Editorial Page: New administration Eyes postal service
The editorial discusses a presidential commission's July report urging the Post Office to operate as a non-profit federal corporation, reducing politics. Winton M. Blount, chosen to head the department in the Nixon era, has reviewed the plan with commission chair Frederick R. Kappel and signals possible efficiency reforms, while questioning the fate of the postmaster generalship and patronage.
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Post Office
Johnson
Winton M. Blount
Nixon
Frederick R. Kappel
At&t
Blount
Impressions Of Inez Pyrrhic Victory on Emancipation Quest
Inez Robe laments the long journey of women to independence while critiquing TV and advertising. She lists female pioneers, notes changes in social norms, and ends with a paradox: after decades of progress she does not smoke, despite the celebratory tone of liberation.
Paris peace talks mocked as a rattling table of talks
A satirical critique notes the endless, shifting negotiations in Paris over Vietnam. It mocks Washington Saigon stalls and Hanoi delays, urging realistic focus on the fighting front and criticizes pundits who overanalyze the peace process.
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Sherman
Paris
Washington
Turkey
Saigon
Hanoi
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Co-ops under review over REA loans to Dow Chemical
Washington column reports the Nixon and Johnson eras faced scrutiny of the Rural Electrification Administration and a $56.5 million loan to a Louisiana electric cooperative to supply power to Dow Chemical. The loan faced court challenges and political maneuvering by Sen. Allen Ellender amid concerns it benefited private industry rather than farmers. It also notes FBI chief J Edgar Hoover’s enduring influence and a pending presidential waiver of his retirement age.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
REA
Sen
Allen Ellender
Dow Chemcal
Dow
USA
Louisiana Electric Cooperative
Art
Dow Chemical
Louisiana
Lafayette
Plaquemine
Sen. Ellender
Hong Kong
Senate Agriculture Committee
Agriculture Department
Orville Freeman
Sup
Louisiana Co-Op
Conessman
Jimmy Morrison
Isiana
U.S
Ben C.dawkins Jr
Norman Clapp
Johnson
Nixon
Ellender
REA Co-Op
J. Edgar Hoover
FBI
Hoover
Ble
Justice Department
Heme
John Huminik
True Magazine
Kennedy
White House
LBJ
Predictions for 1969 from a crystal snifter
Maclean humorously forecasts the year ahead with year end musings on politics and culture. He imagines Nixon becoming president, protests filling Washington, and a year marked by rioting, empty promises, and odd political setups as 1968 winds down.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Richard Nixon
United States
Congress
Doctrinaire Liberals Struggle For Realism In 1969
Washington columnist Bruce Biassat argues that doctrinaire liberals alienated by McCarthy Humphrey and Kennedy have shifted from praise to rejection, clinging to dramatic rhetoric over practical, workable policies. They remain idealistic, overpromising a problem-free world while scorning pragmatic action. 1969 may offer little happiness for them.
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Bruce Biossat
NEA
Washington Correspondent
Washington
McCarthy
Nixon
Federal City College in jeopardy cites faculty radicals
Russell Kirk argues in The To The Point that Federal City College, funded in the District of Columbia, risks being turned into a political nucleus by faculty radicals and black separatists. He praises Provost David Dickson as a capable, humane Black scholar while warning that militant white and Black factions threaten academic principles and student welfare.
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Russell Kirk
District of Columbia
Federal City College
Federal City
David Dickson
Dickson
Michigan State University
Michigan State
Eelare
Dave Dickson
Milton
Ku Klux Klan
Dr. Dickson
Bio
Three Minutes A Day Poor spellers may be future leaders say expert
Dr. Lloyd Thompson told the International Mental Health Congress that famous figures Edison Rodin Wilson and Einstein spelled badly. Wilson learned the alphabet late and Edison faced childhood doubt. Rodin and Einstein faced academic discouragement, suggesting emotional factors influence learning. He urged considering the whole person and spiritual condition in education.
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Lloyd Thompson
International Mental Health Congress
Thomas Edison
Auguste Rodin
Woodrow Wilson
Albert Einstein
Wilson
Edison
Rodin
Einstein
Dr. Thompson
Jesus
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