Need for a Cure The New York City Riot Reflections
Cepier argues American ambivalence about New York City amid the blackout and the 1977 riot. He blames a moral lapse and calls for cures to civic illness and mind politic, urging justice and equal opportunity while praising New Yorkers’ resilience during crises.
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New York City
New York State
Washington, D.C
New York
Brothers In Blue
Grace of God
National Guard
United States
Consolidated Edison
Tante Kate of Gehrden and the War Factory
A wartime memoir vignette about Tante Kate a stern German factory forelady who led women including two Jewish neighbors in an ammunition plant near Gehrden during WWII. The piece details her strict routine and the quiet acts of solidarity among worn families awaiting missing men.
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Tante
Kate
Hanover
Germany
Gehrden
Tante Kate
Friedrich Lozzen
Raus
Friedrich
Wehrmacht
Tante Kate’s warning as Hanover falls and Jews vanish
In wartime Hanover, Tante Kate watches SS brutality against German officers and Jews. The Pincus family is seized, and Tante Kate confronts an SS officer as chaos grows. Allies close in, bombs kill those inside the prison, and Tante Kate’s foreboding comes true.
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Adolf Hitler
Tante Kate
Reich
Tanta
Kate
Pincus
Germany
Hanover
Logic blamed for NYC blackout looting and welfare debate
The piece argues looting during New York City blackouts stems from flawed logic rather than welfare or moral decay. It cites Yale Brazen's studies linking higher minimum wages to teen and minority unemployment, notes Meany and Carter’s stance, and highlights a Temple University study on youth unemployment and race.
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New York City
Andy Young
Jimmy Carter
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Meany Ha
Carter
Jimmy
Congress
Yale Brazen
University of Chicago
James McClure
Orrin Hatch
Clarence Brown
John H. Rousselot
Brazen
Walter E. Williams
Temple University
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Williams
Harlem
Beti Stuyvesant
Star Relief
Two Wrongs Make A Precedent In Watergate Debate
Washington column reviews Victor Lasky’s It Didn’t Start With Watergate, praising its challenge to the Nixon era coverups and arguing a double standard in media treatment of Kennedy Johnson and Nixon Agnew. It notes Nixon’s wiretaps as selective yet compares to wholesale taps by earlier presidents.
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Washington
Victor Lasky
Lasky
New York
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Kennedy-Johnson
Nixon- Agnew
Kennedy
Johnson
Lyndon Johnson
Nixon depicted among rogues in Lasky critique of media bias
Kilpatrick cites spies and dirty tricks in campaigns from Goldwater to Nixon, noting pranks by Tuck and Segretti and media hypocrisy. The piece argues Nixon’s offenses were trivial compared with other leaders while praising Lasky’s catalog of unpretty precedents as a public service.
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Barry Goldwater
Goldwater
Nixon
Dick Tuck
Democratic National Committee
Donald Segretti
Lasky
Internal Revenue Service
John F. Kennedy
Jackie
Johnson
Truman
Oklahoma notes mix of justice and university shakeups
The piece riffs on Oklahoma issues from prison administration audits to potential new sentences for long terms. It jokes about government aid for electric bills amid a summer of university leadership changes with OSU installation Northeastern firing and Lamgston possible move, while sports seasons loom large.
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Oklahoma
OSU
Northeastern
Tulsa
Lamgston
Who Said It In Quotes From Classic Authors
A trio of maxims appears: an egoist speaks to dominate conversation, the world greets those it will soon forget, and taxation aims to maximize feathers with minimal hissing. Notable names cited include H. L. Wayland John Churton Collins and J. B. Colbert.
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H. L. Wayland
John Churton Collins
J. B. Colbert
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City
Scofflaws
Cepier Editorict Service
Jim Bishop
King Features Syndicate
John Chamberlain
King Featores Syndicate
Lawton Constitution
Ind and
A Avenue
Lawton
Oklahome
F. Bentley
Donald
Bentley
Stephen F. Bentley
Ted Ralston
American Newspaper Publishers Association
DIAL
Audit Bureau of Circulations
Associated Press
AP News
Jesus Christ
Dunagin
James J. Kilpatrick
Washington Star Syndicate, Inc
Sptro Agnew
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
McAlester Penitentiary
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