Editorial: Bypassing Safety Isn t Right Track
The Charleston council weighs Penn Central grade separations as traffic delays rise. Councilman M C Phillips questions underpasses while urging federal funding review. Local crossings cause frequent stops. advocates urge safer, smoother traffic flow through overpasses or underpasses.
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Daily Mail
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Virginia Street
Elmer Dodson
Dodson
Patrick Street
Washington Street
Lee
Secretary of Transportation
United States
Greenbrier Street
Hair style rules spark debate among school leaders
Administrators debate standard boy hairstyles while state mental health officials defend VISTA amid Byrd opposition. Charleston banks offer no interest on Christmas Club accounts as volunteers juggle Salvation Army bells. A Del. Howell parking incident near the Daniel Boone Hotel raises questions, and Midtown builders add decorative but nonfunctional features to offices. The Gazette mislabels a caption for the National Bank of Commerce.
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the Gazette
National Bank of Commerce
Charleston National Bank
Readers Forum Fifth Amendment Out of Date
Editor the Gazette argues that Judge Friendly and Thomas E. Dewey urged modifying or repealing the Fifth Amendment privilege. It notes Supreme Court expansion of the privilege beyond its original scope and rising crime where guilty parties evade conviction, tracing the law's history from English ecclesiastical abuses to 1960s U S developments.
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England
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Supreme Court
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Warren
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Black
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Warren Court
Dean Pound
Harvard Law School
Dean Wigmore
F. Paul Chambers
Kanawha Valley Building City
Nixon taps Rodgers Laird Kissinger as new national policy trio
Nixon selects William P. Rodgers Melvin R. Laird and Henry Kissinger as key advisers on Vietnam policy with no fixed public stance yet. The trio may push flexible realism at Paris while confronting Pentagon and Senate dynamics and past hawk dove impressions.
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Laird
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Westmoreland
Army
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Rusk
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General Marshall
State Department
Marshall
Clark Clifford
Defense
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Rodgery
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Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Robert McNamara
Pragmatism Virus Returns in Nixon Era Satire
Russell Baker mocks pragmatism as a word, contrasts hard nosed and soft nosed types, and notes Nixon's pragmatic label. He recounts Kennedy era usage, cites Giovan Pragma as comic origin, and ends with the claim that pragmatism survived by leaping the Atlantic.
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Giovanni Pragma
Florentine
Florence
Pragma
Signora Pragma
Giotto
Italy
Atlantic
America
Revenue sharing and Nixon era federalism shifts
The New York Times report notes that Nixon era gains in national power boost prospects for state revenue sharing. Moynihan and Laird back devolution of funds, urging Washington to redistribute income across states regions and classes. Potential movement toward guaranteed income discussed.
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Council On Urban Affairs
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Americans For Democratic Action
Moynihan
America
Nixon White House
Agnew
Debated Ways to Boost Poverty Aid Across Federal Plans
The piece discusses Moynihan and Fried man with economists Rockefeller and Milton Friedman weighing income maintenance options. Proposals include guaranteed jobs and direct family allowances, or a negative income tax, plus possible federalizing of welfare and revenue sharing to ease state burdens.
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New York
Milton Friedman
Nixon
Moynihan
Laird
Friedman
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