Critics Clash With Democrats Over All Volunteer Forces
Critics from Senators Stennis Nunn Kennedy and official Joe Califano challenge all volunteer armed forces. Data show volunteers reflect national demographics, with rising black representation, higher education levels, and stable costs. Proposals favor reforms and civilian roles to offset recruiting gaps without returning to conscription.
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Washington
Frost and Fire
John Stennis
Mississippi
Sam Nunn
Georgia
Edward Kennedy
Massachusetts
Joe Califano
Health Education and Welfare
Heightism and marching bias in salaries and leadership
Column excerpt argues height bias affects careers and politics citing studies on earnings gaps for tall men and leadership attributions. It notes taller candidates often perceived as more capable, cites Nixon and Carter elections, and condemns prejudice against short people while mentioning energy-era comments and a biblical verse at end.
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Saul Feldman
Robert Hail
University of Pittsburgh
Richard Nixon
George McGovern
Hall
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
Quixotic Club’s Quixotic Beginnings in Middletown
Middletown diary recalls the Quixotic Club formed after a rainy December night in 1872 at Johnsons Drug Store. Organizers Hatfield Joe Ilen and Joe Brock helped launch a library and a choral society that became the St Cecilia Society, staging three dramas yearly, lectures, and a small newspaper the Quixotic Shield. The club hosted winter balls in grand homes with canvas floors, met weekly in the High School room, and once reached 300 members paying annual dues.
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Middletown
Vermont Hatfield
Hatfield
Johnson's
Joellen
Joe Brock
Middletown Journal
Don Quixote
Cervantes
St. Cecilia Society
Quixotic Club
McCallay and
Barnitz
Maine
Manchester
Quixotic Club Dances and Canal Boats in Middletown Frank Tales
The narrative recalls 1920s Middletown when the Quixotic Club hosted dances at Dotys Grove with Curriers Band of Cincinnati entertaining audiences from Lebanon Dayton and Hamilton. Picnics at Evans Grove used canal boats drawn by mules for transport. Hatfield calls it a matrimonial bureau whereCupid arrows and dues fueled romance while elders chaperoned and reminisced about youth.
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Doty’s Grove
Lebanon
Dayton
Hamilton
Currier
Band of
Cincinnati
Hatfield
Evans’ Grove
Middletown
Return to that faith in troubled times
Letter author William H H Kenney argues the nation must restore religious faith to guide policy amid droughts earthquakes and a fuel crisis. He criticizes government spending on defense and calls for an emergency disaster fund, urging a return to divine providence.
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Italy
Turkey
China
William HH. Kenney
Tytus
Prayer for a sick America by Bert Ferris
A letter to the editor urges self discipline and a return to faith to heal the nation. The author cites energy concerns and warns of communism’s influence through the UN and federal bureaucracy, calling Americans to repentance and adherence to Christian values.
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United Nations
America
Bert Ferris
Aberdeen Drive
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