Democrats Seek Bloodless Primaries Amid 1972 Hopes
In an editorial dated December 18 1970 the piece weighs the feasibility of presidential primaries as North Carolina mulls the idea. It cites Hubert Humphrey urging restraint against costly primaries while McGovern Muskie Hughes and Bayh signal interest.
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North Carolina
Hubert Humphrey
Chicago
Richard Mixon
Humphrey
George McGovern
South Dakota
Edmund Muskie
Maine
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Birch Bayh
Indiana
Nixon
Senate approves SIPC insurance for investors’ brokerage losses
The Senate passed a plan creating the Securities Investor Protection Corporation to insure investors against brokerages failures up to 20000 with a fund funded by brokerage revenues. If needed the fund can borrow up to 1 billion from the Treasury, signaling broad coverage while Congress negotiates final details.
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Securities Investor Protection Corporation
SIPC
U. S. Treasury
New York Stock
NYSE
House
Wall Street
Securities and Exchange Commission
Intellectual Shift Affects Radicalism In 1960s Era Debates
In a rare cultural reversal, prominent intellectuals including Nathan Glazer Norman Podhoretz and Philip Rahv reexamine radicalism in the 1960s. They critique New Left excess while noting shifts in personal ideologies amid debates over conservatives and reform.
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America
Nathan Glazer
Harvard
Norman Podhoretz
Making
Philip Rahv
Partisan
Review
New Left
Modern Occasions
Rahv
Black Panthers
Women’s Liberation Movement
New York Review of Books
Charles A. Reich
the Greening of
Podhoretz
Glazer
Army Trimming Waste in Defense Budget and Manpower
The Nixon administration and Congress seek to curb waste in the Defense Department by cutting fiscal proposals and targetting manpower inefficiencies. Reports note overmanned armed services with soldiers performing trivial tasks and long-serving volunteers serving as aides, including bootlicking as a career field. A Pentagon study highlights surplus manpower and wasteful practices across the services.
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Washington
Nixon
Defense Department
Defense
Pentagon
Congress
U. S
Armed Services
Army wastes skilled recruits in wrong jobs report says
Bound Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs discusses the Army's failure to use trained skills of 1969 college graduates. Among 41 974 graduates, 5 722 had relevant training but only 222 were placed in matching jobs. Architects, accountants and soil scientists were often misassigned despite vacancies and taxpayer expense.
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U. S
Vietnam
Army
Keene Peterson
Pentagon
Joe Spear
Peterson
Hester Leads Export Firm Linking Aerospace Talent Abroad
Jerry Hester, head of International Trade Operations, oversees a California firm with offices in Washington and Europe and Asia exporting aerospace expertise. Amid defense cuts, the venture seeks foreign work for U.S. engineers while noting 1971 layoff projections and global demand for skilled know how.
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Jerry Hester
Walter Hesters
International Trade Operations, Inc
Washington
West Germany
Italy
France
Taiwan
South Africa
Hester
ITO
U. S
Japan
Pakistan
Iran
California
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W.idol, JR
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N.C
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Bob Moore
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Thomasville
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Youth Unlimited
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Channel 8
Kallabash Corporation
Jesus Christ
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Jamestown
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Doug Brackett
Southern Furniture Manufacturers Association
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U. S. Agency For International Development
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Westchester Academy, Inc
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Charles B. Deane Jr
Rockingham
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