Merger Move Aims to Unite VPI Danville Branch with Community College
Governor Goowin urges transfer of the VPI Danville Branch to the Virginia Community College System effective July 1 1968. Danville Community College would unify the best of VPI Branch and Danville Technical Institute programs while preserving first two years of college work and expanding technical offerings to meet local demand. Cooperation from Danville leaders ensures a unified, strengthened community college for Southside Virginia.
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Mitts E. Goowin, Jr
Marshatt Haun
VPI
Dana Hamet
Department of Community Colleges
Danville
Danville Community College
Community College System
Commonwealth of Virginia
Danville School Board
Danville Technical Institute
Community College
Goowtwn
Hann and
Hamen
Hamnen
Haun
Virginia
Statf
Gretna to Host Craddock-Terry Shoe Plant
Craddock-Terry Shoe Corp selects Gretna for a new ladies shoe plant part of a Virginia expansion alongside Farmville Chase City Victoria Halifax Lawrenceville and Dillwyn. The facility on ten acres could employ about 275 workers, producing 3600 pairs daily and boosting local growth and confidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gretna
Craddock-Terry Shoe Corporation
Pittsylvania
Craddock-Terry
Lynchburg
Farmville
Chase City
Victoria
Halifax
Lawrenceville
Dillwyn
Ginia
Shoe Corporation
Romney Quits Presidential Bid Ahead of New Hampshire Vote
Governor Grover Romney withdraws from the race for the Republican nomination before the New Hampshire primary. He pledges support to any governor chosen candidate and notes his influence as a non candidate. Liberals back Rockefeller while Nixon remains front runner as Miami Beach convention looms.
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New Hampshire
Michigan
Grover Romney
Romney
Miami Beach
Rockerenter
GOP
Rocky
Richard Nixon
RockEreLier
New York City
Rockefeller
Oregon
Pointblank
Moshefsky
Robert Neyes
Nixon
Romtey
Portland
Ronald Reagan
McCall
Reagan
Ronnie
California
Bill Moshefsky
Prolamenlein
Was Abraham Lincoln a White Supremacist Debate
Reader correspondence challenges an Ebony magazine article by Lerone Bennett Jr. on Lincoln’s views and legacy. The letter discusses historiography as a subjective act, noting debates over Lincoln’s record and the portrayal of his views in historical narratives.
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THE
Register
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln and the Four Absolutes in History
The article reviews Abraham Lincoln through Bennett's lens, noting Lincoln was not an abolitionist but opposed slavery, aimed to preserve the Union, and valued emancipation morally. It highlights the Emancipation Proclamation, Gettysburg Address, and Lincoln’s stance on peace and reconstruction, concluding no man embodies perfect honesty, unselfishness, love, and purity.
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Dreds
Napoleon
United States
Lincoln
North
South
Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Bennett
Edwin Stanton
Buckley on Beatles in India and spiritual culture
William F Buckley Jr critiques Beatle pilgrimage to Rishikesh and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. He contrasts Eastern mysticism with Christian tradition, mocks guru worship, and urges return to Western religio-cultural roots, citing Chesterton and Voltaire. The piece blends satire with defense of Christian faith and English pastoral heritage.
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London
England
Jesus Christ
Rishikesh
India
Genterman
General Motors
Yogi
Ihee
St. Paul
Maharishi Mahesh Fakir
King’s College
Oxford
Chartres Cathedral
John
Chesterton
Gaga
Voltaire
Rules for fiction writers from a controversial column
A provocative guide lists eight cheeky methods for aspiring writers to reach bestseller status. It urges plagiarism, sensational topics, superficiality, inside biographies, provocative stunts, and anti government stances while mocking literary pretension and the life of Riley. The piece questions whether one can live with such choices.
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Manhattan
Warren Court
Pentagon
Walt Disney
Elizabeth Taylor
Riley
James Whitcomb
Kansas City Kansas Plans Gateway to the East Monument
The text playfully contrasts St Louis historic gateway with Kansas City Kansas planning a new feature. It notes constitutional fairness in presidents and jokes about stores staging bargain sales for Millard Fillmore’s birthday.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Kansas
Milard Fillmore
Rockefeller backers in Oregon weigh write-in route
Oregon supporters of Nelson Rockefeller push a grassroots effort through 1968. They clash with Republican pros over funding and strategy, weighing a possible Reagan ticket and a potential write-in campaign if Rockefeller withdraws.
A New Form Of Ransom Exacted For Prisoners
Holmes Alexander argues that the State Department used a covert, publicity driven approach to release three American pilots from North Vietnam in February. He criticizes Dellinger Spock and others as influential pacifists whose involvement signals a shift away from traditional wartime diplomacy and risks weaponizing prisoner exchanges for propaganda.
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Washington, D.C
Redross
North Vietnam
State Department
Frank Sieverts
Pentagon
David Dellinger
Dellinger
Spock
Hanoi
Norris Overly
John David Black
J.g
David Matheny
Dr. Spock
Howard Zinn
Boston University
Daniel Berrigan
Cornell University
Nicholas Katzenbach
New York
David Derringer
Saigon
Hue
South Vietnam
Dillinger Yale
National Mobilization Committee
Vietnam
Inn
Tokyo
Johnson
Bertran Russell
Cuba
Sieverts
Prof
Zinn
Father Berrigan
Japan
Soviet Union
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Danville Register
Associated Press
William F. Buckley, Jr
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Strang
Maharishi
Imodéro Times
Mia Farrow
George Washington
Bonnie Parker
Russell Kirk
John Chamberlain
Nelson Rockefeller
George Romney
Georgia- Pacific Company
Moshofsky
Albany
Bob Ridgley
Portland School Board
Thaddeus Bruno
Tom McCall
Ralph Williams
Professor
U.S
Galbraith
John Dellenback
Forsgren
Bob Hazen
Donnybrook
Holmes Alexander
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