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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1972
Page
2
A concise meditation on love as patient kind and unselfish, citing Corinthians and Pearl Buck. The passage emphasizes that love cannot be forced or coerced and is a heavenly, freely given virtue rather than a manipulated emotion.
Francine du Plessix Gray challenges the celebratory view of racial equality in Hawaii in Hawaii The Sugar-Coated Fortress. She portrays Hawaii as a sugar coated fortress dominated by developers and pineapple interests with superficial harmony masking racial hierarchies. The author argues native Polynesians face systemic neglect and notes broad cultural mixing among minority groups while offering limited remedies.
The Kremlin signals a shift toward more West trade with a jumbo 32 page Industrial World supplement in July. Ordered by Vneshtorgreklama the issue will carry 22 product ads from lasers to vodka and editorial on lunar robots and computers.
Washington reports a dam burst at Buffalo Creek in West Virginia that flooded 16 communities, killed or crushed at least 11 people and left about 5,000 homeless. Military helicopters aided rescues, while Governor Arch Moore redirected three choppers for a political tour drawing criticism.
Evacuation trips into the devastated valley were made by Jack and Anderson before the governor returned to Charleston. Arch Moore appeared on nightly TV footage, insisting his party consisted of essential personnel with reporters an afterthought. The piece notes FBI and Defense Department scrutiny of legitimacy and a security file on a civil rights leader’s illegitimate birth.
A humorous memoir fragment recounts a writer’s obsessive gas meter readings during World War II era, describing schemes to trick billing. The narrator imitates meter readings, reads neighbors’ meters, and jokes about gasmen, readers, and a fluctuating bill.
Daily News and Knoxville News papers joined to raise about $2 100 for Ernie Joder who visits area hospitals with newspapers and radios for patients. Earlier in the year a $20 gift raised his total to $2 315. The effort also funded a new car and loaner radios. Proceeds covered car repairs and patient needs while Ernie resumes his hospital rounds.
A string of light verse quips on stereotypes and daily life. It riffs on Indian humor origins, predunked doughnuts, door coffee spills, daylight saving, early birds, crossing lights, and stout jokes with punchy one liners.
Earl Wilson recalls a noisy New Delhi wreath incident with a fake embassy call and a scam that charged for a funeral wreath and a photographer. The piece spirals through misdirections, a theater producer swap, and assorted celebrity quips and trivia from a chaotic night.
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