A Nation Reaches a Trillion in GNP and Turns Thoughts Inward
The piece notes the one trillion dollar GNP milestone with Nixon attending a Commerce Department event but questions the moment’s uplift. It cites inflation and a drop in industrial production, and warns of resource depletion, pollution, population pressures, and the risk of self destructive behavior as humanity faces global challenges.
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Santa Claus
Nixon
Commerce Department
Federal Reserve Board
The Good Neighbor Policy In Property Law
A public service feature by Will Bernard discusses how common law evolved from allowing owners wide leeway to limiting excavations and prohibiting spite fences as neighbors live closer. It notes that courts increasingly balance safety and fairness, while moderate annoyances remain legal.
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Wdge
The
American Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Will Bernard
Oil firms hit with fines for Gulf safety valve failures
Three more oil companies Humble Union and Continental pleaded no contest in New Orleans federal court to charges over not installing safety valves on offshore wells. Each fined the maximum two thousand dollars per count totaling over half a million dollars. Shell Oil pleads innocent to 170 counts on 40 wells as it fights a blaze. Chevron had already paid one million dollars for 590 offenses after last February's Gulf spill. Interior doubled Gulf Coast inspections under Walter Hickel, amid calls to maintain tough pollution enforcement despite his firing.
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Gulf of Mexico
Humble
Union
Continental
District Court
New Orleans
Shell Oil
Chevron Oil Company
Gulf
Interior Department
Walter J. Hickel
Gulf Coast Inspection Force
Quiz Q A and Facts on Highways Boats and Cars
Quick questions cover British truck term interstate highway numbering and the folk opera Peter and the Wolf. It notes a catboat as a single mast vessel, and cites an 1892 Morisson Schmidt electric car from Des Moines Iowa with 24 battery cells four horsepower and 12 passenger capacity at 14 mph.
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World Almanac
Morrison & Schmidt
Des Moines
Iowa
Kennedy Keeps Name in Polls as Noncandidate Plan
Senator Edward M. Kennedy says he wants no part of the 1972 presidential primaries yet remains publicly listed in polls. He aims to influence Democratic issues while serving his six year Senate term and supporting party fundraising and unity at the national convention.
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Carl P. Learsdorf
Washington (Ap
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Kennedy
Senate
Kennedy Brothers
Chappaquiddick Island
Mary Jo Kopechne
Sen
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Muskie
Gallup
Harris
Nixon
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
National Committee
Robert F. Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
Mississippi private academies grow yet falter on integration
In Mississippi white private academies surge after the 1970 court order but face financial strain and uneven quality. Authorities warn that by June 1971 up to a third may close, with a possible half fading over time. Some districts show white exodus slowing while others drift toward all black public schools.
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Washington
NEA
Mississippi
U.S. Supreme Court
Indianola
South-wide Association
South
Soviet scientists warn of economic lag behind United States
Three Soviet scientists A D Sakharov V F Turchin and R A Medvedev warned the USSR lags the United States in oil gas and electric power and are far behind in computer technology They say automation and U S leadership would hasten growth while Soviet labor productivity is far lower and education and agriculture lag The letter argues the Soviet Union cannot outpace free nations in the underdeveloped world and prestige would decline if trends persist
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Washington
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Soviet Union
U.S
Middle East
Latin America
United States
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Ussr
Russia
A. D. Sakharov
V. F. Turchin
America
West
Asia
Africa
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