Editorial: Postal reform not certain of success
Editorial argues for converting the Post Office Department into a non profit government-owned corporation to curb a 1.2 billion dollar annual deficit. A nine member board would hire a general manager and set rates, with wages negotiable but rates subject to congressional veto. Political patronage hinders reform, but businesslike management is overdue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Congress
Post Office Department
Kappel Commission
Rat brains and crowded cities urge population plan changes
Virginia Payette argues crowded conditions drive aggression in rats and humans. Studies from Johns Hopkins and Illinois Tech link overcrowding to illness and crime, urging new cities and planned growth to ease tensions and reduce violence.
Publisher and address notice from Biddeford Saco Journal
The Biddeford Saco Journal lists its publication details and mailing information for Adams Street Biddeford Maine with the publisher W Paul Casavant and E P Ingalls. The note confirms second class postage paid at Biddeford Maine and related postal details.
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Adams Street
Burger and Nixon tied by old witch-hunt ties in Burger confirmation
Washington column links Warren Burger to Nixon era witch-hunts from his Justice Department days. It cites his role in the Peters case against Yale physician Dr. John Peters, the influence of McCarthy era tactics, and a controversial pretrial press conference tied to Nixon allies.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
Warren E. Burger
Nixon
House Un-American Activities Committee
Sen
Joe McCarthy
Warren Burger
Justice Department
Senate
Burger
Judiciary Committee
Dirksen
Dodd
Hruska
Strom Thurmond
John P. Peters
Yale
Supreme Court
Simon Sobeloff
Sobeloff
McCarthyism
Abe Fortas
Thurman Arnold
Paul Porter
Dr. Peters
U.S. Public Health Service
Warren
Peters
Truman
Eisenhower
Truman Board
Eisenhower Loyalty Board
Brownell
Glen Lipscomb
California
Norris Poulson
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times
George L. Arnold
Thurmond Arnold
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Treasury
Harry Dexter White
Brownell- Hoover
Lipscomb
Arnold
Arnold, Fortas and Porter Law Firm
Arnold-Fortas
Dorothy Bailey
Owen Lattimore
Johns Hopkins
Joseph Alsop
Santa Claus and St Valentine Vanish From Church
A humor column laments church bans eroding holiday fixtures in 1969. Santa Claus and St Valentine are deemed optional by the Vatican, provoking a debate on Christmas gift markets and cultural loss, while editors ponder future pieces and pop culture nostalgia.
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Don ‘Maclean
Washington
Santa Claus
Vatican
St. Nicholas
Santahim
Harold
Claus
St. Patrick
Amercan
OY Watal
Washington News Disciplined Japan now World's No.3 producer
Bruce Biossat reports on Japan's economic ascent as it surpasses Britain and France, grows industrial output, and becomes a top global producer and exporter. Japan's disciplined society funds a high investment rate, near universal schooling, and rising consumer goods ownership, positioning it as a key world economy.
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Japan
Bruce Biossat
NEA
Washington
Tokyo
Soviet Union
Great Britain
France
Asia
United States
America
Urban renewal’s mischief and a county seat rebuke
Russell Kirk argues federal urban renewal harms towns by replacing historic blocks with impersonal chains. He cites a Michigan county seat where a new hamburger joint and a 28 foot neon sign wreck the street's character, predicting more storefronts will follow. He urges local activism and even electoral retaliation to resist what he calls urban devastation.
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Russell Kirk
Nixon
New York
Chicago
Michigan
National Guard Company
Owen Syanney Mountains
New Guinea
Moon Compared To Earth In Space Debate
The excerpt notes reassurance that Earth has more of everything than the moon, including gravity and smog. It contrasts how the space vehicle would be seen by those on the moon, treated as a flying saucer by observers, and hints at two sides to outer space.
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Dr. Kinzel
Cornell
Manhattan Isand
Edward T. Hall
Illinoisstitute of Technology
Nevada
Wyoming
Alaska
Augustus F. Kinzel
Columbia University
Medical School
U.S. Medical Center
Springeld
Peter
Dr. Richter
Law Sey
Department of
University of Pennsylvania
McHarg
National Committee On Urban Growth
Paris
Rome
Moon
Earth
Outer Space
Moon Visitors and Lunatic Labels Shine in Wry Observations
A compilation of witty observations on moon comparisons, lunatic labels for earthbound pioneers, office lunch habits, dieting temptations, concert watchers, payroll timepieces, and vintage panty ads, all framed as light humor about modern life.
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Virginia Payette
Jamin
Kurt Richter
John Hopkins Universi
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Biddeford - Saco Journal
Mac's
St. Valentine
George
Citizens’ Crime
Smothers Brothers
Washington News
U.S
Ly Harold Coffin
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