Labor Leaders Defy Nixon At AFL-CIO Miami Beach Meeting
AFL-CIO President George Meany declares the union will not back Phase II, signaling tense relations with President Nixon. Delegates refuse to stand for Hail to the Chief, underscoring a climate of opposition as Meany warns the President knows what he can do with or without labor’s cooperation.
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Afl-Cio
Miami Beach
United States
Labor
George Meany
Nixon
White House
Meany
Detriments in peace pills and the psychology of power
A critical look at Kenneth B. Clark and others who advocate biotechnical control of leaders' minds to prevent war. The piece weighs risks of unforeseen side effects, questions whether pills could temper aggression without dulling reformist drive, and ponders population wide medication.
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New York City
Clark
Teddy Roosevelt
U.S
Welfare reform priorities in a failing system
The nation faces a growing welfare roll and a soaring bill amid a crisis over inefficiency and abuses. AFDC drives costs, while a 15 million recipient baseline tests programs and calls for reform as policymakers debate measures to curb fraud and mismanagement.
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Robert Betts
Copley
U.S
Washington
California
Ronald Reagan
AFDC
HEW
Today in History December 1 1971 events recapped
Notable occurrences on December 1 include Yugoslavia forming in 1918, Adams aJackson Crawford and Clay deadlock in 1824, Norway Denmark and Sweden neutrality talks in 1917, Civil Air Patrol organizing 1941, Saar Basin battle onset in 1944, Chicago Catholic school fire in 1958 with 90 dead, Dominican Republic protests in 1961, Kosygin welcomed in Paris in 1971, and Echeverria sworn in as Mexico's president in 1972.
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Associated Press
Yugoslavia
U. S
House of Representatives
John Quincy Adams
Andrew Jackson
William H. Crawford
Henry Clay
Norway
Denmark
Sweden
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Mexico
Luis Echeverria Alvarez
Boylie's Column Reflects on Everyday Irritations
Hal Boyle vents about modern annoyances from rising grocery prices and stagnant wages to social bravado at cocktail parties. He ponders clocks in bars, picky cats, faded fly-swatting, pension worries, love songs, and a string of humorously specific gripes about daily life.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Natural History Museum
U.S
Japan’s rush to industry harms housing and living standards
Bruce Biossat reports from Tokyo on Japan’s ascent to third among world powers and the cost to housing, roads, schools, hospitals, and pollution. He cites substandard housing for millions, crowded cities, scarce farmland, rising car ownership, and smog obscuring Mount Fuji as leaders acknowledge infrastructure and social gaps.
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Tokyo
NBA
Japan
Yasuo Takeyama
Japan Economic Journal
New Japan
Osaka
Los Angeles
Mt. Fuji
Sumida
Stick to the basics on prison reforms
After San Quentin and Attica, Stanford ran a two week mock prison study with 21 students divided into guards and prisoners. It showed cruelty and dehumanization can arise quickly, yet the piece argues the subjects were not criminals and the test added little new insight beyond known risks of prison systems. It urges focusing on curing the problem rather than further experiments.
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Don Oakley
San Quentin
Attica
Stanford University
Philip Zimbardo
Psychology Building
Zimbardo
Korea
Stanford Psychology
University
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