Editorial on Maine Highway Commission project on Buxton Road
In Our Opinion readers hear a defense of the highway program while noting a two mile rebuilt stretch on Buxton Road Route 12 in Saco. The piece contrasts an already adequate section with a hazardous S curve north of it and questions engineering choices and priorities.
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Maine Highway Commission
Commission
Buxton Road
Route 12
Saco
Sandy Brook
Perink
Aleksei Kosygin
Chou En-lai
Peking
Kosygin
Chou
Hanoi
China
Bill Rogers
Paul Harvey argues football less violent than ancient sports
Paul Harvey notes a history of brutal entertainments from ancient bullfights and chariot races to 18th and 19th century duels and cockfighting while asserting modern football with gear and rules shows fewer casualties, marking a step upward in civilization.
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Paul Harvey
Bob Oates
Los Angeles Times
San Diego
Isle of
Spain
Portugal
Latin America
Banderilleros
Greece
Rome
Circus Maximus
Osseum
France
Charles Dickson
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Aaron Burr
Alexander Hamilton
Sesey
Central America
South America
China
Massena Utopia Praise Dampened by Beer Can Litter
In Massena New York citizens praise near utopian living while lamenting a discarded aluminum beer can in a shrubbery near the Schine Hotel during a survey of local aluminum plants. The letter criticizes pollution in Saco and Biddeford and notes Maine officials say aluminum plants fall under existing discharge controls with a 1973 to 1976 river treatment timeline.
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Schine Hotel
Massena New York
Saco
Biddeford
Massena
New York
Utopia
Rachel Carson
Trenton
Maine
Rockland
Water Improvement Commission
Roberts
State of
Attorney General’s Office
Weelord Sece Journal Biddeford Maine Daily Edition
Biddeford Maine newspaper text lists address 11 Adams Street and Daily Except Sunday edition. It notes Casavant publisher P Ingalls managing editor and phone numbers for business editorial. Subscription rates cover one month two fifty and six months fifteen fifty with advance payment. Associated Press rights stated for local and AP dispatch republication. Entry shows second class postage paid at Biddeford Post Office.
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Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
Casavant
Nixon seeks new FTC head to appease business
President Nixon eyes a reluctant regulator to head the Federal Trade Commission. He aims for a chair who placates business yet protects consumers while pursuing reform. Potential picks include David Murchison or Kay Valery, with Mary Gardiner Jones as a current reform-minded nominee.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Nixon
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Litton Idustries
Roy Ash
White House
David Murchison
Ronald Reagan
Kay Valery
Mary Gardiner Jones
Miss Jones
Demands for Students From Maclean Essay
Satirical column by Don MacLean mockingly catalogs student demands and campus behavior. He riffs on dorm visits, doors ajar rules, and imagined requests from a permissive era, warning about fashionable grievances and media-fueled culture.
Sympathy and radical goals in student protest debate
Washington observers note that up to forty percent of college students may sympathize with revolutionary aims cited by Viet Cong and other radicals. The piece weighs how endorsed goals mask method and questions how sympathy could translate into political action beyond campus life.
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Washington
Burank
Bruce Biossat
Douglas Pike
National Liberation Front
Viet Cong
Vietnam
NLF
Pike
U.S
Polltaker
Daniel Yankelovich
Dirksen remembered as last great Senate figure and partisan
William S. White eulogizes Everett McKinley Dirksen, noting the loss to the Senate as an institution and to the nation. He recalls Dirksen as a tough, loyal partisan who opposed cant, endured ailments, and spoke with wry humor, shaping how Nixon and other leaders might navigate a changing political era.
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William S. White
Washington
Everett McKinley Dirksen
Senate
Republican Party
Capitol Hill
Republic
Kennedy
Johnson
Richard Nixon
Everett Dirksen
Eisenhower
Robert Taft
Capitol
Westminster Abbey
Taft
Charles Sumner
Massachusetts
John Logan
Illinois
Dirksen
Brooks Brothers
Vietnam
New York Times
Old Everett McKinley
Motivated Citizens Sought for School Boards
Lafayette California leader Mr Boardman Moore urges three minutes a day from informed voters to improve school systems. He emphasizes amateur boards are gone and calls on dedicated adults to run, improve education, and serve youth as a community task.
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Boardman Moore
Lafayette
California
Thessalonians
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