Dam the River Dam the Arkansas flood control debate in Kansas
The Arkansas Basin Development Association urged the U.S. Corps of Engineers to budget 174000 for a continued study of the upper Arkansas River basin from Great Bend to John Martin Dam. Critics say studies delay action and stress that flood risks and past damages in Garden City and Dodge City demand concrete dams rather than more reports, arguing for decisive flood-control measures west of here.
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Arkansas Basin Development Assn
Dodge City
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Upper
Arkansas River
Great Bend
John Martin Dam
Kansas
Hartland
Arkansas
Lakin
Gulf of Mexico
Here
Garden City
Charleston
Distaff Side reminiscences and 1969 Holcomb milestones
A compact reminiscence of Holcomb tracing 1969 developments on Main Street and a schoolhouse pool plan, recalling 1940s Saturday nights, alongside light notes on Elvis Presley aging and a Christmas poetry book. Includes garden variety local notices and a Steve Canyon strip about Pearl Harbor era memory.
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Holcomb
The Needle by tarsicottin
The Apple tourists deposit expensive litter on the moon drawing attention from Earth garbage issues. Since NASA stirred lunar real estate with a seismic disturbance, concern over California earthquakes has waned. Spreading civilization’s complications to the moon’s underprivileged areas aims to enable Mars and Jupiter ventures.
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Earth
NASA
California
Moon
Mars
Jupie
Rhodes First Suggested Calling Congress Back
Washington Republicans discuss a possible December 26 return to vote on appropriations. Nixon asserts Congress will come back by year’s end or risk a January resumption. The debate covers tax reforms, social security, and department funding, with pressure to act promptly.
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Washington
White House
Nixon
Congress
Bryce Harlow
Treasury
Harlow
Arizona
John Rhodes
House
Rhodes
Colorado
Gordon Allott
Senate
Mansfield
Michigan
Robert Griffin
GOP
Maryland
Rogers C. B. Morton
Norman Mailer through a critic's wary lens
William Buckley surveys Norman Mailer as a major literary figure and a symbol of postwar America. He notes Mailer's vivid metaphors and hipster sensibility, while labeling him a contradictory blend of conservatism and left leaning tendencies. The piece weighs Mailer's impact, worldview, and the contentious nature of his satire and social critique.
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Norman Mailer
Life Magazine
Brock Brewer
Mailer
Mailers
Life
America
United States
Jobless Figures Question Economic Health Analysis
AP Business analysis questions the reliability of monthly unemployment data as an economic barometer. It notes sharp shifts in figures from 3.5 to 4 percent and back to 3.5 percent, urging scrutiny of methodology and broader factors behind labor trends.
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Fort Ord
Calif
Army
L. Mendel Rivers
House Armed Services
Charles Porter
Mailer
Gomorrah
Hell
John Conniff
NEW York
Labor Department
Nixon
New York Cab Drivers Change With a New Breed
For years NYC cabbies were known for their map knowledge and chatty style. Today riders report drivers refuse to go to Queens and rarely engage, while directions from Columbus Circle to Rockefeller Plaza stump even veterans. The shift includes jammed streets, a faulty push button meter, and drivers offering opinions a listener cannot hear.
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Louise Cook
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
New York City
Waldorf-Astoria
Queens
Columbus Circle
Rockefeller Plaza
Manhattan
Park Avenue
69Th
54Th
Lexington
New York
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Elvis Presley
Elvis
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Erskine Caldwell
James Duncan Place
Steve Canyon
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Kansas Press
THE
Kansas State
Jack Anderson
Morton
Hugh
Hugh Scott
Scott
Charles Walker
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Griffin
Gore
Allott
Treasury Department
William Buckley
Telegram Publishing Company
LeRoy Altman
John Frasier
Editopee
Barden City
Marx
Freud
U Thant
Business Mirror
Boyle Substitute
Eugene Sheffer
Creta
Board of
Turkishmen Regiment
Remaney Arden
Arrow Poison
Industri
Miatg
Cryptoquips
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