Best of 72 editorial rounds up oddities and wit
H. H. Berner presents a year end column listing quirky top stories and awards from 1972. Notable items include a Condon Elementary School ecology gag, illiterate ad campaigns, a space costume at Los Angeles base, and various humorous or critical “award” cases from newspapers and broadcasts.
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America
Eugene
Oregon
Condon
Danny Owens
San Francisco
EOC
Washington, D.C
Chicago
U.S. Air Force Base
Los Angeles
California
Space and Missiles Bureau
William Marvel
Shazam! Honkie
Homemakers Club
Oxon Hill
Maryland
Oxon Hill Times
San Francisco Chronicle
Herb Caen
Big Brother
Channel 4
Haiphong
Alger Hiss
Richard Nixon
Kqed-Fm
Sydney
Australia
Paulist Fathers Center
Boston
Opium Smuggling Tangles In Viet Air Force Exposed
A highly classified GAO report accuses the Vietnamese Air Force of aiding opium smuggling into South Vietnam with US planes. It cites corruption, too many airfields, and weak customs controls as reasons why heroin shipments persist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Southeast Asia
General Accounting Office
Air Force
South Vietnam
United States
Vietnam
GIS
Saigon
GAO
Ellsworth Bunker
Nguyen van Thieu
Almanac highlights for December 30, 1972
The entry notes the date as the 365th day of 1972 with a following day. It lists visible planets Mercury through Saturn, mentions Rudyard Kipling’s birth on this date, and recalls historical events including U S land purchase in 1853, the Iroquois Theater fire in 1903, Eisenhower lifting a nuclear test ban in 1959, and Trygve Lie’s death in 1968.
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United Press International
Mercury
Venus
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Rudyard Kipling
United States
Gila River
Mexico
Arizona
New Mexico
Iroquois Theater
Chica
Eisenhower
Trygve Lie
United Nations
Norway
Worry Clinic praises Hershey as top public speaker
The column lauds Gen Lewis B. Hershey aged 79 for dynamic public speaking and public platform psychology. It notes his WWII era Selective Service leadership and his postwar roles while praising his humor, audience awareness, and punchy conclusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Hershey
Lewis B. Hershey
George Washington
Truman
Hershey
Indiana
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