Unfinished business costs in F-111 critique
Editorial warns the F-111 fighter plane, once the TFX, is not as functional or cheap as hoped. The Navy abandoned carrier use and the Air Force may drop the bomber phase amid crashes and flight restrictions. Cost estimates reach $13 million per unit, triple the original figure, fueling bipartisan opposition to McNamara era cost effects.
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Defense Department
Nixon
Air Force
Navy
Stuart Symington
McNamara
Hubert Humphrey
White House
Evening grosbeak unusual for erratic wanderings
Wayne Hanley notes the evening grosbeak has overrun New England this season with large, colorful flocks visiting feeders. The piece explains the bird’s twilight name origin, historic sightings since 1823 near Lake Superior, and ongoing random winter wanderings prompting Maine Audubon to collect observer reports.
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Wayne Hanley
New England
Canaries
Amon
Fortune
Ares
Lake Superior
Major Delafield
U. S. Boundary Survey Commission
Major
Maine Audubon Society
Elm Street
Portland
Maine
Three Minutes A Day By Rev James Keller
A college audience shows desire to change society without violence. Gallup Poll on 64 campuses finds not more than one in five join campus demonstrations while about 32 percent express strong political interest. The piece urges God centered discontent to aid the poor and calls for measured civic effort.
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Gallup
Bowe
Wallace Brewer urged wide liquor graft probe in Alabama
Washington column notes Alabama ex Gov Wallace and Gov Brewer call for full inquiry into alleged kickbacks from major liquor distributors to Wallace political agents. Key figures include Millsap, Bolling, Huey, and Millsap’s tax returns request. Addendum mentions political odds for Muskie and Senate leadership dynamics.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
Alabama
George Wallace
Brewer
Wallace
Allace
ABC Board
Bolling
Huey
Birmingham
Robert M. Millsap
Ezra Brooks
Mar-Salle Liquor
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
Millsap
James Bolling
C.D. Huey
Bol and Huey
Office Outfitters Co
Mar-Salle
First National Bank of Birmingham
R.M. Millsap
O.D. Huey
Internal Revenue Service
Huntsville
Ala
If LBJ Had a Do-Over A Hypothetical Reflection
Washington talk weighs LBJ choices on Vietnam and cabinet picks. The piece ponders deescalation versus expansion, Fortas and Clark as attorney general, McNamara resignation timing, and press relations, with Humphrey dismissing Nixon White House plans and the inauguration mood humorously noted.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Jeane Dixon
Mayenne
Vietnam
LBJ
Kenney
Kennedy
JFK
Eisenhower
Ike
Johnson
Abe Fortas
Fortas
Texas Broadcasting Co
Ramsey Clark
Robert McNamara
Bombing halt lifts Viet Cong morale in South Vietnam
Washington reports intercepted messages show VC and North Vietnamese forces gaining renewed confidence after the November 1 bombing halt. There is jubilation at Hanoi’s concessions, fear of betrayal diminishing, and plans for greater VC direct action and recruitment.
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Ray Cromley
Nea Washin
Washington
South Vietnam
U.S
Hanoi
United States
North Vietnam
Paris
Johnson
Voters face choice for Old Orchard council seat
In Old Orchard Beach Maine voters weigh Emerson Cummings against Leo F Laro chelle for District 5. A Maine Supreme Court ruling cited by critics says a teacher cannot hold council office. if Cummings wins and resigns, the seat would be filled, a move opponents call fraudulent.
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Ameg
Las Vegas
Emerson Cummings
Leo F. Larochelle
Maine
Supreme Court
Cummings
Leo F.chelle
The Road To Heaven Paved By Accident Pranks
A satirical piece notes that postwar progress brings cars and chickens into many homes yet roads remain unsafe. Jokingly it links dented bumpers and bashed fenders to aggressive driving and jokes about women drivers. The quip ends with accident statistics as fate.
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Heaven
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