Market attack on proposed balanced growth act debate
An opinion argues that when bureaucrats mishandle policy they push blame and repeat flawed approaches. Humphrey Javits seek to reform the free market with the Balanced Growth and Economic Planning Act of 1975, predicting fierce protests and a pivotal economic debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Senate
Sens
Hubert Humphrey
Jacob Javits
Joint Economic Committee
Leonard Woodcock
United Auto Workers
United States
Losing as revenge in Las Vegas gambling boom
In Las Vegas, gambling profits outpace last year with Nevada casinos earning over a billion dollars. Visitors gamble about $5 billion, Caesars Palace and MGM Grand post hefty revenues, and occupancy on the Strip exceeds 90 percent. The city’s culture centers on money making, tolerance, and the idea that losing is the house’s fault.
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George F. Will
Las Vegas
Nevada
Caesar's Palace
Mgm Grand
Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel
Siegel
Howard Hughes
Teamsters Union Pension Fund
Oxford
England
Pressed Steel, Ltd
Ben Franklin
Julie’ Weintraub
Brooklyn
Socrates
Baltic Avenue
Desert
Hunter S. Thompson
Charlie Manson
Sahara
Lady Luck
The
House
Steubenville
Washington Post Co
Letters to The Journal on Billy Graham and shy youth
Readers praise Billy Graham for his human side and propose a youth memoir. A letter from Anne DesRoberts in Biddeford commends candid insight and suggests shy kids could become great leaders with similar inspiration. The Journal notes its policy requiring signed letters with full address and under 300 words.
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the Journal
Billy Graham
Obituary or memorial notes for Foster and Whitehouse figures
A compact notice listing Alta W. Foster and Whitehouse family figures with birth and death years. It references W Paul Casavant as publisher, Charles C. Sutton as managing editor, Gladys M. Whitehouse as president and treasurer, indicating a small historical newspaper or family business biography context.
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W. Paul Casavant
Charles C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
CIA tied to Trujillo death plot, claims surface
Washington sources recount tortured confessions alleging CIA support for the 1961 Trujillo assassination in the Dominican Republic. The revelations name Ramfis and U.S. diplomats, though some figures deny CIA involvement, while a pediatrician linked to the plot is said to have helped hide conspirators before dying.
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Les Whitten
Washington
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Ramfis
Santo Domingo
Trujillo
Lear
U.S
Callen
Reed
Matt
Jeff
Essages
Reid
Lear Reed
Antonio
Tony
Imbert
History as a cookbook shadows Wallace in lesson claims
Russell Baker argues Americans treat history as a cookbook to guide policy, citing Wallace and Ford as examples. He says many have misread World War II lessons, fueling Vietnam era debates, while warning that history offers no reliable recipe for policy. The piece questions whether Ford or Wallace truly grasp history’s lessons.
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Russell Baker
New York
George Wallace
Wallace
White House
Vietnam
Hitler
Kennedy
Rusk
Johnson
Nixon
Kissinger
Paris
Nuremberg
Ford
New York Times
Summer Off With Full Pay by Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey argues that many unemployed collect welfare and taxes through subsidies, urging taxpayers to revolt and take a summer off. He cites Greenville unemployment at 12.3 percent and compares weekly earnings, urging unions to protest welfare reliance and advocating taxpayer voting on tax issues.
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Paul Harvey
Greenville
S.C
Jim White
Jim
Wallace
New York
Illinois
Paul
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Anne DesRoberts
Bald Ave
Biddeford
Biddeford-Saco Journal
Wm. E. Foster
Alta W. Foster
B.F.C. Whitehouse
John Moss
D.calif
Detroit
Chrysler
General Motors
Nooo Watergate
Henry Ruth
House Commerce Investigations
Moss
Ruth
Henry Ford II
Moss Subcommittee
Henry Ford
John Ehrlichman
Transportation
John Volpe
Volpe
Transportation Department
MR. Politi
Cambodia
Los Angeles Times Syndicate
Germany
Czechoslovakia
NATO
Truman
London
Vichy
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