City backs electrical bond with caution on repayment
The editorial weighs a $5.6 million bond referendum to fund electrical system upgrades over 22 years at 5 percent interest, noting principal and interest could reach over $500,000 annually. It warns tax implications and explores alternatives while pledging support with awareness of future costs.
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City Financial
Duke Power Co
Federal Power Commission
Duke
General Credit
Nixon trip sparks guard contrasts at Beijing and White House
Opinion contrasts the grandiose Chinese honor guard at Peking airport with the smaller, varied departure detail at the White House. The writer argues a true honor guard should look professional and uniform, reflecting broader democratic symbolism, and notes the world will observe the difference.
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Peking
Nixon
White House
Peking Force
Runaway Wives Mark Shift in Domestic Trends
The piece notes a rise in runaway wives across major cities with private detectives reporting a reversal of the old pattern. It cites Chicago detective William Wilson Manhattan investigator Ed Goldfader and Washington, D C observers detailing higher female departures, plus social explanations from feminists psychologists and media commentators.
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Henry
New Yorker
United States
Chicago
William Wilson
Manhattan
Ed Goldfader
Washington, D. C
John Leon
Germaine Greer
ITT bribery claim shadows Nixon era antitrust settlement
The ITT case allegedly was fixed through a secret deal between Attorney General John Mitchell and ITT lobbyist Dita Beard. Beard said Mitchell pressed for a settlement tied to ITT’s pledge of up to 400000 for the Republican convention. Mitchell denied wrongdoing, and officials disputed the version of events.
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Washington
John Mitchell
Crusty
Dita Beard
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
ITT
San Diego
Beard
Brit Hume
New York
Mitchell
Governor's Mansion
Kentucky
Louie Nunn
Nunn
Justice Department
America
Congress
White House
House
Senate
Richard McLaren
Merriam
Louie
McLaren
Justice
John Hushen
Bellingrath Gardens a Magnet for Flower Lovers
A Mobile Bay weekend visit highlights the Bellingrath Gardens and Home known as the Charm Spot of the Deep South. The 1930s estate blends world class landscaping with semi tropical woodlands, camellias and azaleas, preserved by the Bellingrath Morse Foundation to benefit three colleges and two Mobile churches.
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Mobile
Ala
Bay of Mobile
Bellingrath Gardens
Deep South
Bessie Morse Bellingrath
Margaret Taylor Moore
Bellingraths
Isle-Aux-Oies
Bellingrath
Coca-Cola
Europe
Walter
Bessie Bellingrath
Mr. Bellingrath
Huntingdon College
Montgomery
Stillman College
Tuscaloosa
Southwestern
Memphis
Central Presbyterian Church of
St. Francis Street Methodist Church of
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McNava
Merry
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