Editorial Page In Our Opinion Harnessing Pollution
The piece argues pollution can yield economic value with imagination. Dr. Richard A. Kassander Jr of the University of Arizona cites examples from carbon dioxide used in greenhouses to burnable garbage as fuel. It notes construction blocks from trash and TVA fly ash replacing cement and sand, urging practical reuse over disposal.
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Richard A. Kassander Jr
University of Arizona
Mexico
Dr. Kassander
Tennessee Valley Authority
Wilson Dam Lock
Rockefeller Latin America tour draws hostile reception
Paul Harvey argues Nixon should drop Rockefeller from the Latin America tour after hostile receptions in Peru Venezuela and Bolivia. He notes Caldera mobilized troops and protests persisted amid violence and says the state department better gauges Latin sentiment than Rockefeller’s mission. Rockefeller defends the trip as a fact finding effort despite calls for halting the tour.
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Paul Harvey
Nixon
Nelson Rockefeller
Latin America
Rockefeller
Peru
Venezuela
Bolivia
Rockefell
Veezuela Ou
Caracas
Caldera
New York
Brazil
U.S
United States
Kennedy
Alliance For Progress
State Department
Rockefeller Latin America trip raises gringo money themes
The report quips that Nelson Rockefeller faced visa refusals in Peru amid envy of U S dollar diplomacy. It suggests the trip kept him from politics in New York while Latin hosts favored economic interests over Good Neighbor policy.
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United States
New York State
Rocky
America
Three Minutes a Day Beethoven Based on Waugh Note
Coulton Waugh notes Beethoven often formed ideas while walking in nature then worked them into piano pieces at home. He contrasts Mozart who wrote with ease, sometimes while socializing. The piece reflects on how composers express varied human emotions and the inclusive call to share harmony.
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Beethoven
Coulton Waugh
Mozart
Aot
Dirksen pushes rapid Burger judge confirmation amid criticism
Washington column notes Sen Dirksen seeks quick confirmation of Chief Justice Burger and a Chicago Court of Appeals pick Charles Bain, citing Bain's alleged religious bias and ties to Commonwealth Edison. Allen Ellender, a long-serving senator, discusses Soviet relations and farm policy travels, urging U S understanding with Russia for peace.
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Drew Pearson
Jack Anderson
Washington
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Illinois
Capitol Hill
Warren Burger
Burger
Santa Barbara
Warren
California
Sen. Dirksen
Charles A. Bain
Chicago
Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals
Bain
Isham, Lincoln and Beall
Commonwealth Edison
Sam Insull
Judiciary Committee
Dirksen
Judge Braude
Southern California
Sen
Allen Ellender
Louisiana
U.S. Senate
Sclon
Richard Russell
Georgia
Soviet Russia
Moscow
Ellender
Chip Bohlen
Mikoyan
United States
Khrushchev
Senate Agriculture Committee
Russia
Siberia
Navy plans to scrap Polaris subs to fund Poseidon upgrade
In Washington, columnist Don MacLean questions a Navy plan to convert 31 of 41 nuclear submarines to carry Poseidon missiles. He notes the cost of converting 10 older subs nearly equals their original $106 million each, risking over a billion dollars in sunk assets. He cites Rep. Stratton and Admiral Rickover on Soviet progress and warns against deep-sixing subs. The column jokes about Vietnam skills and a misfired peace talks beat.
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Don Maclean
Washington
Navy
Samuel S. Stratton
N.Y
Seciet
Rickover
Mrs. Ira Russell honored as Sweetser School principal
In a letter to the Journal Forum a reader lauds Mrs. Ira Russell for her decades of service at Sweetser School in Saco and Moo dy School, crediting her warmth and dedication with inspiring many in the community. The second letter challenges city tax policy, arguing taxes will rise regardless of a teachers' raise, criticizes city hall missteps, and calls for accountability and payroll reforms.
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Ira Russell
Sweetser School
Saco
Mrs. Russell
Russell
Journal
City Hall
Farming Science Forges Hope For Global Food Rise
Washington report notes farming is a science industry with rich nations leading in knowledge and yield. It cites Japan as a model, the United States and Mexico improving yields through hybrids and fertilizer, and calls for wide adoption, farmer training, credit, and incentive reforms to expand world food output.
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Bruce Biossat
NEA
Washington Correspondent
Washington
United States
Japan
China
Taiwan
Mexico
India
California
U.S
Latin America
Nixon shifts from appeasement to assertive leadership
The Nixon White House abandons soft conciliatory talk with a divided Senate after four months of limited leverage. He now asserts presidential rights and leadership, arguing accommodation with isolationist Democrats is impossible without broader party unity and a stronger White House stance. The House Republican alliance and Speaker Cormack, Albert, and Boggs offer potential support.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Congress
House of Congress
White House
White’ House
William Rogers
Mike Mansfields
William Fulbrights
Edward Kennedys
Vietnam
House of Representatives
Johne Cormack
Carl Albert
Hale Boggs
Gerald Ford
Forest fires nurture Kirtland's Warbler habitat in Michigan
The Maine Audubon Society notes the Kirtland's Warbler Manage ment Area in Michigan is the only forest area preserved for this songbird. Every five years controlled fires are set in jack pines to foster ground cover where the bird nests. In Mendocino County California a pygmy forest of 300-year-old cypresses and pines one to three feet tall grows from acid soil and other factors.
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Kirtland’s
Michigan
Maine Audubon Society
Mendocino Country
California
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Nelson
Gov. Rockefeller
James Keller
Jacob Braude
Lake Shore Drive
Phil Klutznick
B'nai B'rith
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Morris Fishbein
American Medical Association
Senator Ellender
Bell and Howell
Chuck Percy
Soviet Union
Mac's
Et Union
Sia
Paris
People’s Forum
R. Jeannine Belisle
Weaver High School
Hartford
Conn
Washington News
Asia
Africa
Biddeford -Saco Journal
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Nesnenng
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