Maine Debates Decriminalizing Intoxication and Treatment Plan
Editorial argues Maine should join 12 states in decriminalizing drunkenness by creating a Division of Alcoholism and new treatment centers. Sen Gerald Conley introduces a bill to shift intoxication from crime to disease with voluntary centers and police assisted custody without arrest records.
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Bring Your Own Beef: Food Prices and Dinner Guests
Virginia Payette laments rising food costs as she groceries for two guests, noting 1960s style BYOB echoes and comparing personal income gains to inflation. She questions whether farmers, middlemen, or supermarkets are to blame while predicting higher barbecues and beef demand.
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Three Minutes a Day Smile Affects Clerk Service
Two Iowa Wesleyan College students tested whether a smile or scowl changes clerk attention. In a store experiment they alternated smiles and scowls while each spent half the time smiling. Results showed clerks served the smiling customer first 82 percent of the time. The piece praises cheerful attitude and references a religious benediction urging joy from God.
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Iowa Wesleyan College
Mail Uniforms Stir Humor as Dogs Bark at Bermuda Shorts
Readers joke about new Bermuda shorts for postmen as dogs and citizens react. The letter questions postal efficiency while noting steady bill delivery and mocks postal executives as big business allies.
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Mail
Mac's World Dollarwise but broke
Washington columnist Don Maclean mocks wealth and devaluation affecting J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes. He boasts of countering dollar losses, jokes about spending on women and lawyers, and notes gangster Frank Costello’s death while weaving in pop culture quips and stray remarks about cost, computers, and a peace-keeping force.
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Washington
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Nixon uses shock tactics to corner political opponents
Washington columnist Ray Cromley argues President Nixon deploys strategy from foreign policy to domestic battles by forcing rivals into extreme positions. He notes Nixon’s calculated risk taking, pressuring opponents as he offers revised programs with more funding, aiming to erode credibility and shift political ground.
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Sweden’s Boredom Sparks Crime Wave Says Essay
Russell Kirk argues Sweden’s crime rise stems from enforced equality and regulated life. He cites Stockholm’s crime, prison breaks, and social liberalism, blaming boredom and lack of challenge rather than deserters or poverty, and contrasts with American debates on law and order. He notes Sweden’s cradle-to-grave welfare and housing shortages.
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Spiro Agnew
Law and Order
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