Dollar Balance Improves in Second Quarter Report
Official reserve transactions show a small surplus after a $10.5 billion first quarter deficit, signaling a possible major improvement in the basic balance. Net liquidity balance deficits shrink to $1.5 billion, exports and imports rise about $700 million, and short term capital flows swing $5.8 billion. Foreigners buy $489 million in stocks and bonds as high rates draw funds.
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United States
Official Reserve
U.S
Japan
Nixon appears tense as VFW speech draws secrecy
Report notes President Nixon seemed jittery during a New Orleans VFW convention telecast. FBI and police investigated assassination conspiracy rumors, affecting security plans including dropping an open car parade. A radical group displayed a large banner urging jail Nixon and Agnew, while crackpot rhetoric raised concerns for the security detail.
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Nixon
Veterans of Foreign Wars
New Orleans
Secret Service
F.B.I
VFW
Agnew
New American Movement
Time launches People magazine with Liz on cover
The Luce empire adds People to its stable, promising a lively focus on celebrities and talent. The debut issue features Elizabeth Taylor in blue jeans on the cover, raising questions about her fit as a celebrity, champion, contender, graceful, and gauche.
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Henry Luce
Luce Publishing
Time
People
Elizabeth Taylor
Hilton Wilding Fisher Todd Burton
Liz
Burping Cow Hoax Seeks Place in Britas Library
SCRABBLE VA Nancy Maloley, editor of the EPAlog, sparked a mock legend about a burping cow. The Britas Memorial Library in Colorado Springs preserves such bubble journalism hoaxes from American letters and will memorialize the tale as part of its 1923 founded collection.
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Scrabble
Nancy Maloley
Britas
Colorado Springs
Maloley
Reflections on Nixon and Watergate in Buckley Tone
In this broad, opinionated piece, the author critiques Nixon’s handling of Watergate, noting failed gestures and cautious resignations while laments over partisan hypocrisy and the slow pursuit of accountability. The essay weaves political critique with satirical asides about public discourse and media, ending with a note on the Britas Memorial Library collection.
The Pros And Cons Of The Grape Strike In Delano
Ralph de Toledano summarizes the California grape labor conflict. Chavez failed to recruit beyond a small base, then led a grape boycott with clergy and political allies. Growers signed flawed contracts with a closed shop, prompting hiring hall abuses and forced levies. Teamsters attracted many workers, but violence and pressure persisted as strikes and boycotts continued.
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Delano
California
Ike Harry Bernstein
Los Angeles Times
Cesar Chavez
George Higgins
United Farm Workers
Saul Alinsky
San Joaquin Valley
U.S. Agriculture Department
Chavez
UFWA
Teamsters
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Crime report on national justice standards proposals sparks debate
A Roanoke editorial reviews the National Commission on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. It endorses aims like cutting arrest to trial time but opposes abolishing grand juries. It notes proposals to limit handgun possession, allow radio warrants, and expand patrol police roles, with broad implications for police and local government.
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Mr. Nixon
Otto Otepka
Dan Elisberg
Massachusetts
Texas
Gaza Strip
Dmz
Alger Hiss
Benvenuto Cellini
Haldeman
John Dean
Nixon
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
National Commission of Criminal Justice Standards and Goals
Roanoke
Hooper
Grand Jury
Essays Against Chic Prose In The Watergate Era
In a critique of New Journalism and its star writers McCarthy and Kempton are skewered for melodramatic portraits of political figures and overblown prose. The piece notes Mary McCarthy’s depiction of John J. Wilson, Murray Kempton’s Panthers portrait, and Norman Mailer Garry Wills dismissing a Nixon wedding scene as aesthetic fraud.
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Mary McCarthy
John J. Wilson
John Erlichman
HH. R. Haldeman
London Observer
Wilson
Sam Ervin
Sen
Daniel Inouye
Inouye
Ehrlichman
Miss McCarthy
Murray Kempton
New York City
Kempton
Michael Tabor
Aphra Behn
Ossian
McCarthy
Hemingway
Norman Mailer
Garry Wills
Wills
Mission Inn
Pat
Richard Nixon
Wuthering Heights
Mission
Pagoda
Castle
St. Francis Chapel
Danville Daily Subscription Rates and Notices
The Danville Register lists subscription terms with in city carrier delivery at 50c weekly and single copies at 10c. Sunday edition priced 20c. Mail rates: one year 20 dollars, six months 10.50, three months 5.25, one month 1.75. Notices mailed 10 days before expiration. renewals urged.
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Ben Franklin
Polly Baker
H. L. Mencken
Norman Cousins
Admiral W. J. Marshall
NATO
Kha
Iam F. Buckley
Segretti
Congress
Dean
Anti-Trust
Justice Department
ITT
Hartford Fire Insurance Company
Jackson
George McGovern
Watergate
Bay of Pigs
Woodstock Nation
Tists
Department of Agriculture
EPA
John B. Ashbrook
Ohio
Chalmers Roberts
The
Washington Post
Franklin
Mencken
White House
Cousins
A. F. Day
Saturday Review
Admiral Marshall
Richmond News Leader
British Isles
Europe
Ms. Maloley
Britus Memorial Library
Dr. Roberts
Roberts
Yukon
Ralph de Toledano
John Lindsay
New York
Chavez Union
Anananias Club
Srowers
Catholic Church
Roanoke Times
Jeffrey Hart
Danville
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