Nixon names Kennedy and Mayo from Chicago bank for top White House posts
Richard Nixon taps David Kennedy and Robert Mayo of Continental Illinois National Bank to head the Treasury and budget respectively. Kennedy brings debt management experience from Ike era and LBJ surtax discussions. Mayo has Washington study background and Chicago community work. Nixon aims for top-level quality beyond politics as inflation and war costs press on.
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Treasury
Chicago
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co
Richard Nixon
Bank
David Kennedy
Henry Fowler
Robert M Mayo
Nixon
Kennedy
Ike
Mayo
Washington
Wilbur Mills
House
Pig obsession wears thin in New Left rat zine critique
A reader surveys the New Left underground weekly Rat noting an overuse of pig imagery fromChicago’s pig campaigns to San Francisco State clashes and a Predictable anti pig rhetoric. The reviewer laments the repetition and calls for sharper art and intellect beyond the pig motif.
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New York
East Village
New Left
Chicago
Daley
Dallas
Bobby Seale
Tom
Seventh Street
San Francisco State College
J. Pigasus
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Vatican
Sergius Yakobson
Robert ¥. Allen
Library of Congress
Soviet Union
Pigs and Politics in a Cold War Context
A critical column notes Soviet literary dissent in samizdat form and contrasts Russian protest writing with American political theater. It cites Solzhenitsyn and poets like Evtushenko and Voznesenski, contrasts Marxist framing with pig imagery, and recalls McKay and Orwell to comment on how politics infects culture. The piece ends with a quip about voter fatigue and the expression lazy swearing as emphatic.
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Brezhnev
Kosygin
Tom Dodds
Connecticut
Solzhenitsyn
Ivan Denisovich
Evtushenko
Voznesenski
U.S
Dick Nixon
Karl Marx
Claude McKay
McKay
Animal Farm
Wisconsin DDT hearings set for pivotal environmental ruling
In Madison Wisconsin the Department of Natural Resources holds hearings on a petition by Citizens National Resources Association and the Izaak Walton League to ban DDT statewide The case tests environmental impact and the balance between public health and agricultural interests with witnesses from University of Wisconsin Brookhaven and Berkeley and opposition from the National Chemical Association The decision will shape pesticide use policies and food supply, disease control, and economic effects across farmers fishermen and sportsmen.
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Madison
Wisc
Capitol Square
Wisconsin
Capitol
Department of Natural Resources
Citizens National Resources Association
Izaak Walton League
Maurice van Susteren
Ribicoff Committee
Senate
Gaylord Nelson
Nelson
Alaska
Antarctica
E. Fisher
University of Wisconsin
Charles F. Wurster, Jr
University of New York At
Stony Brook
Joseph J. Hickey
Department of Wildlife Ecology
Robert W. Riseborough
Institute of Marine Resources At
Berkeley
Environmental Defense Fund, Inc
Brookhaven
Michigan
National Chemical Association
Louis A. McLean
Chicago
Velsicol Chemical Corporation
Nature
Iowa weighs overhaul urged for truck enforcement
A nine month study by Midwest Research Institute for the Iowa Highway Commission finds 10 percent of trucks on Iowa roads violate weight rules. It urges more enforcement staff, varied scale hours, more portable scales, and night operation to curb violations.
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AMES
Iowa Highway Commission
Commission
Midwest Research Institute of Kansas City
Iowa
George W Brown
University of Town
Des Moines
Howard Gunnerson
The
Highway Commission
Brown
Iowa City
Anemia diet questions answered by Dr. Thosteson
Dear Mrs. P.G. and Mrs. C.A. seek iron rich foods and liver safety. Dr Thosteson explains anemia types, diet vs. medical treatment, and cautions against relying on diet alone for slow blood loss. He notes cooked liver retains nutrition and urges whole grain cereals while warning about parasites in raw meat. For arthritis info, a pay booklet offer follows.
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Dr. Thosteson
P. G
Muscatine News Briefs Highlight Obituaries and Weddings
Funeral services for Mrs. W. P. Bronner were held at the Lutheran church attended by a large crowd with a long procession to the burial. Private Adolph Mundt has returned to Muscatine after mustering out of service on December 11. A Christmas party hosted by the Ethics Study club featured a decorated tree at 115 Park Avenue. Miss Darlene Cracraft and Herbert C. Toussaint to wed at 7:30 p.m. at Herbert A. Toussaint home. George R. Chase died at Muscatine General Hospital with services set for Friday at Fairbanks Chapel.
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W. P. Bronner
Lutheran Church
H. Reinemund
Adolph Mundt
Muscatine
F. W. Englund
Park Avenue
Louisa Jericho
Opal Tanner
Englund
Herbert A. Toussaint
Burnside Ave
Darlene Cracraft
Clarence Cracraft
Sampson St
Herbert C. Toussaint
U. S. Navy
Fairbanks Chapel
George R. Chase
Muscatine General Hospital
Today in History remembered from 1968 events
On this December 19 the year counts 354 with 12 days remaining. Highlights recall Washington's Valley Forge encampment in 1777 and King Philip's War ending in Rhode Island in 1675. Other notes mention Franklin's Almanac in 1732 and Napoleon at Toulon in 1793.
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Associated Press
George Washington
Continental Army
Valley Forge
Rhode Island
Benjamin Franklin
Richard
Napoleon Bonaparte
Toulon
mid-Atlantic
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