Outlawing Food Ingredients Through Political Hype and Science
A Telegram opinion argues against expanding the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act to ban food substances based on animal or human safety tests. It criticizes politicians and bureaucrats for using uncertain science to justify control over what people may eat, urging reliance on scientific practice over edicts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Food and Drug Administration
Charles C. Edwards
U.S. Senate
FDA
Edward
Senate
Hanoi POW releases spur mixed hopes and questions
An article analyzes the release of three POWs by North Vietnam, praising their humane treatment but noting broader prisoner abuses. It questions Communist motives, potential political timing, and the challenges ex-prisoners face rejoining society while a wider swap and humane treatment debate continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Vietnam
Wiek “Cong
Edward Bliss
Navy Ls
Norris Charles
Markham Garfley
United States of America
David Dellinger
Cora Weiss
U.S
Commmunists
Questions and Answers from a Fragmented Page
A reader quiz lists Lent origin as Old English world Leneten meaning springtime. It asks about Interstate length as 42 500 tiles and notes the largest lobster at 45 pounds. It mentions Storling silver as 6 percent silver and 7.4 percent copper. Mounted police first used in the United States in New York City in 1904. It answers four college degrees as four: associate bachelor master doctor. It claims the tuberose has the strongest scent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York City
White House Bowl halftime report on McGovern Nixon clash
At Presidential Election Stadium the McGovern team trails by 28 as Nixon sits on the bench sending plays to aides. McGovern fumbles by Eagleton and subs Shriver, with confusion over signals and plays, mark a rough first half amid political fallout and talk of unprofessional conduct.
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Washington
Howard Lawsell
Presidential Election Stadium
McGovern
Nixon
Pla
Tom Eagleton
Eagleton
Ater
Sarge Shriver
Shriver
White House
Nixon and McGovern football metaphor fuels heated exchange
Art Buchwald mocks the Nixon campaign and McGovern team claims of bugging locker rooms. An aide calls the probe the most thorough in football history and finds no Nixon involvement while McGovern laments finances and gear woes. The piece satirically critiques plays and leadership as halftime passes into the second half.
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Nixon
McGovern
Hils
Maurice Stans
Muncy
George McGovern
Joe Namath
Spiro Agnew
Postal rate relief likely as eight cent rate stays
Postmaster General Elmer T. Klassen announced the cost control program has succeeded enough that a one cent increase is no longer needed for first class mail next year. He warned rates could rise if new financial obligations or union contract boosts occur, delaying any change until after the election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer T. Klasten
Postal Rate Commission
Klassen
Telegram Defends Freedom in 1972 Columbus Issue
The Telegram issue dated September 90, 1972 in Columbus Nebraska champions individual freedom as a divine gift and calls for self-reliance, aligning with the Coveting Commandment the Golden Rule and the Declaration of Independence while urging peaceful action and personal responsibility.
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Freeda
Hinself
Fragmented glossary style entry on coins and terms
An OCR read presents a scrambled list of terms and phrases related to money Mongolian Indian terms and various clues. It includes references to monetary units, land measures, foods, and unrelated identifiers, with many garbled words and broken syntax. The fragment offers little coherent narrative or context beyond isolated word pairings.
Hanoi POW Release Seen as Punitive Political Plot
A columnist argues Hanoi uses the POW releases as a clumsy political ploy to influence the 1972 election, noting prior Soviet manipulation in 1960 and 1968. The piece criticizes pro Hanoi statements by some POWs, staged air alerts, and calls for U.S. antiwar activists to leverage the episode for a waning movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S
Hungi
Hanoi
Peking
Moscow
Tenoi
Madame Binh
Paris
Arthur Zimmermann
School Buses Under Fire for Safety Risks
Readers are urged to consider the safety of school buses amid claims of corner cutting at major manufacturers. Henry Wakeland of the Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety calls buses “almost tin cans on wheels” as accidents persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Surface Transportation Safety
Henry Wakeland
School Bus Safety Problems and Public Pressure Urge Reforms
The text discusses failures in bus repair and maintenance, and driver training gaps that raise red danger for children. It cites a Colorado crash where brakes failed due to no down shifting training, urges reading the free booklet on bus safety, and asks readers to press their school boards to curb unnecessary busing until safety improves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCarthy
Peter Weaver
Colorado
Peri
MUTSA
Washington, D.C
Laborer Suffered Prolonged Yawn In England
Reuters reports a farm laborer in Little Thurlaw England yawning widely required seven hours of treatment from doctors at three hospitals to close his mouth again. The piece notes the cause remains unclear whether fatigue or boredom.
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Little Thurlaw
England
Reuters
Atlantic
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Portugal
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India
Simamecset Sail Yard
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Gary Powers
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Mexico
Texas
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New Mexico
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Navy
Markham Gartley
Vietnam
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Calman McCarthy
Doubleday
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Ward School Bus Co
Wayne, Inc
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