1972 Election Might Be Most Remarkable Yet
Tom Wicker of the New York Times notes 1972 features a crowded candidate field in both parties, expanding state primaries and growing reform movements. He argues open politics could boost popular participation and alter campaign habits and spending.
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Tom Wicker
New York Times
Wicker
Barry Goldwater
Nelson Rockefeller
Richard Nixon
Henry Cabot Lodge
New Hampshire
John Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Lyndon Johnson
Adlai Stevenson
Sen
Muskie
McGovern
Bayh
Jackson
Humphrey
Kennedy
Harris
Oklahoma
Eugene McCarthy
New York
Lindsay
Wilbur Mills
Gov. Gilligan
Ohio
Lester Maddox
Sam Yorty
Rep. McCloskey
California
Nixon
Gov. Reagan
George Wallace
Alabama
Wisconsin
Indiana
Oregon
Florida
North Carolina
Tennessee
New Mexico
Miami Beach
China
America
Wallace Plan Seeks to Stop Utility Tax Shift
Gov George C Wallace proposes barring utilities from passing a four percent tax to customers but utility officials say it would raise rates. At a public Senate hearing, Alabama Gas Corp and others warned the measure would force rate increases and burden consumers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
George C. Wallace
Senate Finance and Taxation Committee
Senate
Wallace
Alex Lacey
Alabama Gas Corp
Public Service Commission
Alabama Power Co
South Central Bell Telephone Co
Five Million In Student Aid Approved For Alabama
The U S Department of Health Education and Welfare approved more than 5 million dollars for student assistant programs at Alabama colleges for fiscal year 1972. The grant was announced by Republican representatives Dickinson Edwards and Buchanan with funds mainly for work study, plus loans and scholarships in nursing and health professions. The governor's position on the bill was to be presented later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D.C
U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Alabama
William L. Dickinson
Montgomery
Jack Edwards
Mobile
John Buchanan
Birmingham
Army drug rehab program at Ft Bragg in disarray
Internal findings to the House Commerce Committee reveal that Fort Bragg’s Operation Awareness program is underfunded and ineffective, with drug use rampant on base and $500000 in equipment stolen or pawned last year to feed narcotics. The report urges discharge for disability and transfer to federal treatment programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Washington
Army
Ft. Bragg
N.C
House Commerce Committee
John Murphy
D-N.y
Murphy
United States Army
Nixon
Fort Bragg
Atlanta
Vietnam
Lee Oswald
Maxitone Forte
Speedy’ Gonzalez
Railroad strikes pay benefits to employers and unions
Viewpoint argues railroads fund weekly benefits averaging 63 dollars for strikers and non-strikers idled by work stoppages, totaling over 37 million dollars in 18 years. It notes federal unemployment insurance, union payments up to 200 dollars monthly, and calls for binding arbitration as strikes disrupt 20 percent of the network.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Railroad Retirement Board
United Transportation Union
James D. Hodgson
Congress
White House
Publishers-Hall Syndicate
Honest to God oaths and the binding of promises
Editorial notes warn against using expressions like honest to God to seal promises and breaking them. The speaker cites Jesus Sermon on the Mount and Jewish reverence for Jehovah, urging that commitments remain binding without invoking God’s name.
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Jesus
God
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By Higo
Martha Mitchell
Bragg
Fayetteville
Control Data Corp
American Research Bureau
Control ‘Data
Peter Langhoff
Viewpoint
David Lawrence
THE
Decatur Daily
W. R. Shelton
Decatur
Tennessee Valley Printing Co., Inc
P.O. Box
Associated Press
Billy Graham
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