Prisoner of Pennsylvania Avenue in Watergate era
Don Oakley argues Nixon's Watergate handling leaves the administration weaker and boxed in. He faults the President for delaying full cooperation with Congress and judges, seeks a genuine pledge of cooperation, and warns of escalating clashes with Congress and the press as a Watergate prosecutor battle looms.
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Nixon
Congress
Soviet Union
Middle East
Justice Department
White House
Pennsylvania Avenue
Busways Offer Quick Cure for Urban Traffic Jams
Editorial notes bus-exclusive lanes as a rapid, low cost fix for congestion. TRIP cites lanes moving 20 000 passengers hourly versus autos, with examples in Washington New York Los Angeles Boston and San Francisco. Bus lanes cut fuel use and pollution while freeing time. rail may still be needed for certain corridors.
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Road Information Program
TRIP
Shirley Highway
Washington, D.C
Virginia
New York
Lincoln Tunnel
Long Island
San Bernardino
Shirley
Scaife Donates $1 Million To Nixon Campaign
Richard M Scaife publisher of Greensburgs Tribune Review is named the second highest contributor to Nixon 1972 re election fund. He gave $1 million via 350 checks to multiple committees all under legal limits, described as nonwatergatable by editor Molly Brown.
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Watergate
Richard M Scaife
Greensburg
Tribune-Review
Nixon
Scaife
Mellon
Molly Brown
The
Tribune- Review
Today in History Highlights for November 1, 1973
A compact digest lists key past events on November 1 across years, including the 1952 hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok, Stamp Act in 1765, 1788 Congress adjournment, postal money orders 1864, Naples bombing 1940, Hitler death claim 1945, Blair House incident 1950, Diem coup 1963, bombing halt 1968, Mekong helicopter disaster 1972, Victoria de los Angeles birthday, and a quip attributed to President Truman.
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Associated Press
United States
Eniwetok Atoll
Marshall Islands
U.S. Continental Congress
U.S
Naples
Maly
Adolf Hitler
Berlin
Blair House
Washington
Harry S. Truman
Ngo Dinh Diem
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Mekong River
Victoria de Los Angeles
Pecos Enterprise Receives 1973 General Excellence Award
The Pecos Enterprise, a Buckner News Alliance newspaper, earned the Texas Press Association General Excellence Award for 1973, recognizing overall outstanding newsroom performance and weekly paper quality across its reporting and presentation.
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Buckner News Alliance
Texas Press Association
Experts differ on possibility of Israeli nuclear bomb
Washington notes show a range of views on whether Israel has a nuclear option. French General Georges Buis suggested a nuclear threat exists, while many experts dispute it. Analysts discuss Dimona, potential Sinai reactors, delivery systems, and regional risks amid the Arab Israeli conflict.
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Tom Tiede
Washington
NEA
Georges Buis
Middle East
Buis
Institute of National Defense Studies
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Mediterranean
Tel Aviv
Egypt
U.N
U-Thant
United Jewish Appeal
Cornell
George Quester
Popular Press
Aswan Dam
Quester
Ben-Gurion
U.S. 6Th Fleet
Alan Solomonow
Committee For
Dimona
Sinai
Solomonov
United States
Jericho
Scoville
Truman
Japan
SANE
Boyle's column on impractical fixes and peace hopes
New York AP columnist HAL BOYLE jokes about moon missions and playful utopian schemes from crumbling teeth cures to anti boredom tech. He riffs on a tax free year, global peace moves, and ends with a note that inheritance is the main cause of baldness, more in males.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Moon
Yemen
Alan Solomonov
Middle East
Mediterranean
Solomonow
Israel
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Nixon's self focus shadows his presidency
Bruce Biossat analyzes President Nixon's public persona and coping with Watergate and crises. The piece argues Nixon treats daily decisions as aptitude tests, prioritizing self-perception over substantive governance, and suggests his public utterances reveal a man pursuing self-monitoring over solving problems.
Texas amendments draw little voter attention in November
Texas voters face nine proposed constitutional changes but public focus centers on Amendment No. 1 to create annual legislative sessions and raise legislators salaries. Amendments involve veterans land bonds, tax bases, homestead exemptions for singles, seawall tax leeway, probate jurisdiction, and water utility tax exemptions, with various backing and criticism.
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Bob Armstrong
Texas Municipal League
Armstrong
Korea
Vietnam
The
Nobel Peace Prize honors for Roosevelt and Wilson
The World Almanac notes two American presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Roosevelt received the prize in 1906 for mediating the Russo Japanese War in 1905, and Wilson in 1919 for his work on establishing the League of Nations.
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Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Roosevelt
Wilson
League of Nations
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Pennsylvania Ave
Pecos Enterprise
O’ferrall Pauly
Comrade
Herbert Scoville
CIA
Federation of American Scientists
Boyle
Las Vegas
China
Bruce Biossat
Richard Nixon
James David Barber
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