What does that money really buy
Russell Baker catalogs a wide array of federal programs institutions people and symbols funded by tax money. He lists organizations sites officials and services from Hoover to Kissinger and from Traffic to the National Christmas Tree, concluding we get plenty for our tax money.
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Russell Baker
Washington
Congressional Record
J. Edgar Hoover
Sen. J. W. Fulbright
Pentagon
Air Force One
Mission Control
The
Price Board
White House Rose Garden
Paris
Library of Congress
Hoover Dam
Roosevelt
Truman Library
Eisenhower
Cape Kennedy
Johnsonian
Nixon
Spirit of
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
General Nguyen van Thieu
SAC
NLRB
CIA
Camranh Bay
Guantanamo
Quantico
John Dillinger
Washington Monument
White House
Capitol Subway
Wilbur Mills
Senate
Rogers
Warren Burger
Calley
Ambassador Annenberg
James O. Eastland
Phillip Berrigan
George Romney
Spiro Agnew
East Room
Lincoln Memorial
Yellowstone National Park
National Cemetery
Omaha Beach
Panama Canal
Federal Prison
Lewisburg
Cabinet Room
Melvin Laird
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Fidel Castro
U.S
Sander Vanoour
Henry Kissinger
Voice of America
Haiphong Bombing Marks End of Johnson Halt Era
UPI reports U S Navy and Air Force jets including B52 bombers struck targets near Haiphong in North Vietnam. Supply facilities were hit as paratrooper and marine reinforcements were airlifted to North Vietnamese siege lines to rescue 2500 others.
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Saigon
UPI
U.S. Navy
Air Force
North Vietnam
Haiphong
U.S. Command
Comand
Red River
Lyndon B. Johnson
An Loc
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Hanoi
Hanoi Radio
Thailand
Guam
U.S. Air Force
Navy
South Vietnam
Bruce Whelihan
Defense Department
Vinh
Bai Thuong
20Th Parallel
Apollo 16 cleared for launch at Cape Kennedy
Apollo 16 astronauts John W. Young Thomas Mattingly and Charles Duke are cleared for a 12 54 p m EST Sunday liftoff aboard a Saturn V as ground crews load propellants and address minor issues. Forecasters expect good weather for the mission to explore the moon's highlands seeking clues to origin.
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Cape Kennedy
UPI
Rocco A. Petrone
John W. Young
Thomas K. Mattingly
Charles M. Duke
Atlantic Ocean
Duke
McGovern overtakes Muskie in Massachusetts primary poll
A Boston Globe poll for the April 25 Massachusetts Democratic primary shows McGovern at 28 percent, Muskie at 27 percent among 697 voters. Humphrey 17 percent, Wallace 5 percent, with several others below 3 percent and 4 percent undecided. Yorty and Hartke withdrew after ballot drawing.
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Boston
UPI
George S. McGovern
Edmund S. Muskie
Massachusetts
Boston Sunday Globe
the Globe
Becker Research Corp
McGovern
Muskie
Muskie and McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
Dminn
Alabama
George Wallace
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Wilbur D. Mills
D-Ark
Shirley Chisholm
New York
John V. Lindsay
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Edward Coll
Lindsay
Yorty
Hartke
Government bet on safe car crash test in Phoenix
The federal government commits about 4 million dollars to crash tests of two experimental safety vehicles in Phoenix. The Fairchild Hiller car and an AMF prototype will be driven into a concrete wall at 50 mph with instrumented dummies aboard to assess injuries. Results will go to the Department of Transportation.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Department of Transportation
Fairchild-Hiller
American Machine & Foundry Co. Inc
Fairchild
Ralph Rockow
Dynamic
AMF
Transportation Department
Unusual Car Test Features Periscopic Roof Mirrors
Officials plan separate work streams for two firms. A Tuesday test shows a conventional five passenger sedan weighing about 4000 pounds with a front mounted engine. The car includes periscopic roofline mirrors to boost rear visibility and fireproof fuel cells to resist crash fire. Exterior coating described as soft enough to pinch aims to protect pedestrians.
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Rockow
Miner killed in roof fall at Isabella Mine
Mike Luketic 55 of Allison Fayette County died after a roof fall at the Isabella Mine of National Steel Corp in Brownsville. He was dead on arrival at Brownsville Hospital.
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Brownsville, Pa
UPI
Mike Luketic
Allison
Fayette County
Isabella
National Steel Corp
Luketic
Brownsville Hospital
Senators blast U.S. air attacks in Vietnam
Democratic contenders Muskie and Humphrey called U S air strikes on Haiphong a new escalation and a terrible risk. Kennedy termed it a reckless escalation, urging withdrawal. McGovern spoke before news of the bombing and did not address it.
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Edmund S. Muskie
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
Haiphong
North Vietnam
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Muskie
Humphrey
Kennedy
Washington
Minnesota
United States
Maine
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New York Times News Service
Lafayette Park
Executive Mansion
Vietnam
By Alan Dawson
Mid- S
Globe
South Dakota
Christian N. Bovee
United Press International
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