Fishy Stare at 1972 City Budget Deliberations
In Corry the city council faces a tight budget as costs rise and a wage price freeze looms. Tax increases may be needed to fund services while a broad tax cut is unlikely. The piece suggests trimming services could be the only way to save money this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry
Vance Hartke
D-Ind
Penn Central Railroad
U.S. Treasury
Penn Central
Hartke
Jervis
Jervis Langdon, Jr
Treasury
Senate
Langdon
Committee
Snow, prices, and small-town hopes in Horton Kansas
Grassroots editorials reflect on Nixon price-wage freeze and rising newsprint costs that threaten readers with higher newspaper prices. The piece muses on winter forecasts, snow memories from Kansas, and a wish to avoid more snow while recalling school closures and snow forts amid mild aftereffects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horton
Kans
Nixon
Army haircuts in focus as Westmoreland enforces standards
In a tense shift from a light recruitment ad, General Westmoreland tightens Army haircut rules. A memo warns stern corrective action for violations and for chain of command failures to enforce the standards. The incident highlights tension between recruiting imagery and strict grooming mandates.
Westy raps longhair army ad and Nixon wage fight
A composite of Capitol intrigue covers White House wage control aims, Penn Central financing fears, Nixon seeking an honorable Vietnam peace, Byrd court rumors, Soviet embassy security, Bandaranaike's TV interview, a Navy management leak, and a Missouri professor joke about a death-free generation. The pieces mix political theater with budget pressures and Cold War concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Byrd
White House
Nixon
Robert Byrd
D-W. Va
Supreme Court
Washington
Senate
American University
Law School
Louis C. James
Ceylon
Sirimavo Bandaranaike
Metromedia
Stan Berk
New Aged Cure Promises Long Lives and Hard Questions
An article surveys aging science from life expectancy gains to aging cures. It notes Jonas Bjorksten and Alexander Comfort advancing enzyme therapies to unlink crosslinked molecules, possibly adding decades to lifespans. It cautions population-control critics over longer lives and urges reevaluation of retirement norms amid experimental longevity prospects.
Cunard run by ex advertising executive who likens ships to soap
The Cunard line in the United States is led by Richard B Patton a Harvard MBA and former Heinz and TWA executive who compares selling ships to selling soap noting the service industry risks. An unrelated notice explains that out of state executors may need to post bonds to ensure estates are settled per law and protect beneficiaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Henry AP
NEW
U.S
Britain
Cunard
Cunnard
Canada
Richard B. Patton
Harvard Business School
H.J. Heinz
Trans World Airlines
New York
Ogilvy and Mather
Patton
Cunard’s New US Chief Seeks Turnaround Amid Fleet Cuts
Patton, appointed a year ago, reshaped Cunard Line by cutting passenger ships from seven to three and consolidating North American offices. Despite radical changes and a new ownership under Trafalgar House, profits remained elusive with losses every year 1961–70 except 1965. Bookings for the Queen Elizabeth 2’s winter season are up 312 percent, and the upcoming Cunard Adventurer aims to lift fortunes later this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Patton
Proctor & Gamble
Cunard
Cunard Line
Cunard Steam Ship Co. Ltd
North America
New York City
Southampton
England
U.S
Pafton
New York
Chicago
Trafalgar House Investments
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By Tim Pryor
Pennsylvania
William Westmoreland
Army
Army Stall Heads
Westmoreland
Westy
Longhair
By Jack Anderson
Vietnam
University of Missourian
Paul Harvey
Prs
Robert Fulton
Ours
American Geriatrics Society
Granddad
University of Wisconsin
John Bjorksten
Dr. Bjorksten
University of London
Alexander Comfort
Jem
the Apostles of Population Control Point
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