Environmental problem tops list as Lee urges action
Robert Lee, timber executive and observer philosopher, calls the number one environmental problem people. He warns world materials could equal all history in 15 years and questions if oxygen supplies can sustain current population. He cites disposing one million cubic yards of garbage daily and proposes world councils to handle food and population issues.
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Robert Lee
Lee
Mammoth Cave
Kentucky
World Councils
Arnold Toynbee
Misleading Statistics On Medical Cost Increases
The piece argues price rises alone do not measure inflation in health care. It notes that Model T prices skew comparisons and that medical care quality, life expectancy, and techniques have improved while hospital stays shortened. It cites BLS index biases and calls for better methods, warning that cost containment risks reducing quality.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Monthly Labor Review
Benevolent dictatorships and student unrest in colleges
Dean Robert B. Yegge argues that American colleges should balance student rights with responsibilities. He rejects total obedience and notes the need for peaceful, nonviolent reform, warning against student dominance in teaching and administration. He urges mature expression and lawful petition to change rules.
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Robert B. Yegge
Tax grants in aid expand with 18 federal agencies
The piece notes 400 grant in aid authorizations across 18 departments and agencies. Expenditures rose from 8.6 billion in 1963 to 20.3 billion this year, with 96.5 billion distributed to states and localities from 1963 to 1968. It calls for periodic review by Congress and reminds citizens the tax loophole issue has two sides.
Chatham Township Halts Dumpage Near Great Swamp Refuge
Chatham Township New Jersey votes to stop garbage and sewage dumping at an inland dump along the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge periphery. Poison seepage has endangered wildlife linked to the site, underscoring findings from a Massachusetts issued report.
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Chatham Township
New Jersey
Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Massachusetts
Quotations and Opinions on Waste and Mysteries
A collection of excerpts cites a New York Times view on United States waste disposal and urged regional plants over local dumps. It notes New York City’s seven million tons yearly, landfill limits, and tech advances including burning refuse for power. The ST Cloud Times discusses evolving mystery writing toward characterization and enduring classic whodunits.
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Congress
Europe
N.Y
Clayton Matthews
Southern California
Mystery Writers of America
St, Cloud Times
Christmas calm and chaos mix in Austin area poll
A light hearted holiday survey in the Austin area finds most folks pleased about Christmas with few disappointments. One cranky observer laments computer driven plans. others recount travel snafus and street hazards during the season.
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Austin
Nixon seeks private approach with labor chiefs
Reporter Victor Riesel details Nixon meeting Detroit's Walter Reuther for a private talk after Reuther's Israel and Eastern Europe trip. The piece notes Nixon's cooperative stance toward labor leaders, support for labor secretary-designate George Schultz, and an expected consultative method with unions shaping the new administration's labor policy.
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New York
Dick Nixon
Nixon
Pierre
Auto Union
Israel
Europe
George P. Schultz
Executive Suite
Shultz meets AFL-CIO leaders in Washington session
President-elect George Shultz held a 75 minute meeting with AFL-CIO President George Meany Lane Kirkland and lobbyist Andy Biemiller at the White House area. The session signaled labor support for Shultz as incoming Labor Secretary and reflected a cordial, policy-focused exchange.
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Washington
Shultz
AFL . Cio
George Meany
Lane Kirkland
Labor
Andy Biemiller
Aflcio
White House
Lafayete Square
Strom Thurmond
Willard Wirtz
George Shultz
Invitation to a hippie pad on Cedar Avenue
A reporter visits a Cedar Avenue district apartment near the U of Minnesota where students and others live in a crowded, bohemian hall above bars. The scene includes drafts resistors, late study, music by the Beatles, and a tense exit as a father retrieves his daughter amid chanting outside.
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Minneapolis
Cedar Avenue
Mississippi River
University of Minnesota
Cleaver
Henry Miller
Ogden Nash
George
Beatles
Sven
Ho Chi Minh to use American POWs as leverage in Vietnam talks
The article details Ho Chi Minh's likely strategy to press U.S. negotiators by leveraging hundreds of captured U.S. fliers and other prisoners. It notes North Korea's cooperation, possible releases as goodwill gestures, and the varying numbers of prisoners and missing personnel across Air Force Navy Army and Marines. It warns Hanoi may seek a high price for liberty and tests American resolve amid Paris talks.
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Washington
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
U.S
United States
Pueblo
Paris
Hanoi
Air Force
Navy
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