Truman: A human president with flaws and steadfast loyalties
A historical reflection on Harry S Truman portrays him as down to earth and lacking pretension, admired for honesty yet judged for key wartime choices. It notes atomic bomb decisions, Korea policy, and Pardons while praising loyalty and effort for the nation.
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Harry Truman
Truman
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
United States
Dean Acheson
North Korea
South Korea
Douglas MacArthur
America
Vietnam
Pendergast
Missouri
Kansas City
White House
Kissinger Faces Torment Over Stalled North Vietnam Talks
The piece portrays Henry Kissinger describing the difficulty of reaching a peace with North Vietnam, likening negotiations to chasing a mirage and warning that a partial withdrawal would invite a North Vietnamese takeover. It notes U S insistence on enforcers and the political stakes in South Vietnam.
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North Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
Kissinger
South Vietnam
United States
Hanoi
Nixon
Useless But Interesting: Satirical Tax on Toys Emerges
The piece lampoons rising prices with Tarzan jokes and a joke White House conference on problems. It muses about revenue for civic coffers and suggests odd laws like permits for yo yoyos and Frisbee licenses.
Americans Seek Wholeness Amid Swift Change and Disruption
An essay argues Americans resist radical system overhaul while craving stability and new freedoms. It cautions against vilifying institutions, notes cultural shifts from politics to media, and urges inner enrichment through art, literature, and thoughtful individuality to meet modern challenges.
Burgess urges students to expand vocabulary amid campus debates
The piece discusses Anthony Burgess visiting City College of New York and critiquing open admissions, phony education, and the split between science and humanities. It notes his push for richer language, examples from student essays on Macbeth and Faustus, and his warning that egalitarian excess could spawn superschools while society tolerates jargon in technical ads but not in humane study.
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Anthony Burgess
Fantasist
America
City College of New York
Helen of Troy
Nausicaa
Burgess
Macbeth
Mr. Burgess
Mills Holds Line on Tax Reform Amid White House Trade Push
In Little Rock, Wilbur Mills defies a Nixon plan to shift focus to foreign trade. he backs early tax reform and rejects emergency trade legislation. The report also notes CIA chief Richard Helms is ousted as budget cuts loom and James Schlesinger becomes the new head of the intelligence community.
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Washington
Nixon Economics
George Shultz
Little Rock
Ark
Wilbur D. Mills
Taxation
Capitol Hill
House Ways and Means
Nixon
Ways and Means
Mills
Shultz
the Treasury
White House
Treasury
New York
William Simon
William Gifford
Shultz & Co
Baton Rouge
Russell B. Long
Senate Finance Committee
Long
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Richard Helms
Helms
James R. Schlesinger
Atomic Energy Commission
Schlesinger
The
Vernon A. Walters
Walters
Poowtel
Congress
Defense Intelligence Agency
Melvin R. Laird
Broken Treaties and Indian Lands Under Corporate Plunder
Washington reports reveal documents accusing the Bureau of Indian Affairs of enabling oil gas coal and timber barons to despoil tribal lands and sidestep environmental laws. Federal judges on November 24 limited the case, while Interior officials defended corporate polluters and denied environmental law applicability on Indian lands.
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Washington
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Uncle Sam
Justice and Interior Department
Tenth Circuit
Justice and Interior
Interior Department
Interior
Quinault
Washington State
Ernest Stevens
Harrison Loesch
Stevens
Bureau
Loesch
Four-Square
John Dingell
D-Mich
Tesuque Pubelo
Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation
Secretary of the Interior
Council On Environmental Quality
Rogers Morton
Henry Reuss
D-Wise
Guy Vander Jagt
Rmich
White House Council On Environmental Quality
Environmental Protection Agency
General Accounting Office
EPA
William Ruckelshaus
Ghostly confrontation in northern Arizona retreat sparks talk
Outdoor editor Don Dedera encounters a bearded denim clad ghost in a dilapidated northern Arizona ranch house. The specter recites a harsh critique of modern life, claiming the past offered hard work and simplicity while denying urban pressures and welfare.
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Don Dedera
Dedera
Arizona
Mr. Dedera
Ghost
Soaper Says Advice Varies By Source In Ads And Barbs
A pithy column riff on how advice differs by sponsor from heating sales to shoe ads. It notes higher crime in taller buildings and jokes about ancestors in caves. The piece lampoons open universities where football practice is compulsory and announcers mix up teams.
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Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Hugh Ike Shott
Hugh Shott
Richard Wesley
Benjamin Franklin
Harry S Truman
Detroit
Tilly
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Mercer County
Bluefield
Princeton
Bruce Biosscat
Daniel J. Boorstin
William F. Buckley Jr
Rowland Evans and
Robert Novak
Jack Anderson
Paul Harvey
Ghost and
Soaper
Uncle Dad
Open University
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