A Daily Checkup Helps Neighbors Save Elderly Women
In Ottawa County Kansas a 84 and 90 year old women survived a storm after sheltering in a storm cellar only to become prisoners when the heavy steel door wouldn’t open. A caring neighbor alerted her son who freed them after four hours. The piece urges daily welfare checks or a public call service for elderly residents to prevent tragedy.
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Ottawa County
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Garden City
Peace Corps shines amid flaws and aging glamour
Michael P. Rbalzano of ACTION writes that Jack Anderson misleads about the Peace Corps current state. Volunteers in 68 developing nations, 7,300 now serving and 62,000 past volunteers, demonstrate enduring idealism and broadening experience. He argues the program remains America’s finest foreign relations undertaking despite imperfections and ongoing challenges.
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Jack Anderson
Peace Corps
Somalia
U.S
Sahel
Nepal
Nicaragua
Michael P. Rbalzano
Action
Washington, D.C
Crosswords by Eugene Sheffer ACROSS AND DOWN PUZZLE NOTES
The puzzle lists clues for across and down entries with numerous terse hints and partial answers. It includes references to literature figures like Fitzgerald and varied wordplay such as synonyms and tool names. The day’s cryptogram line at bottom merges coded letters into a phrase, and a separate Cryptoquip line provides key phrases like AMIABLE HOBO TIRED AM BLED TILL HE HITCHED CAR RIDE.
Notable quotes from 1960s commencement speakers at Harvard
Dr. M Judah Folkman urged graduates to repay medical debt by serving patients and learning from mistakes. John Kenneth Galbraith recalled the "gentleman C," while Dick Gregory pressed ethics and prison care. George Cabot Lodge warned of eroding ideas and urged new definitions to avert crisis and dictatorship.
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School of Dental Medicine
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Dick Gregory
George Cabot Lodge
EPA drinking water standards slammed as weak travesty
Environmental Defense Fund calls the new EPA drinking water rules a travesty arguing they fail to filter cancer causing substances and merely echo 1962 health recommendations. The report notes 92.1 percent of communities meet these standards, while EPA defends the measures as non fatal, labeling cited substances as suspects.
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Environmental Defense Fund
EPA
Bible Thought on the righteous Branch prophecy
A reflective benediction links Jeremiah 23 5 to a view of life as a branch with the Divine. It asserts humankind as a part of a larger whole, a wig a leaf and a partner in the life of faith and creation.
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David
Jeremiah
White collar crime crackdown outlined by President Ford
Garden City Telegram reports President Ford outlining a tough white collar crime program. The aides describe penalties for campaign contributions, defense overcharging, and other offenses, with emphasis on prosecutions and nonviolent remedies. The interview notes potential punishments and policy scope across corporate fraud, price fixing, and graft cases.
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Washington
Ford
Congress
White House
U.S
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