Editorial on pensions and who pays the bill
The piece argues the State Teachers Retirement System faces a $5 billion shortfall and outlines proposed funding. It notes teacher contributions, district matching, and a $135 million annual state payout for 30 years, while criticizing legislators' own pension perks and reapportionment bonuses as unfair and urging higher lawmaker pension contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Schmidt
State Bureau
Assemblyman
E. Richard Barnes
San Diego
Barnes
Legislative Pension Plan
California
Penny postcard revival debate echoes five cent cigar
The piece recalls Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall’s quip that a good five cent cigar is what the country needs while noting Rep. Gonzalez Texas proposes returning to the penny post card to ease rising postage. The forecast suggests slim odds for immediate success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas Riley Marshall
U.S. Senate
Rep. Gonzalez
Editors review Nixon State of the Union line in 1970 piece
Manchester Guardian editors assess Nixon's new era of opportunity. They note two-year focus on future programs, discuss welfare reform parks and revenue sharing, and warn that congressional blockage could frame him as partisan. The piece stresses timing over past policies and challenges in Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Congress
Drawings of William Blake and Slave Narratives
Book notices catalog Blake pencil studies selection with introduction by Sir Geoffrey Keynes and notes on Blake range. Also reviewed Nat Turner confessions from 1788 and slave narratives edited by John F Bayliss with over a score of ex-slaves detailing bondage life and escapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Blake
Geoffrey Keynes
Dover
Blake
Job
Milton
Shakespeare
John F. Bayliss
Collier Books
Nat Turner
Mood shifts and mobilization in 1972 election preview
The piece argues political moods rise and fall like skirts, with no fundamental policy shifts. It highlights apathy among older voters, warns that new 18 21 year olds and black voters maydecisively shape the 1972 election, and urges youth engagement and registration to influence war and economic policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United States
Washington
Moscow
Peking
Nixon
Senate
Laos
Vietnam
California State
George Robeson
Patrick Henry
Harry Frishman
Letters to the Editor Prospect for Long Beach Theater Growth
Readers urge cultural expansion and a permanent Civic Light Opera home in Long Beach, lament Downey Theater’s presence as a model, and criticize local politics. They denounce tax loan practices and discuss education, Medi Cal cuts, and public schooling while urging reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noel Swann
Tracy Theater
Jacqueline MacFadden
Long Beach
Civic Light Opera
Downey Theater
Bellflower
Angela Davis
Reagan
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Henry B. Gonzalez
Texas
Thomas Marshall
Manchester Guardian
England
Saigon
Hanoi
Indochina
Wall Street
Supreme Court
John Kennedy
James Reston
Downey
Barry F. Singer
Lakewood
Tom Cosgrove
Slur
Rafferty
IPT
Pucinski
D-Ill
Biddle
Riverside
Pascinski
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