Editorial urges health reforms and medical leadership
The piece argues doctors and hospital administrators must accept reforms as rising care costs outpace patient ability to pay. It notes Charleston hospital rates are $300 weekly for semiprivate rooms, insurance gaps persist, and many lack coverage. Doctors remain the highly paid, fueling public cynicism toward the profession.
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United States
Charleston
Greenbrier
Hill- Burton
America
National Guard
Don’t Elders Want To Curb Protest
The piece notes youth protest prompts limited vote-age changes, with only Hawaii and Nebraska placing 18 to 20 year-olds on ballots and both rejecting the idea. Georgia and Kentucky remain as 18 vote rights states, Alaska set 19 at statehood, and 46 states keep 21 as the norm amid rising medical cost discussions and calls for socialized medicine and hospital subsidies.
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America
Presidential Commission
Hawaii
Nebraska
Georgia
Kentucky
Alaska
Bit of Thrift Just Astounding
The Budget Bureau says it saved taxpayers 60 million in three months by not hiring 23 563 people. The note adds the writer saved 4 000 by passing Paris originals and 2 800 by skipping a mink coat, with personal savings from not buying cigars and avoiding yacht sales pitches.
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Federal Budget Bureau
Paris
Movement, Not Dubcek, to Survive in Prague
The Prague liberalization movement is likely to endure, but Alexander Dubcek’s leadership appears increasingly precarious. Moscow leans toward ousting him without direct action. The revolt began in the press and culture, fueling a mass demand for freer speech that challenges Soviet control and tests the limits of communism.
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Prague
Alexander Dubcek
Burn
Dubcek
Czech Communist Party
Russia
Moscow
Yugoslavia
Romania
Tito
Czechoslovakia
Writers’ Union
Cierna
Beware the Viet Nam trap in Nixon's path to peace
The article argues Nixon faces a Viet Nam trap as Saigon reports optimism and a possible troop pullback. It outlines a “road down” reducing forces while preserving South Vietnamese resilience, and urges Nixon to appoint a skeptical cabinet, keep Paris talks active, and avoid letting Lodge control negotiations to secure a real open option for exit.
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Saigon
White House
McGeorge Bundy
Vietnam
South Vietnam
Nixon
Clark Clifford
Defense Department
Clifford Aide
Paul Warnke
Paris
Henry Cabot Lodge
Averel Harriman
Cyrus Vance
United States
Boiarsky Triumph reshapes West Virginia politics
The victory of Ivor F. Bolarsky as speaker of the House marks a shift toward new Democratic leadership in West Virginia. Bolarsky, aided by Rockefeller, Sprouse, and DiTrapano, defeats old politics to build a party anchored in integrity and openness, signaling a break from the old Statehouse machine.
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House of Delegates
Senate
Ivor F. Bolarsky
Charleston
H. Laban White
Clarksburg
Bolarsky
House Finance Committee
Kanawha County
Democratic Party
West Virginia
John D. Rockefeller IV
James M. Sprouse
Rudolph DiTrapano
Boiarsky
Rockefeller
Sprouse
DiTrapano
del. J. E
Ned” Watson
Fairmont
Lewis McManus
Beckley
W. Marion Shifler
Monroe County
Charles E. “Tate” Lohr
Princeton
Robert R. Nelson
Huntington
Thomas C. Edgar
Pocahontas County
Billy Burke
Glenville
Tdonald L. Kopp
Golden Yesterdays Lost in Time and Tyrants
Washington notes a familiar urge to idealize the past and argues every era hides flaws. Baker critiques nostalgia for 1960s youth, desegregation era, and earlier decades, noting each favored era bears significant hardships. He warns that no time is free from fault.
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New York Times Service
Washington
Vietnam
Supreme Court
Gettysburg
Leavenworth
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