Taiwan Test for Ford as Peking Visit Debate Rises
The essay questions Ford's potential trip to China and the value of U S backing of Taiwan. It argues Peking seeks no trade for concessions this time and warns that signaling U S support for Taiwan risks military and political backlash while Taiwan's energy self sufficiency could alter the stakes in East Asia.
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Red
China
Mao Tse-tung
Gerry Ford
East Asia
Nixon
Mao
South Vietnam
Peking
Chou En-lai
Inner Asia
Boeing
Canada
U.S
Hanoi
Indochina
Thailand
Singapore
Taiwan
Pontius Pilate
Japan
Henry Kissinger
TV's Violent World Tops Today's Prime Time
McCall's magazine surveyed critics to name the 10 most violent TV shows now on air. Hawaii Five-O Mannix Cannon Kojak Police Woman Police Story Streets of San Francisco The Rockies Get Christie Love and Kung Fu. The analysis notes networks push violence for sales while Nielsen lists by popularity, not violence.
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McCall's Magazine
Hawaii Five-O
Mannix
Cannon
Kojak
Police Woman
Police Story
San Francisco
The
Rockies
Christie
McCall's
A.C. Nielsen Co
Ullman Named Ways and Means Chair Amid Tax Debate
Rep. Al Ullman, newly appointed head of the Ways and Means Committee, rejects tying oil depletion repeal to tax cut bills. The House Rules Committee backs Ullman in keeping energy and tax measures separate, amid broader tensions with the Ford administration. The piece closes with a Psalm quote from the RSV.
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House Committee
al Ullman
Ways and Means
Wilbur Mills
Oregon Democrat
House Rules Committee
Altman
Ford
Rules Committee
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
Ford Administration
Misguided crusade against bullets mirrors Prohibition
The author argues bans on desire create illegal markets, comparing Prohibition to efforts by the Chicago Committee for Handgun Control to outlaw pistol bullets. He asserts outlawing a popular product spawns makers and black markets, and suggests eliminating a single product could fix many issues, noting Americans would still create what they want.
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Jim Fiebig
Committee For Handgun Control
Consumer Product Safety Commission
Carnival Reflects U S Mood At Dartmouth Winter Weekend
Jeffrey Hart traces the history of Dartmouth College Winter Carnival from its modest origins before World War I to its glamor era between the wars. He recalls early snowshoe and skating events, the 1930s torchlight parades, formal parties, the carnival queen, and special trains bringing participants to New Hampshire.
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Dartmouth College
New Hampshire
Budd Schulberg
Dartmouth
Grain Central Station
New York
Homburg
Lowell Thomas
Remembering Carnival Glamour Through Decades of Change
Schulberg recalls the 1939 campus carnival with a monumental ice Indian and Hollywood ties. He notes postwar shifts to mass culture and bigness, then the 1960s protest era, and a 1970s revival featuring a Norse ice god, a Viking boat, and shared student skating as cheerfulness returns.
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Budd Schulberg
Schulberg
Scott Fitzgerald
Hollywood
Fitzgerald
Middletown Ohio Newspaper Subscriptions and Prices
The Journal announces subscription rates for daily News Journal publications. Home delivery by carrier or motor route costs vary by day, with weekend and Sunday options. Mail subscriptions are priced annually for U.S. and outside U.S. residents, all payable in advance.
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News Journal, Inc
S. Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Onio
Ohio
U.S.A
Candy bars seen as luxury in welfare debate
Readers defend welfare recipients by arguing candy purchases are small comforts for children. A correspondent urges empathy, recounts hardship, and criticizes stigma while offering frugal-saving tips and urging support from community groups.
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