George Wallace Ends Political Career After 16 Turbulent Years
George Corley Wallace quits political life after sixteen tumultuous years marked by desegregation resistance in 1963 and later opposition to federal government. While admired for personal courage after the 1972 Bremer assassination attempt, his withdrawal from the Senate race questions whether his outsider message will persist inside establishment circles.
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George Corley Wallace
Washington
Wallace
America
Arthur Bremer
Senate
Sen
John Sparkman
Treasure Hunters and Bureaucrats Clash Over Atocha Wreck
James J. Kilpatrick argues that U.S. Interior Department plans to expand authority over underwater artifacts threaten the buccaneering spirit of treasure salvors like Melvin Fisher. He notes legal battles, new regulations, and calls for Congress to rewrite the Antiquities Act to cover the Outer Continental Shelf.
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Washington Star Syndicate Inc
Washington
Walter P. Gewin
U.S
West Indies
Gewin
Department of the Interior
Interior
The
United States
Continental Shelf
Federal Antiquities Program
Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
Charles M. McKinney
Congress
McKinney
Secretary of the Interior
Melvin Fisher
Fisher
Atocha
Florida
England
Reader letters critique sensational crime coverage
Letters to the editor question the Winchester Evening Star's front page sensationalism and photo emphasis. The writers urge restraint, warn against turning tragedy into entertainment, and call for focus on justice and privacy.
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Evening Star
the Star
Associated Press
Winchester Evening Star
National Enquirer
S.W.A.T
Thomas T. Byrd
Roy E. Potts III
Lewis H. Ebert
Eugene P. Miller
Edward P. Offley
Winchester Evening Star Inc
N. Kent St
Winchester
Viewpoint Editor’s Note on a $1 coin choice
Readers weigh in on a proposed U S Treasury $1 coin replacing the silver dollar. Suggestions include Miss Liberty Martha Washington and caution against Margaret Mead with signatures from Ronald H. Kline and Mrs H J McAbo y.
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U.S. Treasury Department
Miss Liberty
Martha Washington
Margaret Mead
H. J. McAboy
Clearbrook
Politics Could Learn Much from Sports
Washington weighs the parallels between sports and politics as a winning NBA team unites the city. The piece notes Black leadership in D C, basketball stars like Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld shaping regional unity, and calls for political parties to recruit and develop young talent like sports teams do.
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Times News Service
Washington
Roosevelt
Walter Johnson
Supreme Court
Jimmy Carter
Middle East
Middle West
District of Columbia
America
Rock Creek
Virginia
Maryland
Washington Football Redskins
Basketball Bullets
Elvin Hayes
Big E
Dr. J
Philadelphia Seventy- Sixers
Joe Califano
HEW
Wes Unseld
Larry Wright
Bob Dandridge
Teddy Roosevelt
Jack Kennedy
Reagans
Fords
Connallys
Washington Monument
The Captain Is The Captain Is
Russell Baker notes aircraft culture as patriarchal and controlling. Flight crews are male dominated with stewardesses shaping mood and passengers kept sedated. First class houses businessmen, while back seats hold smokers and discomfort. The article satirizes airline hierarchy and safety talk.
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Florida
Fortune
Biloxi
California
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