Telephone hot lines spread nationwide to aid troubled youth
Counsel by phone teams exceed 250 nationwide, offering drug advice, youth help, elder companionship and crisis support. Programs like Stony Brook's Response and Marble Collegiate Church Help Line illustrate church and community driven efforts to connect distressed callers with caring adults.
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Edwin Kiester Jr
Family Health Magazine
Children’s Hospital of
Los Angeles
Stony Brook
Long Island
United Ministries
Suffolk County
Philadelphia
New York City
Marble Collegiate Church
Unconquered Floods and Growing Air Pollution Plague Cities
The piece discusses major floods in Pennsylvania Virginia and nearby states causing homelessness and billions in damage and cites a Pennsylvania special session starting August 15 for long term recovery. It also notes Tokyo leading in air pollution and sediment deposits while London improves air quality as heating shifts away from coal and cars increase exhaust pollutants.
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Pennsylvania
Virginia
Tokyo
New York
London
Postal Rates And Bogeymen In A Postage Debate
James J. Kilpatrick argues against postal subsidies, urging the U.S. Postal Service to be self supporting by 1981. He contrasts Confederate postal policy with modern rate increases and notes the impact on conservative and liberal journals, concluding mail service should not be subsidized.
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Congress
U.S. Postal Service
Gaylord Nelson
Wisconsin
Life Magazine
National Review
Liberal New Republic
Buckley
New Republic
Postal Service
Foreign Affairs
Senate Ends Filibuster On Satellite Bill In Action By August
The Senate sent the administration's communications satellite bill to committee for renewed action by August 10 after continuing hearings. Parallel moves see the Finance Committee approving a revised version of Kennedy tax reform, with Byrd planning a floor fight over the bill's key provision.
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Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Kennedy
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
F. Nelson Swink, Jr
U.S. Dept. of Interior
Fish and Wildlife Service
Frederick County Board of Supervisors
Practical faith that changes daily life
Daily Meditation argues true religion must translate into practical actions. It cites a religious leader who valued both plumbing and preaching, showing sound Christianity improves citizenship, neighborliness, and family life. The piece claims reverence for God yields a better world through better living.
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God
McGovern criticized for undermining law and order stance
The piece accuses Senator McGovern of faulty judgments by excusing acts of savagery as reactions to inequality. It argues democracy requires checks on freedom and rejects collective guilt theories. It warns that permissiveness endangers social order and parental discipline, calling for stronger restraint in liberty.
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George McGovern
McGovern
Hitler
Russia
Senator McGowen
Sulien
America
United States
Senator McGovern
Fish
White House
Barber urges Nixon to campaign on peace program
President Nixon, citing his California barber, frames his re election fight around a drive for a generation of peace with China and Russia. He argues peace and honor trump ticking domestic reforms and defends Vietnam commitments against McGovern.
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Barber
Nixon
Washington
California
White House
China
Russia
South Vietnam
Hanoi
George
McGovern
Nguyyen van Thieu
William P. Rogers
Congress
Moscow
Memory and Nostalgia Reflections by Hal Boyle
A Hal Boyle column muses on the power of memory to reconstruct the past and even shape the present. It recalls midcentury freedoms, social norms, and public mood, contrasting them with modern changes and political forecasting. The piece closes by noting Bean’s election book and a skeptical line about George McGovern.
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New York
Beach Sands
America
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By James J. Kilpatrick
Montgomery
Ala
Confederate States of America
U.S
Confederate Congress
Post Office Department
H.R. Edwards
Government Defense Plant Corp
Senate War Investigating Committee
Howard Hughes
DPC
Shirley M. White
Ben Belchie
Novick Transfer Co
The
Chamber of Commerce
Steve Sammis
Winchester
Winchester Evening Star
Jack F. Davis
Eugene P. Miller
Thomas T. Byrd
Douglas B. O’connell
Henry J. Taylor
By Frank van der Linden
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Arkansas
J. William Fulbright
House
I.Q
Domremy
New Delhi
Hal Boyle
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