Mayors Show Preference After New Orleans Democratic Mayoral Rally
In New Orleans, big city mayors backed Hubert Humphrey over George McGovern, signaling still strong urban support for Humphrey as New York voters awaited the final New York primary. Revenue sharing remains debated in Congress with Nixon backing no strings and Mills resisting.
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Hubert Hum
New Orleans
Sen. McGovern
Humphrey
Congress
Nixon
House
Ways and Means Committee
Wilbur Mills
Mills
Volatile Shift to Nixon Signals Jewish Support Upturn
The Religious Zionists of America invite Spiro Agnew to a New York dinner signaling growing ties to Nixon and a potential pro-Nixon Jewish votes swing in 1972. Wexler Rothberg Boyar letters show Democratic leaders backing Nixon while McGovern faces Jewish backlash over foreign and social policies.
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America
Spiro Agnew
New York
Waldorf - Astoria
Nixon
Agnew
Law and Order
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel
William A. Wexler
Savannah
B’nai B’rith
World Conference of Jewish Organizations
Wexler
U.S
Middle East
William P. Rogers
U. S
Louis Boyar
Los Angeles
Boyar
Hubert Humphrey
George McGovern
McGovern
Europe
Vietnam
Gious Zionists of
Forest Hills
N.Y
Democratic Party
Warfare Moves Into Space With AWACS and Lasers
The article discusses advances in airborne warning and control systems and laser technology. It explains AWACS aircraft with elevated radar stations can monitor vast airspaces including the Mediterranean and Caribbean, and notes hush-hush laser work as a potential future trigger or defense tool. It cites public remarks by Senator Henry Jackson and a veteran think-tank writer.
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Vietnam
AWACS
U.S. Air Force
Cuba
Caribbean
Europe
Mediterranean
Middle East
Air Force Space Digest
Frank
Whittle
Henry Jackson
Lowell Ponte
Washington
California
Anaheim Bulletin
Should the United States embrace a parliamentary government
Washington argues for a constitutional amendment toward a parliamentary system. The piece compares Britain and Canada, questions the two-party split Congress and presidency, and suggests benefits like greater accountability and reduced gridlock while noting current resistance to reform.
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KFL
92Nd
Congress
Capitol Hill
George Wallace
Canada
England
Britain
Nixon White House
Heath
Peter Flanigan
U.S
Maine
Mississippi
White Flags Flying A Saga Of Military Flags
Washington officials discuss a fantastical Defense Department plan to contract white flags. The piece tracks Lockheed Flag Co. and a string of delays costs and political reactions from 1973 to 1975, with multiple figures and places named.
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Washington
Melvin Laird
Sen. McGovern
Laird
Defense Department
Washington, D.C
House Armed Services Committee
Lockheed Flag Co
Lockheed Flag
Swampville
Eadwards Air Force Base
Calif
WFI
Anchorage
Alaska
Pentagon
William Proxmire
Proxmire
Congress
White House
IMF Report Challenges Beliefs On U.S. Economic Performance
The IMF reports the United States showed 3.7 percent price inflation in the past year, with higher rates in Britain, West Germany, France, the Netherlands, Japan, and Sweden. Over 1963 to the present, U.S. consumer prices rose 33.1 percent while Britain and Japan rose about 51.7 and 55.9 percent respectively. The U.S. also posted the best money-supply growth among eight advanced economies.
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Britain
Japan
U.S
IMF
Wimbledon Boom Prompts Tennis Boom in America
The piece notes rising interest in tennis led by Yvonne Goolagong, Chris Evert, and Billie Jean King as Wimbledon nears. It highlights TV exposure, Goolagong and Evert’s emergence, King’s title runs, and the sport expanding beyond clubs with high court demand and costs. It also cites broader leisure trends in camping golf jogging and water sports.
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America
Monroe News-Star History and Staff Listings
A fragmented portrait lists publishers from 1929 to 1952 and an array of officers and directors for the News-Star-World Publish ing Company in Monroe Louisiana. Partial text includes names such as William H. Bronson Mildred Hunt Ewing Edmund Graves Brown Jr Patricia King Hendrick Esther Ewing Wynne plus several Ewing family members and others.
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John OD. Ewing
Wilson Ewing
Robert Ewing Jr
News-Star—World
Ng Corporation
North 4Th and
Olive Streets
Monroe
William H. Bronson
Mildred Hunt Ewing
Edmund Graves Brown, Jr
Robert Ewing III
Patricia: King Hendrick
Esther Ewing Wynne
Kenneth Carranger
Robert Ewing Brown
Toulmin Hunter Brown
John C. Ewing
Paula Wray Ewing
Helen Clay Hall
Harrison Kelly Wynne
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