long view and a reluctant nod to restraint.
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Parcel Post
John Chamberlain
Py Baker
Dear Abby
Abby
Hater
California
Abigail van Buren
God
Wisconsin
Beverly Hills
Calif
George W. Crane
Swington
Chicago Loop
Jim Bishop
New York
Athens Messenger
Mt Messenger
Getly
Ohio & W
Pally
Nwenee
Yé&É
Lee
Athens
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