Highway Giants Strain State Roads With Bigger Truckers
Pennsylvania legislators face three trucking bills seeking 45 to 60 foot tractor trailers and saddleback combinations. Critics warn highway safety and city traffic in Corry would worsen, urging lawmakers to prioritize taxpayers over lobbyists. In Washington, Le Duc Tho’s Paris appearance signals a shift in Vietnam peace diplomacy as Nixon aides push secret overtures.
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Signs of peace amid halted Paris talks and U S delay
The article notes Bruce learning of North Vietnamese attacks, urging Gen. Ewell to seek Pentagon details while Paris delays limit top secret war plans. It cites Kissinger routing via Saigon, NSA intercepts named Gout, and Hoover Tamm feud amid IACP criticisms. It recounts political figures avoiding Pentagon budget votes and odd anecdotes from lawmakers.
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TV murders and the rise of television in Hollywood
In a memoir style survey Jim Bishop recalls postwar Hollywood back when Louis B. Mayer, Harry Cohn, Darryl Zanuck and Jack Warner dismissed TV as a fad. He chronicles studio resistance, the shift to live production, early hits, stars who found second lives on TV, and the cultural impact from Howdy Doody to News of the day.
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Jumping to conclusions about fears and quirks in a busy era
The piece lists common American fears from cancer to tetanus and jokes about workplace annoyances like one day pneumonia. It notes inflation hurting cabdrivers and waiters, tipping drops to 10 12 percent, and hatcheck fees rising. It surveys knowledge gaps in geography and aging stamps, plus sideburns, middle class squeeze, and blondes having the most fun.
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Grass roots opinion from Bridgeport leader on economy and highways
Bridgeport Illinois leader argues a link between the national economy and highway fatalities. The stance claims fewer accidents occur when money is harder to obtain, and closes with a belief that something good comes from every situation.
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Waterhouse denies kill of tax relief bills in Harrisburg
Corry Assemblymen W W Waterhouse yesterday rejected reports that two bills he sponsored to outlaw the machinery tax in Pennsylvania had been killed and sent back to committee In Harrisburg Mrs Lawrence Watrous hosted a birthday party for her daughter Coletta Kay at her Ohio Street home with neighbor children and mothers present State Highway Department crews finished a new surface treatment on Hare Creek Road near the Williams farm about 4600 feet north of the city Erie closed its station at Columbus Findley Lake saw federal agents raid bootlegging joints and beer parlors seizing beer and liquor at The Meadows during a crackdown by Chautauqua authorities
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