Ellport School Closure Debate Highlights Local Ties
Citizens of Ellport weigh the need to close the elementary school amid dwindling enrollment and high facility costs. District plans call for possible busing to Walnut Ridge and Perry schools, with long-term reopenings tied to a major new employer landing in the area.
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Ellport
Goodby
Wiwood City Area
Lune 12
Elsport
Bilport
Wayne
Wampun
Une
Bliport
Willin
John Decaro
Cotbhell
Aining
Elport
Walnut Ridge
Ewing Park
Perry
Airport
Wampum
Chewton Bridge
Fillport
The Sincerity of Emotion Beyond Sexual Science
The Washington Monthly argues contemporary therapies fail to professionalize emotions. Love resists scientific progress, remaining a private art not reducible to technique. Teaching love parallels music or painting, not coaching football, as intelligence, compassion, and context resist formulaic methods.
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Mickey Spillane
Rica Jong
The
Washington Monthly
Uncertain Talent and Gift of Music
A writer recalls childhood poverty and missed piano lessons, notes a teacher offering free lessons that father declined, and laments not nurturing musical talent. Reflecting on a biblical parable, the piece urges using available gifts, valuing present talents, and appreciating two children now pursuing music.
Pennsylvania lawmakers weigh six month sessions and July adjournment
Pennsylvania's lawmakers endure a six month 1976 session with talk of forcing annual adjournment by July 1. The piece argues such a plan complicates more than it helps, noting past carry-overs, budget fights, compensation debates, and the mismatch between short sessions and the state’s complex Capitol Hill procedures.
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Pennsylvania
House
Senate
Tose S Wcho
Capitol Hill
Congress Washington
Nations Without Souls and a Just War
Syerey J. Hanis argues nations lack souls and cannot be relied upon to act morally. Only individuals can be appealed to, as religion should shift loyalty from subgroups to humanity to avert global fratricidal conflict. The piece cites Pope Paul VI and laments the futility of urging nations to uphold justice.
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Syerey J. Hanis
Reston on newspaper purpose and public philosophy
James Reston of the New York Times tells University of California readers that a good newspaper publishes news and opinions readers like while a bad one publishes disliked content. He notes no widely accepted public standard for what newspapers are or should do, calling the press under fire and describing the vast 2 million daily NYT word torrent.
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James Reston
The
New York Times
University of California, Riverside
Reston
America
Te CIA
CIA
Portugal
Azores
The Press Under Fire and The Illusions of News
A discourse on press selection and bias. The speaker critiques the illusion of printing all news, notes rising costs, longer seasons, and more data. It argues reporters lack direct access to top power figures, calls for honesty about partial truths, and cites radio and TV as reshaping journalism. Reston admits faults yet asserts progress toward fairness and responsibility.
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Stock Exchange
Washington
Ford
Kissinger
America
Churchill
Reston
Bob Vosburg
Negotiating or bombing in Indochina and Portugal
John P. Roche argues that military force seldom yields political solutions in troubled regions. He cites Ho Chi Minh, Cyprus, Uganda, and Portugal to show how nonnegotiable stances and flawed guarantees hinder peace, urging democratic pressure and measured responses over open armed intervention.
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George Orwell
Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
Lao Dong
Communist Party
Geneva
le Tuc Tho
Cyprus
Athens
Harold Wilson
Ankara
Dishang Cigtts
Eloyal Air Force
Hrom Reykjavik
Idi Amin
Uganda
Amin
RAF
Portugal
Don Fraser
Americans For Democratic Action
Uie Ada
Fraser
ADA
Gonzalves
CIA
Armed Forces Movement
Marlo Soares
John P. Roche
Puritan zeal in foreign policy and the CIA critique
The Foreign Minister of Ruritania denounces Puritan strictness in evaluating public affairs. He criticizes U.S. scrutiny of foreign leaders, CIA oversight, and Watergate era excess, arguing it harms allies and fosters totalitarian pressure. He cites Chiang Kai-shek, Diem, and Nixon era politics as examples before noting domestic policy harms like car costs and smog rules.
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Chiang Kai-shek
China
Diem
South Vietnam
Chiang
Dien
East Asia
CLA
CIA
Castro
Puritaniga
Watergate
Richard Nixon
Halduman- Ehrthcluman
Howse
Ralph Nader
Los Angeles
California
Jobe Chimberlain
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Gaul
Christ
PRN
Paul VI
Kennedy
Tess
Jackie
Los Angeles Rams
Boomerang
United Press International
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