Opinion: Stay Put for Holidays Not Fun to Fuss Over Nixon Travel
The piece mocks White House hints that the Nixon family might ride the train to save fuel. It notes the impractical plan of adding sleeping cars and second Amtrak sections. It also reveals Air Force One and Boeing 707 use and urges simple holiday staying home over spectacle.
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White House
Nixon
Air Force One
Key Biscayne
Amtrak
Florida
Washington
Rockefeller resigns New York governorship amid presidential speculation
Nelson Rockefeller steps down after 15 years as New York governor with one year left in his fourth term. The piece notes his denial of seeking the Republican nomination while reporting on a Senate decision to block a $1 million federal grant for a Rockefeller commission and related energy studies, sparking questions about energy policy and funding.
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Nelson Rockefeller
New York
Rocky
Senate Appropriations Committee
U.S
Rockefeller “Commission On
Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller
Congress
House
Senate
J.F. Kennedy
Trinity Churchyard
Alexander Hamilton
Robert Fulton
Old Castle Garden
Wisconsin
Will GOP Tell Nixon to Quit The Question Shrugs On Resignation
Washington column surveys Republican nerves as Watergate damage grows. It notes House and Senate GOPs fear large losses, outlines likely and possible leavers including Bennett Cotton Saxbe Cook Young and Aiken, and cites polls showing mixed views on impeachment or resignation. The piece questions Nixon’s response to mounting party pressure.
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Joseph Alsop
Washington
House of Senate
Herbert Hoover
House
Senate
Wallace Bennett
Utah
Norris Cotton
New Hampshire
William Saxbe
Ohio
Marlow Cook
Kentucky
Milton Young
North Dakota
Vermont
Sen
George Aiken
Illinois
John B. Anderson
Nixon
White House
Gallup
Harris
Oval Room
Sens
Jacob Javits
New York
Charles Mathias
Maryland
Richard Nixon
Right Now Survivals the Name of the Game Exercise Push
Readers urged to adopt regular fitness programs for health energy and mood. Mentions Kennedy and a national call for youth fitness while listing winter activities and college students from Viterbo and La Crosse.
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Viterbo
Jim Corb
John Thiedeman
LuAnn Rupnow
la Crosse
Nixon and freebies raise questions on taxes and ethics
Columnist critiques President Nixon for accepting largely legal freebies including real estate deals and a $25 000 trust fund for Tricia. The piece argues the core issue is a taste for perks and the public claim of ownership over presidential papers, not tax details.
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John P. Roche
Nixon
Congress
Wilbur Mills
Joint Committee On Internal Revenue Taxation
United States
National Gallery
Key Biscayne
Charles Rebozo
Robert Abplanalo
Elmer H. Bobst
Tricia Nixon
Bobst
Sen. Estes Kefauver
GOP
John F. Kennedy
Tricia
Elmer
Julie
Lawrence College names Sayner a Methodist scholar
Shirlee Sayner of 1706 Madison Street was named one of three national Methodist scholarship holders at Lawrence College Appleton in an official college announcement.
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Shirlee Sayner
Madison St
Lawrence College
Appleton
Conservation Commission
Wisconsin
la Crosse
Russia
Eisenhower
Pauline Abel
Donald D. Dahl
Market St
Regard for life fades on world highways
In peacetime, leaders claim to uphold the sanctity of life but the reality on global roads tells another story. Sydney J. Harris notes how accidents and reckless behavior undermine this ideal across nations and peoples.
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Saturday Review/World magazine
United Nations
Lesson in Fun City's fate by Jenkin Lloyd Jones
The piece laments New York's decline as Chicago and San Francisco rise, notes Times Square crime easing but theater quality dropping, and critiques urban policy, taxes, and public aid. It contrasts old bohemian allure with a changed city, while warning about nationwide drivers’ safety and global traffic deaths.
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Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Bowery
The
New York
Woonsocket
Walla Walla
George M. Cohan
Broadway
Dick Powell
Forty-Second Street
America
Ocean Greyhounds
North River
Chicago
San Francisco
Europe
Costa Mesa
Cambridge
Central Park
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Clark
5Th Army
San Pietro
8Th Army
Adriatic
Gateway Transfer Co
Ben Marcus
Motor Vehicle Department
Air Force
Frankfurt
Swingers
Northern Engraving and Manufacturing Co
Navy Department
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
Milwaukee and
Burlington Lines
Western
Secretary of Agriculture
Henry Wallace
la Crosse County
H.C. Hull
Muenzenberger Store
American Institute of Banking
H.H. Fox
National Bank of la Crosse
Louis F. Robinson
A.J. Capellan
Clarence Johnson
Harry Huber
Beach-Jones Theater Stock Company
By Sydney J. Harris
Fun City
Times Square
Secaucus, N.J
Canal Street
South Ferry
Lower Manhattan
City Hall
Tammany Tiger
John Lindsay
Ninth Precinct
Lower East Side
All America
Puerto Rico
Father Knickerbocker
India
North America
France
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