Kahn says mood of hopelessness overstated by elites
Herman Kahn of the Hudson Institute argues in Intellectual Digest that the United States is not as hopeless as the upper middle class believes. He criticizes the disconnect of elites, media, and educators, says Americans are fed up with how they are portrayed, and notes a counterculture shifting influence for the next decade.
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Herman Kahn
Hudson Institute
New York
Kahn
Spiro Agnew
Dom
America
Editorial urges national interests over idealism in Greece ties
The piece argues U S interests justify naval base access in Greece despite dictatorship. It cites Greece allowing Sixth Fleet facilities with no rent if Washington avoids meddling in Greek affairs, contrasts Nixon with McGovern on expulsion from the Council of Europe, and notes Greece’s 1968 coup and repression while stressing strategic need for Greek naval facilities against Turkish port issues and a rising Soviet Navy.
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U.S
Greece
Athens
Mediterranean
Washington
Nixon
George McGovern
Council of Europe
Council
United States
Nixon boosts oil imports to heat homes this winter
President Nixon orders higher fuel oil import quotas to ensure northeastern homes stay heated as domestic production stalls. Texas wells will run at capacity to boost supply amid growing energy fears and the looming Middle East tensions threaten further oil disruptions.
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Nixon
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Texas
Middle East
Europe
America
Israel
Munich
Russia
Siberia
A Texan lost in Texas By Jim Conley
Abilene Reporter-News guest column recounts military KP duty at Lackland Air Force Base San Antonio. A fresh recruit endures weeks of heat water and scalding pots and pans from the dawn predawn to barbed discipline. He recalls initiation by a tough cook and the hard routine of kitchen work.
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Jim Conley
Abilene
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Lackland Air Force Base
San Antonio
Mess Hall
Sarge
Buddy
Letters to the Editor Guidelines and Limits
The notice outlines submission rules for letters to the editor including requirement of signature and address, withholding option, maximum length of 500 words, general interest content, and a ban on poor taste. It emphasizes eligibility criteria for print.
Barbs on fortune and breakfast woes
A wry thought piece noting a fortune may bring a promising wife, day by day humor. It claims smoking pot can ensure sameness and jokes that nothing improves a dinner like missing breakfast and lunch.
Boyle's column brings quirky facts and history bites
New York AP column shares curious trivia from sugar value in medieval England to vine directions by equator, inheritance myths in Soviet Russia, Servetus, aging myths, Grant and Twain, weather and geology notes, plus quick Q and A on Natural Bridge, Whitey Ford, Matthew genealogy.
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Hal Boyle
New York
England
Soviet Russia
Russia
Miguel Serveto
Serretus
White House
U.S
Thomas Jefferson
James Monroe
W.H. Harrison
U.S. Grant
Grant
Mark Twain
Mother Nature
National Georgraphic Society
Earth
Mao and Chou Would Still Tie Korea and Vietnam to Mao Visit
In a second column, the author argues a 1945 U S request for Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai to meet FDR would not have averted Korea or Vietnam. Mao and Chou sought Washington ties to balance the Soviet Union and secure aid, but their plan was to lead Asia into a new conflict. The piece notes U S actions aided Ho Chi Minh early in Vietnam and that cooperation with Mao did not prevent the wars.
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Washington
Nea
United States
China
Mao Tse-tung
Chou En-lai
Barbara Tuchman
Foreign Affairs
Mao
Yenan Caves
Japan
Roosevelt
Asia
Indochina
Dutch East Indies
Indonesia
Malaya
Malaysia
Burma
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Yenan
Korea
Peking
Ho Chi Minh
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Chou
Today in History Highlights Sept 27, 1972
On this date in 1964 the Warren Commission found Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in Kennedy’s assassination. Also noted are John Adams’ 1779 peace talks appointment, Arctic sinking in 1854, Cleveland amnesty for polygamy in 1894, and Warsaw surrender in 1939. Turkey halted Cuba shipping ten years ago. Canada urged U.N. for halt to U.S. bombing in Vietnam five years ago.
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Associated Press
Warren Commission
Lee Harvey Oswald
John F. Kennedy
John Adams
Britain
Arctic
Grover Cleveland
Fifth Avenue
New York
Warsaw
Japan
Hirohito
Douglas MacArthur
U.S
Tokyo
Turkey
Cuba
U.N
Canada
North Vietnam
Vietnam
Nix Meets Hirohito in Anchorage A Year Ago
President Nixon met with Japan's Emperor Hirohito in Anchorage Alaska a year earlier. Today's birthdays include Sen Charles H Percy of Illinois turning 53 and film director Arthur Penn turning 50. Thought for today quotes Justice Holmes on speech and safety in theaters.
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Nixon
Japan
Hirohito
Anchorage
Alaska
Charles H. Percy
Illinois
Arthur Penn
Supreme Court
Oliver Wendell Holmes
World Almanac explains why leaves change colors
The World Almanac notes that chlorophyll pigments fade in autumn causing leaves to reveal carotene and xanthophyll yellows and oranges while anthocyanins produce red and purple hues across many U.S. regions.
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United States
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