Attica Shoot-Out Teaches Universal Prison Lesson
The Attica and San Quentin episodes signal a broader tragedy beyond the loss of 37 lives. Penal reform has produced a tougher, more politically conscious prisoner population, with race and outside agitators intensifying tensions. Violence cannot drive humane reform. authorities must pursue a humane, rehabilitative system amid reforms.
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Attica
N.Y
San Quentin
California
Ray Procunier
America
Kent State
New York
New Jersey Plans Auto Pollution Inspections in 1972
New Jersey will launch the nation’s most comprehensive auto air pollution checks in 1972. All registered cars will be tested for exhaust emissions. failing vehicles will receive a red windshield sticker and two weeks to repair. Expected fail rate is about one third of 33 million cars with costs around 20 dollars for a partial tuneup.
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New Jersey
T. W. Sigler
Continental Oil Co
Garden State
John Elston
Iowa
If Only Half of Our Ifs Could Come True
Hal Boyle imagines a whimsically better world with two paydays a week and fewer Mondays. He lists humorous crowding of everyday life including taxes on air and free leather shin guards, painting a satirical view of social norms and politics. The tone is light and observational.
Barbs by Phil Pastoret
The piece offers satirical lines about promises and insider knowledge while mocking entrepreneurship with a quip that likens an entrepreneur to turning a mercury-laden fish into a thermometer.
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Newspaper Enterprise Assn
Mines that killed my friends and now the widows of St Lawrence
The town of St Lawrence is haunted by mines that sickened and killed miners from the 1930s to the 1960s. Cecil Turpin recalls nineteen years underground and a life split by radiation and silicosis. The piece notes compensation, hospital care, and the slow response of governments, with a royal commission in 1967 69 faulting health departments for ignoring occupational hazards.
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ST. Lawrence
Cecil Turpin
Richard Slaney
United States
Rock
Alcan
Royal Commission
Provincial Health Department
Federal Health and Welfare Department
Provincial Department of Health
Today in History September 23 1971 Highlights
Notable dates include the 1789 establishment of the U S Supreme Court and the 1806 completion of Lewis and Clark’s expedition. Other items cover the Knickerbocker Club formation in 1845 and 1926 Gene Tunney’s heavyweight title win in Philadelphia.
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Associated Press
U.S. Supreme Court
B.C
Augustus Cesar
Lewis and Clark
Mississippi River
United States
Knickerbocker Club
New York
Duesseldorf
Germany
Gene Tunney
Duck Dempsey
Philadelphia
U. S
Congress
Harry S. Truman
World Almanac Facts overview
A compact almanac item notes key figures and generic data from the 1971 edition, highlighting notable statistics and public-interest facts. It presents a wide range of information in brief summaries suitable for quick reference.
Pass It On reader questions span tastes time and taxes
A 1971 McNaught Syndicate column by L M Boyd includes quirks from a psychiatrist on purple in hospitals to Nixon bowling scores and Titusville incomes. It features jokes about aging game cocks and tank water in boats while inviting letters to LM Boys in Fort Worth Texas.
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Nixon
Titusville
Fla
Paderewski
LM Boys
Fort Worth
Texas
Vietnam election in Saigon deemed a one man charade
American observers say South Vietnamese president Thieu will stage a thin election on Oct 3 with Generals Minh and Ky viewed as threats. Experts cite a long tradition of clandestine politics and distrust of political competition, arguing Western style democracy has limited appeal in Vietnam.
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Washington
Nea
Thieu
Southeast Asia
Illinois
Adlai Stevenson III
South Vietnam
Vietnam
Douglas Pike
Pike
Minh
Marshal Ky
Diem
America
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Pecos Enterprise
Steve MA
Oferrall Pally
FRAN
Georgia Stroud Women’s Editor
South Cedar Street
Pecos
West Texas Press
WSOC
Boyle
Hal Boyle
Santa Claus
Christ
BY Phil Pastoret
Taiwan
Canada
Walter Seibert
Seibert’s
St. Lawrence Corp
Berry's
Ford Foundation
Liberal Arts
Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. Defense Department
Soviet Union
Cuba
World Almanac
L.m.boyd
McNaught Syndicate, Inc
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