Midway Moment Tests Nixon War Strategy in Vietnam
The Midway Island meeting signals cautious progress in Nixon's Vietnam plan as Washington signals troop withdrawals to extend negotiations in Paris. Hanoi faces a dilemma between continued unilateral cuts and real bargaining, while Saigon gains prestige from Thieu’s summit with Nixon and awaits further steps.
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Hendrick Smith
New York Times
Honolulu
Midway Island
Nixon
Vietnam
Paris
Hanoi
Saigon
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Thieu
U.S
Midway
Thieu
White House
Hanoi Knes
Tieia
Viet Cong
Piet Cong
Meeting on school tax increase in Carbondale tonight
An editorial urges Carbondale Community High School District 165 residents to attend a 7:20 p.m. meeting at the high school auditorium to discuss a proposed educational tax rate hike. It argues the board must rebuild trust, explains past missteps, and calls for steps toward a unit district and open, frank accounting of operations.
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Carbondale
Carbondale Community
Beard Premisers
Logan College
CCHS
Cchs Boar
Illinois Highway Financing Debate Shows Weak Legislature
A columnist laments Illinois lawmakers for cutting proposed gas and diesel tax increases, hindering highway funding. Gov Ogilvie aims to rebuild 500 miles of roads and complete 452 miles of interstates, but revenue cuts delay many projects. Calls persist for higher taxes to meet a 28.3 billion long term need.
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Finois
Nixon Leads Nixon Ahead In Harris Poll For 1972 Race
Louis Harris reports an early 1972 presidential test showing Nixon leading Kennedy 46 to 37 among likely voters, with Wallace at 11 and a small undecided share. Among all eligible voters Nixon leads 41 to 40 over Kennedy, while Wallace holds 10.
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Louis Harris
Richard Nixon
Edward Kennedly
George Wallace
Nixon
Kennedy
Wallacs
Sen
Muskie
Humphrey
Eugene McCarthy
George McGovern
Fred Harris
Wallace
Vietnam
South
What's in a 3 word name in literature and media
David Felts surveys three word name usage among famous writers and poets from Millay to Stowe and Hemingway. The piece notes long name signatures and the shift in publication practices with TIME Inc buying Chicago suburban papers. It cites Norman Mailer's moon landing book project with an estimated pre-writing income around one million dollars.
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Malcolm Cowley
Lizette Woodworth Reese
Mary Caroline Davies
Miss Millay
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
James Russell Lowell
John Greenleaf Whittier
Edgar Allen Poe
Oliver Wendel
Holmes
Stephen Vincent Benet
William Vaughn Moody
James Whitcombe Riley
Edgar Lee Masters
Edwin Arlington
Rob’uson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
William Cullen Bryant
Richard Harding Davis
Mary Roberts Rinehart
Gene Stratton Porter
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Joel Chandler Harris
James Oliver Curwood
Carl Sandburg
Ernest Hemingway
Walt Whitman
Vachel Lindsay
Nicolas Vachel Lindsay
Henry
Norman Mailer
Where to write Senatorial addresses in Illinois listing
A directory for citizens on where to send letters to state senators at the Illinois Statehouse Springfield IL 62706. The listing names several districts and senators with counties townships in Champaign McLean LaSalle Ford Iroquois Kankakee Macoupin St Clair and other areas, indicating omissions and updates for 43rd to 61st districts and their respective senators.
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Illinois Statehouse
Springfield
Livingston
McLean
LaSalle
William C. Hargis
Pontiac
Coles
Edgar
Vermilion
Tom Merritt
Hoopeston
Ford
Iroquois
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Dens
Illinois
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Harris
Hubert Humphrey
Edmund Muskie
Mr. Wallace
Richard M. Nixon
David Felts
Time Inc
Chicago
Time
Pioneer
Lake Bluff
Lake Forest
Macon
Shelby
Robert
W. McCarthy
Decatur
Bond
Clinton
Cumberland
Effingham
Fayette
Jasper
Marion
Montgomery
James
Donnewad
Breese
Calhoun
Jersey
Macoupin
Madison County
St. Clair
William Lyons
Gillespie
Merrill Ottwain
Edwardsville
St. Clair County
Alan J. Dixon
Belleville
Clark
Clay
Crawford
Edwards
Hamilton
Jefferson
Lawrence
Richland
Wabash
Wayne
Paul W. Broyles
Mt. Vernon
Alexander
Jackson
Monroe
Perry
Randolph
Union
Washington
John G. Gilbert
Aih
Franklin
Janasnan
Pope
Pulaski
Saline
White and Williamson
Delmer R. Mitchell
Johnston City
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