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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1972
Page
4
The piece recounts a former official's personal regard for President Truman detailing his resolve during wartime decisions, such as the atomic bomb orders, and commends his typified honesty, self-education, and constitutional devotion. It notes Truman's inaugural Point Four program and moral debates surrounding wartime actions.
The piece argues NC aims to curb the National Teacher Examination by adding subjective interviews and personal traits as chief criteria. Supporters doubt the NTE and push for retaining subject knowledge as essential, warning against relying on charisma and social skills alone.
The article reflects on former presidents who died in old age or after retirement, noting Truman’s death at 88 and comparing Hoover Eisenhower Grant and Johnson. It recalls Lincoln's era among early successors and Lincoln’s death alongside Adams and Jefferson, framing longevity and final days in presidential history.
Justice Department quietly surveys six of seven Watergate defendants for guilty pleas to curb trial exposure. White House seeks to avoid public embarrassment and possible disclosures of complicity. Gordon Liddy and other aides face disbarment risk if they plead guilty. Defense sources cite informal contacts but no hard discussions have begun.
The piece questions who funds high priced defense lawyers for several defendants, noting none will disclose backers while Rothblatt and Pittman loom large. It also reports Nixon donors delaying ambassador posts, and bureaucrats misusing funds for holiday greetings. Newsmen in the Pentagon are reassigned as security staff with strict checks.
King Features columnist John P. Roche discusses how to pick a college, warning that catalog statistics can mislead. He notes the limits of student teacher ratios, the uneven distribution of faculty effort, and the need to weigh personal factors like location, size, coeducation, and friends.
A North American Newspaper Alliance column argues that a 35 percent female work force and rising independence strain the balance with child care needs. It stresses the mother’s role in bearing and nursing children, the need for affection, and contrasts US lag in day care with broader social shifts toward working mothers and new domestic routines.
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