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Newspaper
Raleigh Register
Location
Beckley, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1972
Page
2
F E Barnett chairman Union Pacific Railroad says workers show a substantial improvement if they reach four or five hours of work daily rather than eight. He notes societal and economic implications of shorter workdays.
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird pushes for modernization of offensive strategic forces, arguing needed weapons to fulfill the treaty with Moscow. He threatens to withhold support unless Congress backs administration plans, while critics say more defense spending harms credibility and questions civilian control.
Wernher von Braun, deputy associate administrator at NASA, resigns to join Fairchild Industries effective July 1. The move signals a glamor loss for the U S space program after Apollo 11 and ahead of Skylab and the space shuttle.
A California advice column sparks a humorous clash as a reader laments a birdhouse built from faulty blueprints that are too large and blow from the tree. The columnist replies with a boats and mix up joke about sailboat blueprints and another reader who sank the birdhouse in Newport Bay.
United Press International reports food editor Jeanne Lesem in New York is compiling a rhymed recipes book not for kitchen use but to reveal about people. A Nashville Banner quip suggests the tome could expose social traits.
Washington NEA reports the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach July 10 will feature a record diverse delegation with 35 percent women 20 percent young people and 15 percent blacks and other non whites. The mix promises intense debate over platform changes and possible rostrum clashes, testing party image ahead of the 1972 nominee.
Retired Lt. Col. Anthony Herbert tells Playboy that Gen. Barnes pressed soldiers to salute a duck in Vietnam. He also claims Barnes ordered a pizza helicopter to evacuate wounded men and later scolded him for using it without authorization. The Army dropped charges against Barnes and Franklin. Herbert says retirement came under pressure.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader announced that his investigation team will produce comprehensive reports on members of Congress before the November elections. About 800 volunteers will assist, and profiles will cover legislative performance and responsiveness, not private lives, with distribution planned regionally to inform voters by October.
Review notes Collins and Lapierre return with O Jerusalem the 1948 Jerusalem war story in six years of research. The book covers British Arabs Jews and the Meir trip to Amman while praising the authors balance and criticizing cliché prose.
Dorothy Amick questions a United Press International report labeling the current U S flood the worst in history. She cites Dam breaks and 1889 Johnstown deaths, other American floods, and international disasters to argue no single metric confirms that label.
Political consultant Joseph Napolitan notes McGovern grasped the need to win delegates to capture conventions. Budget Director Caspar Weinberger argues that spending alone won’t fix programs, citing a rise in federal social spending from $300 billion to $100 billion a year.
Chess world championship showdown in Reykjavik draws attention to players physical prep and mental demand. Fischer and Spassky balance regimens, boxing level exertion, and long rivalries while nations weigh chess’s popularity and history.
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