Ford lists middle of the road VP options amid platform battles
The piece argues Jerry Ford seeks a centrist running mate and critiques Nelson Rockefeller Howard Baker Anne Armstrong Elliot Richardson John Connally and Edward Brooke as possible picks. It warns platform dither could unite Reaganites and Fordites or spark a party split at Kansas City with high stake votes and potential disruption.
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Jerry Ford
Nelson Rockefeller
Howard Baker
Tennessee
Anne Armstrong
Britain
Elliot Richardson
John Connally
Texas
Ronald Reagan
Sen Edward Brooke
Massachusetts
Ford
Sen. Brooke
Sen. Schweiker
Schweiker
Rockefeller
Brooke
Reagan
Nixon
Connally
Richard Nixon
Richardson
Baker
Jimmy Carter
South
Kansas City
Kissinger-Sonnenfeldt
Europe
Panama Canal
Middletown Mourns Longtime Attorney G W A Wilmer
Prominent local figure G W A Wilmer dies at 86 after a 50 year career with Middletown Federal Savings & Loan Association. As former president for nearly four decades he helped shape the town’s growth and housing, inspired by faith in home ownership and local business strength.
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Middletown
Edward Barker
Joseph Ayres
Hugh Butler
G.W.A. Wilmer
Middletown Federal Savings & Loan Association
Gus Wilmer
Middletown Federal
Savings and Lending Institution
Central and
Main
Wark My Words by Jim Fiebig
The editorial notes irony as a robot reaches Mars yet sources remain unknown for Philadelphia legionnaires disease. The newspaper cartoon caption hints at uncertain origins and mocks overconfidence in scientific progress.
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Mars
Philadelphia ‘Legionnaires
Philadelphia Disease Mission Control Analogy Referenced
A Philadelphia disease study is described with spaceflight imagery as scientists at Mission Control leave their consoles and walk to a medical research lab after hours of fruitless data examination. The analogy frames the group amid a challenging, unresolved data analysis situation.
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Mission Control
Philadelphia
Mars, Philadelphia and the quiet paths of science
A speaker argues that scientific progress is a patchwork of specialized efforts. He notes that landing on Mars does not imply rapid breakthroughs in public health or vice versa. Different disciplines progress along separate lines, with mountains of varying heights.
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Mars
Philadelphia
West grows a new backbone amid mixed signs in 1976
Jeffrey Hart notes cautious Western shifts against Communists and the Third World. Signs include Vatican anti-Communist alignment in Italy, unified Western votes at the UN over Israel, strict regimes in ABC powers, Schmidt’s anti-Communist stance in West Germany, and France coordinating with NATO in the Mediterranean.
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U.N. Security Council
Entebbe
United States
Britain
France
Italy
Sweden
Israel
Libya
Tanzania
Benin
Dahomey
Paris
Spain
Japan
Switzerland
Australia
Canada
Southeast Asia
Portugal
Argentina
Our White House hymn singers
The American Music Conference ranks presidential candidates Carter Ford and Reagan as musically limited. It traces White House musical history from Madison to Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Kennedy and beyond, arguing the era of mechanical music shapes presidents’ art.
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Our
White House
New York
America
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
American Music Conference
Reagan
Ford
Nixon
Harry Truman
Truman
Woodrow Wilson
Princeton
Warren Harding
Tyler
U.S
Thomas Jefferson
THE
George Washington
John Adams
Washington
Miller
Madison
Fillmore
Jenny Lind
Teddy Roosevelt
East Room
Herbert Hoover
Ske
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
The Journal published by News Journal Inc lists subscription options for Middletown Ohio readers. It details prices for newsstand copies, home delivery by carrier or motor route, and mail rates for domestic and international addresses.
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News Journal, Inc
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
U.S.A
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Paul J. Day
Elwood Richardson Business Manager
Jim Mills
Pennsylvania
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Dennis the Menace
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Philip Lieson Miller
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