Editorial Page In Our Opinion Witch hunts on campuses
The opinion column argues that Students for a Democratic Society are not fascists but resemble Puritan moral zealots. Russell Baker is cited describing a revival of Puritanism on campuses as moral totalitarianism. The piece warns that attacks on universities mirror Salem witch hunts and harm society.
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Russell Baker
Massachusetts Bay Colony
New Left
New Jerusalem
Cromwell
Baker
Goodness
Satan
Dow
Moloch
Salem
Vietnam
Parents not to blame for kids wild phase says Payne
Virginia Payette argues against blaming parents for youths who protest and misbehave. She acknowledges some wrongdoing among teens but praises responsible parents who guide and support, noting many adults raise compassionate, well‑adjusted children despite pressures from war, riots, and politics.
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Virginia Payette
Peace Corps
Georgia Tech
Tors
Vietnam
Biddeford Saco Journal Publisher Address and Rates
Publisher details Adams Street Biddeford Maine contact numbers for departments. Subscription rates payable in advance list one month two dollars sixty, six months fifteen fifty, one year thirty one. Associated Press rights note appears.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Telephone Business
Associated Press
Rivers Secretaries Vacation on Taxpayers’ Tab
L Mendel Rivers uses Air Force jets and access to top generals to host a private vacation for five Rivers aides. The Spain Italy Germany and England trip cost taxpayers 5788.42, with reports on housing for dependents kept secret. Rivers defends the trip as national security while withholding the aides’ names.
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Drew Paes
Jack Anderson
Washington
L. Mendel
Rivers
Hell Hole
Gumville
S.C
Defense Department
House Armed Services
South Carolina
L. Mendel Rivers
Rivers Boulevard
North Charleston
Navy
Men-Riv Park
Pentagon
L. Mendel Rivers Field
Air Force
L. Mendel Rivers Service
Dorothy Britton
Louise Ellis
Edna Johnson
Bernice Kalinowski
Doris Scott
Spain
Italy
Germany
England
Sies
John Blandford
Blandford
Europe
Far East
House Armed Services Committee
Hong Kong
Paris
Congress
House
Mac's World Not Completely Honest
Columnist DON MACLEAN argues surveys on reading habits are unreliable. He recalls TV host DAVID SUSSKIND and notes readers misreport attention to hard news and editorials while often citing sports, advice columns, and comics. He cites cab drivers misperceiving papers.
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Don Maclean
Washington
David Susskind
Susskind
Brooks Bors
New York Herald-Tribune
New York
N.Y
College rifle protesters face duty claims
Microscoop notes suggest college men with rifles would protest if asked by Uncle Sam to bear arms, framing a debate on compulsory service and protest attitudes among students.
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Uncle Sam
Steam engines and smog woes stall highway progress
The Needle Automotive experts lament steam engines as a jam on highways and air quality. They warn smog will be replaced by steam, with the horse as the only clean internal combustion alternative, though Dobbin is slow. The text notes steam power is as old as a tea kettle and parodies the wheel’s impact on human effort.
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Dobbin
North Korea downing redirects U S focus to Czechoslovakia
A U S reconnaissance plane was shot down near North Korea, drawing attention away from Czechoslovakia and reshaping U S naval efforts in Vietnam. The incident coincides with Soviet moves in Czechoslovakia and Hanoi pressure in South Vietnam, reflecting a broader Communist diversion strategy.
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Byue Cromley
NEA
Washington
Czechoslovakia
Hanoi
South Vietnam
China
Yenan
Mao Tse-tung
Lin Piao
Mao
Vietnam
United States
U.S
Nixon
Soviet Union
Sea of Japan
North Korea
May Day contrasts in Europe and America
Russell Kirk notes May Day shifts from ancient floral celebrations to modern protests. He argues American unions reject revolutionary marches, while England kept Maypole traditions and Jack-in-the-Green figures. He calls May Day a religious feast in 1955, praising nonviolent labor dignity and proposing a local family May pole.
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United States
London
Jack-in the
St. Joseph the Workman
Nazareth
Green Thumb brings new beauty to parks across 14 states
A federally funded program hires retired farmers to restore historic sites in 14 states including New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Teams work three days a week for 44 weeks annually planting tulips and restoring 18th century Quaker buildings at sites like Ringwood State Park in New Jersey Burling ton County NJ and other parklands while stressing community uplift and practical crafts.
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New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Green Thumb
Burlington County
N.J
Erosica
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Biddeford - Saco Journal
Charles Vanik
Cleveland
Vanik
Metres
Wilbur Mills
D-Ark
Mac's
Harold Coffin
Washington News
Russell Kirk
France
New England
James Keller
Red Jersey
Ringwood State Ark
Gwendolyn
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