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Newspaper
Garden City Telegram
Location
Garden City, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1968
Page
2
The piece argues polls show movement and attitudes rather than predicting outcomes and notes human factors beyond polling. It calls for electoral reform debates, cites a strong third party, and praises the orderly 75 million voter turnout and post-election unity efforts.
A satirical column surveys Christmas shopping fads from aqua bathroom tissue to redecorating, jokes about Dr Bernard and a South African highway sign, laments growing up of sons, and mocks Halloween jack-o-lanterns as Christmas approaches with Mrs Beasley, toy boxes, and comic panels.
Hal Boyle notes America grows more vice presidents and larger shoe sizes as car ownership rises. The piece comments on aging autos, farmers' shift to machinery, and feats from Edward Whymper to the Matterhorn. Also mentions holiday symbols and multilingual Love buttons.
Washington reports an unprecedented wave of retirements and resignations among career diplomats and the State Department’s seventh floor on January 20. Key figures leaving include Bohlen Thompson Bruce Harriman Bowles, plus ambassadors to India Spain London and Germany and others across the foreign service. The shakeup risks disrupting policy amid delicate Southeast Asia Near East issues. Howard Samuels drives the SBA Project Own to foster Negro-owned businesses in ghettos nationwide, aiming for 10,000 new enterprises annually.
The piece contrasts Jacqueline Kennedy and Lady Bird Johnson decorating and beautifying, while Pat Nixon cleans up in Washington. It notes Mrs Nixon might groan about Texas boots in the closet as Richard Nixon remains in the glare of public life.
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Art Buchwald surveys the looming Super Cooper jet scandal with designer Rudolph Hammilfinger airline exec Rodney Clover airport managers Timothy Merryweather FAA and Congress, noting airports and funding lag as 567 seat planes loom and potential chaos grows.
Washington AP reports physicist Ralph E. Lapp calls Apollo 8 a risky gamble and urges delaying the mission to add rescue options. Astronaut Frank Borman counters that risks are acceptable for a worthwhile goal. Sir Bernard Lovell warned of undue dangers to life.
Communist candidate Guy Duccione led the first round for a National Assembly seat in a working class Paris suburb with 19 367 votes to Gaullist Roger Barberot's 13 767. about 7 000 votes went to others. Duccione had won June 23 but the Constitutional Council nullified that result over irregularities.
AP analysis from Los Angeles notes the failure of fine tuning as a tool of fiscal and monetary policy. It recalls the 1964 tax cut and 1965 spending surge, inflation pressures, and imperfect forecasts. The piece discusses Dr. Paul McCracken’s appointment and ponders whether this marks an end to a Keynesian era.
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