Costly Waiting Room For Lt Governor's Office
An analysis notes the lieutenant governor’s office in North Carolina runs on 125000 dollars yearly with four staffers and was once smaller when the post was full time. The piece cites debate over the office as a campaign committee for Hunt, Senate duties, and a call by Sen. George Wood to revert the job to part time during legislative sessions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate
General Assembly
David Jones
Jim Hunt
Hunt
North Carolina
George Wood
Camden County
Gov. Hunt
Sen. Wood
Paleontology comes to Texas museum with fake bones
The State Museum of Natural History will acquire fossil bones through a Texas specialty store and a Pinehurst loan firm. A Utah excavation is planned next summer to collect bones cast for display, with paleontologists cited as having left bones untouched until now.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Museum of Natural History
Texas Specialty
Pinehurst
Utah
Neiman- Marcus
State Museum
Projecting the News Washington 1876 bicentennial outlook
The piece surveys American mood at the nation’s bicentennial in 1976, contrasting optimism in 1876 with contemporary doubt. It links inflation, Vietnam, Watergate, energy shortages, pollution, urban decay, and crime to forecasts of social shifts toward post industrial society, telecommuting, altered families, and extended lifespans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
United States
America
William Pierce Randel
Vietnam
U.S
Pollu
Daniel Bell
Harvard University
Alvin Toffler
Kenneth Boulding
Boulding
Tax returns reveal finances of presidential candidates
The piece surveys tax filings of candidates like Nixon era proxy figures, detailing Senate and gubernatorial incomes, assets, deductions, and tax payments. It notes Henry Jackson pressing for disclosure while McCarthy Reagan oppose privacy concerns, with figures for Bayh Carter Church Harris McGovern Shapp Udall and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Eugene McCarthy
D-Minn
Ronald Reagan
R-Calif
Sargent Shriver
Terry Sanford
D. N.C
Richard Nixon
Internal Revenue Service
Birch Bayh
D-Ind
Lloyd Bentsen
D‘tex
Robert Byrd
Dw.va
Jimmy Carter
Dga
Carters Farms, Inc
Carters Warehouse Partnership
IRS
Frank Church
D-Ida
Fred Harris
Dekla
Senate
Dallo Mina
Humphrey
Sen
D Memorial Fund
Everett
Wash
Perspective on CIA probes and wiretap ethics
The piece argues for judicially authorized surveillance and praises Pike Committee's focus on intelligence efficiency over sensational methods. It notes historical wiretapping by other nations, condemns unlawful taps, and cautions against revealing covert support for democratic groups while valuing rights and strong parliamentary oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Surete
Gestapo
Robert Jackson
Supreme Court
Otis Pike
Kissinger
A New Logo Tale from Washington NBC Grounded by A Logo
The Art Buchwald column recalls NBC paying $760000 for a new logo that echoed Nebraska Educational Television Network’s red N and notes the designers Cratcher & Thumb proposed an A logo with a longer left leg. The punchline: NBC spent $635000, more than NEC, because the design began with A rather than N.
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Washington
NBC
Nebraska
Cratcher & Thumb
Columan
Cratcher
Thumb
Crutcher
Thumbs
NEC
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Dinosaurus Rex
John Hamer
Gerald Ford
Jackson
George McGovern
D.D
McGovern
Louisville, Ky
Nova Scotia
Taos
N.M
Milton Shapp
D-Pa
Pennsylvania
American Telephone
Citgo
Consolidated Natural Gas
Equitable Gas
Mobil
Penn Central
Phillips Petroleum
Mo Udall
D-Ariz
Stocksrorth
CIA
Federal Bureau of
Colog
K.G.B
Andropey
Pike Committee
Pike
CLA
Langley
White House
George Carver
Victor Reuther
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Art Buchwald
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