Southern Growth Policies Board Forms To Shape Post-Racial South
About 70 politicians and professors from 13 southern states gathered in Durham to launch the Southern Growth Policies Board. The aim is to pool knowledge and plan regional progress, with Duke President Terry Sanford framing it as a broker between knowledge and action toward a post-racial era. Virginia Governor Linwood Holton leads an interim steering committee to secure financing and an executive director.
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Durham
N.C
Southern Growth Policies Board
Duke University
Terry Sanford
Jimmy Carter
Georgia
Sanford
North Carolina
South
Virginia
Linwood Holton
New South
Look Magazine Closes After 30 Months of Losses
Americas Times-Recorder notes Look Magazine ceased publication after financial losses totaling more than ten million dollars in thirty months due to television competition and rising postal rates. Postal hikes threaten Life remaining as the lone survivor in its class.
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Saturday Evening Post
Collier’s
Look Magazine
Look
Well
Life
Gardner Cowles
Postal Service
Crease Magazine
Post Office Department
Bike stock surges as manufacturers race to meet demand
The Wall Street Journal notes major bike makers have boosted inventories dramatically. Stocks have quadrupled from last year’s low at one firm and doubled at another as a bicycle boom continues, driven by urban traffic frustration health and environmental concerns.
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The
Wall Street Journal
Wright Brothers
De jure segregation ruling hits Detroit and Michigan
The Florence Morning News reports a federal judge rules segregation in Detroit and Michigan is de jure and violates federal law. The decision questions the earlier distinction between de jure and de facto as a lawful or discriminatory construct.
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South
North
Detroit
Michigan
Toes as Cold Cure for Cold Drawn from Israel
Witty note from Winston-Salem Journal on a controversial claim that cold toe therapy can cure a cold. Two Israeli researchers propose a reflector principle linking body twins, with big toe as nostril twin, but warn against frostbite risks and advise caution before attempting self treatment.
Textile quotas urged industry to boost tech, efficiency
T Nash Broaddus of Duplan Corp says quota relief alone won't save the textile sector. He urges firms to raise technology and effort to meet a shifting market, arguing industry progress must come from within rather than government aid.
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T. Nash Broaddus
Duplan Corp
Broaddus
No Talk On China Sparks White House Gag Order
Nixon imposes government wide silence on China policy with a Defense Department edict forbidding public or press comments. Henry Kissinger coordinates any responses while State handles official statements. A separate EPA move to weaken boat waste rules is pressured by the boating industry despite a secret NRC–NAS report endorsing holding tanks.
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Henry Kissinger
China
State Department
Department of Defense
Secretary of State
U.S
Department of State
Henkin
Pentagon
EPA targets boat waste with on board or dockside tanks
The EPA proposed requiring toilets on boats to have either onboard treatment or holding tanks, with states free to impose tougher standards in pollution hot spots. Critics from business groups warn owners may release waste overboard and point to existing docking practices. A NAS report warns most vessels will need retention systems, costing over a billion dollars.
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The
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
A Little Country Church
A simple country church described as a place of love fellowship and blessings. It emphasizes prayer guidance and comfort from God and invites all to join in praise and reading the Bible for rest and hope.
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Promised Land
Unseen Beauty and Sacred Poems in a Prayer Page
A devotional page presents poems and verses by Judy Perryman Peggy Kennedy Dills J C Meadows Virginia Buser and Lena Hammer Thacker. The pieces reflect faith in God and angels, praise of Jesus as artist, hunger for spiritual nourishment, and a Biblical meditation on Jerusalem with biblical citations and prophecy.
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Peggy Kennedy Dills
Jesus
J. C. Meadows
City of
David
Pilate
Mount Calvary
Christ Jesus
Lena Hammer Thacker
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Roanoke Times
From
the Americas
Times-Recorder
Exit Look Magazine
Gainesville (Ga
Daily Times
Florence Morning News
Winston-Salem Journal
Washington
Nixon
Red China
Peking
Chiang Kai-shek
Defense
Mel Laird
Dan Henkin
National Research Council
National Academy of Sciences
Merry
By Jack Anderson
F. Ritter Shumway
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Boating Industry Association
Tom Boggs
House
Hale Boggs
Association of Engine and Boat Manufactures
Civil Defense
Sen. Soaper
Tilly
America
Tennon
Judy Perryman
Virginia Buser
Jerusalem
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