Nixon Seen Safe To Put In 1972 Race By Editors
Editors at the American Society of Newspaper Editors convention weigh Nixon’s re election odds in 1972. They cite economy and Vietnam as key issues with many predicting Nixon could win unless a major economic downturn or withdrawal disrupts the war. The 18 year old vote is seen as a factor.
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Carl C. Craft
Associated Press
Washington
White House
Nixon
Congress
Talbot Patrick
Rock Hill
S.C
Vietnam
Glen Boissonneault
Flint
Mich
Forrest Kilmer
Davenport
Iowa
Times-Democrat
Charles L. Bennett
Oklahoma City Oklahoman and Times
Wallace Carroll
Winston-Salem
N.C
Journal
Twin City Sentinel
Guy
Derick Daniels
Detroit Free Press
Heart Surgery for TV Star Grandpa Jones
Nashville doctors plan open heart surgery for CBS Hee Haw star Grandpa Jones after a heart attack in October. He entered the hospital Tuesday for a bypass operation on troubled coronary arteries.
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Nashville, Tenn
Grandpa Jones
Cbs-Tv
Grand Ole Opry
Jones
TV Pentagon Show Triggers Broad News Dispute
CBS News documentary The Selling of the Pentagon spurs a congression al inquiry as the House subpoenas full film and tapes. NBC and ABC defend CBS while defense and press officials spar over broadcast freedom and government influence.
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Jerry Buck
NEW York
CBS News
Pentagon
Spiro T. Agnew
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Frank Stanton
CBS
NBC
ABC
Julian Goodman
Elmer W. Lower
ABC News
Harley C. Staggers
Dw.va
Staggers
F. Edward Hebert
D-La
House Armed Services Committee
Federal Communications Commission
House of Representatives
Agnew
Hebert
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Washington Post
FCC
Airpower to Concentrate in Thailand by Next Summer
Pentagon sources say U S air power in Southeast Asia will be concentrated mainly in Thailand by the summer of 1972 as U S ground troops in South Vietnam are reduced. Air and naval presence will back allies and hit Laos and Cambodia, with B 52s and squadrons shifted to Thailand and carriers scaled in the 7th Fleet.
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Fred 8. Hoffman
Washington
Pentagon
U.S
Southeast Asia
Thailand
United States
South China Sea
Laos
Cambodia
South Vietnam
Asia
Melvin R. Laird
Vietnam
Air Force
Navy
7Th Fleet
Far Eastern
Clark Air Force Base
Philippines
Japan
Okinawa
McCarthy to teach at Maryland for one semester
Former U S Senator Eugene J McCarthy will be a visiting professor of English at the University of Maryland for one semester starting in September officials said He was invited to teach government and politics but declined He expressed interest in poetry according to Dr Morris Freedman chairman of the English department He has written two works
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College Park
U.S
Eugene J. McCarthy
University of Maryland
Serster
Minnesota Democrat
Poeoy
Morns Freedman
McCarthy
River Work Contract Awarded for Arkansas River Dredging
Washington report says T. James & Co. of Ruston has won a Corps of Engineers contract to dredge the Arkansas River from the Mississippi River to Pulaski County. About 400,000 cubic yards of material will be removed from locks and dams at a cost of 130000 dollars.
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Washington
T. James & Co
Ruston
Arkansas River
Mississippi River
Pulaski County
John L. McClellan
Corps of Engineers
Canadian envoy Collins sees China opening to world
Ralph Edgar Collins Canada’s first ambassador to Communist China says the country is opening to outsiders and expects many Canadian visitors to Peking. Born in Kunming, he spent 12 years there and in Peking, and plans to help launch Canada China relations on the right course. He notes more Canadian tourists to Cuba and student exchanges are likely, and Chinese journalists can visit Canada. He plans to review Chinese again in preparation for his post, and jokes about sharpening his table tennis game. He studied at Alberta, Geneva, Harvard, California, and Oxford, and has served in Washington London Moscow and South Africa.
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John Best
Ottawa
Ralph Edgar Collins
Canada
China
Peking
YMCA
Collins
Kunming
Newsmen
Legation
Chungking
Cuba
University of Alberta
Zimmern School of International Studies
Geneva
Harvard
University of California
Oxford
Canadian Foreign Service
Washington
London
Moscow
South Africa
Suspicious of 2 Agency Programs
Washington AP veteran consumer adviser Virginia Knauer warns that programs run by many agencies dilute accountability. She cites the Truth in Lending law administered by nine agencies and notes the potential for a bureaucratic maze. The piece flags overlapping programs and the need for analysts to compare agency claims with actual delivery.
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G. David Wallace
Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
Virginia Knauver
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Reserve Board
Agriculture Department
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Bureau of Federal Credit Unions
Controller of
Interstate Commerce Commission
Civil Aeronautics Board
Knauer
Food and Drug Administration
Commerce Department
Sinatra Receives Oscar for Humanitarian Work
Hollywood AP Frank Sinatra wins the Jean Hersholt Memorial Award for humanitarian efforts. At 55 the singer, planning retirement, has long been in the headlines for philanthropy and a final professional show upcoming for Motion Picture Relief. He pledged 1 million for a Palm Springs medical education center in his father’s name and helped raise another million for the Father Dismas Clark Fund to aid teen rehabilitation.
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Jay Sharbutt
Associated Press
Hollywood
Frank Sinatra
Sinatra
Shriners’ Hospital
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Jean Hersholt
Pvt. Maggin
Bob Hope
Gregory Peck
Martha Raye
George Jessel
Palm Springs
Father Dismas Clark
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