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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1973
Page
4
The Charlotte News critiques Norman Mailer for Marilyn Monroe a biography that blends fact and speculation. It accuses Mailer of laziness and unreliability for not verifying sources or interviewing key figures, branding the work as self serving and artful deception rather than truth telling.
A life insurance study notes men of working age face higher fatal home accident risk than women though they spend less time at home. The piece imagines a husband joking about staying out to avoid risk, yet such an excuse could itself trigger a fatal incident.
A Winston Salem Sentinel column questions the assumption that the afterlife is higher. It cites transmigration and reincarnation ideas from Hinduism and the Bible as possible lower existences such as animals or rocks. The author notes trees respond to stimuli and suggests a blind man may become a stone next life.
The Thille Citizen notes the Watergate hearings and urges radio and TV coverage of actual lawmaking. A Byrd resolution seeks a committee study to permit networks to broadcast lawmakers in action, arguing broadcasts could educate the public and influence legislators.
The Fayetteville Observer critiques the state government reorganization as flawed since it concentrates power in a few gubernatorial appointees. The resignation of Lee Bounds as state commissioner of corrections prompts calls to reconsider centralization and consider decentralizing political authority within the bureaucracy.
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot notes how language shifts as Americans discuss figures like Senator Sam Ervin Jr. and Tony Ulasewicz. The piece suggests future generations will talk like emcees on television and acknowledges varied dialects during the Watergate era.
The author argues the U S government rests on constrained rulers and empowered people and presses citizens to demand accountability. He recalls founding principles and warns against equating patriotism with symbols while urging vigilance over officials and spending.
A historical meditation on how the U S system withstands abuses of power drawing on Watergate as a test case. It credits investigative reporters courts and Congress with restraining transgressions and notes public indignation and judicial action led by Judge Sirica as proofs of institutional resilience.
A letter to the editor contests an Aug 8 editorial blaming Keynes and inflation sources. The writer argues deficit spending limits, Fed money supply, and government borrowing drive inflation, notes productivity stagnation, and praises North Carolina constitutional balance budgeting to prevent bankruptcy.
Mrs. Sarah McNatt retires Sept 30 after 13 years directing Presbyterian Home special services. Dr. Tony Antonakos wins the Swink Award for 1972-73. A black racer snake is killed after sighting on a dying oak. A humorous tale about a Johannesburg police pantyhose misunderstanding closes the page. Energy resources data highlight U S. reserves and the paradox of energy abundance and scarcity.
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