Local Christmas spirit helps Kubickas in need
Michael and Cindy Kubicka aged 19 face cold, unemployment, and a February baby while pregnant Cindy. A flood of aid from Frederick County readers and groups arrives via the Evening Star, covering heating fuel cash clothing and baby supplies. They plan to stay, moved by neighbors in the season.
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Evening Star
Michael
Cindy Kubicka
the Star
Mountain Falls
Cindy
Star
Kubickas
New Opportunities Industrialization Center
Kubickos
Frederick County
Historic Winchester tour showcases civility and preservation
Winchester Preservation of Historic Winchester Inc hosts a Sunday holiday house tour from 1 to 7 pm featuring six houses a church and PHW headquarters. Tickets available at three stops with proceeds funding the PHW revolving fund. The event highlights downtown treasures and local heritage in a seasonally themed community effort.
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Winchester
Winchester Inc
Winchester Phw
PHW
South Loudoun Street
Potato Hill
Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission
Winchester Historic District
Lozier
Letter to the Editor critiques HEW dress code overreach
A teacher with 16 years as an educator argues against HEW and the Department of Education dictating dress codes in public schools. He praises local autonomy, warns of federal overreach, and cites Judge Shirley M. Hufstedler on federal involvement should seek efficiency and minimize disruption.
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the Star
HEW
Dept of Education
Artment of Education
Shirley M. Hufstedler
Remembering Pearl Harbor Day and its enduring lessons
The 38th anniversary of Pearl Harbor prompts reflection on reconciliation with Japan and its postwar transformation into a major industrial power. The memory remains painful for American families who lost loved ones and for Japanese who endured the Pacific war.
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New York Times
Washington
Pearl Harbor
United States
Franklin Roosevelt
Japan
Hawaii
Savage Island
Japan as Number One Lessons for America
Ezra Vogel argues in his book that Japan transformed from postwar ruins to a major economic power faster than the United States, Britain, and France. He suggests Americans could benefit by adopting Japan’s pace of learning and progress.
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Hiroshima
Nagasaki
Japan
U.S
Britain
France
Ezra Vogel
Council On
If Japan Were An American State
The Plus 38 Years planning group notes Japan with 115 million people is the most densely populated major nation, yet lacks fuel and minerals. It relies on imports for 85 percent of energy and over 30 percent of food, while the United States supplies much agricultural input. Ezra group cites Japan’s cooperation over competition and dependence on Washington for security, and Edwin O. Reischauer urges learning from Japan’s orderly society and economy.
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Carter
Japan
United States
Ezra
Islands
China
Soviet Union
Middle East
Persian Gulf
Washington
U.S
America
Edwin O. Reischauer
Mind Reading the Brethren critique in The Brethren review
A Washington observer disputes Woodward and Armstrong The Brethren arguing the book relies too much on mind reading rather than solid documents. The piece questions confidentiality harms and notes Brennan diaries and clerk claims as potential sources for the sensational work while defending the court as an institution.
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N.Y
Washington
Supreme Court
Bob Woodward
Scott Armstrong
Warren Burger
Justice Brennan
Burger
White
Brennan
Douglas
Woodstrong
Dombrowski
Henry Kissinger
The Season Fear of Shopping by Russell Baker
Russell Baker recalls the holiday dilemma of gift wrapping and the pressure to shop. He narrates his fear of shopping until a Sigmund of Seventh Avenue-style mentor teaches him to buy daring gifts like diaphanous nightgowns. The piece ends with a wary note on costly surprises.
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Sigmund
Seventh Avenue
Uncle Curtis
Grandfather
Boston Red Sox
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Kent Sr
Pearl
By James Reston
Harbor
By William Safire
Brethren
By Russell Baker
N_Y_ Times News
New York
Asee Oxiadens
Siemand
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