Help for students opens doors with new federal grants
The Basic Educational Opportunity Grants program offers up to $122 million to assist 500,000 needy high school graduates entry into higher education. Deadlines: Feb 4, 1974. Eligible institutions include universities, community colleges, vocational schools, and nursing programs across public and private sectors. Applications are available at post offices and college offices.
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US Office of Education
HEW
Private Thoughts on Pornography and Espionage Entertainment
Don Oakley argues in favor of entertainment value in comedies operas and thrillers while noting society seeks bans on pornography and scrutinizes Watergate era spying myths. He compares Bond style intrigue to real government deception, asking why fantasy is allowed but political content is restricted.
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Manhattan
Supreme Court
Watergate Gang
Pens move nations with billions sold and new ideas ahead
The Writing Instrument Manufacturers Assn reports Americans bought 600 million dollars worth of pens last year, totaling two billion pens across fountain ballpoint felt-tip porous and more. The piece notes uses from spaceflight repairs to battlefield tracheotomies and envisions pens that merge multiple types, blend inks, and translate speech into writing.
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Turn Back the Clock Signals Local Milestones and Blackout
A collage recalls events from 30 years ago including C C Terry being honored by the Kiwanis Club and his election as lieutenant governor at a district wartime conference in Alexandria. Also notes Minnesota blackout success and Waves induction alongside a Cedar River petition and new elementary school Banfield readied for Sept. 8.
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Vandalism Targets Austin Park ReCreation Area
Bob Auer of Forestry Austin Minn reports vandalism at South Grove Park on 4th Drive SW. Autos damaged ball diamond sod, tore deep ruts, and destroyed ash trees along the outfield. replacement costs estimated at about $50 plus labor and equipment. Citizens urged to report such acts.
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Labor federation retools as Meany backs Jackson for president
Washington reports AFL-CIO chief George Meany, aged 79, aims to outlast foes and back Washington Sen. Henry Scoop Jackson for the White House. A major reorganization concentrates regional offices into a new Dept. of Organization and Field Services, centering power at the national office and signaling a de facto national party aligned with Meany.
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Scoop) Jackson
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Jack Kennedy
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Timely quotes from Senate and water works chief
Senator Sam Ervin Jr. praises the presidency while wishing success to the incumbent. Eric F. Johnson of the American Water Works Association mocks ecology as motherhood and laments a return to the past with rivers and wildlife through harsh imagery.
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We Like It Here We Enjoyed Coffee With Howard Tierney
A reminiscence filled with local color notes featuring Howard Tierney, former IRS agent, enjoying a summer morning. The piece recalls fiscal humor, tax anecdotes, and community events including a retailers meeting on Christmas 1973 55. A light mosaic of reading lists and farm events closes with weather lore from John Skinner.
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Global View Russian allies growing cynical
Ray Cromley argues Brezhnev’s foreign policy has failed to secure lasting alliances and calls Moscow’s global influence eroding. He contends Egypt Iraq India and Africa show declining Soviet leverage while China and the United States gain comparative sway. The piece warns overreliance on puppeted allies has tarnished Soviet power.
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Soviet Union
Brezhnev
Moscow
Middle East
Egypt
Iaq
United States
Answar Sadat
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Southeast Asia
China
Russia
India
Pakistan
Ussr
Latin America
Chile
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Salvador Allende
Chance
Tito
Yugoslavia
Today in History highlights from August 24
On this date in 1814 British troops captured Washington and burned the Capitol. In 79 A D Mount Vesuvius eruption buried Pompeii and Herculaneum. Other milestones include 1777 Washington’s army in Philadelphia, 1867 Johns Hopkins founded, 1932 Amelia Earhart’s solo flight, 1939 Nazi Soviet pact, and recent protests and nuclear testing notes.
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