Economic forecast hinges on war, inflation, and city events
The editorial notes the Commerce Department expects 1969 to show substantial progress but continued price inflation. It cites factors shaping the year such as the Vietnam war, international developments, and urban conditions. NICB projects 3.5 percent GNP growth, unemployment around 4 percent, slower inflation, and predicts the 10 percent surtax will not expire on June 30.
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National Industrial Conference Board
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Implications of Organ Receipts as a Natural Resource
A reflective piece argues for treating organs as national resources and raises concerns over a future spare-parts market. It notes Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz and Justice J Irwin Shapiro steering safeguards to prevent premature death for transplant needs and to protect public ethics.
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New York
Adrian ‘Antrowitz
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Joe
New York State Supreme Court
J. Irwin Shapiro
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Three Minutes A Day on Philanthropy and Everyday Wit
An editorial fragment reflects on philanthropy’s meaning from Greek roots to Scripture, stressing love of neighbor and elevated social aims. It mixes quoted philosophy with light jokes about coffee gossip, budgets, girdles, and office workers, ending with an observation about a telephone operator.
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Robert Southey
Jesus
Hickel similar to The Senator in Nixon era Cabinet pick
Washington column by Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson questions Alaska Governor Walter Hickel as a future Interior Secretary. It notes his business background and belief that development outweighs conservation, while detailing Alaska's delayed water pollution standards and ongoing environmental concerns under his governorship.
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DREW_PEARSON
Jack Anderson
Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Walter T. Hickel
Alaska
Benjamin Bow Hannaford
Secretary of the Interior
Wally Hickel
Ernest Gruening
Siberia
Africa
South America
United States
Interior Department
Reclamation Bureau
Johnson
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Congress
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Stewart Udall
Hickel
Sen. Muskie
Cook Inlet
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Udall
Alaskan
Richard McCarthy
Buffalo
Lake Erie
Jacob Javits
Charles Goodell
Greenland halibut misnaming sparks FDA policy shift
A Washington column recounts the FDA ruling that Greenland halibut must stop being called halibut and the legal and public response. It notes Oregon’s halibut naming law upholding deception limits, the difficulty for Reinhardtius hippoglossoides, and other micro news items including Agnew, Hughes, Borman, and Humphrey politics in brief.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Consumer Protection and Environmental Health Service
Public Health Service
Food and Drug Administration
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
United States
FDA
Reinhardtius
Oregon
Greenland
Maryland
Spiro Agnew
Washington confronts the bigness of modern society and civic purpose
Washington columnist Bruce Biassot argues that Americans across the spectrum feel overwhelmed by big government, business, and labor. He asserts the need to craft more economical, humane solutions to urban turmoil within a still-bigness society. He questions who will lead and inspire amid faltering family, school, and church institutions.
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NEA
Washington
U.S
America
Eucee
To The Point: Love in Heaven and Hell in Life and Beyond
Russell Kirk reflects on heaven and hell through Christian doctrine and Father Martin D Arcy. He argues heaven preserves good earthly acts as living realities while hell preserves evil, urging kindness toward spouses and others to build a personal heaven. The piece concludes with a call to nourish love this Twelfth Night for lasting presence beyond time.
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Europe
Cologne
Annette
Father Martin D'Arcy
Father D’arcy
Father D'Arcy
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Eter
Hell
Shell
You
Earth
Martin D'Arecy
Love
Faustus
Moon trip critique by three astronauts
After ten days in space the trio of commentator astronauts say the moon lacks many modern Earth comforts including smog. They circled the moon ten times before returning home, noting the absence of Koreans and suggesting television programs will endure.
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Moon
Borman, Lovell
Anders
al Mare
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