Editorial Page In Our Opinion Free TV foes do Abrupt about-face
The piece argues pay television, once feared by movie and theater interests, is not a threat to free TV. FCC rules keep pay TV limited to certain cities, and the Hartford trial was costly but informational. Pay TV offers affordable home viewing, complicating theater owners’ campaigns to derail it.
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Hartford
Conn
Federal Communication Commission
National Association of Theater Owners
Congress
FCC
Association
California
U. S. Geological Survey
Caltech
Soothsayers sway war policy and Vietnam insight
Paul Harvey notes that astrologers numerologists and palmists influence South Vietnam leaders and U S policy. He cites Thieu Huong and cabinet ministers who reportedly base choices on star positions and predictions. The piece warns officials risk overreliance on fringe forecasts as public fear rises.
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Vietnam
Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
Biddeford Saco Journal Publisher Notice From 1950s
Publication info for Biddeford Maine paper outlines daily schedule and editorial/telephone contacts. Subscription rates are listed: one month two dollars sixty cents, six months fifteen fifty, one year thirty one dollars. AP wire rights note preserved.
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Sunda li
Biddeford
Maine
s’Pioce
Athos . P. Ingalls
Mana
Associated Press
AP News
Post Maine
Liberty Lobby Roots Inked By DREW PEARSON AND JACK ANDERSON
Washington column links the Liberty Lobby led by Willis Carto to influence in Congress, noting promotions for Otto Otepka to the Subversive Activities Control Board and Roger Robb to the U S Court of Appeals. It cites Rostow’s hawkish Vietnam stance, Barristers Club discrimination, and Senate confirmation politics involving key lawmakers.
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Washington
Willis Carto
Liberty Lobby
Germany
Adolf Hitler
Munich
Ruhr
Congress
Otto Otepka
Joe McCarthy
Subversive Activities Control Board
Otepka
Roger Robb
U. S. Court of Appeals
Robb
State Department
Lirty Lobby
John Birch Society
Whitman Rostow
Sen. Dodd
Rostow
Kennedy- Johnson
Tepka
Saigon
Kennedy
South Vietnam
Johnson
D. C. Court of Appeals
United States
Atomic Energy Commission
Robert Oppenheimer
Fulton Lewis
Sherman Adams
Bernard Goldfine
Air Force
Harold Talbot
Barristers Club
Allen Kay
Art Buchwald
War Post
The
Post
Hugh R. H. Smith
U. S
Charles Fahy
Court of Appeals
Senate
Carte
D. C
Nixon
James Eastland
Mississippi
Senate Judiciary Committee
Tom Dodd
Robb’s
0Tepka
Phil Hart
Mich
Edward Kennedy
Mass
Birch Bayh
Ind
Burdick
N. D
Joseph Edings
Robert Byrd
W. Va
Sam Ervin
N. C
Hiram Fong
Hawaii
Hugh Scott
Charles Mathias
Marlow Cook
Time Life responds to Don Maclean about bogus subscriptions
In a humorous Washington column Don MacLean recounts Time-Life billing him for phantom magazine subscriptions. Bernard J. Yudain of Time Inc assures him credit remains clean and urges caution with possible impersonators. The piece also riffs on computers and a political quip about spying and Teddy Kennedy.
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Washington
Time - Life
Happy Day
Timg
New York City
Bernard J. Yudain
Time, Inc
Don
Bernie
P.S
Washington News Korea aims to force U S reprisal
North Korean leader Kim Il Sung seeks to provoke U S reactions to justify stronger action. Former associates in Korea describe plans to strike American ships and bases, blackmail Moscow, project influence with Ho Chi Minh, and rally domestic support amid a climate of war weariness.
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Ray Cromley
Washington
North Sea
Kim In Sung
United States
Pueblo
Korea
Kim
Moscow
International Communist Party
North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
South Korea
North Korea
Kim Il Sung
West Berlin
Democrats attack ABM policy in partisan wildfire
Washington report charges the Democratic Senate leadership with dragging the party into a partisan fight against President Nixon's antiballistic missile program. The piece argues for a sober, bipartisan inquiry into ABM, noting opposition rhetoric and personal attacks while stressing the need to balance national security with prudent policy. It names Sen. Fred Harris, Mike Mansfield, Edward Kennedy, and Sen. John Sherman Cooper among critics, and compares current debate to past isolationist battles.
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William 8. White
Washington
Senate
Nixon
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Democratic National Committee
Fred Harris
Mike Mansfield
Edward Kennedy
White House
House
Sens. Harris
William Fulbright
Congress
Regeneration of character urged by James Adams
The historian James Truslow Adams urges individual renewal as the path to national regeneration. He argues moral revival starts within each person, not through committees or organizations, and cites inner improvement as a force for good in tough times. The column ends with a light note on logs versus television.
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James Truslow Adams
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Walt Whitman Rostow
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