Nixon Inflation Fight Stalled Amid Economic Standoff
James Reston surveys the Nixon administration facing a stalled inflation fight as the economy wobbles between slow output and rising living costs. He notes mixed signals on policy impact, rising unemployment, and mounting federal spending, with little faith in price controls and no clear path to durable price stability.
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Washington
Paul W. McCracken
Council of Economic Advisers
Nixon
Melvin R. Laird
House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee
Antidote idea and Cambodian crisis weigh on minds
A San Francisco doctor envisions a medicinal antidote to override poor health choices while global tensions escalate in Cambodia as U S policy makers debate whether to bolster the Cambodian government against North Vietnamese advances. The situation looks increasingly precarious with a potential collapse of Phnom Penh and uncertain American influence.
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Phnom Penh
U.S
Real estate as hedge against inflation gains favor
Investors of all sizes turn to real estate to preserve wealth amid stock market doldrums. Prices have kept pace with inflation and in some cases exceeded it, yet this trend worsens housing industry problems.
Grand Apple Blossom Parade Size Promised This Year
MANY MORE BANDS and floats will join the Grand Feature Parade of the Apple Blossom Festival making it larger than last year. Entertaining at a reception for the Apple Blossom princesses and escorts were Dr and Mrs Pembroke T Grove Mr and Mrs Sloan Kuykendall and Mr and Mrs B Beverley Wright. A dramatic finish by James Wood's John Hepler led the Colonels to a 591% to 56% track win over Charles Town. THE GREAT ROME magician, based in Martinsburg, spoke at Winchester Kiwanis. About 300 Boy Scouts from 14 Shawnee District troops will rally at Handley playground in Frederick and Clarke counties. The British Second Army captured Bremen, clearing the city except the dock area and Burger park north of the center.
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Pembroke T. Grove
Sloan Kuykendall
B. Beverley Wright
James Wood
John Hepler
The
Colonels
Charles Town
Let Us Count The Atheists In Daily Meditation
The piece argues most who claim atheism still worship something. Dostoyevsky’s idea that there are no unbelievers, only idolaters, frames worship as universal. It notes youths may renounce faith at college but face hard knocks back to belief, and self made pride becomes an idol.
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Robert P. Mayo
George P. Shultz
Nixon
U.S
Cambodia
Vietnam
Dostoyevsky
Washington
Vienna
Occupation of a Sociable Hermit Proposed by Hal Boyle
The columnist imagines a hermit life in a stone hut by a river with a meditation chamber and five bathrooms. He would charge Ford Foundation type clients a million dollars yearly plus a half million per idea, limit ideas to seven yearly, allow visitors for a fee, and schedule public view days while planning hibernation during winter.
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Ford Foundation
Opinion: Nixon should balance truth with caution in Vietnam
William S. White argues the Nixon administration faces a credibility dilemma in Vietnam and arms talks. He says Washington must tell the truth without provoking panic, noting the domino threat in Southeast Asia and potential for more pressure, including air action, if needed.
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Washington
Nixon
Jack Garner
Southeast Asia
Vienna
Soviet Union
Vietnam
Shenandoah Valley Poem For Apple Blossom Festival
A reader submits a poem titled Shenandoah Valley praising the region and the 1970 Apple Blossom Festival. The verse celebrates rivers mountains and caverns and invites visitors to share the valley, hoist a flag, and hail it as The Garden Spot of the World.
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Shenandoah Valley
Shingles origin and treatment guidance by Dr Brandstadt
Dr Brandstadt explains shingles or herpes zoster results from the chickenpox virus. It commonly affects those over 40 with nerve pain on one side, followed by grouped lesions and possible scarring. Treatments include ethyl chloride spray, zinc oxide, aspirin, nerve blocks, and in severe cases spinal injections or nerve cutting.
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Winchester Evening Star
By James Reston
McCracken
Commerce Department
San Francisco
Meyer Friedman
New Asian Dilemma
Congress
Earl L. Douglas
Hal Boyle
New York
Miami Beach
William S. White
South Vietnam
Laos
Star
By Wayne G. Brandstadt, M.D
I.Q
America
Booker T. Washington
Leningrad
Soviet Russia
Dneiper
Don
Volga River
John Hames Audubon
University of Michigan
Woodrow Wilson
Jack F. Davis
Eugene P. Miller
Douglas B. O'Connell
Winchester
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