92-Year-Old Blacksmith Credits Faith and Work ethic
Mack Smith, 92, runs a repair shop in Bell Arthur and continues to work weekdays. He recalls a long life shaped by faith in God, regular labor, and minimal medical treatment, with tales of close calls, a housing move in 1911, and his long marriage beginning before Pearl Harbor.
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Bel Arthur
N.C
Mack Smith
Duan
Bell Arthur
Pitt County
Offie
Glendora Smith
Grimesland
Proctor Brothers
Pearl Harbor
Smith
Mack Ray
Pitt
Chinery
Durham
County
Cecil C. Smith
Emma Lee Crumpecker
Manteo
Duke University Law School
Hilton
Raleigh
Layton
Edith Mae
Dorothy
Ballard’s
Greenville
Farmville
Mack M. Smith
Nixon's Legislation Advances in Nixon Years
Nixon and aides predict major domestic wins for 1972 including welfare reform and revenue sharing. Klein cites bold changes and a $15.8 billion tax cut while MacGregor notes Senate hurdles and hopes for swift action next year.
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Washington
Nixon
Klein
Newsmen
Senate Finance Committee
House
MacGregor
Mills
Economic Year Review of 1971 Trains and Insurance Profits
The year saw railroads running on time and insurers posting $600 million in profits after years of losses. Growth in housing, a currency realignment, and resilient savings supported a year many feared would falter. Inflation and unemployment remained fears, but production and retail sales held firm as forecasts point to stronger 1972.
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Smith
Grimesland
John Whichard
Leon Phelps
Dunn Roundhouse
New York
Amtrak
Insurance Information Institute
Washington
Brandt’s Rise From Exile to West German Chancellor
Willy Brandt, once attacked as an emigré outcast, becomes West Germany’s first Social Democratic chancellor and a Nobel laureate. He travels to meet President Nixon in Florida to discuss enlarging the European Common Market and East West issues. Brandt governs with a slim Bundestag majority while shaping Europe’s political landscape.
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Germany
West Germany
Willy Brandt
Nixon
Key Biscayne
Fla
Europe
Konrad Adenauer
Charles de Gaulle
France
Brandt
East
United States
Bundestag
Willy Brand
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Edmond Lebreton
Herbert G. Klein
White House
Clark MacGregor
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D-La
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United States Senate
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Ways, Land Means Committee
Wilbur D. Mills
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Guilford Optical CO
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