Biography as Battle: Writers and the King of Credibility
Jim Bishop reflects on the perils of writing biographies, recounting clashes with subjects and their circles. He recalls Ernest Hemingway, Mark Helinger, Cardinal Spellman, and Martin Luther King Jr., detailing praise, pressure, and the deep moral cost of portraying real lives. He warns that a biography becomes an 8 by 10 grave, heavy with contested truth.
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A. E. Hotchner
Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway
Hotchner
Papa
Carlos Baker
Mark Hellinger
ABC
Mark
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Robert Gannon
Gannon
Kennedy
Dallas
Pierre Salinger
Martin Luther King
Lewis
Memphis
Ernest Merriweather
Doctor King
Black Panthers
Clark
Yellow Press
New Jersey to Enforce Auto Emission Tests in 1972
New Jersey will implement the nation’s most comprehensive auto air pollution inspection system starting in 1972. Inspections will measure exhaust emissions for all registered cars, with red stickers for failures and a two week grace period to fix issues. Estimatedly a third of cars will fail, costing motorists about $20 for partial tuneups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Jersey
T. W. Sigler
Continental Oil Co
Garden State
John Elston
United States
Asia
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
FAO
Far East
China
Africa
Middle East
Latin America
Addeke H. Boerma
Netherlands
Lunch price hike approved by Indiana Area School Board
The Indiana Area School District school board approved a five cent increase for school lunches. Under the new schedule students pay 35 cents while teachers pay 45 cents for the same meal.
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Indiana Area
Buffington Township
J.r.richards
General Ngo Dzu Accused of Heroin Trafficking in Vietnam
Reports from U S and intelligence sources accuse Maj Gen Ngo Dzu, South Vietnam central highlands commander, of using U S military equipment to traffic heroin. The allegations, tied to the Army CID and other agencies, name accomplices including a former senator and Vietnamese officers.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
U.S
Vietnam
U. S
Saigon
Ngo Dzu
South Vietnam
Central Highlands
Southeast Asia
Army
Criminal Investigation Division
U. S. Public Safety Directorate
Dzu
Cholon
Qui Nhon
Robert Steele
R-Conn
House
Indochina
Washington Merry-Go-Round drug trade and political fallout
After Steele's testimony Thieu orders a narcotics probe but doubt lingers on Dzu being tried. John Paul Vann defends Dzu, while CID details link Dzu and father Ngo Khoung to heroin smuggling via a personal plane and highland routes. A March 1970 expose precedes word of possible Collins indictment. Public mood shifts as young voters favor Wallace or McCarthy, prompting calls for moderation amid party unity debates.
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Steele
South Vietnam
Thieu
Dzu
U. S
John Paul Vann
Vann
CID
Central Highlands
Ngo Khoung
Justice Department
George Wallace
Alabama
Eugene McCarthy
Inside Labor Cultivates Black Outreach in White House
Washington report details the White House outreach to black leaders over months, led by Bob Brown, with Cabinet Room briefings and strategic phone calls. It notes Roy Wilkins’s caution on Nixon’s support, expanded black representation in labor and defense roles, and Boston’s tripartite plan to train and place black workers in trades.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
White House
NAACP
Mansion
Bob Brown
North Carolina
Turkey
Nixon
Congressional Black Caucus
Harlem
Charles Rangel
Charley
U.S
Rep. Rangel
Adam Clayton Powell
Mr. Nixon
Agnew
Lennie Garment
George Shultz
Vernon Jordan
Urban League
Ralph Abernathy
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Roy Wilkins
Richard Nixon
Art Fletcher
China
Middle East
Africa
Equal Opportunity
Frank Bender
U.S. Army Reserve
Labor Department
Boston
Philadelphia
Laurence Silberman
Harvard
John Dunlop
George Meany
St. Louis
San Francisco
Treasury Department
Custer Reenactment Draws Crow Agency Locals
Crow Agency Montana hosts a yearly Custer Reenactment with Crow youths playing Indians and Hardin ranchers portraying the 7th Cavalry. The event, scripted by Crow historian Joe Medicine Crow, blends history and humor as spectators watch the Little Bighorn battle scene unfold despite weather and stage challenges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Freeman
Associated Press
Crow Agency
Mont
Custer
Montana
7Th Cavalry
Little Big Horn
Barney Old Coyote
Bozeman
Montana State University
Old Coyote
Joe Medicine Crow
Thunders
George Elias
California
Elias
Hardin, Mont
Lloyd Schindler
Comanche
Hardin
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Oakland
Publishers’ Weekly
King
Kennedy Brothers
Lyndon Johnson
Phillip Randolph
Montgomery
Time
Oslo
Jim Clark
Dallas County
Leroy Collins
Edmund Pettus
By Don Oakley
Indiana Evening Gazette
Dechlistad He
Water St
Rennes
Indiana Printing & Publishing Company
Indiana, Pa
R.h.ray
Ceeeeseeeee
Elizabeth R. Sweeney
Amyetaylorra
R. Hastie Ray
Russell M. Hicke
Joseph L. Donnelly
William B. Hastings
Frank B. Hood
AP News
Carrier Boy
Indiana
Armstrong
Cambria
Clearfield
Jefferson
Westmoreland
Mr. Big
South Athe
Jim" Collins
Collins
Noel Lee Reed
Mineral Wells
Tex
Carolyn Conner
George Haag
Michigan
William Milliken
Kansas
Bob Dole
Milliken
Republican Governors Conference
Taiwan
Boyle
Social Security Office
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