Soul City on the Way to a New NC Community
The piece weighs federal loan guarantees for Soul City in Warren County North Carolina near Raleigh. Floyd McKissick CORE and HUD backed a 14 million dollar bond guarantee to build a mixed race town modeled after Columbia Maryland. Critics question racial harmony and economic viability while planners push jobs and industry to lift the region from poverty.
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Congress of Racial Equality
Soul City
George Romney
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North Carolina
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James W. Rouse
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Washington Post
Post
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Register
Research Triangle
CORE
America
Appalachian
N.G
Piel lauds scientific progress over past century era
Dr Kenneth Thimann of Crown College at UC Santa Cruz recalls his fifty years of life amid rapid discoveries in biology chemistry physics and medicine. He cites radioisotopes DDT vaccines insulin penicillin high yielding crops and malaria control as life extending achievements. He warns that rejecting science would invite plagues hunger and shorter lifespans and urges wiser use of knowledge and power.
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Gerard Piel
Scientific American
Piel
Kenneth Thimann
Crown College
University of California
Santa Cruz
Thimann
Walking Preachers and the Gap Between Talk and Deed
A Furman University chaplain reflects on St Francis of Assisi and Jesus urging action over words. He argues that preaching while walking means behavior must match creed, noting hypocrisy harms efforts to improve society. The piece cites Bunyan and questions seminars as a path to real change.
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World Brotherhood
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Evidence of Action Over Words in Moral Life
Sen Soaper notes chess allows reactionary play while a late arriver misses a move. John Bright, a 18th century English Quaker, gave five pounds to a neighbor whose horse was destroyed, challenging others to show real remorse. Spurgeon and Elton Trueblood frame holy living as the true social influence and test of faith in daily trials.
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John Bright
Bright
Earth
C. H. Spurgeon
Elton Trueblood
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Miller Critique of Spain Book Sparks Front Page Review T: Miller Critique of Spain Book Sparks Front Page Review
Arthur Miller reviews Manuel Cortes recollections on the Spanish Civil War in a Times Book Review piece. The critic questions Miller’s insights while noting Cortes hid from Franco then reemerged after an amnesty. The essay probes foreign intervention, propaganda, and Miller's framing of feudalism and humanist illusions.
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Spain
Times Sunday Book Review
John Leonard
Miller
Manuel Cortes
Mijas
Franco
Mussolini
Hugh Thomas
the Times
Soviet Union
Straits of Gibraltar
Byrd Flats the Spending Issue in Independent Voice
Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia railes at both White House and Congress for runaway spending. He argues the deficit for 1971 72 and 74 will top 100 billion and urges recognition that the problem lies in persistent fiscal excess and political self interest. The Brookings report backs spending cuts tax increases and inflation awareness. Byrd warns the public and praises those who speak up.
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Nixon
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America
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McGovern calls for quota changes on Supreme Court
Senator George McGovern attacks the Supreme Court as largely an all white male body and urges more women blacks and Americans with Spanish surnames appointed. He notes Justice Thurgood Marshall is the sole black member and criticizes Ramsey Clark as soft on crime while inviting him to visit North Vietnam.
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U.S. Supreme Court
U. S
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J. Edgar Hoover
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Edmund Muskie
Abraham Ribicoff
Eagleton
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