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Newspaper
Greeley Daily Tribune
Location
Greeley, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1972
Page
2
Editorial page offering analysis and interpretation of current affairs. Comments and opinions reflect the Tribune's stance on local and national issues, aiming to illuminate complex topics for readers. The piece engages readers through measured critique and context.
A dated note for Friday December 20 mentions signs in the sun and moon and stars and distress on earth with perplexity as the sea and waves roared. A biblical verse Luke 21 25 is quoted, framing the reflection.
The official totals show Nixon winning by the largest vote margin ever with 17,971,294 more votes than George McGovern. He secured 520 electoral votes to 17 for McGovern, the second widest margin in history after Roosevelt-Landon. Nixon's 60.7 percent of ballots fell just short of Johnson's 61.1 in 1964.
The article warns the year end holiday period may push U S highway deaths to about 56 000, 2300 more than 1971 and 1000 more than 1969, with excessive drinking heavily linked to accidents. Dr Slade Hulbert notes driving is impaired even below legal intoxication levels and attention can lag among drivers, raising crash risk as holidays peak.
The Pieta statue in St. Peter’s Basilica has been restored after Laszlo Toth damaged it last May. Photographers have been allowed to document the work as authorities plan future display safeguards including electronic protection and a reinforced glass screen. Visitors may return once protection is in place.
Joseph Alsop reflects on Kunming's rise from a remote exile city under the Manchu to a modern industrial and university center. He notes vast highway expansion from 3,000 to 30,000 kilometers, new rail and air links, large factory complexes, urban modernization, and a surge in provincial output from 180 million to 5 billion dollars while warning about persistent income gaps and regional disparities. The piece compares Kunming to a Midwest industrial city circa 1900 in its rapid build up and cautions about remaining provincial inequalities.
Readable portions show a Greeley Daily Tribune fragment with garbled names and affiliations. The text hints at Republican and local figures but provides no clear event, date, or outcome to summarize.
In a Greeley column by Jim Briggs the piece reflects on Harry S Truman and a Denver visit, recounting an autograph moment and a broader glimpse into folklore quotes from readers. It includes light notes on a peculiar Navy household incident and a Lucy call about growing up.
A compact history roundup for December 29 notes key events: 1934 Japan withdrew from the Washington Naval Treaty, 1845 Texas joined the Union, 1808 birth of Andrew Johnson in Raleigh, and World War I and World War II era notes. Also mentions 1960s-70s items, including Klan cases and Vietnam air strikes, plus birthdays for cellist Casats and actress Lindfors.
A dated promotional piece argues youth as future drivers of work and society. It emphasizes sensory learning, parental guidance, and home school input to foster academic success, self evaluation, and continuous progress, urging families to design their own good learning life.
The Seventh-day Adventist Church in Greeley reports a 6016 total raised in this year’s World Service Appeal. Volunteers from the church and public contributed without overhead, channeling funds to humanitarian needs abroad. The pastor Sidney W. Maelish thanks supporters for aiding crises and fostering brotherhood across races.
Louisiana Attorney General William J. Guste releases a preliminary report from a bipartisan state investigating committee into the November 16 incident at Southern University Baton Rouge in which two Black students were killed by police. The remarks call the tragedy a worst sort of event and emphasize it should not have happened.
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