Editorial Stumbles in Peace Talks Over POW Rescue
The piece argues critics overestimated impact of the Hanoi rescue attempt on Paris negotiations. It notes North Vietnam’s leverage with POWs, Kennedy’s call for a total withdrawal, and warns against yielding to blackmail or delaying talks. It condemns the framing of prisoners as the sole peace lever and urges firm insistence on exchange terms.
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Hanoi
Paris
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
United States
Edward M Kennedy
Saigon
Senate
Nixon
Shape of World to Come
Scientists note continents ride on moving plates, not fixed. Dietz and Holden project future shifts in Scientific American, predicting Australia nears Southeast Asia, Africa splits, the Mediterranean collapses, and the Americas drift west with Baja California severed. By 50 million years hence the Atlantic widens and the Pacific shrinks.
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Earth
Alfred Wegener
Pangea
All Lands
North America
Europe
Environmental Science Services Administration
Robert S Dietz
John C Holden
Scientific American
Australia
Southeast Asia
Africa
Mediterranean
Atlantic
Pacific
North
South America
Baja California
California
San Andreas Fault
Boyle's Column remembers a simpler era of life
HAL BOYLE reflects on memory as a guide to a past America. He sketches midcentury scenes from vaudeville to home life, noting candles on trees, reading rituals, small-town customs, and the social rhythms that defined growing older and wiser.
Factory accident study cites high UK injury risk
Safety expert Sydney Robinson of the Trade Union Congress notes that among Britain's 1.5 million manual workers each faces serious injury at least twice in a working life. He cites 1969 figures: 322,000 factory injuries in Britain.
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London
Britain
Sydney Robinson Robinson
Trade Union Congress Industrial Welfare Committee
The Miracle at Derrick Texas
Derrick Texas reveals a Christmas tale in a dusty oil town. Fred Ketchum in a Santa suit struggles to collect charity as Gus Derek and the orphanage loom over a harsh holiday scene.
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Derrick,Texas
Kaise Paleamy
Derrick
Texas
Gus Derek
Fred Ketchum
Fred
Mrs Bittrell
Mrs. Bittrell
Mr. Derek
Christmas charity mingle in Berry's World tale
In a small town scene, Gus Derek funds a yearly prize and taunts tallying for the carol festival while Felicia Skrind plots to remove orphans. Fred Ket chum navigates whispers of a northern breeze and civic clubs help the poor as a cold wind blows.
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Mrs. Bittrell
Gus Derek
Fred
Gus
Derek
Civic Club
1970 Census Near Perfection Amid Undercount Debates
The 1970 census, ready for delivery to President Nixon, is hailed as near perfect with undercount errors totaling five ten thousandths of one percent. About 1,690 complaints emerged from mayors and officials, most resolved, as 185,000 workers counted nearly 205 million people across 60,000 units. Baltimore and East Chicago faced court challenges over alleged undercounts, while nationwide efforts to recount yielded limited impact and no agency-led recounts.
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Nixon
Census Bureau
George Brown
Brown
East Chicago
Ind
U.S. District Court
George Beamer
Beamer
U.S
Baltimore
Thomas D'Alessandro
National League of Cities
Johns Hopkins University
D'Alessandro
California
Bob Wilson
House Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Peale's Power Still Working
The article reflects on Norman Vincent Peale and The Power of Positive Thinking, noting long popularity and mixed religious critique. It cites liberal critic Henry Sloan Coffin, praises Peale's influence, and mentions the Pueblo crew who recalled Bible passages under North Korean imprisonment, highlighting faith as a life guide.
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Norman Vincent Peale
Prentice-Hall Inc
Peale
O.K
Henry Sloan Coffin
Union Theological Seminary
Rochester
N.Y
St. Paul
C. R. Gibson Co
Pueblo
Navy
Christ
Pueblo Bible
Foundation For Christian Living
Pawling
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