Who Now Is Unforthcoming In High Point Beige Project
City editor analyzes High Point urban renewal woes over a million-dollar matching requirement for Harrison Center financing. A misaligned E College Drive bid and state transport delays leave accountability murky as officials dodge responsibility. If grants falter, local taxpayers may face an unplanned extra million.
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High Point
Forrest Cates
Harrison Center
E. College Drive
State Board of Transportation
High Point Chooses Local Prayer Day Over National Proclamation
The High Point Chamber of Commerce committee backs a city council approved simple day of prayer for April 30 after backing a national resolution to designate a National Day of Humiliation Fasting and Prayer. Council members raised concerns over wording and the national guilt concept, leading to the local plan and a hopeful, nonpartisan prayer observance.
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High Point Chamber of Commerce
Paul Clapp
Bob Wells
Wells
High Point
Congress
City Council
First in Nation Turnkey III Homeowner Joe Willis
Joe Willis becomes the nation’s first Turnkey III recipient to buy his federally subsidized home at 806 Kroll Lane Hickory Chapel Woods after a three year wait due to program confusion. The case demonstrates the program's goal of helping eligible buyers acquire equity in a new house.
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Joe Willis
Mr. Willis
Kroll Lane
Hickory Chapel Woods
The 100th Derby Portrait and Derby Day
A retrospective on the Kentucky Derby centennial and the race’s cultural allure. It cites last year’s Triple Crown winner’s uncertain stud future, a crowded field for 100th running, Indy-style entry prospects, and Derby’s social spectacle with crowds, logistics, and mint juleps amid a broader cultural mood.
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Swaps
Whitney Tower
Sports Illustrated
Louisville
Florida
Secretariat
America
Kentucky
Irvin S. Cobb
Cincinnati
Dday
Epsom Downs
England
Los Angeles Times
Jim Murray
Stephen Foster
Volpe Denies Rockwell Favoritism in Federal Contracts
Investigators report alleged government tilt toward Rockwell International by FAA and Coast Guard purchases, claiming lack of competitive bidding and $32 to $50 million potential overrun. Volpe and FAA chief deny ordering Rockwell procurement. evidence cited from witnesses. Also notes energy-office light bulb sweeps, GSA surplus lamps, and a VA contract note favoring Luckman & Associates in California with disputed memo.
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Washington
Rockwell International
John Murphy
D-N.y
Rockwell
Federal Aviation Administration
Transportation
John Volpe
Coast Guard
Murphy
Congress
House Civil Service
Transportation Department
General Services Administration
Laguna Niguel
Calif
GSA
Arthur Sampson
Volpe
Rome
U.S
FAA
John Shaffer
Lucky Luckman
Donald Johnson
Veterans Administration
California
Los Angeles
Loma Linda
Luckman & Associates
Luckman
Johnson
After Tito what Balkan future for Yugoslavia
The piece argues Yugoslavia from 1918 was an ethnographic mix of Serbs, Slovenes, Croats, Hungarians, Albanians and Vlachs with rival blocs and two alphabets. Tito's death raises questions of Soviet plans, Brezhnev Doctrine reach, and Yugoslav internal tensions under national communism amid potential external manipulation.
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Yugoslavia
Serbia
Montenegro
Slovenia
Croatia
Alexander
Communist Party
Bulgaria
Yugoslav
Macedonia
Albania
Josef Broz Tito
Tito
Marshal Tito
Brezhnev
Jan Sejna
Vienna
Red Army
Polarka
Austria
Soviet Union
China
C.sa
Belgrade
U.S.S.R
National whirligig GOP pressure on Nixon rises
Washington reports Michigan's 8th District vote signals a Democratic tilt and questions impeachment. Bob Traxler won by 51.4 percent as 60,000 voters backed Democrats and 57,000 backed Republicans. The piece weighs impeachment politics against party loyalty and fall election risks for Republicans.
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Michigan
Senate
Nixon
Bob Traxler
Washington
Agaiiae
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Joe Brown
Charles A. Mosher
Ohio
Sen
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R-Tenn
Venezuelan Ministry of Mines and Hydrocarbons
Harvey
Moscow
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Finland
Karelian
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Atlanta
Birmingham
Richmond
Hungary
Britain
France
United States
GOP
Ernest Cuneo
North American Newspaper Alliance
Herbert H. Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
White House
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