It Didn’t Start With Watergate reviewers weigh Lasky book
A Nixon apologist view by Victor Lasky titled It Didn’t Start With Watergate is discussed. The piece notes Lasky’s past as a World War II correspondent and Nixon family ghostwriter, and William Safire’s pro Nixon stance and Times column. It argues the book is not objectively balanced and compares it to other Watergate memoirs.
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John Dean
Leon Jaworski
Watergate
Alliance Syndicate
Lasky
Nixon
Safire
New York Times
Times
Supreme Court rules masking license plate slogans permissible
The high court held that freedom of speech allows individuals to avoid displaying non vital mottoes on license plates. The ruling concerns masking Live Free Or Die in New Hampshire and First in Freedom in North Carolina, with dissent by Justices Blackmun and Rehnquist.
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High Court
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Blackmun
Rehnquist
The
Historical Book Club of
John Haley
High Point
Emerywood Country Club
C.T. Latimer Jr
George W. Lyles Jr
Baxter Freeze
Greensboro
Rose Garden
Longet Sentencing Delayed Anew In Colorado Case
The Longet case moves forward as she begins 30 days for criminally negligent homicide with a nine month window to serve. Judge George Lohr notes delay could ease burden on Longet's three children during summer vacation and remodeling of her cell.
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Claudine Longet
Colorado
Miss Longet
George Lohr
Ambassadors Of Goodwill and the Politics of Sport
A 1959 Soviet summer camp visit by American youths ends in a volleyball rout as part of Cold War exchanges. The Cuba trip of U.S. players from two South Dakota colleges sparks debate over whether sports build understanding or serve propaganda, with figures like Red Auerbach weighing in.
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Soviet Union
Pioneers
Communist Party
Cuba
South Dakota
Red Auerbach
Boston Celtics
United States
U.S
China
Nixon
Bowie Kuhn
New York Yankees
Nixon loyalists form February Group to revisit Watergate era
About 132 ex Nixon aides formed the February Group, with 72 showing interest in a San Clemente pilgrimage to reminisce with Nixon. Charles Chuck Colson is the only major Watergate figure known to attend meetings, while John Dean has not joined. The group plans quarterly gatherings after Labor Day and was urged by Nixon to keep distance from him.
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Washington
San Clemente
Richard Nixon
Nixon
White House
W. Dewey Glover
Glover
Congress
Washington, D.C
United States
Hatchetman
Charles
Chuck’’ Colson
John Dean
GOOD AFTERNOON Singing Praises Of Soviet Cruise Ship
Mrs Elizabeth Austin writes from the Indian Ocean about booking from San Francisco to Sydney but switching to the Mikhail Lermontov one of eight Baltic S S Co ships. The ship offers a round the world itinerary via Colombo Suez Cairo Piraeus Naples Leningrad Bremerhaven Copenhagen Visby Stockholm Helsinki with Russians as crew and 90 percent Australian New Zealand passengers plus a few Europeans. She praises the ship’s features and notes no tipping, Russian films, and a 14-18 hour workday for crew. Her intended voyage continues to Moscow then the Trans Siberian to Vladivostok and Alaska.
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Elizabeth Austin
Indian Ocean
San Francisco
Sydney
Australia
Mikhail Lermontov
London
Colombo
Sri Lanka
Suez Canal
Port Said
Cairo
Pireaus
Naples
Leningrad
Bremerhave
Europe
North America
New Zealand
United Kingdom
United States
Austin
Brothers Karamazov
Soviet Union
Wladivostock
Alaska
Greyhound
Sam
Capital Viewpoint Hope For Young Homeowners
The column surveys housing inflation hurdles and proposes ideas to aid first time buyers. Ideas include interestonly initial mortgage plans, FHA payment ramps, and an Individual Housing Account with taxdeferred interest to build a downpayment, aiming to ease earlylife homeownership.
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Seattle
Springfield Friends Meeting
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Springfield
Piedmont Shrine Club
Herbert McClure
Enterprise
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Antiques Journal
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