WPA boondoggle debate reopens over Great Depression program
Editorials attack and defend the Works Progress Administration noting Nixon opposition to 9.5 billion training bill and critics calling WPA projects wasteful. The piece surveys WPA achievements including roads bridges airports water lines sewers and public buildings while praising its morale and employment impact during hardship.
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Nixon
Chicago
WPA
Work Progress Administration
Work Projects Administration
Philadelphia Art Museum
New York
Central Park Zoo
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Spock Urges Home Care Overburdened by Women Liberation
Dr Benjamin Spock defends home child care against the view that work outside the home is superior. He says few outside jobs equal child rearing in creativity and urges communities to offer centers for adults to pursue meaningful, skill building activities. Jane Buchholtz notes that only recently have mothers been able to devote full time to parenting.
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Benjamin Spock
Spock
Redbook
Jane Buchholtz
University of Wisconsin
Boyle's Column Finds Social Climb Hard to Gauge
HAL BOYLE surveys a status conscious society where money and prestige drive perception. He humorously lists signs of ascent such as tributes and exclusive circles, then contrasts them with a failing path shown by divorce, estrangement, liability, and social neglect, ending with a biblical verse.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Las Vegas
Texans In Politics Under SEC Stock Probe
In Dallas the SEC filed a federal stock fraud suit a month ago triggering Texas political unease. Key figures including Speaker Gus Mutscher Gov. Preston Smith and legislators faced questions over 1969 stock purchases with funds from Sharpstown Bank. They deny wrongdoing while facing a $27.7 million shareholder suit.
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Garth Jones
Associated Press
Securities and Exchange Commission
Dallas
Texas
Austin
Senate
House
SEC
Gus Mutscher
Preston Smith
Mutscher
Smith
Democratic
Elmer Baum
W.S. Heatly
Pad
Funct
Sharpstown State Bank
Sharpstown State
Self defense limits and later political pay shifts in Texas
A discussion of self defense as a natural right with limits, illustrated by cases of proportional force. The piece then covers Texas legislative probes, SEC inquiries, and a voter referendum on ethics and pay raises for lawmakers in a May 18 special election.
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Janet
Marge
Futhermore
Smith
Senate General Investigating Committee
Senate
SEC
Henry Gonzalez
D-Tex
U. S. House Banking Committee
Sharpstown
Gonzalez
House Investigation Committee
House
Texas
Texas House
Texas Senate
Berlin talks sour as four powers clash with Moscow
Washington reports a breakdown in the latest four power talks on easing conditions for West Berlin. US France and Britain reject detailed preparatory work after East German traffic slowdowns and Moscow demands escalate. Brandt faces local elections March 14 as tensions threaten Ostpolitik.
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Washington
NBA
West Berlin
United States
France
Britain
Moscow
Berlin
West Germany
Soviet Union
Russia
Kremlin
Communist Party
Willy Brandt
Warsaw
Brandt
Bonn
East Germany
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Viet Spy Units Operate in Laos Through Months
South Vietnamese covert squads known as black pajama units have operated in southern Laos for months without American advisers. They scout Ho Chi Minh trails, locate supply dumps and way stations, and time moves for rapid South Vietnamese advances. The effort aims to pressure Hanoi while guarding against a North Vietnamese or Viet Cong counterstrike.
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Washington
Nea
Laos
Ho Chi Minh Trails
Hanoi
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Cambodia
South
United States
Iorps
Highway 9
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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NTI
The
American Bar Association
State Bar of Texas
Will Bernard
Bruce Biossat
Ray Cromley
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