Opportunities And Keep Our Young People Here
The article argues southern regions lose talent to northern cities due to limited local opportunities. It cites Georgia Tech graduates moving to Pittsburgh and Detroit, highlights Thomasville’s vocational schools, and notes Georgians returning home to start businesses or professions, honoring Henry Grady’s push for local development.
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Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Detroit
Boston
Mass
Thomasville
NRA Ends Upholding Gun Ownership Rights Through History
The passage highlights the National Rifle Association's long effort to defend firearm ownership as a core liberty. It cites historical attempts to ban guns from Maximilian's era to postwar fears, arguing that controlling criminals matters more than firearms.
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National Rifle Association
U.S
Maximilian
Austria
NRA
Seat belt push gains traction in Australia and U S
Victoria leads with a three month drop of 20 percent in deaths and injuries among drivers and front seat passengers due to compulsory safety belt use. Ford's Lee Iacocca urges nationwide adoption, citing 3 500 lives saved annually and potential gains from universal lap belt use. The Birmingham News notes Alabama should heed this when session resumes.
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Victoria
Australia
Ford Motor Company
Lee A. Iacocca
Iacocca
Alabama
Birmingham
Ala
Man Becomes Wealthy Selling Bug Equipment
In Miami Brewster Grimey a former private detective has built wealth selling electronic bugging gear. He says being bugged is now a status symbol and that his law firm backing keeps him within legal bounds. He aims at consumers who want to be bugged. Grimey serves as board chairman of Bug-O-
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Miami
Fla
Brewster Grimey
America
Mr. Grimey
Bug-O
Washington
Nixon
Peking
Moscow
Red China
Mao
Se-Tung
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Charles Collingwood
Collingwood
Marvin Kalb
CBS
NBC
John Chancellor
Richard Valeriani
ABC
Ted Koppel
Edmund Stevens
H.L. Mencken
St. Peter At the Pearly Gates
The Love Bug Becomes A Marketing Scheme Exploiting Paranoia
A Washington vendor hawks home listening devices and bugging gear claiming they boost marriages and status. He touts inexpensive beepers and expensive recorders sold to individuals and politicians alike, joking about being followed in a trenchcoat club and a nation under Big Brother scrutiny.
Russia China ready for war in eerie buildup
Washington reports urgent briefings as Russia and China strengthen forces along a 5000 mile border. Nixon warns intervention may be used to protect US interests. China expands near Lop Nor and along Mongolia. McGovern outlines defense tax reform and welfare overhaul themes.
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Jack Anderson
Washington
Russia
China
Nixon
Moscow
Peking
U.S
United States
Kremlin
India
Pakistan
Thailand
Philippines
Alexei Kosygin
Lop Nor
Sinkiang
Lake
Henry Kissinger
Today in History highlights June 29
On this date in 1946 the British arrested more than 2,700 Jews in Palestine to stamp out alleged terrorism. Also noted: Rubens born in 1577, the Virginia Constitution adopted in 1776, Tahiti came under French control in 1880, Paderewski died in 1941, Trieste rioting in 1946, Hanoi and Haiphong bombed in 1966, and JFK greeted by crowds in Mexico City ten years prior.
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Associated Press
Palestine
Peter Paul Rubens
Virginia
Patrick Henry
France
South Pacific
Tahiti
Ignace Paderewski
New York
Trieste
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
U.S
Vietnam
John F. Kennedy
Mexico City
McGovern Rise and Old Politics Clash at Miami Convention
James Kilpatrick argues the Democratic convention will test the clash between the old politics of compromise and the new participatory reform led by George McGovern. He predicts the party may dismember itself as reformers push radical changes while many delegates bring long history with the party.
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James J. Kilpatrick
Washington
Mr. Dooley
Time Magazine
Edmund Muskie
Muskie
Hubert Humphrey
Vietnam
Humphrey
George McGovern
Miami
McGovern
Daley
Democratic Party
Adulterous Confession and Salvation Offer
A married woman confesses infidelity while pregnant and fears the child’s paternity. The preacher warns that free sex destroys families, urges repentance, and promises God’s forgiveness, citing Jesus’ mercy to the adulteress amid a broader claim of a sex epidemic harming homes and children.
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Jesus
TV Pundits Misread Nixon Vietnam Action Analysis
New York columnist Jeffrey Hart analyzes how TV commentators overstated gloom after Nixon's May 8 bombing and mining in North Vietnam. He argues analysts let antiwar sentiment skew forecasts of the Moscow summit and overemphasized the price of restraint.
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Jeffrey Hart
New York
Nixon
North Vietnam
Eric Sevareid
Richard Nixon
Giap
Europe
Kremlin
Hanoi
Vietnam
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