We Are What We Have Come From Bicentennial Essay
A student collection from Biddeford Junior High School presents essays on heritage and American identity. Students Fran Dentico Debbie Lessard Guy Leware Sharon Dubois Mary Nava stress pride in origin, freedom, and preserving history for future generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morning Mail
Sheila Jezar
Biddeford Junior High School
Fran Dentico
America
Debbie Lessard
United States
Guy Leware
George Santayana
Sharon Dubois
Mary Nava
Losers are winners in wars with U S
Paired with a regional economic boom the South and Southwest rise as the postwar winners. The piece notes migration from the Northeast to the Sun Belt, rising populations and jobs, higher incomes, and foreign investment in Dixie, contrasted with historic war outcomes and the era’s shifting power dynamics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Harvey
Los Angeles Times
Sam
Rom
Japan
West Germany
South
Greatakes
New England
Commerce Department
New Mexico
Business Week
North
North Carolina
Charlotte
New York
Hartford
Milwaukee
Little Rock
Louisville
Sun Belt
Italy
Montedison
Houston
Georgia
France
Germany
Dixie
Uncle Sam
Energy ties and favors shape U S future contracts
Washington reports two ex Pentagon allies Dr Robert Seamans head of ERDA and John Foster TRW have steered major energy contracts possibly rewarding Foster's firm TRW has won about 24 million in noncompetitive ERDA contracts amid questions of propriety. The piece also surveys Carter running mate speculation with Fran Church Mo Udall Edward Kennedy John Glenn and Jerry Brown in play.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Project Independence
Pentagon
Robert Seamans
Energy Research and Development Administration
ERDA
John Foster
TRW, Inc
Air Force
Foster
TRW
Seamans
Mitre
Ateast
Hawaii
Puerto Rico
Jack Cloherty
Lee Foster
Carter
Jimmy Carter
Washington
Carter Cam
Fran Church
D.idaho
West
Church
Mo Udall
D.-Ariz
Will Rogers
Udall
Edward Kennedy
D.mass
Cae
Chappaquiddick
Carter Camp
Sen
John Glenn
Ohio
California
Jerry Brown
Tole
DeKalb County Views Ford Strength In Midwestern Corn Country
James Reston reports from DeKalb Illinois where farmers focus on crops over politics. Locals view Ford as the familiar Washington insider and expect Ford to gain strength by autumn while Democrats rally behind Carter and Republicans reunite behind the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Reston
New York Times
Dekalb, Ill
DeKalb County
Ill
Chicago
Daley
Carter
Ford
Reagan
North Avenue
Melrose Park
Elmhurst
Ohio
New Jersey
California
New York
Kansas
Toy
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U.S
Lurie
Fox River
Loop
Middle Western Plains
Kissinger
Panama
Rhodesia
Soviet Union
Biddeford
Saco
Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
B.F.C. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Brian C. Thayer
Gladys M. Whitehouse
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