Editorial urges personal action for clean environment and energy progress
The piece criticizes lip service to ecology and urges individuals to reduce litter and pollution. It argues for personal responsibility, stronger conservation, and rapid adoption of advanced energy, including atomically powered clean tech, to end dependence on fossil fuels and fix ecological harm. It envisions a future where science enables pollution-free travel and steady power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nature
Congress
Earth
Why Permissive Dress Codes Fail
Fred Britton of Niles Township Community High School in Skokie argues that permissive dress codes undermine education and that students should set their own standards. He warns that while activism can be troublesome, rules by adults may be less effective than student guidelines. He notes dress as a sign of respect and urges schools to consider clearer standards.
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Fred Britton
Board of Education
Niles Township
Lifton
Hair Length Split Among College Males Shocks Survey
A Gallup College Survey finds 28 percent prefer long hair above the ear while 20 percent wear it over the ear but not to the shoulder and seven percent keep long styles to the shoulder. Meanwhile 45 percent still favor traditional short cuts.
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Gallup
Boyle's Column humor and social pecking order satire
HAL BOYLE laments modern American life demands constant self ranking. He lists telling signs of status from luxury yachts and twice stocked love nests to exclusive dorm donations and credit card expirations, illustrating how perceived rank shapes daily interactions.
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Hal Boyle
New York
America
Julie Andrews
Joe Frazier
President Nixon
J. Edgar Hoover
Norman Vincent Peale
Nickle and Dime
Red Cross
Public Library
Texas Dems face high stakes clash over chairmanship
Texas political observers foresee a major showdown in 1972 between Lloyd Bentsen and Ben Barnes versus Governor Preston Smith and party chairman Elmer Baum. The power struggle centers on control of the State Democratic Committee and the 1972 delegation to the Democratic National Convention. Barnes supporters push for youth and renewal while Republicans forecast intraparty turmoil guiding the 1972 race.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Texas
Democratic Party
Lloyd Bentsen
Ben Barnes
Preston Smith
Elmer Baum
John Tower
R-Tex
Barnes
Ralph Yarborough
Bentsen
Demcratic Committee
State Democratic Party
Smith
Baum
State Democratic
Ed Clark
Australia
Big Wheel
Senate Nomination Committee
Senate
State Banking Board
Democratic
Democratic Executive Committee
Larry Tem
Ple
Treasury
John B. Connally
Lyndon B. Johnson
Temple
Connally
Johnson
George Willeford
Willeford
Letters Push Patriotism and Prayer Amid Varying Voices
A Pecos Enterprise reader defends national pride and Vietnam service while urging support for the president and troops. The letters also note May special elections and a separate Iraan request for a week of prayer to end drought, signed by June E Heck.
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Pecos Enterprise
Sirs
P.O. Box
Iraan
Texas
June
Heck
Quick Quiz Answers On Moon Snakes Bananas And More
The set of trivia covers moonlight at the poles in winter, snakes swallowing prey, bananas being picked green, Calhoun as the only US vice president to resign in 1832, the First Lady’s inaugural gown at the Smithsonian, and caviar sourced from the Atlantic sturgeon with eggs exceeding 1.5 million per female.
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First Lady of the Land
Smithsonian Institution
CBS and The Selling of the Pentagon Deception Case
The piece debunks CBS editing of an interview with Daniel Henkin for The Selling of the Pentagon. It argues CBS reshaped answers to mislead viewers, prompting criticism from News executives and reasserting the ethics of editing versus distortion in journalism.
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Washington
NBA
CBS
Pentagon
Daniel Henkin
Henkin
Washington Post
Richard Salant
CBS News
Reuven Frank
NBC News
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Rozetta Chisholm Morriston
Flo
NEA, Inc
Pecos
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U. S
U.S
Code of Ethics Commission
Republican Executive Committee
Austin
Ronnie Doggett
United States
John C. Calhoun
South Carolina
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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Bruce Biossat
Salant
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