Goverors pressure Nixon fuel plan and speed rules
Governors voice opposition and support for the presidents energy plan in Congress. Virginia sets a 55 mph statewide limit while Illinois faces trucker resistance. Enforcement emerges as the key to fuel-saving compliance across states.
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Nixon
Congress
Daniel J. Evans
Washington
National Governors Conference
Evans
Virginia
Linwood Holton
Holton
Teamsters Union
Chicago
Illinois
Giant Report Cards Stir Dallas Schools Debate
In Dallas the school district introduces oversized report cards and a lengthy instruction book on new assessment terms like Terminal Behavioral Objectives. A board member calls the card a monster, predicting parental confusion as schools move away from traditional grades toward broader progress metrics. The column lampoons jargon and suggests simpler solutions for child assessment.
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Dallas
James Jennings
New York
Ecology or Social Revolution by Environmentalists
A critical essay argues environmentalists push for utopian aims, aided by the Institute for Policy Studies and Georgia Power Project. It claims activism delays energy projects from Alaska oil to nuclear plants, warning IPS seeks Marxist outcomes and a socialist state, leveraging public mood for revolution. The piece accuses environmental groups of deceiving innocents to slow American industry.
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Marx
Lenin
Nechayev
Georgia Power Project
GPP
Georgia
Institute For Policy Studies
Washington
IPS
Arthur Waskow
America
Capitol Hill
Reagan's Good Beginning in California Vote
Washington notes Ronald Reagan gained 46 percent support for Proposition One, a bold plan to curb deficits and return money to citizens. The piece argues Reagan educates voters, faces stiff opposition from entrenched powers, and could prevail in 1976 with more time to build support for fiscal reform.
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Washington, D.C
Ronald Reagan
California
Reagan
United States
Rockefeller
New York
Connally
Texas
Lberal
How To Save Children From Television
Russell Kirk argues that commercial TV harms children, urging reading over TV and praising Cricket, a magazine for children. He contrasts TV’s passive gaze with books and suggests testing TV versus a full Cricket run to see which better nourishes imagination.
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Cricket
Go Right Ahead Inspires Visit To Mosque of Omar
A letter to the editor argues that religious shrines fall under their denominations not Israeli rule and urges King Faisal to honor Abrahamic covenants. It cites Newsweek views and Genises scripture, endorsing Zionism as a bridge between Asia and Europe and predicting Palestine as a center of ideas.
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Faisal
Abraham
Omar
Golda Meir
Egypt
Jordan
Israel
Newsweek
Christendom
Palestine
God
Canaan
Europe
Mark Sykes
Asia
League of Nations
Parting Shots and Politically Piercing Quips
A poll ranks Congressman Sludgepump near the bottom for intelligence, industry and integrity. He calls the honor representative of his people. Watergate principals, if cleared on other charges, could still face aggravated assault on the English language. A bureaucratic friend ends a long career as a public servant, claiming to have served a department so unimportant that a scandal would go unnoticed.
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Sludgepump
Watergate
Nixon tax rumors and the 1952 secret fund revisited
The piece reviews past and present claims about Nixon tax behavior and a 1952 front page on a so called secret fund. It argues earlier reporting was accurate, notes the fund was legitimate and scrupulously administered, and contrasts Nixon with Stevenson. It asserts no illegal activity, stressing memory of the public and media context.
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James A. Wechsler
New York Post
Providence Journal-Bulletin
Nixons
Nixon
U.S
Wechsler
Nixon Fund
Secret Rich Man's Fund
Leo Katcher
Post
Los Angeles
Katcher
Richard Donovan
Ernest Brashear
Los Angeles Daily News
California
Dana Smith
William Rogers
Adlai Stevenson
Gibson, Dunn , and Crutcher
Price Waterhouse
the Post
Danville Register Subscription Rates and Delivery
The Danville Register lists subscription prices for daily and Sunday editions, by carrier or mail, with daily carrier pay at 50 cents per week and mail rates of one year at 20 dollars, six months ten dollars and fifty cents, three months five dollars and twenty five cents, or one month one dollar seventy five cents. Notices remind renewals should be promptly addressed and notices mailed ten days before expiration.
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Senator Soaper
Dad
Earth
Holmes Alexander
Russell Kirk
Box 100
LaSalle
Ill
Open Court
Times
John Martin
Child Life
J.R.R. Tolkien
Marianne Carus
Clifton Fadiman
G.K. Chesterton
Greece
Jeffrey Hart
Danville
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