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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1972
Page
4
Community notices name Mrs C H Lockwood as vice president and David A Rawley Jr and Joseph P Rawley as vice presidents and general manager in a local civic update. The brief lists leadership roles within the Rawley family business circle.
The British papers reveal Churchill’s impression of Roosevelt after their 1941 North Atlantic meeting. They suggest Roosevelt would wage war but not declare it, highlighting presidential power in foreign policy amid Britain’s lone stand against Germany.
Motion Picture Herald surveys theater owners showing John Wayne atop the 1971 money makers list with Rio Lobo and Big Jake. Clint Eastwood Paul Newman Steve McQueen George C Scott Dustin Hoffman Walter Matthau Sean Connery and Lee Marvin follow. Alf McGraw sits between Matthau and Connery. The piece notes scant women on the list and discusses scenes of nudity in films and television comedies led by Barbara Stanwyck Carol Burnett Doris Day Lucille Ball and Mary Tyler Moore.
A discussion on futurism examines its rise with institutes like the World Future Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Commission on the Year 2000. It notes cautions from Walter Laqueur and Alvin Toffler about errors and stress, while highlighting predicted futures such as ocean cities and life-extending tech.
The Democratic National Committee has assembled a panel of law enforcement experts to devise plans for keeping peace during the 1972 Democratic convention in light of past clashes between Chicago police and Vietnam War protesters.
Henry J. Taylor notes Allard Lowenstein touring campuses with a Dump Nixon movement after a Dump Johnson past. He discusses Kennedy’s 1968 bid and McCarthy’s rise, the Watts turnout, and the Ambassador Hotel shooting, framing the era as politics of display and internal strife.
The item humorously notes a San Francisco stock exchange janitor leaving an estate of two hundred sixty thousand dollars. It muses on market cleanup with a broom and cautions about rhetoric pollution in upcoming campaigns. Richard Nixon named Man of the Year amid Redskins defeat.
A collage of items on infrastructure and public service includes a push for underground electrical and telephone cabling funded by bonds with federal aid, a tribute to George A. Covington after retirement, National Volunteer Blood Donor Month data with donor figures, hijacking and anti-looting actions by the Justice Department, a Geneva holiday report from Mrs. Ralph W. Slate, a motorcyclist in critical condition, hospital crowding by teen visitors, and political humor in an election year.
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