Pro Football Faces Strikes Threat to Public Pleasures
A defense of professional football's popularity amid looming strikes and lockouts in 1975. The piece notes rising attendance, big TV ads, and fan dependence on stadiums, urging both NFL Management Council and NFL Players Association to settle the Rozelle Rule dispute quickly to avoid canceling games and hurting revenues.
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Patriots
National Football League Management Council
NFL Players Association
Maryland at stake in 1976 conventions calendar and clashes
The piece surveys how the 1976 party conventions may reflect a balance between old backroom politics and reform. It notes Democrats plan to meet in New York City on July 12 and Republicans in Kansas City on August 16, with Maryland entangled in national contest over delegates and potential infighting between reformers and the old guard.
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New Hampshire
New York City
Kansas City
Miami
Old Guard
Maryland
McGovern
Humphrey
Muskie
Wallace
Thomas
Morten and
Beall
Bauman
Pierpont
Convention Center
Spiro Agnew
Sargent Shriver
Rockefeller
Nixon
Reagan
Ford
George Wallace
Alexander Lankler
Jack Cade
National Party
GOP
David Forward
Washington
Richard Allen
Salisbury
Louise Gore
Montgomery County
Roy Staten
Dundalk
Montgomery
Lyn Clark
Rosalie Riley
United Democratic Women
Mildred Otenasek
Clarence Blount
Baltimore
Thomas Farrington
Prince George’s
Rep
Parren Mitchell
Central Committee
Democratic National Committee
Farrington
Marvin Mandel
Henry Jackson
Jackson
Mitchell
Wrestling as modern morality play in sport critique
A University of Chicago scholar argues professional wrestling is a morality drama where heroes uphold rules and villains flout them, with audiences cheering. The piece notes referees fail to police violations and even heroes may break rules, pondering health versus corporate profits as a core issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Chicago
Thomas Hendricks
Human Behavior Magazine
Fallout from nuclear testing sparks lung cancer debate in north
Washington reports a proposed link between plutonium fallout and rising northern hemisphere lung cancer. Dr John Gofman warns of a latent 13 to 15 year effect, predicting 1,000,000 northern cases and 116,000 in the USA, with future plant emissions adding new fatalities.
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Washington
United States
John Gofman
Gofman
USA
Dr. Gofman
Bernard Cohen
Pittsburgh
Cohen
Golman
Barrier access at Hechinger store sparks accessibility debate
A Frederick reader details difficulty entering the new Hechinger store, calling the gate barrier inaccessible for disabled customers. He contrasts with Safeway’s reserved parking, urges community awareness, and notes historic context and a Revolutionary War battle reference.
Tuberculosis Eradication Meetings Planned in Frederick County
A series of meetings under the U S Department of Agriculture Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington are set in Frederick County to back an intensified campaign to eradicate tuberculosis from dairy cattle. Francis Scott Key Post American Legion members plan a gala as Stuart Walcott Fost of Washington visits en route to the Gettysburg battlefield. Walker Hill Dairy proprietor A Simpson urges shippers to join the Maryland Virginia Milk Producers Association.
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U.S. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Frederick County
Francis Scott Key Post
American Legion of
Frederick
Stuart Walcott Fost
Gettysburg Battlefield
A. Simpson
Walker Hill
Maryland-Virginia Milk Producers’ Association
Safety of Children Discussed by Farm Bureau Group
Twenty years ago Farm Bureau Planning Group No 4 met at the home of Mr and Mrs William Howard Sr to discuss child safety on the way to school. Harry Kanade presided and Mrs Howard read the minutes with Howard Smith leading the talk on school safety programs and PTA and high school safety councils. Dr Earle T Hawkins president of State Teachers College Towson was set to speak at Hood College vesper service in Coffman Chapel. Hawkins is Maryland born with degrees from Western Maryland College Columbia University and Yale University.
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Golman
University of California
United States
Israel
Palestine Liberation Organization
Middle East
PLO
Security Council
U.S
Uny
Ford
Montana
Corps of Engineers
Farm Bureau Planning Group No. 4
William Howard
Harry Kanade
Howard
Howard Smith
PTA
Earle T. Hawkins
State Teachers College
Towson
Hood College
Coffman Chapel
Maryland
Hawkins
Western Maryland College
Columbia University
Yale University
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Frederick, Md
Don and
Val Hymes
Uotheaten
People’s Daily
Nlewsrarrri atHive
Les Whitten
Jack Anderson
Consumer Federation of America
Washington, D.C
Congress
John Hechinger
Hechinger
Safway
7Th Street
Safeway
Robert E. Miller
Brooklawn
Freeman's Farm
New York
Burgoyne
Gates
Arnold
News-Post
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