Pigskins Fly Again Entering the 1971 Football Season
The piece salutes the coming 1971 season, noting the eager return of pro football and the TV spectacle. It lampoons preseason overanalysis, recalls past champions, and urges fans to ready their sets for color broadcasts and renewed rivalries as Leroy Kelly, Gale Sayers, and John Unitas loom large in a year of league expansion and high ratings.
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Baltimore Colts
Dallas Cowboys
Pat Summerall
Frank Gifford
George Blanda
Leroy Kelly
Joe Namath
Frank
Joe
Curt
Otto Graham
Gale Sayers
John Unitas
Vince Lombardi
Third Draft Lottery Drawn For 1972 Inductions
The third draft lottery of the Vietnam era set the 1972 induction order as Congress debates extending the draft. Capsule No 1 matched Dec 4 1952 births with a likely year in uniform. No 366 for Nov 1 1952 births would be last to be drafted. Leap year quirks gave Feb 29 births No 305. Defense Secretary Laird projects about 100000 draftees in 1972 with higher numbers seen as safer.
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Congress
Washington
House
Senate
Selective Service
Capitol Hill
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Selective Service Headquarters
Parting Shots from a Parody Column on Modern Life
A humorous collage critiques national parks traffic, tax woes faced by big-name singers, and evolving civic norms in a one-airport town. It notes a vacationer finding only the fish unremarkable, rising fares hurting business, and cabbies urged toward courtesy. Fidel Castro trims a Sugar cane ceremony speech in Cuba.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Danville Register subscription rates and notices
The Danville Register lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions with in city carrier and mail options, including one year at 20 dollars, six months ten fifty, and three months five twenty five, plus 50 cent weekly carrier delivery and 10 cent single copies. It notes renewal notices mailed ten days before expiration and urges prompt renewals, with Associated Press rights and national advertising reps listed.
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Danville
Plight of nation hinges on united defense urges action
A reader from Farmville urges Senators to back six bills by Senator James Eastland to strengthen internal security. The letter warns that partisan squabbling harms national defense and could invite defeat, urging voters to press for unity over domestic quarrels.
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Capulets
Montagues
Mercutio
Free World
James Eastland
Foster B. Gresham
Farmville
We Are A Nation In Retreat From World Leadership
The piece laments American decline in policy and resolve since World War II. It cites Truman’s containment, Vietnam era choices, and the Space Program as evidence of a retreat. It questions the Endless foreign commitments, supports Lockheed aid as strategic, and doubts Nixon’s new Far Eastern policy amid a Democratic nominating race.
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America
David Scott
James Irwin
Alfred Worden
Southeast Asia
Harry Truman
Stalin
Greece
Korea
South Vietnam
Java
Sumatra
Moscow
Vietnam
Guatemala
Lebanon
Hun
Gary
Bay of Pigs
Asia
Europe
Congress
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Senate
Lockheed
Nixon
Japan
Taiwan
South Korea
Philippines
Air bags and driver education clash with safety claims
A column critiques rushed traffic safety fixes such as driver education and federally mandated air bags. It cites studies questioning driver education effectiveness, notes dangerous overconfidence, and details Dr. Lawrence M. Patrick’s baboon air bag tests that produced injuries and a fatality. The piece argues for cautious, limited testing before nationwide mandating airbags.
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Lawrence M. Patrick
Wayne State University
Patrick
Department of Transportation
Communist Game Plan Threatens U S Global Standing
Ralph de Toledine argues that Hanoi Peking and Moscow aim to immobilize U S military power in Vietnam and induce public surrender. He asserts a broader strategy to topple allied cohesion, lull U S vigilance, and push for appeasement, risking a slide toward totalitarianism and an early end to the American Century.
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Pentagon
Peking
Hanoi
Kremlin
Embassy Row
United States
Free World
Moscow
South Vietnam
America
Johnson
Nixon
Vietnam
Asia
Republic of China
Japan
Pacific
Chou En-lai
China
Middle East
Washington
R. Nixon
Lockheed Loan Debate Mirrors American Politics
The Lockheed loan guarantee vote, 49 to 48 in the Senate, split along no clear party lines. Senators from California, Texas, and Georgia backed the measure, while Cranston and Proxmire offered tortured rationales, and Goldwater Buckley and others opposed, revealing tensions between business interests, ideology, and public policy. Spiro Agnew to visit 11 countries for a broad economic and political report.
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Washington, D.C
Lord Tennyson
Lockheed
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
California
Texas
Georgia
Treasury
Bentsen
Mansfield
Griffin
Scott
Robert Byrd
Proxmire
Wisconsin
Cranston
Tunney
Senate
Taft
General Electric
Ohio
Rolls Royce
Britain
Ted Kennedy
Barry Goldwater
Richard Nixon
Buckley
New York
Dominick
Col
Curtis
Neb
Weicker
R.conn
Bank of the United States
Washington
Jackson
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Hoover
Roosevelt
New Deal
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Chicago
Atlanta
Detroit
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Miami
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Kansas City
Dallas
St. Louis
Charlotte
King Features Syndicate
John. Chamberlain
Muskie
Kennedy
Humphrey
Moon
By Russell Kirk
Indochina
Federal Department of Transportation
Ralph de Toledine
Bodes
Holmes Alexander
Spiro Agnew
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