North Carolina Hopes Rise in Blue Ridge Power Case
The Blue Ridge hydroelectric project faces fresh hurdles as opponents leverage a recent environmental review ruling. If delays push licensing two years, West Virginia polluters may be pressured to clean up at the source. The Winston-Salem Journal warns the plan would flood NC and VA land without benefiting locals.
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Blue Ridge
North Carolina
Raleigh
West Virginia
Appalachian Power Company
Blue Ridge Mountains
Federal Power Commission
Interior Department
Power
Kanawha
Virginia
Power Company
Winston-Salem Journal
Piedmont Crescent faces transit crisis call for new funding
Fred Mills argues against using highway funds for mass transit while noting highway expansion can't keep pace with demand. He urges private financing for transit and warns that I 85 congestion, future road builds, and stalled planning threaten mobility in the Piedmont region.
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Piedmont Crescent
North Carolina
Fred Mills
State Department of Transportation and Highway Safety
Raleigh
Mills
Charlotte
Durham
Triad
Cosmopolitan goes British with Helen Brown influenced edition
The British Cosmopolitan to launch with Joyce Hopkirk as editor and aim at 18 to 34 year old women. Promises focus on emotional issues over physical topics while mirroring American dating culture and urban single life in London.
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London
Cosmopolitan
Helen Gurley Brown
Cosmopolitan Magazine
Sunday Times
Mrs. Brown
Brown
Joyce Hopkirk
the Sun
Tor
BBC
Carnaby Street
New York
Cosmo
U.K
Playboy Magazine
Playboy
Chicago
Reagan Payoffs in Nixon Aid Scandals Exposed in California
The piece alleges President Nixon funneled nearly 600 million dollars to California in 18 months through discretionary federal aid and loans. It claims California received 184 million from an emergency employment program, plus millions in forest protection funds, shipbuilding contracts, and a large Lockheed loan guarantee, with White House officials joking about California Voter Relief.
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Ronald Reagan
West
Nixon
Federal
California
White House
Lockheed
San Diego
Pentagon
Nixon Plans for Vietnam Withdrawal and California Projects
The article reports on Nixon’s outbreak of Vietnam withdrawal talk with a July 1972 target and the possibility of a phased ceasefire. It notes Kissinger’s secret negotiations with Le Duc Tho and GOP leaders pressed for a total U S pullout. It also mentions pilot showpiece poverty programs planned for California and federal funding trends.
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Vietnam
Nixon
U.S
Henry Kissinger
le Duc Tho
White House
Richard Nixon
Senate Gop
Hugh Scott
Rogers
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Indochina
United States
House Gop
Gerald Ford
Kissinger
Hanoi
Saigon
U. S
GOP
Hospital Beautification Project Aims for Doctors Day Dedication
Doctors wives in the Medical Auxiliary plan an atrium garden at the hospital as a permanentDoctors Day memorial with plans to install planters and greenery. The group consulted landscape designers and architects and aims to ready the space by March 30. Highway official T Lynwood Smith announces he will run for State Senate while keeping highway duties, pending divestment next year. Solar power researchers Aden Meinel and spouse win a 25000 grant to develop sunheated water for electricity generation, potentially reducing fuel costs. The page closes with a civic-leaning inspirational quote section and folklore references from Joseph D Clark including numerous local expressions.
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Chris Florence
Greensboro
Leon Schute
Ralph Brooks
Eldora Terrell
Arizona
Florida
Aden B. Meinel
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Britain
Rev
Marcus Morris
Direc
Reagan
Washington
Sacramento
Congress
House Appropriations
George Mahon
Texas
Merry
By Jack Anderson
Bill Rogers
Holt McPherson Enterprise
T. Lynwood Smith
Attorney General’s Office
State Senate
Guilford
Joseph D. Clark
North Carolina State University
Burke Devis
Pat
Hell
Georgia
Job
Stephen
NEA
Jack Anderson
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