New Year wish list from Jim Bishop for 1972
A collage of satirical vows from public figures and entities. Henry Kissinger, Golda Meir, Jack Benny, Jackie Kennedy, Indira Gandhi, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and many others are assigned humorous, often pointed, desires ranging from a nose warmer to a shaved look. The piece lampoons politics, media, and culture with a year 1972 timestamp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jim Bishop
Henry Kissinger
Senator Muskie
Golda Meir
Bob Hope
Hollywood
Abby
Kathi
Karen
J. Edgar Hoover
Premier Sadat
Jacqueline Susann
John Connally
Senator Kennedy
Jimmy Hoffa
John Lindsay
Premier Kosygin
Willie Sutton
LBJ
Ronald Reagan
Mao Tse-T'Ung
Flip Wilson
Mare Geraldine
Anna Roosevelt Halsted
Eugene McCarthy
Bryant Park
Bob Considine
Jacqueline Kennedy
Billy Graham
James Rowley
Milton Goldstandt
Mayor Daley
Time Magazine
Jesse Jackson
Speaking Freely on Drugs by DON OAKLEY and He Helium Nazism
A collection of items reports on drug attitudes among Vietnam troops, helium discovery in West Germany, and a Michigan study debunking mummy identifications. The Vietnam piece urges social control and notes heroin use as social among soldiers, while the helium find could augment global supply. Egyptian museum X rays suggest several mummies and queens are imposters, including a Thutmosis I misidentification.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Don Oakley
Vietnam
Defense Department
U.S
Norman Zinberg
Clark University
Worcester
Mass
Behavioral Sciences
Zinberg
Midwest
United States
West Germany
Ruhr
University of Michigan
Cairo
Thutmosis I
Thutmosis
U.M
Markare
Q and A snippets on public figures and facts
A pasted Q and A list covers seating capacity of the John F Kennedy Center at about 7000, the first Negro republic Haiti in 1864, Davy Crockett as the motto user, the oak tree as most lightning struck, and baby kangaroos remaining in the pouch for weeks up to six months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John F. Kennedy Center
Haiti
France
Whalley accused of kickbacks and misused funds in Congress
Washington columnist reports Rep. Whalley of Pennsylvania from the 7 Irving district ran a scheme to use House funds for personal gifts and pocketed kickbacks. The piece ties allied printing fraud to his payroll and stationery thefts and promises further disclosures. It also cites a CIA-derived view of Hanoi’s dealings with Moscow and Beijing to secure North Vietnamese aid, noting Chou En-lai’s alleged secret trip and Soviet countermeasures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Anderson
Teneton
Irving Vic. Ly
R-Pa
Foreign Affairs Committee
United Nations
Windber
Nixon
United States
China
Korea
Whalley
Pennsylvania
Bobby Baker
Whalley Bo
U.S. Treasury
C. Robert Collary
Capitol Press
Duncansville
Collary
Blair County
House
Congress
Chou En-lai
Nikolai Podgorny
North Vietnam
CIA
Hoang Muoi
Muoi
Hanoi
Dr. Kissinger
Peking
Chou
DRV
Podgorny
Podgorhy
Things We Don't Need by Hal Boyle
New York AP column lists humorous and pointed grievances from weather to vanity to petty annoyances. Items include pneumonia weather, 40s fashion, taxi drivers in puddles, futile essay contest entrants, astrology in church, supine parents, and other everyday irritants. The piece ends with a light prayer for relief from these afflictions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Nixon Campaign Strategy Focuses on Black Workers
Victor Riesel reports in Atlanta that Nixon and Dent aim to win Southern black support to disrupt Wallace states. Arthur Fletcher, ex-Assistant Secretary of Labor, leads aggressive outreach, challenging Meany and mobilizing unions to back Nixon’s reelection, with Fletcher’s North-South campaigning and a $500 college fund contribution noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Riesel
Atlanta
Baton Rouge
Richard Nixon
Harry Dent
Nixon-Dent
Wallace
Dent
Rams
Colts
Arthur Fletcher
White House
Nixon
Fletcher
United Negro College Fund
George Meany
Mr. Nixon
U.S. Military Court of Appeals
U.S
Memphis
Robert Dole
Meany
Philadelphia
George Shultz
Mississippi
Deep South
Institutes of Advanced Studies
College Fund
Art Fletcher
Golda Meir
Oval Room
Domestic Council
Labor
Zip Code rollout to speed mail and packages
Postmaster Buff Fanella announces Zip Code use starts tomorrow simplifying mail delivery and speeding packages to their destinations. Gerald M. McAfoos, 18, Marion Center, suffered a possible head injury after sledding into a car in Marion Center last night around 7 p.m. The Elkin Estate purchase marks the first concrete step in Indiana State Teachers College’s large expansion to become the state’s premier college of its type.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buff Fanella
Gerald M. McAfoos
Marion Center
Indiana State Teachers College
Elkin
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Joe Robbie
Dolphins
Louis Wolfson
Earl Wilson
Santa
F.lee Bailey
Martin Bormann
Sanitation Department of
Jerusalem
John Wayne
Martha Mitchell
Supreme Court
South Vietnam
Harry Truman
Louise Hackmeister
John Chancellor
Sophie Kroll
Robin
Pamela
Elinor
Jim
Kevin
Chip
Chris
Amy
Kelly
Aristotle Onassis
Nelson Rockefeller
Mike Yorko
Archie Bunker
Senator Gurney
FLA
Lady Bird Johnson
Gore Vidal
Tennessee Williams
William Buckley
Son of God
Yale
Chiang Kai-Shek
Tom Ferris
Raquel Welch
Hubert Humprhey
Bureau OF Internal Revenue
Waver
THE
Indiana Printing & Publishing Company
Indiana, Pa
Mgr
Dane
R.A. Ray
Elizabeth R. Sweens
Amye Taylor Ray
Hastie Ray
Russell M. Hickey
Joseph L. Donnelly
William B. Hastin
Frank B. Hood
Cate
Wated Press
Associated Press
AP News
Carrier Boy
Indiana
Armstrong
Cambria
Clearfield
Jefferson
West
Moreland
Pam
Second Oldismy
Pega
Davy Crockett
Washington
Colla
Alley
Les Whitten
Russia
Boyle
Hawaii
Santa Claus
Internal Revenue Service
Berry's
NEA
Dr. Waldheim
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