Nixon calls for restrained taxes and no reform this year
Editorial notes President Nixon pledging no new taxes or value added tax this year while revenue seeking continues at state and local levels. He backs revenue sharing to prevent municipal bankruptcies and urges Congress to support an expansionary budget and easier money policy. Nixon seeks improved cooperation with the 92nd Congress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nixon
Congress
Vietnam
Federal Reserve Board
92Nd Congress
End of an era for Stetson hats as company announces closing
John B. Stetson of Philadelphia built a western icon with the ten gallon hat. Once employing about 5 000, the firm plans to lay off its last workers as automobiles and changing fashions end the era. The beaver felt hat symbolized cowboys in films and on the plains, enduring sun rain and even bullet holes, but fades with modern times.
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John B. Stetson
Philadelphia
Stetson Company
Stetson
Hollywood
Beaver
Southeast Asia
McGovern
U.S
Hatfield - McGovern
Senate
Why Camille Evacuation Choices Varied Along Gulf Coast
Mississippi State researchers interviewed 384 heads of households in a 45 mile shore area after Hurricane Camille. Of those, 107 stayed despite danger, citing factors like uncertain home height above sea level, fear of looting, fatalism among the elderly, and lingering doubt about risk even as the storm approached. The study raises questions about how people assess threat and act during disasters.
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Gulf of Mexico
U.S
Gulf Coast
Weather Bureau
Mississippi State University Science Research Center
Kenneth P. Wilkinson
Peggy J. Ross
Shoreland
Camille
Cememan Danane
Boyle's Column: The paradoxes of middle age
HAL BOYLE offers a wry meditation on turning 40. He notes birth and middle age share tears rather than laughter, yet highlights middle age as longer, more varied, and freer. The piece skewers vanity while praising restraint, gratitude, and renewed perspective.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Mistletoe’s Curious Roots Across Cultures and Plants
The World Almanac explains mistletoe as a parasitic shrub with leathery leaves and white berries that clings to many deciduous trees. It notes the plant’s sacred status among ancient Celts and Germans who started the kissing tradition.
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World Almanac
McGovern Opens Presidential Bid in 1972 Challenge
Sen. George McGovern declares his 1972 candidacy intent amid a crowded Democratic field led by Muskie Kennedy Humphrey. He vows long campaign work to overcome low recognition, aims to win primaries including New Hampshire, and seeks fundraising and organizational support two blocks from the Capitol.
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Carl P. Leabsdorf
Washington
George McGovern
Senate
McGovern
South Dakota
Muskie
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
New Hampshire
Nixon
Capitol
Robert F. Kennedy
Chicago
Humphrey
Ed Muskie
Richard Nixon
Reflections on toil fate and faith from classical writers
A compact meditation drawing on Ecclesiastes James Hebrews and Fenelon notes on toil temptation and charity. It contrasts laborers with heirs of wealth and quotes from Conrad Browning and religious texts to reflect on desire virtue and ultimate meaning.
Two People Share Food and Faith in Shared Blessings
A compact reflection on communal life quoting Acts about daily temple attendance and shared meals fostering praise and favor among people. It also cites Henrik Ibsen noting that labor and trouble are easier with a partner.
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Henrik Ibsen
No U.S. Troops Cambodia Will Do Its Own Fighting
President Nixon insists no American ground troops will fight in Cambodia. The article argues locals fight best when responsible, citing Laos Vietnam and Cambodia where native forces endured with U.S. air, sea, and dollars support. It credits growing South Vietnamese and Cambodian fighting resolve to home-field stakes and training upgrades.
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Washington
NEA
Nixon
U.S
United States
Mao Tse-tung
Vietnam
Lin Piao
Ho Chi Minh
South
Mao
Southeast Asia
Laos
Cambodia
Power Struggle Dominates Kremlin Leadership
Leon Dennen reports in New York on January 1971 that Brezhnev and Kosygin face a vying leadership within the Kremlin. The piece notes internal factionalism, the looming 24th Communist party congress, and Brezhnev’s effort to consolidate power despite economic troubles and rising dissident sentiment.
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New York
Nea
Russia
Nixon
Brezhnev-Kosygin
Moscow
United States
Soviet Union
Middle East
Indochina
Europe
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Kosygin
West Berlin
Kremlin
Brezhnev
Politburo
Aleksandr Shelepin
Kiril Mazurov
Andrei Sakharov
Red Army
Vozhd
Red World
Rolling Stones
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Khrushchev
Far East
Peking
Lenin
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OH Moore
Wire Editor
ORE Rowden
Hide
Bonnie Clarley
Cedar Street
Peru
Texas
Boyle
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Berry's
WIT
Joseph Conrad
James
Francois Fenelon
Robert Browning
Ray Cromley
Washington Correspondent
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