New Light On Khrushchev Takes Too Many Chances
A review of The Fall of Khrushchev by William Hyland and Richard Wallace Shryock argues Khrushchev was an attractive but risky leader whose downfall stemmed from a pattern of taking chances. The piece notes his human moments in the US and the Kremlin’s fragile power transfer.
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Nikita S. Khushchev
United States
Kremlin
William Hyland
Richard Wallace Shryock
Russia
Stalin
Afl-Cio
Diamonds In The Sky Diamonds from nuclear blasts proposed by Dr Libby
Dr Willard F Libby suggested a method to produce diamonds by detonating two nuclear devices with a graphite block between them. He cautioned the exact mechanism is unknown and that finding any resulting diamonds would be crucial to understanding the process.
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Willard F. Libby
Atomic Energy Commission
Libby
Taxes and Prohibition Tax Talk From 1960s Perspective
John Chamberlain argues that beer taxes illustrate inflationary pressure from government revenue. He notes Prohibition repeal, tax rises, and how wage costs transfer to prices, suggesting only debt retirement could curb inflation and criticizing Nixon's tax and debt requests.
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Nixon
Congress
Postal rates from 1814 echo in modern mail costs
A clipping from 1814 lists postage rates by distance from land letters to ships letters and pamphlets. The note laments current costs versus the past and recalls a wartime shortsnorter signed by servicemen. A reader notes a signed Air Technical Service Command card naming the writer a Feather Merchant as he left service.
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Ben Dotson
Grand Avenue
Post Office Department
Air Technical Service Command
Gis
Conference at White Sulphur Springs May Shape Labor Business Ties
The AFL-CIO spearheads a private April 14 conference at White Sulphur Springs W Va inviting top officials to discuss economic policy. The piece argues for labor and business to exchange views on wages inflation unemployment and policy, aiming to foster responsibility and free enterprise principles.
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Washington
White Sulphur Springs
W.va
Afl-Cio
Hot Springs
Business Advisory Council
Department of Commerce
Frank
Labor
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates
The Middletown Journal lists rates for daily and Sunday editions, with in city and suburban delivery at 70 cents weekly and mail options. Annual mail prices are 21 dollars within trading area, 30 dollars outside, and 38 dollars outside the USA, all payable in advance. Founded in 1857.
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News. Journal, Inc
S. Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
USA
The Catholic Crisis and Pope Paul’s Call for Unity
The Pope laments schism and warns against autonomous liberalism within Catholicism During Holy Week he urges fidelity to Church doctrine and hierarchy He questions if true union and charity can guide liturgical practice and unity amid modern criticism.
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Paul
Pope, Palm Sunday, and the loss of Catholic standards
The author argues that mass attendance has become an aesthetic ritual and mocks a World’s Fair translation machine. He contrasts St Matthew’s traditional liturgy with a modern version, warning that doctrinal and aesthetic standards have eroded under Paul VI and within the church.
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United States
Bob Dylan
Paul VI
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