Metro School a Radical New Way to Teach Chicago Youth
Editorial argues NAM backing for a 400 student Chicago program using metro offices as classrooms. Students design courses from history to stock market, drafting and telescope making. Proponent says it reduces school costs, aligns learning with business life, and could end dropout and generation gap.
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National Association of Manufacturers
Big Business
Chicago
Metro School
John Naisbett
Urban Research Corporation of Chicago
San Francisco
NAM
Urban Affairs Committee
United States
Second Thoughts On Cancer Push
Serious doubts arise before launching a massive assault on cancer. Dr. Philip R. Lee of UC San Francisco warns cancer is not like a moonshot and opposes transferring the National Cancer Institute to a new national cancer authority. He urges using the NIH as the core machinery for action.
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Philip R. Lee
San Francisco
University of California
Lee
Senate Committee On Labor and Public Welfare
Jacob Javits
R-N.y
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Authority
Mail Boosts Now Efficiency Later
The United States Postal Service will take over mail delivery in months and has asked the Postal Rate Commission to raise first class rates to eight cents, air mail to eleven, and post cards to seven. Newspapers and magazines would rise, bulk mail would be cut, parcel post unchanged for now. The aim is to put the system on a self supporting basis with later efficiency investments to follow.
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U.S. Post Office Department
U.S. Postal Service
Postal Rate Commission
Life has its good days and its bad days
HAL Boyle reflects on bad days when hopes fail and small humiliations mount. A string of misfortunes from a missing date to a failed appearance with bifocals and failed relationships paints a wry portrait of aging and resilience.
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Hal Boyle
Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
World Almanac Facts Overview
A brief entry from the 1970 World Almanac Facts section highlights key data points of the era. It provides concise statistics and notable figures across politics, science, and culture, reflecting the period's global context and notable events.
Texas lawmakers eye 1972 special session amid tax woes
Legislators expect to return to Austin in 1972 for a special session to tackle tax and spending issues and possible welfare reforms. They anticipate tensions, party splits, and the need to align state actions with federal welfare and revenue sharing debates.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Austin
House
Ben Barnes
Gus Mutscher
Senate
Preston Smith
Barnes
Texas
Congress
Smith
Sharpstown State Bank
Houston
Ancient Arthritis Traced to Ancient Skeletons
Britannica notes arthritis dates back over 100 million years with traces found in a Neanderthal skeleton around 40000 B C and in dinosaurs from the Mesozoic era.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lawyers fight $235 million tax dispute with U S Steel
Rich Mar reports a battery of lawyers for U S Steel ongoing battle to obtain a $35 million refund in Federal income tax and to avoid another $200 million the government says is owed.
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Rich Mar
U.S. Steel
Tax reform aims to aid the little man in IRS disputes
The piece notes a 20 year-old dispute over the Korean War Excess Profits Tax Act and a Big Steel case now appealable. It argues that rich taxpayers may access justice more easily, urges broader access via a new small claims tax procedure allowing disputes up to $1000 without a lawyer, and calls for simpler tax reform to ease taxpayer burden.
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Big Steel
Tax Court
Red rhetoric from Moscow and U S critique
A New York analysis notes Gus Hall’s Moscow speech praised by Soviet delegates while highlighting athe presence of political repression in the USSR. It contrasts Brezhnev's economic promises with stagnant living standards and warns against confusing Kremlin propaganda with American progressive values.
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New York
NEA
Communist Party
United States
Kremlin
Gus Hall
U.S
Reds
Moscow
Russian Communist Party
Hall
Pavlov
Russia
Secret Police
KGB
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Leonid Brezhnev
Stalin
Brezhnev
Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Nixon air war figures questioned by critics lack of proof
NEA commentary notes critics dispute Nixon administration claims on air strikes offsetting reduced ground fighting in Vietnam. article cites officials asserting drops in tactical sorties and B-52 missions, while observers seek plausible, verifiable figures amid dwindling ground forces and limited South Vietnamese operations.
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Washington
NEA
Nixon
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laotian Panhandle
U.S
South Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Pentagon
White House
Vietnam
U Minh Forest
Mekong Delta
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