Livermore chair factory era highlights simple work and welfare
In Evansville Indiana columnist Joe Aaron recalls Livermore Kentucky’s cane chair industry. Farm and town residents hand crafted cane seats for pennies, supporting many during hard times. The factory later shifted to lounge chair production, and workers lost work after labor acts and welfare programs expanded.
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Evansville
Indiana
Joe Aaron
Aaron
Livermore
Aare
Aaron Wrate
Leggesby
Alere
Ameri
Ane
Forgotten Americans quiz prompts hostile classroom scene
A classroom exercise based on a survey from The Forgotten Americans by Hudson Institute and Frank Armbruster, Arlington House, New Rochelle NY, 464 pages, 0.95 dollars. The scene shows students in a satirical drill answering true or false about morality religion and politics.
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Johnny
Melvin
Sally
Jim Hendrix
Jelemy
Harold
Hudson Institute
Frank Armbruster
Arlington House
New Rochelle
N.Y
New York Review of Books
George McGovern
China solves litterbugging problem during Nixon visit
Newsmen recount disposal challenges in China during President Nixon's trip. A photographer and others left items in rooms and faced attempts to reclaim them at airports. The piece suggests visitors should take back what they bring to curb waste.
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Nixon
China
Bill Achalz
Mon Gakley
Newspaper Enterprise Association
Bremer diaries reveal Nixon plot and Wallace shooting motive
The 21 year old Bremer was sentenced to 63 years after a diary found by the FBI details planning to shoot Nixon and Wallace. It highlights his failed ambitions, sexual fixation, and obsession with fame, with April to May 1971 entries showing the path from plan to act.
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George Wallace Temcipher
Bramer
FBI
Bremer
Harper’s Magazine
Richard Nixon
Canada
Flore
Nixon
Lee Harvey Oswald
Kennedy
Ottawa
Hat
Secret Service
Nichard Nixon
Sparks Street
George Wallace
Wallace
Bama
Washington
Nam
Michigan
Laurel
George
Record prize paid for a bottle of wine
The prize totaled 4140 dollars for a bottle described as a 1929 Chateau Mouton Rothschild jeroboam holding the equivalent of five ermal bottles. The question notes the interlocked Olympic flag rings symbolize five continents joined in friendship, listed as Eurasia, Africa, North America, South America and Australia.
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Eurasia
Africa
North America
South America
Australia
Let Peace Begin With Me Friday Event in Columbus Nebraska
A local observance titled Let Peace Begin With Me is scheduled for Friday December 15 1972 in Columbus Nebraska. The event aims to promote peace and community harmony with potential speakers and activities announced by organizers.
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Columbus, Nebraska
Breakfast choices for a low fat high protein
Dr. Lamb counsels a reader on a heart healthy breakfast plan. He suggests hot cereals like oatmeal, fortified skim milk, egg whites, lean meats such as ham and beef in moderation, and alternatives like fish eggs and creamed beef on toast. He notes pancakes can be made low fat and urges avoiding high fat sausages bacon and certain fishes with high fat content. Fruit juice and fruit aid vitamins but are not primary protein sources.
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Lawrence Lamb
M.D
Dr. Lamb
Chess ACHOSS St104 Word Puzzle Fragment
A fragmented list of chess terms and clues includes references to pieces, directions, numbers, and assorted hints such as Eskimo knives, Mrs Johnson, and various thematic word fragments. The text resembles a crossword style puzzle with numerous scattered clues and partial solutions.
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Achoss
Chessman SS
Mrs. Johnson
America
Dawn Goddess
Mariner
Soviet Union bonds offered to American investors this comes a new twist
The article discusses possible U S S R bonds for Americans as a direct investment vehicle, comparing them to U S savings bonds and Hungarian bonds. It notes legal hurdles, such as U S law forbidding credit to some defaulting nations, and mentions Soviet debt disputes, currency, and ideological tensions. It also hints at broader geopolitical shifts and the idea of diversifying portfolios with state bonds amid Cold War tensions.
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Lenin
Soviet Union
America
U.S.S.R
U.S
I Europe
Tenin
International Jewish Committee
Hungary
U.S. Commodities Exchange
New York
National Liberation Front
State of the Soviet Union and psychiatry in Cold War critique
The piece argues Moscow and Beijing lack energy for world revolution while Moscow uses psychiatry to silence dissidents. It cites US Senate Internal Security Subcommittee hearings and witnesses like Yesenin-Valpin and Boldgreff, detailing KGB coercion, samizdat, and historical purges. It warns Nixon’s policy may falter if Soviet pressure eases.
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Red China
Syria
Moscow
U.S. Senate
Constantin Boldgreff
International Committee For the Defense of Human Rights
Baldgreff
KGB
Sas
Borla
Thaddeus Witlin
Beria
Wittlin
Trotsky
Willin
Walter Kriviisky
Washington, D.C
Victor Kravchenko
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Alabama
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Carwsrar
Lowell
Ponte
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Boria
Vasally J. Chernighev
Senate
Communist ‘Party
Io the West
Chevnishov
Soviet
Russia
Jdures Medvedev
John
Chamberlain
Wien
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