Invitation to youth to work within establishment amid unrest
The piece argues that most youths favor nonviolent protest and inside a reform path, while radicals alienate peers. It cites President Nixon urging unity and civic action, notes a pending Koehring strike settlement, and endorses peaceful routes like voting and volunteering through the Peace Corps and VISTA.
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Nixon
University of Nebraska
America
Peace Corps
VISTA
Max J. Lerner
Lorain County Community College
Rising taxes and the economy prompt local pleas
In a letter to readers, residents blame rising city and property taxes on state rules, urge pay as you go austerity, and warn of general financial strain amid unemployment and inflation. The issue calls for tax relief and government frugality to preserve freedom.
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State Board of Tax Appeals
Questioning Parental Role and Judicial Punishment Reflections
The writer weighs what makes a good parent and whether punishment by a judge was appropriate. They acknowledge no guarantees in parenting and accept the judge's decision as his own, noting that towns may differ in view and that some youths may become fine adults despite upbringing.
Litmus Liters: New York Intellectuals Move Rightward Again
The piece traces a shift among the New York intellectual circle from late 1950s radicalism toward conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s. It notes Commentary’s move to the right under Podhoretz, attacks on the New York Review of Books, and figures like Norman Mailer, Susan Sontag, and Nathan Glazer amid changing cultural moods.
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Sludge County
New York
Norman Podhoretz
Leslie Fiedler
Lionel Trilling
Daniel Bell
Reinhold Niebuhr
Henry James
Podhoretz
C. Wright Mills
Paul Goodman
Norman O. Brown
Susan Sontag
Fiedler
la Sontag
Mary McCarthy
Hanoi
Miss Sontag
The
Webbs
Corliss Lamont
Henry Wallace
Jfk
Fidel Castro
Yahoo
Columbia
New York Review of Books
Nathan Glazer
Harvard
Pal
Agnew Faces Tests and Turf War in Nixon Era
Washington reports Spiro Agnew remains vigorous and influential within the Nixon administration. The vice president’s intellect and charisma earn both allies and enemies as he contemplates the possibility of replacing Nixon on a future ticket and the risks of a split in the GOP GOP loyalty to Agnew runs deep, with a potential crisis if he were dumped and a parallel loyalty rival to Lyndon Johnson in history.
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Washington
Spiro Agnew
Agnew
Nixon
John Lindsay
New York
G.O.P
George Wallace
Alabama
Lyndon Johnson
A Christmas Reflection on History and Civil War Relics
The narrator notes a sense that modern critics ignore past struggles while presenting Christmas memories of Civil War relics. A photograph of Captain Erskine, 31st New York Volunteer Regiment, prompts a teenage daughter to remark that he looks like a kid.
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Erskine
New York Volunteer Regiment
Uncle Erskine
Daddy
Libby
Helen
Dent's bid for southern moderates shakes South Carolina GOP
Dent pushed for a moderate turn in South Carolina to broaden the party beyond white voters, seeking a chairman more amenable to black votes and desegregation. He failed to win the state committee's support, as Kenneth Powell prevailed, signaling a shift in the party's southern strategy despite Dent's broader aims.
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Nixon
South Carolina
Mr. Nixon
White House
Columbia
D.C
Ray Harris
Cordes G. Seabrook, Jr
Anderson
Richland County
Kenneth Powell
Seabrook
Hal Byrd
Roger Milliken
Thurmond
Strom Thurmond
Powell
Harris
Republican’ Party
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