Virginia year in review shows broad growth across sectors
Governor Gopwin presented a year end Virginia report highlighting 131 new plants and 126 expansions with 15,200 new jobs, 11 percent income gain, and 2.8 percent unemployment. The summary covers education gains, road and park development, air quality monitoring, reforestation, mental health, and overseas shipping growth, noting improved revenue forecasting and closer alignment to final estimates.
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General Assembly
Commonwealth
Gopwin
Virginia
Gov. Gopwin
U.S
Employment Commission
New Kent
Augusta Forestry Center
Williamsburg
Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute
Peace on Earth and the Impossible Dream at Christmas
Dr. L. D. Johnson, Furman University chaplain, reflects on a wartime Christmas in France and the enduring quest for peace. He cites biblical teaching, laments the lack of universal peace, and urges personal confession, unity, and social renewal to end hostility, poverty, and division.
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France
Wilson
Bethlehem
Paul
Johnson
Furman University
Inaugural Medals Through History Collectors Snatch Up
National Geographic Society notes 1965 Johnson medals sold 26,275 bronze and 7,695 silver, raising nearly $200,000 for inaugural expenses while earlier issues varied. The Nixon 1969 medal bears a family designed Great Seal motif. many designs feature presidential portraits and limited silver editions.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
National Geographic Society
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Nixon
The
United States
Julie
Melvin M. Payne
Washington
D.C
James S. Sherman
Theodore Roosevelt
Dweight D. Eisenhower
John Nance Garner
America
Ralph J. Menconi
John F. Kennedy
Winston Churchill
Adoph A. Winman
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Henry K. Bush-Brown
Anthony Wayne
Herbert Hoover
Paul Manship
Rockefeller Center
Kennedy
Jo Davidson
Robert M. la Follette
Capitol Rotunda
Washington, D.C
Roosevelt
Carl Paul Jennewein
White House
Harry S. Truman
Eisenhower
Walker Hancock
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts
Felix da Weldon
Iwo Jima
United States Marine Memorial
Arlington, Virgin's
Johnson
Nixon Cabinet in turbulent times frames and tensions
Ralph de Toledano argues Nixon’s forthcoming Cabinet reflects a centrist, cautious Washington posture while real ideological turmoil swirls outside. He critiques liberal and conservative reactionaries, notes stalled economic plans, campus and ghetto agitations, and questions evolving state concepts amid technological era strains.
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Nixon
Washington
Mr. Nixon
France's Maisons de la Culture redefine public art spaces
A French cultural revival led by Andre Malraux aims to place culture at the center of national life. Maisons de la Culture, including Grenoble's innovative revolving egg theater, seek decentralization, broad access, and a synthesis of arts, offering a model for other nations.
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France
Maisons de la Culture
Malraux
House of Culture
Paris
Republic
Grenoble
France Actuelle
Salle Pleyel
Louvre
Tax incentives spur work not slum rehab, says NCUP
The piece argues tax incentives are more efficient than subsidies, since benefits depend on effort, while subsidies allow laziness. It cites Senator Paul Douglas' NCUP critique, argues incentives prompt future production, notes regional tax contrasts, and questions Nixon's use of incentives to move business into slums.
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Treasury
David Kennedy
Bakunin
Nixon
Paris
National Commission On Urban Problems
Paul Douglas
Winds
NCUP
Douglas
University of Chicago
U.S
Northeast
West
Europe
Gene Bradley
Dow-Jones-Irwin Books
Homewood
Ill
Ane
Spain
France
Antwerp
Alsace
Bordeaux
Belgium
Richard Nixon
Douglas National Commission On Urban Problems
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Garret A. Hobart
Charles J. Bell
Spiro T. Auen
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VHI
Andre Mauraux
Danville Register
Danville
Associated Press
Brantam Company
Chicago
New York
Atlanta
Detroit
Dallas
St. Louis
Charlotte
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Kansas City
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Miami
John Chamberlain
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