Thank Nebraska For Arbor Day
Editorial laments the loss and celebrates Arbor Day origins in Nebraska. It extols trees as essential to life, notes their ecological benefits, forests' historical extent, and urges plantings for future generations. The piece cites air purification, cooling effects, and growing wood demand, ending with a call to plant trees for Arbor Day 1972.
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America
Nebraska
Union
Alaska
Atlantic
Mississippi
Norway
Sweden
Denmark
Austria
Switzerland
Holland
Belgium
Israel
New England
Maine
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New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
United States
Auto industry drags feet in pollution field
Virginia Payette vents about the failure to meet Clean Air Act targets for auto emissions. She cites 1970 law deadlines, industry resistance, and a 1975 1976 schedule, noting Ford and Iacocca claims and the RECAT study urging easing measures while concerns about nitrogen oxide remain.
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Iacocca
Henry Ford UH
Detroit
RECAT
Congress
Silver Prices Rise Amid Expectation Of Higher Levels
Washington area note reports that silver prices firmed into early 1972 after a 128.8 cent low in November 1971. Handy and Harman project a moderate near term rise with a brighter longer term outlook once production and demand adjust.
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Wellesley Hills
Mass
General Services Administration
Handy and Harman
U.S
India
Pakistan
N.Y
Babson’s Reports
Mac's World Sex Equality and the Bus Debate
Columnist Don MacLean muses on Equal Rights Amendment fallout and gender equality on buses. He imagines bus seating reforms to balance men and women at stops, suggests a bus busing plan, critiques political primaries, and jokes about a buswagon era while noting broader public discourse.
Report satire on urban transport costs and RECANT joke
Satirical remark targets big cities and a proposed report on automotive costs. The speaker suggests renaming it Regulatory Effects on the Cost of Automotive Noxious Transportation to form the acronym RECANT and mocks its relevance.
Oscar party debates on X or R rating sparks controversy
In a sharp take on the awards season the piece notes movies vie for restrictive ratings while audiences debate who may attend. It jokes that winners stay home and stand-ins must be accompanied by parents, reflecting a satirical view of contemporary cinema taste.
High schoolers reveal views in NEA survey
Washington report summarizes a Merit Publishing study of 23 000 junior and senior leaders. It shows half expect to raise children like their parents, 12 percent think parents too strict, 9 percent too lenient. Both sexes feel listened to overall, desegregation views split, and opinions on troops, volunteer service, and censorship reflect mixed attitudes. Major achievements cited include moon landing and 18 year old vote act.
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NEA
Washington
Merit Publishing Company
Draft Board
China
Southeast Asia
Urban renewal looms as destructive boondoggle
A protest letter warns that federal urban renewal and highway programs gut historic streets and drive out small businesses. It cites hearings on a renewal project in the county seat that would demolish two blocks and two 19th century edifices, replacing them with uncertain plans and chain stores. The writer accuses bureaucrats of aiding profiteers and urges public opposition at hearings, arguing for self renewal without federal condemnation.
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HUD
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Trenewal
Mersey
Washington
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Manhattan
Russia
George Wallace
Moscow
Warold Coffi
Washington News
By Ray Cromley
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Biddeford - Saco Journal
Adams Street
Biddeford
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E. P. Ingalls
Telephone Business Depts
Associated Press
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