National Driver Register Improves License Checks
The National Driver Register consolidates state data on suspensions and revocations into a national database. In 1972 over a million reports were issued and states checked more than 17 million drivers, with states like Pennsylvania and Virginia denying licenses based on the data.
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National Driver Register
National Highway Traffic Safety
Pennsylvania
Clearing House
Virginia
Leaden feet of the AEC and the U.S. energy policy
A critical review argues government price fixing and ecologist pressure cripple oil gas and atomic energy plans. It cites Alaska North Slope delays and AEC's slow centrifuge progress while foreign rivals advance. The piece warns of renewed energy strategy and private industry roles to avert shortages.
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Alaska North Slope
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Vincent Abajian
Alan Fishmen
Physics Today
Abajian
Electro-Nucleonics
United States
Fishman
Gerhot Zippe
U.S
Power Reactor & Nuclear Fuel Development Corp
Almelo
Netherlands
Washington
Old code for presidents pondered amid Nixon critique
Buckley surveys a century of presidential privilege and greed. He cites FDRs imperforate stamp sheets and posthumous die proofs, Roosevelts fortunes, and Eleanor and Elliott investors to illustrate a culture of access. He condemns abuse of power from WPA funds to FCC censorship.
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FDR
Virginia
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Learn At Table: Cereal Box Learning Programs Take Root
Jim Fiebig recalls a California educator persuading Quaker Oats to print learning programs on cereal backs. He contrasts nostalgic 25 cent offers like Lone Ranger rings and model planes with today’s trend of replacing daydreaming with educational promotions.
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Jim Fiebig
California
Quaker Oats Co
Sgt. Preston
Middletown Journal Subscription Rates and Details
The Journal published by News Journal Inc lists pricing for subscriptions and delivery. Home delivery by newspaperboy costs 80 cents weekly, 10 cents per copy daily, 20 cents Sunday. Motor route options include 3.47 monthly in 12 installments or 3.20 in four weeks with a 15 cent monthly service charge. Mail subscriptions are 30 dollars per year within the reading area, 38 dollars outside the U.S. Rates apply to daily and Sunday editions with standard postages.
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The
News Journal, Inc
S. Broad
First Ave
Middletown
Ohio
Newspaperboy
Wea
U.S.A
Nixon used blessing to shield actions in Watergate probes
The column accuses President Nixon of using tax and justice investigations to pressure Democratic leaders. It cites Lawrence O'Brien and governors like Marvin Mandel Wendell Ford John Gilligan and David Hall, questioning whether the IRS strike force acts as political weapons. The piece asks if Nixon runs the government or if the presidency is being weaponized.
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Nixon
Rosalie Gordon
John P. Flynn
Massachusetts
America
Washington
Richard Nixon
Lawrence O’brien
Democratic National Committee
Marvin Mandel
Maryland
John Mitchell
Wendell Ford
Kentucky
Ford
Democratic Governors Conference
Gov. Ford
O’brien
Watergate
Committee
Internal Revenue Service
John Gilligan
Ohio
Justice Department
State Division of Securities
David Hall
Oklahoma
Hall
IRS
John Dean
Mr. Nixon
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John
John Chamberlain
Edward Teller
William F. Buckley JR
James
White House
Roosevelt & Sargent
Elliott Roosevelt
Eleanor
Harry Hopkins
Alben Barkley
Happy Chandler
FCC
Office of War Information
OWI
Federal Communications Commission
the Journal
Tom Braden
Gilligan
Dennis the Menace
Joey
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