Bell’s Monopolist Woes Spark Pentagon Probe Demand
The Pentagon offers to join FCC investigations into AT&T rising bills and lagging service. Critics say AT&T’s management blundered in 1966–68, cut new facilities, raised borrowing costs, and harmed stockholders while service stagnated in major cities.
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Department of Defense
Commission
At&t
Bell
Boston
Chicago
Philadelphia
Nicholas Johnson
FCC
Johnson
At&T’s
The Messenger Publishing History at Athens Ohio
The Athens Messenger branding lists the publisher and imprint history from 1825 through 1965 with Frederick W. Bush Gordon K Bush and the Messenger Publishing Company based in Athens Ohio at 43 West Union Street with long standing founding and leadership dates.
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the Messenger Publishing Company
West Union Street
Athens
Ohio
Frederick W. Bush
Gordon K. Bush
McGovern Discloses 42472 Donors in Campaign Year
Article reports Senator George McGovern publicly lists 42 472 donors and 1 255 910 raised in his first full year as candidate. Largest donation 30 000 from a school headmaster. Notes impact of direct mail appeals and calls for other candidates to reveal contributors. Public letters policy outlined.
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George McGovern
Ohio
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democratic Party
McGovern
Muskie
New York
John V. Lindsay
Lindsay
New Hampshire
Florida
Winners and Losers from HAL BOYLE’s Column
HAL BOYLE satirically lists traits that mark a born winner or loser, contrasting luck and competence with social perception. He jokes that winners have high draft numbers, good bowling, and lottery luck, while losers endure humbling ironies from childhood to breadlines.
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New York
Busing for Integration Rational Thinking in Education Policy
The column argues against massive busing for racial integration as wasteful and divisive. It endorses rational, non constitutional methods, warnings about rigid racial balancing and the harms of segregated schooling, urging focus on genuine education rather than forced demographic mixing.
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L.A
Sen
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Agnew
America
The Messenger Publishing Co. postal details
Published daily except Saturdays The Messenger Publishing Co lists pricing by day and delivery method with 10 cents daily copies 20 cents Sunday 40 cents tube route delivery and by mail rates for Ohio West Virginia and other U S possessions The address is 43 W Union St Athens Ohio 45701 and mail is sent to Athens Post Office second class matter under Act of 1918.
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Associated Press
D&s
Ohio
West Virginia
U.S. & Possessions
Athens Post Office
The
Messenger Publishing Co
Union
Athens
Blood drive shows student townie cooperation at Ohio U
The Messenger thanks Ohio University students and local residents for a two day Red Cross blood program that yielded 368 units. Volunteers and the West Green Presidents' Council organized recruitment and registration for the Feb 27 28 bloodmobile visit, aiding the sick and injured.
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the Messenger
Red Cross
Ohio University
West Green Presidents’ Council
Confucius Seen in Sino American Communique Analysis
The piece argues that Nixon and Chou En Lai framed a definition oriented pact amid Asia's tensions, highlighting mutual aims to curb Soviet power, Taiwan status, and Indochina. It notes vagueness and time as a factor while stressing no major changes were promised.
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Confucious
Christ
Mao Tse-Tung
Communist Party
Mao
Nixon
Chou En-Lai
Taiwan
Indochina
Peking
Washington
Asia-Pacific
Asia
United States
Confucius
Soviet Union
Moscow
China
Hanoi
U.S
Chow
South Vietnam
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Nicholas von Hoffman
Ma Bell Telephone
A. Times
Washington Post Service
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Defense Department
Federal Communications Commission
Miami
Bell System
FBI
Broadway
Western Electric
Pentagon
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Che Athens Messenger
Cee
Ceene
G Kenner Bush
Fred W Weber
Charles W. Reamer
M W McDargh
Richard R. Paynter
Senate Atomic Energy Committee
David Lilienthal
Atomic Energy Commission
Senator Bricker
Nelsonville
Oral Daugherty
Mount St. Mary Hospital
Michigan
Frank
Athens Steam Laundry
Hal Boyle
Alaska
Joseph Alsop
William Raspberry
Hell
Brickman
Small Society
Robert S. Elegant
LOS Angeles Times
Washington Post
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