Dirksen Remembered For Remarkable Life And Senate Leadership
Editorial honors Everett Dirksen as a Republican statesman who bridged the civil rights era and bipartisan governance. The piece lauds his long Washington career, impact on Nixon’s comeback, and the nation’s respect as he is mourned and placed on the Senate pedestal he cherished.
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Senator Dirksen
Washington
Franklin Roosevelt
Nixon
Dirksen
Strom Thurmond
Everett Dirksen
Senate
Manhattan Project seeks Arctic waterway by giant tanker
A 150000 ton supertanker undertakes a 40 million dollar gamble to navigate the ice clogged Northwest Passage from Chester, Pennsylvania to Point Barrow in hopes of opening a shorter route to the Orient and accessing North Slope oil riches. Alaska bids on 431,104 acres of oil leases may total up to 2 billion dollars, with title staying in state hands.
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Canada
Alaska
S&s
Manhattan
Orient
North Slope
Artic Ocean
Gulf of Alaska
United States
Russia
U. S. Manhattan
Chester
Point Barrow
Northwest Passage
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Atlantic Richfield
British Petroleum Co
Christopher Columbus
Editorial Research Alaska's Big Oil Rush
Alaska gears to auction 431104 acres for leases with bids possibly reaching 2 billion dollars. Extraction rights only, not title, and a potential tax-free period for 15 years. Experts predict Fairbanks population could swell to over 100000 in two years amid vast reserves. A 150000-ton tanker Manhattan sails from Chester to test Arctic passage, while a $900 million 800-mile pipeline studies to link Prudhoe Bay to a year-round Gulf port.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alaska
United States
Santa Barbara Channel
J. Ronald Wood
Montreal
Fairbanks
Newsweek
North American
The
Toronto Telegram
Middle East
Arctic Ocean
Gulf of Alaska
Trans-Alaska Pipeline System
TAPS
Prudhoe Bay
North Slope
Manhattan
Mystery Man Ho Chi Minh and Other Global Oversights
A collage of 1969 era items reviews Ho Chi Minh’s elusive true name and unknown life, CIA limits in Hanoi, Nixon depletion debate, Navy pilots training flights to Las Vegas, HEW desegregation maps, and Coca Cola hearings. It portrays shadowed figures, political strategies, and public notices across Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Nixon
Anderson
House
Ways and Means
Washington Post
The
New York Times
Jacob Davits
R-N
CIA
Hanoi
Nguyen Sinh Cuns
Nguyen Tat Thanh
Nguyen Ai Quoc
France
Nguyen
China
Russia
Ho Chi Minh
Ho the Enlightened
Navy
Las Vegas
Tail Hood Association
Thomas Moorer
Chief of
Naval Operations
HEW
Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Richard Nixon
Hubert Humphrey
George Wallace
Wallace
Humphrey
Altogether lovely to many in Bible illustrations
Lines from the Cyclopedia of Bible Illustrations sent from the Chapel by the Sea at Cherry Grove South Carolina. Emily and Vance Kester describe Jesus in many roles from Great Physician to Giver of Rest, appealing to diverse readers and contexts.
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Cherry Grove
S. C
Emily
Vance Kester
Heritage executive shifts and Drexel promotion spread
Fred M Councill, praised for leadership at Heritage, is named marketing chief of Drexel Enterprises and will move closer to the parent firm. He has a 15 year career at Drexel rising from Georgia Alabama sales to vice president of sales and general manager of Heritage division. Council children may finish the school year in North Carolina before relocating to Morganton. Drexel's Charles S Shaughnessy retires to a consultancy. C Nathan Slack and Howard H Haworth receive promotions within Drexel Enterprises and Heritage. A separate note mentions a $100 reward update for a TV theft case, plus a Time Harris poll on news consumption. A High Pointer Mrs Mal Cerney attends Apollo 11 homecoming in Ohio, sharing Armstrong's faith remarks.
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Fred M. Councill
Heritage
Drexel Enterprises
Drexel
U.S. Air Force
Germany
Georgia
Morganton
Charles S. Shaughnessy
C. Nathan Slack
Howard H. Haworth
Time Magazine
Harris
Time
Bible
Roper
Mal Cerney
Wapakoneta
Ohio
Nell Armstrong
Outer Space
Stern
Armstrong
Cerney
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Henry A. Kissinger
American Friends Service Committee
Vietnam
W U. S
Richard Revere
New Yorker
Johnson
Revere
Denis Warner
Atlantic
Paris
Saigon
U. S
DEMS
Israel
High - Point Enterprise
Enterprise
North Main Streigh Point
N. C. Me
D. A. Rawley
CO. H. Lockwood
David A. Rawley
Joseph P. Rawley
Randall B. Terry
Hone T Giceherson
W. W. Fatrereon
Richard Teague
Associated Press
Cartier
N.C
AP News
High Point
N. C
High Point Enterprise, Inc
Ceep
Radlor
Merry
Ho, Man of
Mystery
Bell-McClure Syndicate
Nixon and Oil
Coca Cola
J. Paul Austin
Herman Talmadge
Talmadge
Patchinsky
Austin
Louisiana
Allen Ellender
Coca Cola Company
Christ
Horace G. Ilderton
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