Only Way to Go On Tuition Revenue Plans in 1971
The editorial argues colleges face rising costs and students may repay education costs after graduation. It cites Yale’s income based repayment over up to 30 years and Ohio Gov Gilligan’s proposal to require repayment for state funded college costs. The piece notes debate as deferred taxation and suggests tuition refunds could become necessary as costs rise. It closes with reflections on spring arriving and the seasonal pattern of optimistic planning.
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Yale
Ohio
John Gilligan
United States
Japan
Crisis in Pakistan: Yahya Khan and Mujib discuss East West split
President Yahya Khan and Sheik Mujib Rahman meet amid a crisis over East Pakistan. West Pakistan struggles to impose control while Mujib seeks autonomy within a united government. Civil war seen as worst alternative. National Assembly would resist any shift toward independence.
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Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan
Pakistan
Sheik Mujib Rahman
Awami League
East Pakistan
West Pakistan
Sheik Mujib
National Assembly
Union of Arab Emirates Formed Amid Gulf Power Shifts
The sheikdoms of Bahrein Qatar and the Trucial States plan a joint union to be called the Union of Arab Emirates. Britain will withdraw naval vessels air squadrons and about 7000 troops from the Persian Gulf by year end creating a power vacuum in an oil rich area increasingly patrolled by the Soviet navy.
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Bahrein
Qatar
Trucial States
Union of Arab
Persian Gulf
Fortress America or a Lost Edge in the Sky
William S. White argues that U S policy risks abandoning leadership and falling toward isolationism by rejecting the SST program. He warns Congress and public opinion threaten American mobility and technological prowess, noting the financial and strategic costs of canceling SST and the potential military implications.
It Is Extortion to Extend the Vote to 18 Year Olds
By James J. Kilpatrick argues Congress rushed a constitutional amendment to extend the vote to 18 year olds. He notes rapid ratifications in Minnesota Delaware Tennessee Connecticut and Washington and condemns the action as extortion against the Constitution. He recalls Nixon signing the bill and a split Supreme Court ruling in December with Justice Black as the swing vote.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Minnesota
Delaware
Tennessee
Connecticut
Hugo Black
Congress
Nixon
Supreme Court
Black
Alaska
Georgia
Kentucky
General Assembly
Textile protection debate tests American workers and markets
The piece surveys the acute crisis in the American textile shoe and steel industries from foreign competition. It notes lawmakers disagree on tariffs and quotas, cites Nixon’s push for import limits, and highlights the broader political struggle over protectionism and its impact on jobs.
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Washington
United States
New England
South
Miss Katherine Creech Court Meets Junior Maids of Honor
MISSES DOROTHY ELIZABETH GROVE and MARY ELIZABETH BAKER named Junior Maids of Honor in the Court of Miss Katherine Creech as announced by Mrs. G. Frank Stinnett, director of the Department of the Queen and Her Court. The Frank Armstrong Fondation donates $50,000 for a non denominational chapel at Winchester Memorial Hospital. Creek stocking planned with yearling brook and rainbow trout for the season. Governor Tuck drafts about 1,500 Virginia Electric and Power Company workers into the unorganized militia under military law for strike contingency. Rep. A. Willis Robertson announces candidacy for re-election in the Seventh Virginia District ahead of the August 6 Democratic primary.
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Dorothy Elizabeth Grove
Mary Elizabeth Baker
Katherine Creech
G. Frank Stinnett
Department of the Queen
Frank Armstrong
Tuck
Virginia Electric and Power Company
Commonwealth
A. Willis Robertson
Congress
Virginia
A Great Conversion of Charles Spurgeon In England
The article recalls Charles H. Spurgeon born in England about a century ago. He preached to large congregations for over thirty years and was converted at age fifteen after a snowstorm forced him into a small chapel where a lay preacher urged him to look to Jesus. The moment of conversion brought a bright sun of faith that lasted throughout his life.
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Charles H. Spurgeon
Prince of
England
Jesus Christ
Spurgeon
New Boston School Uses Daily Newspaper as Textbook
A Cambridge area school opened in 1969 with about 750 pupils split roughly by race. The daily newspaper is used as a living textbook for lessons in reading arithmetic and current events, with teachers citing real world lessons and cost savings.
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Greenville
8.C
Boston
UPI
Michael Widmer
Mel Conroy
Conroy
How to Score Memory Genius Quiz
A vintage test instruction page outlines scoring by daily correct rates from a 100-question quiz over 10 days. It lists questions like chemical symbol for sodium and asks for answers including a capital, cities, diseases, and biblical figures. It directs readers to page 2 for correct answers and includes a true or false query about a clock’s ticking on different surfaces.
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Portugal
U.S
David
Bathsheba
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Little Sammie
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Tokyo
Wilbur Mills
Arkansas
House
Ways and Means Committee
Japanese Textile Federation
Atlantic
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Sammie
Senate
Democratic Party
Indochina
Henry Jackson
Earl L. Douglas
I.Q
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Winchester
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Jack F. Davis
Eugene P. Miller
Douglas B. O'Connell
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