21 Jan 1972
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1972
Page
1
A compilation of golf anecdotes from 1900s to 1960s highlights odd shots and misadventures. Tales mention Wentworth and Troon players, Hagen’s long putting feats, bizarre bounces, and lighthearted misfortune across courses in Australia, England, Ireland, South Africa, and the United States.
Washington describes Vladimir Bukovsky’s seven year labor camp sentence and five year exile as part of a pattern in the Soviet Union. The piece details his arrests from 1963 to 1972 for dissident activity and notes estimates that about half of mental ward inmates are political prisoners. It cites foreign observers and other cases including Grigorenko and Medvedyev, and mentions a 19 year old student Valeria Novodvorskaya.
The note lists positions including President Treasurer Secretary Managing Editor Advertising Manager and mentions legal holidays, signaling administrative staffing and holiday planning for the paper.
Yesterdate January 21 1967 William S Stephens 62 of Dillitown Indiana County has been promoted to district engineer in the Pennsylvania Department of Highways Pittsburgh District Highways Secretary Robert G Bartlett announced today. 1957 The furor and excitement created by a fire in the press room of the Indiana Evening Gazette on Saturday evening was more than the fire rated. Losses were confined to a few advertising mats used in making lead castings. 1847 Walter Jackson addressed the Indiana Kiwanis Club last evening on Underground Railway Activities in Indiana County. His talk presented little known facts about life in the county in pre and post Civil War days and was of great interest to the Kiwanians. 1922 Tomorrow night will be the public farewell meeting of Captain Gulden_s_chuh of the Salvation Army. He has been laboring with Captain Evans for the past four months. The Army has called him to Pittsburgh where he will continue the work of helping the man who is down but never out.
President Nixon halted proposed domestic spending increases and directs a larger military budget to stimulate the economy. Military expansion includes 13 Army divisions, 55 more ships for the Navy, and upgraded air power with B 52 improvements, the B 1 bomber under development, and SRAM missiles for long range striking capability.
Washington Merry-Go-Round outlines U S and Soviet ICBM developments with more warheads planned by 1978 and land based sites being hardened. It profiles Rep Irving Whalley over flag donations from taxpayer funds and alleged payroll kickbacks as FBI inquiries unfold while Proxmire lampoons Lockheed and a Senate retirement bill faces a Dan Flood push amid Hartke staff black hires.
The EEOC, backed by the Justice Dept and other federal agencies, accuses the $13.5 billion trucking sector of systematic bias against blacks, women, and Spanish-surnamed workers. The report targets top firms and notes underrepresentation in high paying roles, warning the ICC to act or face intensified scrutiny and possible protests.
HAL BOYLE muses on money outlasting love, fame’s vanity, and the ironies of modern life. He riffs on pawnshops, mothers songs, college power, public decorum, and the absurdities of desire, aging, and ambition with wry aphorisms and humor.
In the upper part of the Cygnus constellation the Milky Way region is cited as the sky’s densest star field. The Library of Congress in Washington is noted as the world’s largest library. The record wine price is $6,840 for a 1929 Chateau Mouton Rothschild equivalent to five normal bottles.
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