Numbers and fear of a digital future in 1937
The piece discusses Social Security numbers as a universal identifier and the risk of a surveillance state. A federal advisory panel urges restrictions on use for federal programs, warning of data banks forming dossiers and an information tyranny. It calls for legislation to regulate systems and grant individuals access to their files.
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HEW
Caspar W. Weinberger
Tibbets
Wendover
Utah
Fairmont Army Airfield
Neb
Hiroshima
Tinian
New Jersey Voters Watch Brendan Byrne Face Sandman
Washington reports Brendan Byrne a Princeton and Harvard Law graduate challenges Charles Sandman for New Jersey governor a race shaped by Watergate. Byrne emphasizes honest fundraising and prosecutorial record while Sandman pledges no state income tax and holds a hard line on abortion and capital punishment.
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Brendan Byrne
Charles Sandman
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Charlton Heston
Robert F. Kennedy
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Sandman
Mr. Clean
Mr. Pol
Watergate
Literary corruption in Watergate era prose critiques
The essay criticizes Mary McCarthy and Murray Kempton for turning political figures into villains through stylish prose. It contrasts their writings with Norman Mailer and Garry Wills, alleging aesthetic bias erases facts and moral judgment, exemplified by Wills's critique of Nixon’s wedding at the Mission Inn.
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Ossian
Kempton
McCarthy
Hemingway
Norman Mailer
Garry Wills
Wills
Mission Inn
Pat
Richard Nixon
Wuthering Heights
Mission
St. Francis Chapel
Kokura narrowly spared as WWII ends reshaped by Enola Gay tale
A long excerpt recalls the Kokura near miss during World War II and Brig. Gen. Paul W. Tibbets recounts the Enola Gay mission. It details how weather, smoke, and a fuel valve fault spared Kokura, leading to Nagasaki’s bombing, and notes POW movements and security pressures within the 509th Composite Group.
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Iwo Jima
Tinian
Kokura
Bataan
Washington
Tibbets
USAF
Enola Gay
Executive Jet Aviation, Inc
Columbus
Ohio
Air Force Magazine
509Th
Alamogordo
N.M
Klaus Fuchs
Rosenbergs
The Journal Rates and Publication Details
The Journal is published daily by News Journal Inc in Middletown Ohio. It lists subscription prices for home delivery by newspaper boy motor route and mail both in and outside the trading area plus international rate. It notes a 15 cent monthly service charge for motor route tube placement and that all subscriptions are payable in advance. Founded in 1657.
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