Brake urged on rising private college costs
In Our Opinion the high price of private education threatens affordability as costs rose 80 percent from 1956-57 to now while public costs grew 20 percent. Federal projections suggest only a slight inflation slowdown, but optimism is cautioned as diminishing returns loom and subsidies complicate the true price. Educators and politicians must curb education spending.
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U. S. Office of Education
Achian
Senate
House
Randolph
Bob Jones
Ala
Jim Wright
Tex
Ed Edmondson
Okla
George Fallon
Appalachia
Cramer
West Florida
Florida
Jack Insco
MacDill Air Force Base
Insco
Mid Mountain America
Impressions Of Inez Incredibility Gap Widened
Column laments credibility gap of the current administration citing a Democratic National Committee fundraiser involving lobbyists. The writer parodies Gen. de Gaulle and argues for returning the country to Indians, while railing against lobbyists in Washington and calls for policy reform.
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United States
Manhattan
Washington
Democratic National Committee
Alan S. Boyd
Vox Pop
Washington Hilton
Grand Canyon
National Guard
Democratic Party
General de Gaulle
Red Man
Drunken Fans at Local Football Games Stir Reader Letter
A reader condemns parents who drink at high school games noting risks to youths and danger to others. The letter urges adults to curb intoxication while praising sincere school support and asks parents to leave alcohol at home.
Tragedy on Calif mountain road saves boy by mother’s hold
A two year old survived 82 hours in a 48 degree San Bernardino stream after a car plunged 50 feet off a curve. The child’s drowned mother kept his head above water until rescuers found them. He received hospital care until his temperature normalized.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Gerald
Humphrey Uses Business Ties To Promote Racial Harmony
Vice President Hubert Humphrey, once a foe of big business, now touts cooperation with corporate leaders to foster stable race relations and economic growth. He cites Aerojet plants at Watts, defense contracts, and initiatives by General Dynamics and Fairchild Aviation as keys to employment in Navajo regions.
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Drew Pearson
Washington
Humphrey
South Dakota
Farmer- Labor Party
Johnson
Labor and Commerce
LBJ
Billy Graham
Dan Kimball
Aerojet
Watts
Los Angeles
Dan
Hubert
General Dynamics
Fort Defiance
Ariz
Fairchild Aviation
Shiprock
N.M
Navaho
David Rockefeller
Chase Manhattan Bank
Henry Ford
Jim Roche
General Motors
America
Roche
General Motors Company
Farmer - Labor Party
Appalachia
House of Representatives
House
Senate
Jennings Randolph
West Virginia
Mid - Mountain
House Committee
Ian
Randolph
John Cooper
Come Let Us Reason Togeth Mildly Curious Washington Pamphlet
Mac's World column recounts a brief encounter in Washington with a small pamphlet about Civil War figures and moral reflection. The taxi driver, Russell J. Fiedler, shares varied hobbies from metal detecting to collecting Civil War items and notes his talks with students while highlighting broader political quips on LBJ China and Vietnam.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Maclean
Washington
Capitol Hill
Sherman
Atlanta
Confederacy
Resaca
Russell J. Fiedler
White House
Gen. Johnston
Wilderness
New England
Racial unrest study questions federal riot prevention
A Washington study questions major government race riot programs arguing they may increase unrest by raising expectations among educated, mobile Negroes. Watts area findings show more contact with whites and higher education correlate with greater support for riots, suggesting programs must first identify real Negro concerns to avert future eruptions.
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Ray Cromley
NEA
Washington
Johnson
Detroit
Watts
Cambridge
University
To The Point Children of soldiers are Second class citizens
Russell Kirk argues that children born abroad to American service members are treated as foreigners by the State Department and should be considered natural born citizens. He cites Wong Kim Ark and urges either court challenges or a congressional declaratory act to end the discrimination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Russell Kirk
America
Supreme Court
State Department
Act of Congress
United States
Wong Kim Ark
George Romney
Romney
Mexico
Soveregn
Congress
Kipling
Outer space debates spark UN peace declaration scramble
The text satirically notes the UN struggles to define outer space for a peace declaration. It jokes that space keeps shifting from outer to inner as scientists probe it. It mocks UN debates as out of this world and defines space as any place that omits delegates.
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United Nations
Outer Space
Inner Space
U.N
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Martin Farquhar Tupper
Inez
By Inez Robb
Phoenix
Charles de Gaulle
Canada
Poland
de Gaulle
People’s Forum
Journal
James Keller
Hhh
Dean Rusk
Herb Caen
The
San Francisco Chronicle
Vietnam
General Assembly
Corneliu Manescu
Gromyko
Soviet Union
Manescu
Mac's
Fiedler
Ho Chi Minh
Harry Ashmore
Elizabeth Taylor
Melina Mercourl
Washington News
Harold Coffin
Biddeford -Saco Journal
Adams Street
Biddeford
Maine
W. Paul Casavant
E. P. Ingalls
Telephone Business
Associated Press
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