Return Of The Braves In Pennsylvania Politics
Mason Denison notes unfinished business delays facing Pennsylvania lawmakers on their return to Capitol Hill. He cites a stalemate between Senate and House control, looming adjournment questions, and a possible shift into 1974 session. The column also covers liquor board activity, gubernatorial responses to records requests amid Watergate fallout, and a surge in Capitol visitors, especially in May with 42,454 guests and 660 tours.
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Pennsylvania
Capitol Hill
Washington
Adangle
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Keystone
State Liquor Control Board
Keystone State
House Liquor Control Committee
State Liquor Control
Senate Watergate Committee
Liquor Board
Frank €. Hilton
Capitol
The Vision vs The Cost Of Progress By Jim Bishop
Jim Bishop reflects on the early 20th century shift as knowledge doubles yearly, bringing inventions from copper wire to portable screens while moral and social costs rise. He argues that despite gains in science, humanity sinks into poverty, lawlessness, and spiritual doubt, with America both powerful abroad and fractured at home.
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Jim Bishop
Encyclopaedia Britannica
America
American Legion Auxiliary cited for conspicuous service
Yesterdate Sept 14 1948 the American Legion Auxiliary to Post 141 was cited for conspicuous service in advancing the Department Program and contributing to its achievements during the Department’s fiscal year announced at the September meeting. In 1963 a gifted program for Indiana County Public Schools begins its second year on Sept 14 1968, while Janice McMillen is featured as a guest writer for the Indiana Evening Gazette recounting aeromedical airlift of wounded soldiers from Vietnam.
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American Legion Auxiliary
Indiana County
Janice McMillen
Indiana Evening Gazette
Vietnam
Jack Anderson
Burt Talcott
R-Calif
Capitol Hill
Talcott
Andrews Air Force Base
Murphy Almanac Coldest Day Claim From 1888
The 1888 January 20 forecast from It's A Fact Patrick Murphy's Weather Almanac was wrong as England endured its coldest winter in generations. The era became known as Murphy's Winter, while the National Guard traces its origin to the Old North Regiment of the Colonial Militia in Massachusetts in 1636 as a standing military force in the United States.
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Patrick Murphy
England
Murphy
The
National Guard
Old North Regiment
Colonial Militia
Massachusetts
Attet
United
Washington Merry-Go-Round Case Of The Historical Heist
A scholar stole irreplaceable Frankfurter papers from the Library of Congress. The loss, discovered in 1972, included diaries letters and memoranda. FBI and librarians pursued a cautious search yet the documents remain missing. The piece notes the thefts, recovery attempts, and a call for discreet return, plus sidebars on past library losses and a Capitol Hill golf tournament.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Felix Frankfurter
Library of Congress
FBI
Frankfurter
Juste Louis Brandeis
The
Les Whitten
Supreme Court
Anderson
Justice Department
Elliot Richardson
Walt Whitman
Capitol Hill
Inside Labor Farm Workers Convention by Victor Riesel
Washington report on Cesar Chavez led United Farm Workers gatherings, church backing, and the looming Fresno convention. It questions Chavez as a leader, Meany’s support, potential arbitrator, and the risk of violence as the movement seeks broader legitimacy.
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Victor Riesel
Washington
Cesar Chavez
Patton
Cesar
Msgr
George Higgins
Msgr. Higgins
U.S. Catholic Conference
Farm Labor Committee
National Conference of Catholic Bishops
Chavez
United Farm Workers
UFW
Afl-Cio
New
Old West
California
la Paz
Calif
Delano
Colorado
Texas
Arizona
Florida
Fresno Convention Center
America
Nagi Daiffullah
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Cairo
Nasser
Sakharov urges Western support for dissidents and loosening
Red Dissidents need support, says Andrei Sakharov, the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. In a rare interview from Moscow, he warns that Western aid enables a bureaucratic Soviet machine and calls for liberalization within the USSR, including emigration rights, while stressing the risk of East-West rapprochement on Soviet terms. The interview highlights the peril facing dissidents who risk careers and lives to protest repression.
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Don Oakley
Andrei I. Sakharov
West
Soviet Union
Sakharov
United States
Russia
Moscow
Kremlin
Soviet Academy of Sciences
U.S.S.R
Congress
Middle East
First twin-screw steamer Little Juliana named by Col. Stevens
The article notes Little Juliana, Col. John Stevens’s twin-screw steamer, ran New York to Hoboken in May 1804. It also mentions Africa’s Zaire River with 4,000 islands, some dense and maze-like, risking boatmen’ s navigation in channels.
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Little Juliana
Col
John Stevens
New York
Hoboken
Africa
Zaire
Congo
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Mason Denison
Indiana Printing 4 Publishing Company
Water St
Indiana, Pa
Hy Ray
Serna Sars Rernenes
Elizabeth RA
Sweeney Amye Taylor Ray
R. Hastie Ray
Russell M
Hickey
Joseph L
Donnelly William B. Hastings
Frank B. Hood
Associated Press
AP News
Carrier Boy
Jerry Gavewn
Indiana
Armstrong
Cambria
Clearfield
Jefferson
Westmoreland
Penna
Susnant
Iqence
Farm Workers Convention
Labor Front
Oakland
Black Panther
Bobby Seale
Seale
Elaine Brown
George Meany
Meany
Teamsters
Frank Fitzsimmons
Brotherhood
Fitz
Chevez
Justice Dept
Yablonski
San Francisco Grand Jury
Labor
Graffitt
Bearys World
NEA
Henry
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