Objectionable Language and Obscenity in the Media
A discussion on obscenity and explicitness traces how newspapers handle profanity in presidential tapes in 1974. Anecdotes show varied editor choices from printing full text to censoring words, with reader reactions across Arizona, Shreveport, Atlanta, and Kansas City shaping a evolving standard. The piece notes no plans to abandon propriety despite changing norms and seeks reader opinions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
House Committee
Associated Press
Alvin Toffler
Arizona Daily
Star
Tucson
Shreveport
Atlanta Constitution
Kansas City Star
Charlotte
Archie Bunker
One Car Too Many In Speed Crackdown Critique
A reader-opinion piece questions the State Highway Patrol practice of two patrol cars blocking speeds, arguing one car is sufficient to deter violations. It notes frequent roadside scenes of speeders being cited and asserts that clear warning of patrols every 10 miles suffices to enforce the limit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Patrol
Middle East peace talks test resolve and compromises
The piece surveys the 1970s Geneva Conference aims and the stubborn standoff between Israelis and Palestinians. It notes hardline Israeli refusals to negotiate with PLO terror groups, shifts in Palestinian positions toward a West Bank Gaza state, and caution from the United States toward direct Palestinian engagement while seeking a settlement acceptable to all parties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Middle East
West Bank
Gaza
Jordan
Jerusalem
Israel
United States
Soviet Union
Egypt
Syria
Palestinian Liberation Organization
PLO
Yitzhak Rabin
Palestinian National Council
Cairo
Geneva
State Department
Esther Cohen
Mideast
Washington
U.S
Ms. Cohen
Nixon
Magnificent Armfield House to Be Demolished in Jamestown
The Brittania era mansion built by banker W. J. Armfield on West Broad Street near Deep River is condemned and will be razed for future parking. The 1860s residence famed for bevelled leaded glass and paneling housed four apartments before demolition. Armfield, a pivotal North Carolina banker, lived and worked through Civil War turmoil and postwar growth, helping establish Guilford and High Point banks. His descendants continued local banking across Asheboro, Madison, Graham, Troy, and Mocksville, with the family’s Asheboro Bank later joining Wachovia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brittania
W. J. Armfield
West Broad
Chestnut
Hayworth Roll & Panel Company
Deep River
High Point
Wyatt Armfield
U.S
Abraham Lincoln
Herbert Hoover
North Carolina
Horace Greeley
New York
New Orleans
Mississippi River
Oak Ridge Institute
Quartermaster
Jamestown
James Ruffin Mendenhall
Duncan A. MacRae
Lee
Stoneman
Armfield
Mendenhall
Old
John C. Breckenridge
Kentucky
Minerva Mendenhall
Duncan MacRae
West
First National Bank
Guilford County
National Bank of
Greensboro
A. J. Sapp
Charles W. Worth
Worth
Wilmington
Eugene Armfield
University of North Carolina
W. J. Armfield Jr
Asheboro Bank
Wachovia
Henry
Lucille Pickens Bruton
George Armfield
Lynwood Smith
Asheboro Bank Board
Mr. Armfield
Eugene
William
Frank
Jesse
Anid
Asheboro
Madison
Graham
Troy
Mocksville
West Broad Street
Suppressed Hickel Udall $7 Million Recreation Plan Surfaces
Senate Interior Chairman Henry Jackson revealed a two inch thick 1970 study by Walter Hickel and Stewart Udall detailing national recreation needs through 2000. The report, with an estimated $42 billion price tag, proposed vast federal land transfers and new sites from Washington Potomac to Florida Sea Islands, Alaska Wrangell, Hawaii Kauai, and more, but was buried in the White House until Jackson moved to publish it for public review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Walter Hickel
Nixon
White House
Hickel
Stewart Udall
Udall
America
Interior Department
Senate Interior
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Potomac River
Potomac National River
Harpers Ferry
Antietam
C&o
Ten Thousand Islands
Florida
Wrangell Mountains
Alaska
Kauai National Park
Hawaii
Voyageurs Parks
Minnesota
Channel Islands
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Joe Brown
Jennie Britt
Britt
Perry County
Tennessee
Armfields
City Lake
George Stoneman
Jefferson Davis
Confederacy
John H. Reagan
Texas
John Hiatt
Barbee
Freeman and Ballard
Knightstown
Indiana
Jack Anderson
United Feature Syndicate
New York- Newark
Chicago
Philadelphia
Camden
Baltimore
Boston
Providence
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Milwaukee
Cincinnati
Denver
Minneapolis - St. Paul
Buffalo
Pentagon
California
Buffalo River
Ozarks
Fossil Butte
Wyoming
Plymouth Rock
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Great Basin
Mohave
Sonoran
Chihuahuas
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