Price of Eating Rising Costs Pressure Nixon Price Controls
Rising food and meat prices push up the cost of living and strain the Nixon administration's wage price controls. The Price Commission weighs potential freezes on retail food prices and controls on raw agricultural products while President Nixon hints at allowing foreign beef imports. The evolving mix of supply, middlemen, and political considerations shapes whether food costs ease or stay elevated.
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Nixon
Fces
The
Price Commission
C. Grayson Jackson Jr
Wise Man's Lesson on Democracy and Defeat
The piece reflects on Sen. B Everett Jordan's June primary loss and his gracious reaction. It frames defeat as part of democracy and applauds his continued work ethic and service to North Carolina, stressing resilience and national civic values.
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North Carolina
Sen
B. Everett Jordan
Sen. Jordan
America
Jordan
Deadlocked Conventions Linger Over McGovern Prospect
The piece analyzes historical deadlocks at national conventions, noting the four ballot rule for McGovern in Miami Beach and recalling famous stalemates from 1868 to 1924. It discusses how split delegate rivalries, regional blocs, and party bosses influence outcomes and how new rules may reduce but not erase the risk.
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George McGovern
Miami Beach
McGovern
Wendell L. Willkie
Willkie
Warren G. Harding
Chicago
Blackstone
William Gibbs McAdoo
Alfred E. Smith
John W. Davis
George H. Pendleton
Ohio
Gen. Win
War Clouds Grow Between Russia and China Over Border Tensions
Washington briefings warn of a Sino Soviet stand off with Russia wary of China’s Lop Nor buildup and a solid fuel rocket capable of reaching 2,500 miles. U S leaders urge peacemaking while Moscow boosts border forces to counter perceived Chinese threats.
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Washington
Russia
China
Nixon
Goliaths
Moscow
Peking
U.S
United States
Lop Nor
Sinkiang
Lake
Henry Kissinger
McGovern Plan Outlines Tax Reform Welfare Aid and Defense Focus
The text outlines George McGovern's presidential topics including simplifying the tax code and a major reform of tax structures, reshaping welfare to offer opportunity rather than handouts, and a defense strategy echoing Eisenhower. It notes Nixon's private reflections on Mao and Brezhnev, and McGovern's early campaign messaging on defense and budget restraint.
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McGovern
George McGovern
Eisenhower
Korea
A Question of Whose Laws Cover Amnesty
Letter to the editor challenges the editorial stance on amnesty and higher law. The writer cites Vietnam War legality, draft dodgers, and questions who operates outside law under religious and human-rights principles, asking who deserves forgiveness.
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Enterprise
Indochina
Community drives hospital funding and civic projects progress
Campaign leaders R. T. Amos Jr and W. A. Horney Jr report totals surpassing 515000 to fund a Coronary Care Unit and hospital expansions at High Point Memorial Hospital. Litter reduction effort gains support with 250 new Pitch In cans donated by the Beer Wholesalers Association. Delos Hedgecock plans Sheraton Hotel upgrades and parking, while Duke Hospital mourns the death of Dr. Wilbert C. Davison and honors his legacy with the Davison chair of medicine.
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R. T. Amos Jr
W. A. Horney Jr
High Point Memorial Hospital
North Carolina
Lynwood Smith
Greensboro
Gwyn McNeil
Germany
Highway 150
U.S. Brewers Association
Delos Hedgecock
Sheraton
James M. Bailey
Arts Council
Hedgecock
Bettye
Buddy Packer
Wilbert C. Davison
Duke Hospital
Duke
Hopkins
James B. Duke
Doris Duke
Davison
Wake Forest
Carolina
Martha Hamilton Molyneux
Westchester
John Carter
Ruth Milliken
Houston
Ralph M. Carter
High Point
Samuel
Ruth Hall Carter
Pennsylvania
Aurelius
Cornelius Carter
John Co
Philadelphia
Kansas
Springfield
Newden
Achsah Catherine Carter
David Madisoncock
Emerywood Club
Confederate Sons West
Oklahoma
Molyneux
Worth
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Robert Southey
Field Scott Hancock
Pendleton
Thomas A. Hendricks
Indiana
Hancock
Hendricks
New York
Horatio Seymour
Seymour
Kremlin
India
Pakistan
Thailand
Philippines
Alexei Kosygin
Merry
By Jack Anderson
House Ways and Means
Wilbur Mills
Senate Finance
Russell Long
Red China
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Holt McPherson Enterprise
Tom Haggai
Waddy Haggai
St. Petersburg
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