Nostalgic musings on reading and fashion in old columns
A column muses on rereading favored books like Pickwick Papers and the comfort of familiar tastes. It riffs on nostalgia for boys’ and men's fashion, then shifts to political and environmental quips, citing Sen. Hugh Scott and water pollution ideas amid fragmented notes from multiple papers.
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Mr. Dickens
Memphis
Tenn
Congress
Sen
Hugh Scott
Agielus
Sen. Scott
Cutie
Savannah
Weather Satellite Lifted to Space to Monitor Earth
A box-shaped satellite was launched from a military range to observe Earth's weather and clouds. It is designed to relay images and data back to stations on Earth for day and night monitoring.
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SANDE
AIR Force
Basf
Cabh
National Letomaute
AduiHuotta
Nixon Speech Charms Even the Democrats in State of the Union
President Nixon urged a joint session to unite with Congress to balance the economy and push major proposals, while announcing plans to fight inflation and expand federal funds for environmental and public works. Senate leaders cautioned on specifics, and lawmakers weighed the path from confrontation toward cooperation with allies.
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Walter R, Mears
Washington
Nixon
Erie
4Ick
Capital Hill
Segalon
Hugh Seat
Said
Woithin Bay
Bert White
Roathy
Edand
Muskie
Malne
Ronment
Alari
Maine
Padgette
Congress
Wiebe
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Wand
Soviet Union
Thinland
China
America
Wints
GOP Senate Silent On Carswell Nomination
Republican senators remain noncommittal on Judge G. Harley Carswell's Supreme Court nomination awaiting Senate Judiciary Committee hearings. Seventeen GOP defections helped block Haynsworth in 1969, and leaders refrain from commenting until Carswell's background and statements are reviewed by the committee.
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John Chadwick
Associated Press
Wester Washington
Nixon
Supreme Court
Senate
G. Hare Ral Carswell
Tallatussey
Pla
Sue Broeme
Clement FL Haynsworth Jr
US. Court of Appeals
Tat
Haynsworth
Senate Gop
Magic Scott
Pennsylvania
Robert P. Griffin
Michigan
Senate Republic Confeechee
Margarit Chase Smith
Matin
Carswell
Belfin
Ives
Third Bid Entered on Ambulances
A third bid for city and county ambulance service was filed at city hall on Thursday night. Hempstead Domestic Ambulance Service, Inc. joined two prior offers, with stockholders listed as James Vess, Larry Moses, and Perry Snippet. Officials note possible personal interest in the bid and ongoing concerns over service discontinuities due to new failures and higher operating costs.
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Hempstead Domity Ambulance Service, Inc
James Vess
Larry Moses
Perry
Campbell
Avrndon
Oakcrest Mars
Chasty
Plus Peres
Wether
Mills Hits Imports of Textiles
An unclear New York AP dispatch references Mills and imports of textiles with fragmented wording. Key names and specifics are not readable, leaving the exact entities and events obscure in the provided text.
Hope School District Endorses 50 Mill Tax Increase
About 250 residents attended a Hope High School meeting to back a 50 mill tax increase to fund vocational expansion, better teacher salaries, and more instructional materials. Superintendent James H. Jones outlined millage effects, while George Frazier and Wayne Russell led the Citizens Committee formation and the vote to endorse the proposal.
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James KH. Jones
Hope High School
Wayne Russell
Citizens Committee
Walter Waite
Russell
George Frazier
Yorger Junior High School
Jones
Hope
Arkadelphia
DeQueen
Nashville
Texarkana
Camden
Avaneas
Ashdown
Arkansas
Prescott
PeQueen
Dean Murphy
Rogen Weisenberger
al Graves Jr
Wis Rey
Walter White
Lynn Harris
Bill Watson
Five: Fire dept calls on Patt address found no damage
A fire unit answered a call to 902 S Walker St Patt Thursday to a water heater safety valve blowing off steam. No damage reported. The second item reports the Yablonski murder case with three Cleveland men charged and federal probes into United Mine Workers affairs.
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Patt
S. Walker St
Goryeo Lan
Uno
Joseph ‘Yablonski
United Mine Workers
Cleveland
Yablonski
UMW
W. A
Tony"’ Boyle
Margaret
Charlotte Joanne
Ware
Washington County
Washington
Boyla
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania
Paul R. Gilly
Aubran’ W
McKetta
FBI
Missing Contact Lens Sends Girl On Wild Search
In New York AP account a girl loses a contact lens in an office hallway as friends search frantically. The door to a coworker’s hall investigation prompts a playful scene and a humorous misread of the lens’ whereabouts.
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New York
KWW
Ay P
Shi
Spike
Texarkana Kidnapping Case Leads to Hearing
Texarkana residents Athy A Nicholas Patton and five others appeared at a hearing in Miller County Ark as bond amounts were set. Ms Vickers, daughter of a Texarkana grocer, was abducted at gunpoint by three armed men and held for 26 hours before release in Texarkana. A $40,000 ransom demand was never paid.
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Texarkana
Athy
A. Nicholas Patton
Karen "Vicker
Fat Te Gollig Aivet
Heai A
Fu.s
Ned Stewsse Cee Ree Bryant
Vickers
Joe W. Feggett
Gata Aallas
Hugh T
Vohhnte Tusby
Lafayetts County
Smith
Milter County
Ark
Cote
Venes
Little Rock
Mise Vickers
Miss Vickers
Texarkina, Tex
Forrest City Board Votes to Submit Desegregation Plan
Forrest City Ark AP The school board voted 3 2 to comply with a federal court order to submit a desegregation plan by next September. Judge Orlen Harris ordered an end to separate school buses and allowed transfers of some Black teachers to whiter schools. About 400 people attended the meeting broadcast on radio.
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Forrest City
Ark
U.S. District Court
Oren Harris
Norman R. Salika
Ime
Salibat
James
Duteh
Meredith
E. Morgan Collins
Webb Stewart
Willam McCain
James DeRossitt
Nose
Harris
Girl's Skirt Too Long Sparks Schoolroom Fuss
Annetta Kopecky II, a fifth grader at Gardens Elementary in Pasadena, was sent home for wearing an ankle length black plaid maxi skirt, claimed to be too long by Principal Louis Koenig as the 13 degree temperature prompted the uniform choice. Her mother Genice Kopecky says the decision caused a disturbance among students and cites the cold weather as justification.
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Houston
Tex
Annetta Kopecky
Annetta
Pasadena
Genice Kopecky
Louis Koenig
Gardens Elementary
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