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Newspaper
Middlesboro Daily News
Location
Middlesboro, Kentucky, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1972
Page
2
A compact quotation from Mark Twain reflects on endured troubles and a long life. The speaker notes enduring many trials that never fully occurred, framing hardship within a personal retrospective. The text cites Isainhs 42:10 as its scriptural touchstone.
Alfred Ross 68 of New York celebrated his birthday and retired from donating blood. He has given about 135 pints since 1943 to aid leukemia cases, never paid for his donations. He began after a friend's child needed blood and recalls fearing the needle but felt good afterward. He leaves as the AA BB and Red Cross set the 46th birthday cutoff, though emergencies can allow donations with physician approval.
Edward Epstein of the University of Michigan warns geophysical weather manipulation cannot be equated with apocalyptic weapons. He notes cloud seeding and fog dispersal could aid bombing but predicts unpredictable and hazardous results for all sides.
A fragmented piece notes a single building with a fire engine boss, digs at a delay-prone girlfriend, calling reporters cubs, and jokes about a putting green and a seal spirit lifter in the mail. It mentions April showers bringing May flowers and questions who bears the weeds. It ends with the line the heaviest thing a person can carry is a Shp.
Transcript excerpts from Nixon notes reveal a tense Kremlin meeting where Nixon and Brezhnev moved toward a nuclear weapons limit. A joking aside on SS9 missiles sparks mutual candor about submarines and intelligence. Nixon found Brezhnev a capable, trustworthy adversary, with a pivotal 12 point pact noted as perhaps more important than the arms accord.
President Nixon pursued a peace driven Moscow visit drafting 12 points with Soviet leaders Brezhnev accepting most language. He logged grueling hours, slept little, and left Moscow exhilarated, confident an enduring peace could be forged.
Quick quiz asks which palm churches use on Palm Sunday. It cites cabbage palm or palmetto and Florida palmettos. It also asks which king is pictured in profile on playing cards and identifies A B AB and C as blood types.
Washington dispatch notes Mrs High Seale, wife of Senate Republican leader, saying explaining American primaries to the Chinese was the hardest job of her life. The piece highlights voter bemusement and candidates asking for explanations, with a digression about Marcus Welby reruns and language barriers. By 1976 Chinese readers may visit the United States and explain our primaries to us.
Viewpoint argues Nixon aims to stay ahead of Russia in missile submarine and espionage tech while Kissinger warns momentum in arms races can be decisive. Brezhnev seeks aid to close gaps in military and industrial tech and to project power globally. The piece weighs psychological victory versus raw capability in future outcomes.
The item catalogs in-jokes and rumors about Aznavour playing himself in a film, rumors about Belmondo and Delon, plus gossip on Sylvia Miles, Marlene Dietrich, Mike Nichols, Ed McMahon, Toots Shor, Ursula Anydress, Adie Adams, Pete Candoli, and Edie Adams among others, with party chatter from Cincinnati to San Francisco and Bay Area clubs.
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