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Carnett: Spelling counts in presidential elections
It was the first presidential election I remember: 1952, Eisenhower vs. Stevenson. I was 7 and a student in Mrs. Collins' third-grade class at Corona del Mar Elementary School — a leafy, secreted campus that has long since been bulldozed....Tags: Voting, U.S. Elections, West Point, Politics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Voting: Frustrating, maybe, but not futile
I was struck recently by an op-ed in The Sun that proclaimed "Voting is an exercise in futility" (Oct. 17). I disagree. It can be an exercise in frustration, maybe, but not futility. I learned this in 1956, when I was seven years old. My grandmother lived...Tags: Voting, Regional Elections, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Politics, Harford County
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Early Halloween decorations were more artistic than frightening
Halloween decorations today include jack-o-lanterns, black cats, spiders, bats, ghosts, vampires, witches and other spooky, scary things. But in past years, many of these creatures were not threatening. In the early days of Rookwood Pottery, an art...Tags: Ulysses S. Grant, Immigration, Politics, Holidays, Millard Fillmore
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Poker face?
Special to Tribune NewspapersFor even cursory students of the 1950s, Evan Thomas' new book, "Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World," offers little in the way of fresh material. But by zeroing in on Eisenhower's handling of the itchy fingers on the...Tags: Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Weapons, The Pentagon, Taiwan, World War II (1939-1945)
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'Mayor of Linthicum shopping center' closing shoe repair shop
Billie Insley sits in a red leatherette chair at Your Shoe Service in Linthicum, smoking a Wave cigarette and facing a stack of stuff packed for moving or disposal: sheets of leather, boxes of fresh heels and soles, some bearing the red-and-black label of...
Tags: Linthicum, Rockville (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), Glen Burnie, Baltimore Orioles
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Hagerstown and Wesel mark 60th anniversary of sister city relationship
dona@herald-mail.comLittle Heiskell led the mayors of Hagerstown and its sister city Wesel, Germany, on a short volksmarch from the Academy Theatre through the streets of downtown Friday evening to Discovery Station. Mayor Robert E. Bruchey II and Burgermeister Ulrike...Tags: Antietam National Battlefield, Germany, Reformed, Arts and Culture, Christianity
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Collaboration will bring slice of Ireland to Danville
Pioneer Playhouse, Kentucky’s oldest outdoor theatre, is teaming up with the Danville Sister Cities Commission to bring a slice of Ireland to the Bluegrass with the premiere next season of “The Search for Tinker Doyle,” a new play by...
Tags: Trips and Vacations, Travel, Republic of Ireland
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Navy air forces get new commander
CORONADO, Calif. -- The Navy has a new leader of its air arm, following a change-of-command ceremony at the North Island Naval Air Station on Thursday. Vice Adm. David Buss relieved Vice Adm. Allen Myers, who is moving to the Pentagon to be deputy...
Tags: Washington, DC, The Pentagon, United States Naval Academy, Aircraft Carriers, David Petraeus
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Why so formal with the president?
American exceptionalism—which is fun to say (all those syllables!)—is grabbing some headlines this summer, thanks to the intersection of a heat-filled presidential campaign and a much-hyped, much-watched Olympics. We're devouring these Summer...
Tags: Heads of State, The Associated Press, Jimmy Carter, Politics, Newspaper and Magazine
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Thief of historic documents sentenced to prison
Disgraced collector Barry H. Landau was sentenced Wednesday to seven years in federal prison for stealing thousands of historic documents worth as much as $2.5 million from archives along the East Coast, including one in Baltimore, where the scheme...
Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Brian Dennehy, Al Pacino, Gerald Ford, Celebrities
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Russell Train dies at 92; conservationist was early head of EPA
Russell Train, an important American conservationist and former tax court judge who helped craft some of the nation's early and enduring environmental laws, has died. He was 92. Train, who led the Environmental Protection Agency in the 1970s, died Monday...
Tags: Judges, Environmental Issues, World Wildlife Fund, FBI, Gerald Ford
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McManus: Are businessmen better presidents?
It's one of Mitt Romney's favorite lines: America needs a businessman in the White House. It's "a basic qualification" for the job, he said in his speech at the Republican convention last month, "one that's essential to [the] task." But what does history...
Tags: Government, Finance, Economy, Business and Finance, George Washington, Mitt Romney
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