Editorial page weighs Penn Central’s looming end and rail futures
An editorial argues Penn Central faces near collapse with few viable options besides service cuts or subsidies. It notes other Northeast lines linger in bankruptcy, rejects nationalization, and cites limited improvements while finances remain weak. The piece signals broader industry reverberations from any final resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn Central Railroad
California
Maine
Penn Central
In Central
Pareau
Washington
Umlauts and Jackanapes in Words Through History
The piece explores two slang phrases DIG YOURSELF and CHECK YOURSELF OUT and explains the diacritical umlaut over second vowels as in COOPERATIVE and REENTER. It notes reasons for the umlaut’s decline, and traces JACKANAPES from William de la Pole to a clownish term.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Hearthway
Norristown
Reenter
Jack Napes
William de la Pole
Duke of
Suffolk
Napes
Naples
Jack
Theodore M. Bernstein
The
New York Times Syndicate
Biddeford High School study hall likened to prison
A student at Biddeford High School expresses frustration with study hall rules and guidance office decisions. He details repeated refusals to change out of study hall, claims of being denied access to Band and Guidance, and alleges unfair detention handling, ending with the view that Biddeford High School feels like prison.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal
B.hls
Guidance
B.hs
Raiden
Biddeford High School
Dave Lowel
West Field
Biddeford
B.H.S
Biddeford Lace Journal Staff and Rates Listing
A 1960s style newspaper masthead lists Alta W Foster Wm E Foster B F C Whitehouse and W Paul Casavant publisher Charlie C Sutton editor Gladys M Whitehouse president treasurer with office numbers 233 3625 282 1535 and location 233 Adams Street Biddeford Maine 04005 mentions second class postage 04006 and Associated Press rights with subscription pricing at 3.00 per month 18.00 six months 36.00 per year and national ad reps Mathews Shannon Cubben Inc New York City
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. E. Foster
B. F. C. Whitehouse
W. Paul Casavant
Charlies C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Associated Press
AP News Ee
Mathews-Shannon Cubben Inc
Ord Ave
New York City
Washington Merry-Go-Round Chile jails wrong man for ITT papers leak
The column reports Orlando Letelier’s wife sending word that Letelier is imprisoned in Chile, suspected of leaking ITT documents to dissidents. Officials say he is not in danger, while Washington diplomats urge caution. The piece also accuses Fluor Utah of bidless dealings with Interior on coal studies benefiting parent Fluor Corp, amid GOP contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
ITT
Salvador Allende
Chile
Orlando Letelier
Letelier
Mario Artaza
Artaza
Santiago
Interior Department
GOP
Rogers Morton
Fluor Utah, Inc
Morton
Bonner and Moore Associates
Flour Utah
Noble
Floor Utah
Fluor Utah
Bonner and Moore
Fluor Corporation
Fluor
Nixon-Agnew
Fluor Employees Political Fund
John Robert Fluor
Interior
California
Nixon
Agnew
World food limits seen as population and affluence rise
Boston interview with MIT nutrition expert Nevin Scrimshaw and MILT colleagues warns that world food supply constraints grow with population and affluence. Rising meat demand and grain use strain global resources, with shifts in fish stocks and dependence on soy for animal feed increasing pressure on U S production and exports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevin
Scrimshaw
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.ilt
Department of Nutrition
Fool Science
World Bank
United Nations
Southeast Asia
United States
Canada
Australia
New Zealand
America
Europe
North America
Japan
Humboldt Current
South America
U.S
Nixon
France
Dr. Scrimshaw
Carroll Wilson
Atomic Energy Commission
Boston Globe
Wilson
Peripheral Urban Ethnic and the Lindsay Constituency
The piece outlines Arthur Finkelstein's Peripheral Urban Ethnic concept in the 1970s political landscape. It describes inner city, urban periphery, and outer suburb rings with distinct ethnic mixes and politics, notes the Lindsay constituency as a liberal-radical inner-city coalition, and explains the blue collar Peripheral Urban Ethnic voter shifting away from harm of public housing and toward culturally traditional values.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Finkelstein
New York
James Buckley
Finkelstein
Ideas
Lindsay
Great Neck
Long Island
Darien
Conn
Beverly Hills
Philadelphia
Frank Rizzo
Forest Hills
PUE
Kenneth Keniston
Yale
Simon and Garfunkel
Harvard
Archie Bunker
Amos
Andy
Hew
Paul Harvey Faulty Appliances Trigger Auto Repair Fight
Paul Harvey laments widespread costly appliance repairs as his household floods with missed parts and unhelpful service. He notes $1.2 billion yearly in house calls and describes a Chicago clinic trial helping consumers repair refrigerators ranges and air conditioners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Harvey News
Nader
Raiders
Harvey
Reva
Chicago
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Bernstein
Theodore Bernstein
Liddeford
Lace Journal
Alta W. Foster
Fluor Ple
Jesse Helms
N.C
Jim McClure
Idaho
Charles Percy
Ill
Henry Hibbard
Mont
Pete Dominici
N.M. Agnew
Bumblebee
Spiro Agnew
Vic Gold
Gold
Capitol Hil
Anthony Lewis
New York Times
Boston
Jeffrey Hart
Leonid
Paul Harvey
Henry Ward Beecher
Harold F. Walton
University of Colorado
Robert Louis Stevenson
James Otis
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