Editorial: Food charity hurt by U S market instability
Our opinion warns that Food for Peace programs aiding the poor in 100 countries suffer as the Agriculture Department stops buying wheat, oil and other staples. CARE and Catholic Relief Services face curtailments, while field workers fear hunger may persist until markets stabilize and surplus returns.
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Food For Peace
Agriculture Department
CARE
Catholic Relief Services
Washington
Virginia's Viewpoint on White House Repairs Costs
Virginia Payette argues that White House upkeep, now running around 110 million annually, reflects the presidency’s long history of renovations since 1817. She traces Truman’s 1940s remodeling and subsequent first families’ tweaks, noting lavish projects like Jackie Kennedy’s rooms and the Nixons’ Green Blue Red Room updates financed by taxpayers and donors.
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Virginia Payette
Nixon
White House
Truman
Trumans
Blair House
Jackie Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Nixons
Congress
Secret Service
Bernstein On Words Word Oddities
The article notes the shift from households borrowing ideas from government to governments borrowing ideas from households. It explains economy and economics come from the Greek oikonomos meaning manager of a household, formed from oikos house and nomos managing.
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Otkonomos
Theodore M. Bernstein
New York Times Syndicate
Biddeford Journal Masthead and staff notes
The Biddeford Journal lists Alta W Foster B F C Whitehouse W Paul Casavant publisher Charlie C Sutton editor Gladys M Whitehouse president and treasurer with office lines and editorial department contacts. It notes publication details Biddeford Maine second class postage and AP news service with subscription rates and national advertising representatives.
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W. Paul Casavant
Charlies C. Sutton
Gladys M. Whitehouse
Lms Street
Biddeford
Maine
Associated Press
Maine 1974 Governor Race Heats Up Across the State
In Kennebunk Beach senators and hopefuls test waters as Maine gears toward the 1974 primaries. Sen Harrison Richardson signals a probable GOP bid while enviro credentials and intra party feuds color the race. The press and voters loom large as candidates court support.
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Maine
the Journal
Harrison Richardson
Cumberland
Sen
Richardson
GOP
James Erwin
Erwin
FDR
Kyros
Cohen
Mitchell
O’brien
LaFountain
Katz
Tanous
FTC backs down on diploma mill warning booklet
The FTC created a strong consumer warning on diploma mills but quietly discarded much of it after pressure from vocational schools. The revised 24 page brochure omits key criticisms of private for profit schools and drops warnings about diploma mill indicators.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Lewis Engman
Nixon
Engman
North Carolina
IBM
Paul Rand Dixon
Joan Z. Bernstein
Bureau of Consumer Protection
Nixon defense of secrecy rings hollow in Watergate case
The Nation argues Nixon's claims of national security and executive privilege cannot exonerate the White House from allegedly illegal acts. The piece notes the Elisberg case and the presidential tapes show a pattern of violated constitutional rights and compromised confidentiality, undermining trust in presidential secrecy.
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Nixon
White House
Daniel Elisberg
Elisberg
Nixon White House
Pentagon
Ellsberg
John Ehrlichman
John Dean
Egil Krogh
Elsberg
Burgh
Heath
Brezhnev
Oval Office
Camp David
Johnson
Hubert ‘Mophrey
Afraii
Sirica
Republic
Reflections on Death and Time from Classic Voices
A Washington-like meditation contrasts youth and old age in mortality, praising aged death’s majesty and linking it to enduring memory. The passage echoes Robert Morris Washburn on life’s final stillness and Emerson on transformative power awakening art and mind.
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Robert Morris Washburn
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Maryline White
Senator Muskie
Kennebunk Beach
Mikie
Diploma Mills
By Jack Anderson
John J. Wilson
Senate Committee
Daniel Inouye
Wilson
An- Defamation League
Joseph Kamp
Kamp
Tor
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Tom Wicker
New York Times
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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