Senate backs Nixon on military bill amid arms talks
The Senate votes 64 to 21 to fund a $21 billion Military Procurement Bill, rejecting efforts to slash it. The chamber also supports ABM funding, F-14 aircraft, and a Mansfield amendment calling for withdrawal of U S forces from Vietnam within six months if North Vietnam releases all POWs, with nonbinding status. Negotiations with the Soviet Union on nuclear arms curb resume in November.
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Senate
Nixon
Pentagon
Russia
Harold Hughes
Iowa
Navy
William Proxmire
D-Wisconsin
America
Andrei Gromyko
Mike Mansfield
Dmontana
Vietnam
North Vietnam
Hugh Scott
Pennsylvania
Greatness Calls U S to Reassert Free Enterprise Edge
The piece argues the United States must regain leadership in global markets after World War II, stressing productivity, innovation, and free enterprise. It cites Nixon speeches on monetary reform, the temporary import surcharge, and the need to remove barriers to maintain ally trade and counter rising powers like Japan and Europe. It warns of Britain’s likely Common Market entry and urges swift surcharge removal to retain influence.
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United States
America
Soviet Russia
China
Japan
Western
Europe
Nixon
International Monetary Fund
U. S
Britain
For Sale Country Estate with One Ghost
A New Jersey classified ad offers a country estate for sale and notes a resident ghost. Dr. Stephen Mason says a woman’s voice and moving furniture are heard upstairs, but the ghost does not affect price. He mentions the dishwasher as a price factor.
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New Jersey
Psychic
Stephen Mason
Dr. Mason
Denver
Colo
Free University
Boyle's column urges youth to chase dreams before middle age
HAL BOYLE argues youth is the time to pursue grand ambitions before aging traps the dreamer in a routine. He lists absurd targets and bold schemes to illustrate the carefree urgency of starting early.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Helen Hayes
New Jersey To Enforce Harsh Air Inspection Test
New Jersey launches a strict air pollution inspection system predicting at least a third of the state's 3.3 million cars will fail. Vehicles that fail receive a red sticker and owners must spend about $20 on repairs within two weeks.
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New Jersey
Darns Her Husband Darns Her Husband
A humorous plea invites readers to send original funny gags to Today's FUNNY in Cleveland Ohio. The notice requests readers mail jokes and offers a posted payment of one dollar per original gag.
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West Third St
Cleveland
Ohio
Space Age Report on Lockheed Spy Satellite Breakthrough
Lockheed Missile & Space and the U S Air Force unveiled a double-duty reconnaissance satellite intended to perform seek-and-find and surveillance missions in one craft. The Big Bird driven system weighs about 25 000 pounds with a Perkin Elmer camera and 100 mile plus altitude, reflecting a decade of evolution in U S space surveillance and contributing to MOL cancellation in 1969.
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Lockheed Dynasty
United States
Lockheed Missile & Space Co
Sunnyvale
Calif
U. S. Air Force
Lockheed Aircraft Co
Pacific Missile Range
California
Air Force Martin Marietta
Air Force
Soviet Union
Air Force Manned Orbiting Laboratory
Prison reform urged by Burger amid crime rise
Chief Justice Warren Burger criticizes prisons for fostering idleness obsolete trades and inadequate care. He calls for reforms to give inmates a real chance at change. He cites ratios of 200,000 inmates and few mental health professionals, linking poor conditions to high crime rates.
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Washington
NEA
Attica
San Quentin
Warren Burger
Burger
American Bar Association
Atlanta
Association of the Bar
City of
New York
Denmark
Ripon College
US loses edge as competitor in world trade
The piece argues President Nixon’s 10 percent import surcharge fails to salvage U S competitive standing. It cites declining export shares, lagging R D investment and productivity, and rising foreign efficiency as factors eroding the United States position in manufacturing and high tech markets.
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Washington
Nea
Nixon
United States
West Germany
Japan
Europe
Color quirks and quirky facts from L M Boyd column
A collection of short observations and trivia from L M Boyd touching on color perception in relation to coffee and liquor, fingernail shapes, apple storage, lawnmower invention by Edwin Budding, ichthyophagy, gypsy infidelity, blossom essence in honey, attractiveness tips, death clock questions, space medicine, Spanish language, hello word history, proportional body weight rule, and a Mainland China traffic sign translation. The piece invites reader correspondence to L M Boyd in Fort Worth.
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Air Force
San Francisco
China
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