Thomason Leads Thomasville YMCA Growth and Civic Work
Johnny Thomason, former high school and college athlete, chairs a YMCA task force and becomes president of the Thomasville Family YMCA as it seeks a year round facility. He helped steer the project after the 1969 chamber survey urged recreation improvements and led fundraising with partner Darrell Corder.
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VEN Carver Enterprise
Thomasville
Johnny Thomason
Thomasville Family Ymca
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
City Recreation Department
YMCA
General Motors
Thomason
Chevrolet
Charlotte Central High School
Georgia Tech
Darrell Corder
Charleston
S. C
Corder
National Guard
Culbreth Avenue
Frank Rankin
Wachovia Bank
Ellen Palmer
Albemarle
Ellen
Susan
John, Jr
Editor's Notebook on TV News and Its Dangers
An editor argues that television news, driven by ratings, distorts reality and harms democracy. Print offers depth while TV, a dramatic medium, favors sensationalism, shaping public perception and even surrender, as studies equate hour broadcasts to minimal print coverage.
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Chicago
Spiro Agnew
Edith Efron
Abby
Beetle Bailey
Jack Lyle
Richard A. Stone
UCLA
Pulitzer
America
Obstacle in U S Peking ties hinges on Taiwan stance
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk says Nixon faces a major obstacle in opening China relations the price Peking demands for recognizing Taiwan. He warns the threat of withdrawal from recognition could force hard choices for Nixon and stresses cautious, wait and see diplomacy.
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Kenneth J. Freed
Associated Press
Athens, Ga
Nixon
China
U.s.-Peking
Dean Rusk
Peking
Taiwan
Rusk
State Department
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
United States
University of Georgia Law School
Vietnam
Soviet Union
Henry A. Kissinger
National Security Council
Kissinger
NSC
Kennedy
Johnson
Eisaku
Sato
De Gaulle Example Mirrors Nixon Vietnam Policy
Sunday Accent argues Nixon’s Vietnam speech fails to offer a clear settlement and risks indefinite U.S. involvement. It compares Nixon to de Gaulle, urging a decisive withdrawal and a Vietnamese-led settlement with Saigon and Hanoi handling the terms for prisoners and troop pullout.
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Nixon
America
Vietnam
Henry Kissinger
Paris
North Vietnam
Indochina
United States
Saigon
Washington
Hanoi
Inochina
Charles de Gaulle
de Gaulle
Algeria
Roaming the Piedmont and the Firehouse Pranks
Recalls a bout with the flu and a bustling Greensboro firehouse memory. Howard Matthews and Cedric Clinard recount hazing tricks and initiation pranks from earlier days, including a cracker prank and a rookie’s double alarm sleep test.
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Thomasville
Howard Matthews
Cedric Clinard
Rascal
Worthy
Howard
Matthews
Clinard
Greensboro
North Carolina Symphony Delights Thomasville Students
Davidson dateline report on a North Carolina Symphony concert at Thomasville Senior High School gym. Young audience favored lively pieces by Mozart, an operetta overture, and Liszt while longer Tchaikovsky selections drew yawns. Conductor Thomas Conlin, nearly 30, led with restrained remarks and showcased a French horn solo by Ed Burnham.
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Thomasville
North Carolina Symphony
Thomasville Senior High School
Tchaikovsky
Ed Burnham
Thomas Conlin
Leonard Bernstein
Conlin
Bernstein
Erich Leinsdorf
Boston Symphony
Adrian Bolt
Metropolitan Opera
Chamber Opera Society of Baltimore
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