Money Needed For Highways to Spur State Economy
An editorial argues Pennsylvania’s eastern highway expansion favors growth and unemployment relief in the west lags. It calls for funds from the Legislature, including a proposed driver’s license fee increase, to connect Western Pennsylvania with eastern markets and boost jobs.
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Ince Evening Gazette
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania
Susquehanna River
Erie
West Virginia
Pittsburgh
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation
Susquehanna
U.S
Western
Nixon Era Vision Clash at Moscow Summit
William Ingersoll argues the Moscow summit shows Russia and China will not cooperate to end the Vietnam war. He warns Nixon must consider a crushing defeat or risk continued Cold War parity, while noting nuclear arms talks lack full trust and urging support for the president's contracts.
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William Ingersoll
Nixon
America
Vietnam
Red China
Russia
United States
Red Russia
U.S
Mao Tse-tungs
Brezhnevs
Moscow
Congress
Tacit Understanding On Vietnam Reached By Brezhnev Nixon
Nixon and Brezhnev reportedly reached a tacit understanding to disengage from Vietnam with talks hinting at reduced Soviet and American arms shipments. Kosygin offered mediation in 1967, but Hanoi rejected it, while Nixon kept Chinese sensitivities in mind during discussions. Nixon viewed the talks as intent and productive, signaling a gradual pullback in U.S. and Soviet support for the war.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Richard Nixon
Leonid Brezhnev
Kremlin
Vietnam
Moscow
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Nixon
Lyndon
Johnson
Halloi
Nikolai Firyubin
Foy Kohler
State Department
Kosygin
Alexsei Kosygin
United States
London
Brezhnev
Llewellyn Thompson
Peking
Thompson
Soviet Union
Russia
Chou En-lai
U.S
Liberal View Commencement Time Again
Art Buchwald riffs on commencement speeches noting the gap between what speakers say and what they think. He mocks the pomp, jokes about graduation rituals, politics, and women’s fashion, and ends with a quip about preferring the class of 1972. The quiz at the end asks about comic valentines on cheap paper, answered as Penny Dreadfuls.
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Sen. McGovern
Meet the Press
California
McGovern
Art Buchwald
Washington
Time Magazine
Labor Showdown on Mafias Grip on Food Prices
Washington report details a federal regional probe into a Mafia and union-led scheme restricting beef supplies and pressuring stores to stock underworld controlled goods. The effort targets Mafiosi and Amalgamated Meat Cutters locals 464 and 174, with a task force backed by Congressmen Melcher and Bergland.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
Underworld
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of North America
Afl-Cio
Justice Dept
New Jersey
Brooklyn
New York Southern District
342
New York
Locals 464
Hast
Orange
N.J
New York City
Jersey Local 464
Local 174
Manhattan
Whitney North Seymour Jr
Nixon
Agricultural Area
Montana
John Melcher
Food and Agricultural Task Force
Lochinvar
House
Melcher
Congress
Baltimore
Boston
Bob Bergland
Minnesota
Bergland
FBI
National Labor Relations Board
Internal Revenue Service
Agriculture Dept
General
Northeast
Senate
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William B. Hastings
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Mgr
Wa Politey
Aml
Sp Iadiana
Avestrong
Caubria
Clearfield
Jefferson Iinesiaca
Indiana
Ares
Lewis
McNaught Syndicat
Nader
Air Force
Ralph Nader
Transportation
John Volpe
Volpe
Joe Bosco
Bosco
Consumer Advocate
Transpo
William Bird
Bird
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