New York City Faces Financial Crisis Without Federal Bailout
President Ford rejected a federal guarantee for New York City's debts as a relief path. Mayor Abe Beame and local leaders urged federal action while Humphrey proposed moving to the Capitol steps. The city must cut operations to align with income of about 9 billion annually, having spent 3.3 billion more than its revenue.
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New York City
White House
Ford
Hubert Horatio Humphrey
Minnesota
Abe Beame
Capitol Steps
U. S
Beame
New York
Sen
Harry F. Byrd Jr
Virginia Independent
United States
India
Byrd
U.S
Soviet Union
Moscow
Urgency to oppose surrender and fear tactics in arms control debate
The piece denounces a Senate subcommittee push for alarming casualty estimates from a Soviet strike, arguing it would paralyze resolve. It contends the radicals’ aim is to spread panic and push for surrender while urging reliance on superior defenses and assured retaliation to deter aggression.
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Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee
Defense Department
Pentagon
Defense
James R. Schlesinger
More Wealth In The Desert From The Jojoba Bush
A three year study by National Academy of Sciences experts finds the jojoba plant could spark a multimillion dollar desert economy for Western Indians where unemployment reaches 90 percent in some reservations. Oil from jojoba seeds closely matches sperm whale oil used in high pressure greases, offering a substitute as sperm oil becomes scarce due to conservation.
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Southwest
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council
Women Eligible for Rhodes Scholarships Start Next Year
Scholarly women at last may compete for the two year Rhodes Scholarships created by Cecil Rhodes in 1902. The Oxford prizes, valued around 5000 dollars, would boost careers and long denied women. Approval by the House of Commons remains required before eligibility extends.
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Oxford University
Cecil Rhodes
Rhodes
Oxford
House of Commons
Joan Or Arc
Push Unwanted Aid On Any Nation
Washington reports that George Kennan, the State Department liberal voice, urges halting all foreign aid to nations that accept it yet oppose U.S. interests. He argues aid should be withdrawn if a country brands American aid as imperialist and acts against U.S. goals.
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Washington
George Kennan
State Department
Kennan
United States
Kennon
Byrd
Thatcher on New York TV Shows British Reform Ambition
William Buckley Jr. interviews Margaret Thatcher in New York highlighting her goal to revive Britain and her insistence that sex does not determine political qualification. The piece notes audience reactions, Thatcher's calm deflection of questions, and expectations of growth in GDP and inflation control if she becomes prime minister.
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Mrs. Thatcher
Thatchher
Great Britaan
Women's Liberation Movement
Buckingham Palace
Great Britain
Thatcher
America
Sun Center
Times Square
Charles Manson
Eric Sevareid
Walter Cronkite
John Chancellor
Titans of
American Communications
Byrd
Indira
Gandhi
India
Prass
Pakistan
Doomsday Machine at Work in Cities
M Stanton Evans reveals how public employee unions use strikes to extort higher taxes and harsher service cuts. He cites Cal Coolidge and recent urban clashes, detailing factors fueling militant unions and their political leverage over governments.
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Ralph de Toledano
Arlington House
Toledano
American Federation of State
American Federation of Teachers
National Education Assn
Jerry Wurfs
Albert Shankers
Miss America snubs grits in Augusta breakfast clash
Tawny Elaine Godin, the new Miss America, provokes Southern debate by declining grits served with breakfast in Augusta Georgia. The column laments compulsory gritism, suggests she could promote Virginia-bred ham instead, and mocks Southern culinary tradition with a poking, era style voice.
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Tawny
Elaine Godin
South
Deep South
Augusta
Miss Godin
Senator Soaper on monuments and public scorn
A satirical piece likens monuments to a derby hat in need of citizen denunciation. It jokes that public body backlash defines success and mocks the great whooping crane’s name. It compares diplomacy to wrestling and notes wives wearing revolutionary era Bicentennial fashion.
Reagan In The Pool And In The Headlines
Holmes Alexander weighs Ronald Reagan’s potential 1976 bid as he swims at Burning Tree. The piece notes Laxalt’s forecast of a nationwide primary run, references Rockefeller and Kennedy, and hints at GOP family politics aimed at appealing to the political tribe surrounding Ford.
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Washington, D.C
Burning Tree
Ronald Reagan
South Lawn
Richard Nixon
USA
GOP
Reagan
Nevada
Paul Laxalt
California
Sierras
Northwest
Laxalt
New Hampshire
Carolinas
Nelson Rockefeller
Rocky
Bo Calloway
Dartmouth College
New York
White House
John Kennedy
Kennedy
Adlai Stevensan
Estes Kefauver
Ron Reagan
Betty
Gerald Ford
Fords
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Holmes Alexander
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