Census Bias on Poverty Debunked by Budget Office Findings
The piece argues Census Bureau poverty figures misstate Americans' welfare, inflated by ignoring in kind benefits and misreporting money income. It cites the Congressional Budget Office showing far fewer than 26 million people in poverty and calls for Census reform while warning about Moscow propaganda reliance on faulty stats.
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Moscow
Tass
U.S
Census Bureau
Lyndon Johnson
Mondale
Congressional Budget Office
United States
Moscow Radio
Fire Station Museum Proposal for Middletown
Middletown firemen propose converting the old No 2 fire station, built 1897, into a Fire Department Museum with a second floor clubhouse for firemen. City officials would approve the project in exchange for permission to use the upper floor.
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Middletown
Roosevelt Boulevard
Fire Department
Downtown Development Recalled As Dale's Hollow Then Paul’s Mall
Narratives of the downtown project trigger memories of Dale's Hollow and Paul Christiansen's Pauls Mall as local shopkeeper Jerome Shapiro jokes about celebratory drinks. The column preserves the community flavor and names Worthmore Clothing Shop and local figures.
Eroding American will and stalled grand projects
James Burnham argues that major national efforts like the interstate highway system Apollo program the SST and nuclear power face a common pattern of ambitious start followed by slow or incomplete completion Vietnam is cited as a final example showing long term commitment colliding with shifting power and liberal resistance.
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James Aeam
Burnham
Dwight Eisenhower
John Kennedy
Vietnam
U.S
Pacific
Hanoi
Angry Southern novelist probes hollow modern lives in Lancelot
George F. Will surveys Walker Percy's Lancelot a Southern Gothic warning about a moral vacuum sparked by tolerance. He contrasts Didions A Book of Common Prayer and Jo an Cheevers Falconer noting inwardness in postwar American literature and politics.
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Covington
Walker Percy
Lancelot
Percy
Deep South
Raymond Chandler
Pearl Harbor
Joan Didion
California
Brontes
Vogue
Central America
San Francisco
California Highway Patrol
Maria
Ms. Didion
Marin
Berkeley
Jimmy Carter
Jerry Brown
The Children's Hour Nighttime Affair Ends With Silence
Washington column recalls a husband planning an affair to test his wife. The dinner setting turns tense as he recounts their parenting worries and a daughter’s troubles, ending with the wife taking a sleeping pill and offering no reply.
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City Centre Mart
the Journal
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News Journal, Inc
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First Ave
Ohio
Us.a
U.S.A
Jeffrey Hart
Jean Gimpel
George F, Will
Joan Cheever
Tom Braden
Children’s Hour
Washington
Nicholas
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