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Newspaper
Cuero Record
Location
Cuero, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1970
Page
2
Director George Brown says American birthrates are falling and projections must be revised. He predicts the average age of Americans will rise from 28 to 37 in the near term, reducing likely social change and signaling the next fifteen years as an era of the young married with a 28 million rise in those aged 20s to 40s.
Hollywood coroner reports Janis Joplin died of a drug overdose with multiple needle marks on both arms. The piece contrasts her death and another 27 year old London figure with warnings about youth drug use and social consequences. The author criticizes drug culture and television influence shaping immature, self indulgent attitudes.
A compact collection of light jokes and quips about public figures and entertainers. The items reference W. C. Fields, Greg La Cava, and other show business personalities with playful, satirical takes on fame and aging.
An essayist recalls a provocative invitation to speak at the Young Presidents Organization convention in Bermuda. He jokes about Mary Calderone and William Kuntsler and outlines a program heavy with sports, cocktails, dancing, and controversial panels. The piece critiques media and political figures amid a satirical tone.
A chaotic program titled The Day the Clouds Blotted Out the Heavens includes inter racial sex and marriage topics, free sex and drug advocacy, and a lineup with Dr. Joel Fort and poet Allen Ginsberg. Alan Katzman of the underground press headlines the fringe.
A page features a crossword with numbered clues and a cryptogram puzzle titled DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE. It includes sample clues such as Finish, Repair, Poach cry, and a long code with instructions that one letter stands for another. The cryptoquote sample shows a George Herbert quote as yesterday's solution.
Bill Ferguson announced that Ferguson's Variety Store, a Cuero headquartered independent chain, would liquidate four of its 10 stores. West Cuero saw 4.11 inches of rain in 3.5 hours prompting evacuations for about fifty residents. Walter Lewis spoke at the Westache Garden Club as Cuero Hospital welcomed a newborn son to Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Dreier.
A featured speaker lineup includes a Berkeley dropout and high profile feminist organizer connected to Redstockings, alongside Dick Leitsch of the Mattachine Society. The passage cites Leitsch as a prominent LGBT rights leader and notes controversial views toward the Young Presidents Organization and Mary Calderone.
New York gossip notes Liza Minnelli discusses her album New Feelin with standards sung as written and a mix of heavy sounds. She recalls Paris schooling, Flora the Red Menace fame, Cabaret film plans, and a Las Vegas act with a nine piece band.
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