McGee fights timber lobby over clearcutting in forests
The article details Sen. Gale McGee's clash with West Coast timber interests over clearcutting in national forests. It covers campaign letters orchestrated by Mark G. Mounsey of Wyoming Sawmills, a Defense of logging practices by industry groups, and a June study proposal to assess impacts. It also surveys a secret Pentagon report for Project SODA, revealing drug use and attitudes within the 82nd Airborne, including high marijuana usage and rising approval of hard drugs among pot users, with government probes of detoxified Vietnam-era narcotics cases.
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82Nd Airborne Division
82Nd Airborne
America’s Guard of Honor
Opinion on Pentagon Papers charges and treacherous math
The piece argues Ellsberg’s theft of Rand Corp documents and the Times’ receipt of them raise larceny questions, yet prosecutions were avoided due to constitutional rights and press freedom. It contends the cases would expose petty crime, and calls for accountability despite proof of theft and receipt.
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Rand Corporation
New York Times
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Love Story in Movie Hearts and Parents
The piece discusses Love Story as the era’s top grossing film, noting its romance between rich boy and poor girl ending in death. It contrasts audience reactions with Harvard style family scenes and modern youth responses to parental expectations. A Hoosier college context closes the excerpt.
Private Eye Sam Hawkshaw and Youth Reform Debate
A humorous jab at detective Sam Hawkshaw contrasts with a serious discussion by President Landrum Bolling of Earlham College on youth unrest. Bolling notes that today's students challenge traditional norms and politics, seeking moral meaning through religion while criticizing older generations’ values and policy fails.
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New York
Sam Hawkshaw
Mr. Hawkshaw
Sam
Sam’ Hawkshaw
Landrum Bolling
Earlham College
Richmond
Indiana
Grassroots opinion shapes Alamo Texas discourse
In Alamo Texas a Grassroots view argues that government mis spends and wastes vast sums, yet taxpayers may accept the cost to have a target for blame for many frustrations and troubles. The piece reflects local skepticism about public spending and accountability.
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Alamo, Texas
Economy picture messy points to policy divide
An AP report surveys private economic researchers who warn that Washington policy may fail to curb unemployment inflation and rising prices. Opinions vary, but many favor some tax cut and stronger wage and price controls. Sindlinger says a deep recession may loom with 12 million workers at risk and 46 million lacking confidence, while Janeway predicts contraction in the second half as industries retrench.
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Washington
Albert Sindlinger
Sindlinger & Co
Swarthmore
Sindlinger
Nixon
Herbert Hoover
Eliot Janeway
Janeway Publishing & Research Corp
Janeway
Corry Native James Jackson Believed Lost in Alaska Crash
Lt James Jackson a Corry native and former resident is listed among 38 aboard a plane feared to have crashed in a remote Alaska area on a mission possibly to Korea for an air transport wing. Little further information is available about the incident and its casualties.
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Corry
U.S. Air Corps
Alaska
Jackson
Korea
Air Transport Wing
Pirates Exhibition Game May Come to Corry Officials
Corry Public Library reports 31,000 books circulated in the first six months of the year, with 20,555 adult fiction. Merchants say the National League Pittsburgh Pirates may visit for an exhibition game, pending conditions.
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Pirates
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