Education's big job is teaching understanding in America
December 4 1972 piece argues education as path to success and equality though the Jencks report questions its reach. It cites New Math, classrooms without walls, and pro education vouchers while stressing civics, ethics, and civilization as core aims. Schools alone won't erase poverty. economic change matters.
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Sete
America
Jencks
Harvard
Christopher Jencks
Cleveland
Thomas Vail
Consumers fight onerous ICC rule on comment copies
Grace Stern of Chevy Chase Maryland challenged an Interstate Commerce Commission requirement forcing 15 double spaced copies plus a preferred party copy for public comments on moving regulations. The ruling maintains the rule, citing orderly procedure, though Stern and her lawyer call it outrageous and a barrier to consumer input in a case affecting households.
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City Hall
U.S
Interstate Commerce Commission
Grace Stern
Chevy Hase, Md
Commission
Stern
Washington Star-News
ICC
Kissinger Peace Efforts Amid Ongoing Vietnam War Struggles
Five weeks after Kissinger said peace was near in Vietnam, conflict continues with U.S. B52 raids resuming in the North and Hanoi pressing in the South. From Oct 26 to Nov 5 U.S. casualties included 27 killed, 42 wounded, and nine prisoners. talks in Paris failed to reach a final accord and Kissinger prepared to return to the negotiations for a Dec 4 resumption.
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Washington
Henry A. Kissinger
Vietnam
Kissinger
U.S
North Vietnam
Hanoi
United States
le Duc Tho
Paris
I Kissinger
Nixon
Saigon
Nguyen van Thieu
Tran van Lam
Gan
International Commission
Dmz
South Vietnam
Xuan Thuy
White House
Alexander Haig
Thieu
Haig
Tho
Nguyen Phu Duc
Doc
Defense reshuffle under new Pentagon leadership
Elliot L. Richardson is poised to bring a new leadership style to the Pentagon as secretary of Defense with a sweeping personnel reshuffle. He will move from HEW on Jan. 20, likely staffing from his HEW team, including Jonathan Moore, while filling deputy posts and navigating legacy holdovers, budgets, Vietnam withdrawal, racial tensions in the armed forces, and arms control talks.
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Washington
Elliot L. Richardson
Pentagon
Welfare
Potomac River
HEW
Jonathan Moore
Richardson
Robert McNamara
Rush
West Germany
Laird
State Department
Defense Department
Massachusetts
State
Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Europe
Ash named new OMB director amid limited immediate impact
Roy L. Ash, the California industrialist who helped propose OMB’s creation, will succeed Caspar Weinberger as director. He says he will be more observer than policymaker on the 1974 budget and will focus on management, selling Litton stock and disengaging from his shipbuilding firm on December 9.
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Washington
Roy L. Ash
Office of Management and Budget
California
OMB
Nixon
Ash
Caspar W. Weinberger
Litton Industries
Weinberger
HEW
Therm
Humphrey to Direct Yearlong Study on VP Selection
Democratic National Committee Chairman Jean Westwood announced that Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey will lead a yearlong study aimed at improving how the party selects its vice presidential candidates. The effort follows issues in choosing a running mate for Sen. George McGovern in 1972 after Sen. Thomas Eagleton withdrew amid medical disclosures.
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Washington
Democratic Party
Hubert H. Humphrey
Democratic National Committee
Jean Westwood
George McGovern
Thomas F. Eagleton
Dmo
Camp David Named as Nixon’s Key Retreat in Support of Work
Camp David, Md is described as a secluded presidential retreat used by Nixon for crucial decisions. The article details the site’s facilities, security measures, historic uses by Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Truman, and Nixon’s plan to expand Camp David’s role in his second term.
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Camp David
Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oceanside Western White House
San Clemente
Calif
Bayside
Florida
White House
Key Biscayne
Washington
Thurmont
Nayzi
David
Roosevelt
Little Mountain
Tricia Nixon
Edward Cox
Prince Cha
Princess Anne
Aspen Lodge
Bear’s den
Eisenhower
Aspen
David Eisenhower
Civilian Conservation Corps
CCC
Catoctin Range
James Hilton
Williamsburg
Navy
FDR
Normandy
Harry S. Truman
Key West
Fla
Gettysburg
Nikita Khrushchev
Berlin
Cadmus in Bible Links and Ancient Town Clues
Puzzle answers map Pepens Town and Cadmus to biblical kinship and mythic sites. Entries list nine kingly figures and related terms, linking Greek letters, fish names, and ancient places with wordplay on roots and suffixes for a compact crossword style challenge.
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Pepens
Town
Cadmus
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