Teabag Tax Protest Echoes Across The Nation
A columnist notes rising tax takes at all levels and recalls a protest idea by groups like Young Americans for Freedom and the Libertarian Lawyers League urging taxpayers to mail tea bags with 1040 forms. The piece mocks zeal for rebates and urges peaceful outcry, suggesting any tea bag will do.
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California
Ronald Reagan
Milton Friedman
Young Americans For Freedom
Libertarian Lawyers League
Internal Revenue Service
Nebraska battle over power plant delays draws figures
In the middle of the dispute NPPD and the Sierra Club argue over Gerald Gentleman plant at Sutherland. Roger Hill of NPPD cites that delays cost ratepayers millions and raise annual bills by about five dollars per customer.
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NPPD
Power plant plan eyed by NPPD critics and supporters
Columbus Telegram notes 513 934 NPPD customers would pay about 27 cents daily or 8.17 monthly if the plant is built. If not built, higher costs would be permanent. The $4.2 million includes $900k construction and $300k interest, bonds for 30 years, and $3 million for purchased power paid immediately. Average customer would pay about $69.60 more annually after May 1978.
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NPPD
Sierra Club
Noted Edits and a Magazine Dream of Ginny
Jim Bishop recalls feuds and payback old and new. He describes mentoring Ginny as reader to save her, then her firing by a rival editor. He reflects on a Collier’s fame moment and a Clipper story that shaped his writing career.
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Monte Cristo
Ginny
Collier's Magazine
Collier's
Chiang Kai-shek
Jim Bishop
Collier’s
Bob Considine
Tokyo
Considine
Bob
Jack O'Connell
Frank Conniff
William Randolph Hearst Jr
Richard E. Berlin
Berlin
S.O.B
New York
City Desk
Harvey Deuell
Deuell
Jersey
From Rewriter to Byline: Bishop’s NBC Book TV Deal
A memoir excerpt traces Jim Bishop’s rise from a lowly copyboy at The News in New York to Associate Editor at Collier’s and eventually a byline after decades. It recounts mentorships, editor clashes, and a pivotal NBC plans book for TV amid the author’s long career arc.
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Deuell
NBC
Bishop’s
TV One
Fragmented Word Puzzle Across Historical Clues
A garbled list presents diverse clues spanning letters numbers and phrases. The jumble includes references to football, politics, geography, and mythology, with scattered partial entries and misprints.
Freedom Newspaper declares true self rule and moral guidance
The Columbus Telegram offers a mission statement promoting freedom as self control, grounded in God and moral guides, and rejects freedom as license. It frames peace as starting within the individual and aligns liberty with truth and independence.
Reflections on foot reflexology and a lingering watch concern
Dr. Lamb evaluates foot reflexology as a psychological practice with limited health benefit and potential for delaying proper medical care. A reader asks if a hospital watch could be radioactive after a cancer treatment, and Dr. Lamb says not harmful but cautions about magnetization from hospital equipment.
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DR. Lamb
Lamb
94th Congress blamed for Indochina debacle and retreat
A critical column attacks the 94th Congress for hindering President Ford over Indochina and warns that retreat from postwar commitments risks global instability. It contrasts British policy and Churchill with Baldwin and Chamberlain and questions aid to Saigon and Phnom Penh, urging accountability.
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94Th Congress
Congress
Free World
Indochina
Ford
Saigon
Phnom Penh
Bayh
Mansfield
Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Munich
Winston Churchill
Hitler
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Baldwin-Chamberlain
White House
Thieu
Cambodia
Middle East
Portugal
Spain
Yugoslavia
Greece
U.S
San Diego
United States
Uriah Heeps
Capitol Hill
Sihanouk
Peking
Moscow
Hue
Dan Nang
Time, Inc
Bill White
Eisenhower
Israel
Washington
Vietnam life amid war critics and kindness in Hue
A columnist contrasts western view of South Vietnam with local realities. He recalls meeting the Minh family near Hue and notes the complexity of public opinion, corruption, and courage in a war torn society. He argues empathy toward ordinary Vietnamese beyond hostile headlines.
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Washington
South Vietnam
Republic
U.S
America
South
Hue
Minh
South China Sea
Minh family aid amid Vietnam war night ride
The narrator recalls staying overnight with the Minh family near Phu Bai as U.S. jeeps pass and artillery fires echo. A teenage boy plays guitar while the family faces hardship, including a drafted son, highlighting a sense that the decent suffer alongside the doomed in a world without protest.
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U.S
Minh
Babee
Phu Bai
Vietnam
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Sons of Liberty
IRS
Dick Howe
Columbus Telegram
Kong Features Syndicate
Mum Ruger
Moutnake
Aimiess
Mir
Florida
Ancient ci of
Syria
Frank
Tse
Fischetti
Columbus ¢ Telegram
Your Freedom Newspaper
Columbus, Nebraska
Berrys World
NEA Vce
Loaday
Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D
John
Phu
Tom Tiede
Newspaper Enterprise
Assa
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