Memorial Day Reflection on Vietnam War Costs
Ten years after a 1962 Memorial Day editorial warned of a costly, lengthy Vietnam conflict the sentiment remains. The piece notes vanished flights, Viet Cong hostility, and presidential fallout, while urging faith that the nation will emerge stronger from this trial. The poignant line recalls flowers “costly beyond price.”
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South Vietnam
Pacific
United States
Kennedy
National Treasury
Vietnam
The Great American Vandal in Travel & Leisure
Travel & Leisure columnist John Keats brands American tourists as a nuisance in The Great American Vandal. He lists incidents from the John F. Kennedy Center vandalism to Yellowstone Park coin clogging and Grand Canyon graffiti, arguing cheap jet travel spreads these acts globally.
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John Keats
Travel & Leisure Magazine
Yellowstone Park
Grand Canyon
Cangida
Keats
Wiesemmet
Baytown Sun Editorial Staff and Budget Note
Fragmented OCR text lists Baytown Sun staff roles and a garbled payroll amount of 820 dollars. No clear event or outcome is present. The passage reads like internal credits and department heads with scattered names and numbers.
Election humor echoes past political graft and quips
A historical column recalls party bosses paying ethnic leaders for votes, rival payoffs and urban legends. Anecdotes feature Connecticut and New York machines, ghost voters, and sharp banter among La Guardia, Steagall, Flynn, Hague, and Roosevelt era figures.
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Nariman Thomas
Flynn
Steagall
Alabama
Fiorello H. la Guardia
New York City
la Guardia
Fiorello
New York
FDR
Barbs by Phil Pastoret
A witty column by Phil Pastoret satirizes pessimism and reform, noting a worker who roves for employment faces social sanctions. It asserts those who laugh last may not have heard the joke, offering a skeptical view of optimism.
Faithful Living Cited in Hebrews Verse
A Bible verse from Hebrews 10 38 contrasts the life of the just with those who draw back. It emphasizes that true believers live by faith and that God takes no pleasure in retreat or apostasy.
Kennedy May Back McGovern If California Close
Senator Kennedy shifts from refusal to endorse McGovern to offering help in California if the primary is tight. The dynamic rivalry with Humphrey includes mutual restraint to avoid smear campaigns as June 6 voting nears. White House drug and China policy memos discuss opium, Red China, and Dope trafficking amid Nixon Brezhnev diplomacy. The FBI notes on Weatherman claim links to Chinese Communists and radical leftist aims.
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Washington
Ted Kennedy
D-Mass
George McGovern
McGovern
California
Kennedy
Iif
Massachusetts
Hubert Humphrey
Humphrey
Nixon
Georgia
Peking
White House
Departments of State, Defense, Treasury
U.S. Information Agency
Red China
Prc
China
Richard Harkness
NBC
U.S
Red
Vietnam
Yunnan
FBI
Weathermen
Pentagon
Weatherman
Students For A Democratic Society
Arly
America
Focos
Central Committee
Laos Leader Souvanna Phouma Faces Retirement Amid War
Souvanna Phouma, 73, longtime Lao prime minister, contemplates quitting as war rages and the kip collapses. He governs a weakened Laos with U.S. aid faltering, while 34 percent of the population remains behind enemy lines and refugees number about 700000. He seeks to write memoirs while acknowledging a bleak outlook.
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Vientiane
Laos
NEA
Southeast Asia
Souvanna Phouma
U.S
Souvanna
Multination Economic Committee
United States
U.S. Agency For International Development
USAID
Sticks
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Fred Hartinin
Burma
Peishett
Enhorum
Preston Pendergrass
Washandton
Yaris Mudra
Hetty Veet
Lion Brown
STS
Ernest Cuneo
Connecticut
Lincoln Steffens
L Lader
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Lower East Side
Louis
Tours
Michigan
Texas
Rio Grande
Norman Thomas
Ed Flynn
Bronx
Boss Hague
Jersey City
By Phil Pastoret
Jock Anderson
National Assembly
Yanna Phouma
Iwha
Paris
Vientianes
Mr. Nixon
U.S Congress
Andres
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