Back To Basics urged to raise U S education standards
A survey and opinions from educators, government officials, and taxpayers question whether American students are improving. HEW and NAEP results show mixed progress since the 1960s, with teachers noting declining writing and reading in freshmen while overall student performance has risen in past decades. A return to basics is urged to sharpen instruction in the three R's.
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Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Hew
Big Three Resume Full Auto Plant Operation
The article notes all 69 Ford plants are operating again for the first time since November while Chrysler and General Motors also run at full capacity this week. It cites a 10 percent drop in auto layoffs at Ford and 6,500 fewer layoffs at Chrysler, arguing for a potential economy turnaround but warns against premature optimism. It links auto industry health to national economy and energy policy, urging swift energy relief and cautioning that higher gas taxes could keep unemployment high.
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General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
United States
Congress
Sen
Henry
Scoop
Peking
House
Senate
Republican Party
Kissinger Faces Impasse in Sinai Peace Talks
Secretary Kissinger and President Ford face frustration as Israel’s intransigence blocks progress toward an Arab Israeli accord. Sadat signals willingness to concede, but a dispute over wording on use of force sinks the talks. The breakdown risks wider Middle East instability amid the King Faisal assassination fallout.
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Henry Kissinger
Ford
Kissinger
Israel
Anwar al-Sadat
Egypt
United States
Sadat
Geneva
Faisal
Middle East
Conflict Between Spirit And Flesh In Oil Policy
Secretary Morton argues the United States can curb the Arab oil cartel by using three domestic fuels oil natural gas and coal more efficiently OPEC controls prices and output but environmental delays and public opposition hinder new supply projects like the Alaskan pipeline chairman Sen Adlai Stevenson III listens as Morton cites American resilience and resource abundance.
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Washington, D.C
Rogers Morton
Sen Adlai Stevenson
OPEC
Morton
United States
Federal Power Commission
Texas
Oklahoma
Stevenson
Simon
Sawhill
Zarb
Congress
James Lynn
The
Bureau of
Nixon In Perspective Through Kennedy Beefs and Press Wars
William F Buckley Jr reviews excerpts from an intimate Kennedy book via Playboy and Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee. The piece frames Nixon as uniquely reactive and critiques Kennedy’s press tactics, war records probes, and Camelot dynamics amid energy policy debates and Congress battles.
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Nixon
Washington Post
Benjamin Bradlee
John Kennedy
Playboy
Kennedy
Bradlee
LBJ
Texas
California
Mllnois
Daley
Chicago
Hingis
Conservatives Have No Political Home in 1976 Realignment
Ralph de Toledano argues the Democratic left seeks a strong candidate while Republicans fracture under Nelson Rockefeller influence. He suggests conservatives may abandon the GOP, forming a third party led by a national figure to preserve core principles.
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Washington
Democratic Parity
Michael Harrington
Massachusetts
Americans For Democratic Action
Feft
Chicago
Allard Lowenstein
New York
Lowenstein
White House
Nelson Rockefeller
Donald Rumsfeld
H. R. Haldeman
Rumsfeld
Mr. Ford
Coventry
Robert Hartmann
GOP
Rockefeller Center
Susan Ford a Real Teen in White House Life
Susan Ford, 17, daughter of the President, in a recent Associated Press interview, reveals an ordinary teen side. She gets an allowance, babysits, teases her father, and wears jeans at the White House. She dislikes reading newspapers and did not follow Watergate or the Washington trial while having a steady blind-date boyfriend.
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Susan Ford
United States
Ford
Associated Press
Oval Office
White House
Washington
Parting Shot in a Garden Tale of Parking Woes
A humorous aside notes Adam and Eve leaving Eden due to no parking. A friend who faced earlier mood lows hopes this time he won’t be called a “little man.”
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Adam and Eve
Garden of Eden
Boobus Americanus Alive in Silver Springs Satire
A polemical column mocks 1920s cultural critics and a Silver Springs Lenten bulletin. It lampoons liberal hero lists pairing Gandhi and Mary with Dick Gregory and Ralph Nader, calling the mix a liberal yahoo compilation. The piece volumes a critique of modern church and politics, ending with Boobus Americanus alive in Silver Springs.
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H. L. Mencken
Mencken
Sahara
American South
Sinclair Lewis
Boston
Calvin Coolidge
George ¥. Babbitt
Zenith
Philistine
Jesus Christ
Babbitt
Mencken and Lewis
Church of Christ the King
Silver Springs
John J. Dressel
Bulletin
Mary
Gandhi
Moses
Dick Gregory
Mother Teresa
Cesar Chavez
Pope John
Dag Hammarskhold
Sic
Isaiah
Martin Luther King, Jr
Ralph Nader
John the Baptist
Mother Seton
Dag
King
Chlc
Gregory
Chavez
Nader
Mozart
Virgin Mary
M. L. King
Yahoo
UFW
Peking
Lewis
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Hubert Humphrey
Old Nelson
Solomon Islands
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Steel Companies
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