Protection Against Jelly Beans Provokes Medical Skepticism
A column discusses fear over food colorings like carbon black and cites a three generation family consuming licorice and jelly beans. It mentions Grandmother and mother dying near 95 and 96, and a son nearing 72 still hooked on candy. The piece praises Cy Adler for challenging ecological doom narratives and argues pollution is a minor factor compared with war, smoking, and alcoholism.
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Big Brother
Cy Adler
Adler
Nobel Prize Sweep Highlights American Dominance
The article celebrates the sweep of all seven Nobel Prizes by American citizens in economics medicine physics chemistry and literature. It highlights Saul Bellow as the literature laureate and argues the achievement reflects cultural intellectual wealth and national leadership during the Bicentennial year.
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Saul Bellow
The Cult of the Dead and a Shift in Death Rituals
The piece traces changing attitudes toward death from Victorian mourning to modern secrecy and privatization. It notes trends toward cremation, half mast flags, and reduced public displays, with a push for home or private death spaces and renewed focus on mortality amid media driven fascination with celebrity deaths.
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Washington
Western
Europe
Atlantic
Marilyn Monroe
Janis Joplin
Magnum Force
Working Class Underrepresented in Congress Says Study
A National Center study found 99 percent of House members and all senators in 1975 came from upper class backgrounds with only five lawmakers from working class or organized labor roots. The authors argue most Americans from working class backgrounds lack political power and access to fundraising, highlighting class bias in U S politics.
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Washington
Congress
National Center For Urban Ethnic Affairs
House
Senate
Organized Labor Movement
Gerson Green
Richard Shea
United States
Harvard
P.A
House of Senate
Roosevelt
Lodge
Taft
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Massachusetts
Green-Shea
Castro pins blame on U S for Cuban airliner bombing
Cuban Premier Fidel Castro says the United States orchestrated the October bombing that killed 73 aboard a Cuban jet, naming the CIA as the chief enemy and accusing Venezuela of harboring conspirators. He vows no new treaties while U S hostility continues.
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Copley News Service
Fidel Castro
United States
Castro
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
Caribbean
Venezuela
Cuba
CIA
U.S
Africa
Popular Movement For Liberation of
Angola
Lima
United Nations
Barbados
Panama
Merida
Mexico
Central Intelligence Agency
Carter era campaign chatter in Oklahoma politics
In Oklahoma the GOP races feel muted as supporters react to Henry Bellmen endorsing Republican aims while facing a split on Ford coattails. Democrats show mixed feelings about Carter and his media choices, revealing fatigue with campaign style.
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Henry Bellmen
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Hing Features Syndicate
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Rouen
Andrew Tully
King Features Syndicate
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