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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1970
Page
4
The forthcoming report of the President's Commission on Obscenity and Pornography is delayed by a court action and may not be published. Experts, including psychologists, question whether exposure to erotic material causes crime, urging cautious, open-minded public appraisal once the report appears.
A Senate subcommittee hearing transcript had a document expunged by the State Department. It showed Elliott L Richardson as undersecretary urging the elimination of a U S military radio station in South Korea. The clipping came from the New York Times dated December 14, 1969.
William F Buckley Jr notes a sharp split at the American Political Science Association meeting between a left leaning Caucus for a New Political Science and a Conference for Democratic Politics. He questions whether professors face dismissal for alleged misconduct and argues tenure offers protection amid reform zeal.
The article portrays black professors walking out of an APSA event amid complaints that black scholars are underrepresented in sponsored journals. It parallels debate on academic liberty, university purpose, and social issues with reflections by Robert Nisbet on university roles and tenure. It also shifts to a broader wartime tone criticizing domestic subversives and terrorism fears, citing McClellan and Hoover.
John P. Roche argues higher education has built a bloated administrative and nonteaching arm. He cites large deficits at Columbia and Yale, notes funds shifted to satellites and public relations, and urges universities to cut tail end roles and reinvest in core teaching staff and classrooms.
The Journal published daily by News Journal, Inc. in Middletown sets subscription prices. Per copy for weekdays and Sundays 20 cents. by mail in trading area 271.00 per year. outside trading area 30.00 per year. outside USA 38.60 per year. All subscriptions prepaid. Founded 1857.
Armco Middletown Works manager Jim Townsley faced a grievance after likening blast furnaces to women. Nineteen seventies style banter cited temperamental furnaces, one cooled, others misbehaved. Five nurses filed a civil rights complaint. Townsley renamed furnaces Sam and George, then resigned to a humorless setback.
Macomb Illinois Adlai Stevenson III speaks softly on Women's Lib while campaigning against incumbent Ralph Smith. He is praised for a blend of old and new politics, balancing liberal credentials with wary stance on Communism and law and order. The piece contrasts him with his father Adlai Stevenson Jr. and notes name recognition and campaign savvy.
The text notes that Egbert, king of the West Saxons, conquered rival realms and allegedly became master of all England in 829 A.D. It then mentions Cotytta as a Thracian fertility goddess worshiped at Athens with licentious rites and cites the Milky Way's span as about 90,000 light years across.
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