USC limits freshman class to 2500 on main campus
University of South Carolina will cap the main campus freshman class at 2,500 with a 10 percent variance to keep total enrollment under 20,000 by decade’s end. President Thomas F. Jones says the voluntary limit aims to ease concerns about expansion while preserving growth on USC’s eight regional campuses and other state institutions.
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Columbia
University of South Carolina
University
Thomas F. Jones
USC
Jones
James A. Morris
South Carolina Higher Education Commission
Julio Bortolazzo
Bortolazzo
California
South Carolina
Morris
USC and
Kissinger Lands in Peking for Nixon Visit Prep
Henry A Kissinger arrived in Peking to arrange Nixon's trip with no arrival ceremony. About 20 Chinese and as many cars waited on the runway as the Boeing 707 landed and the party departed for the city. Foreign reporters and diplomats watched from afar as a giant slogan urged unity against American imperialism.
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Belgrade
Henry A. Kissinger
Peking
Nixon
Tanjug
Dispatch
Wife Gets A Surprise Welcome Home In Hillsgrove
Margot FitzGerald returned from a 10 day Denver visit to Green Airport where a three piece band cameras and a champagne welcome awaited her. Louis C FitzGerald president of an ad firm explained the surprise celebrated 30 years and mirrored airport receptions he had organized for Presidents Truman and Eisenhower.
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Hillsgrove. RI
Margot FitzGerald
Green Airport
Denver
FitzGerald
Louis C. Fitz
Gerald
Harry S. Truman
Dwight D Eisenhower
Census shows Black population at 22.6 million in 1970 tally
The Census Bureau released its 1970 census figures stating blacks account for 22,580,289 people or about 1 percent of the U S population. The report lists White 177,748,975 American Indian 792,730 Japanese 591,290 Chinese 435,062 Filipino 343,060 and all others including Koreans Hawaiians Aleuts Eskimos Malayans.
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Washington
Census Bureau
United States
Bureau
Governor Dunn defends personnel changes amid investigation
Governor Winfield Dunn acknowledged a political flavor in some hires and firings and said Democrats criticizing the moves are politically naive. He asserted his administration has nothing to hide from an upcoming legislative probe of patronage led by Rep. Bob Hawks.
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Winfield Dunn
Dunn
Bob Hawks
Memphis
Ice Shipped To Alaska For DEW Line Towers
Three tons of dry ice were shipped by the Air Force to Alaska's North Slope to firm pilings for 30 foot antenna towers at Oliktok and Barter Island for the Distant Early Warning Line. Otto Jans of ITT Arctic Services said the ice stabilizes the pilings embedded in permafrost.
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Oliktok
Alaska
Air Force
Olik
Tok
Barter Island
Otto Jans
ITT Arctic Services Inc
Crown Princess Michiko Celebrates 37th Birthday in Tokyo
Crown Princess Michiko marks her 37th birthday in Tokyo with a garden outing alongside her daughter Princess Nori at the Toga Palace. The royal family includes two sons and one daughter.
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Michiko
Tokyo
Nori
Toga Palace
UPI
United Fund Drive Surpasses Early Goal In Aiken County
The 1960s style notice reports the Aiken County United Fund campaign reaching 52 percent of its $278,152 goal with $145,822 pledged at a Commercial Hotel meeting. Industrial II and City of Aiken employees hit 102 and 100 percent respectively, aided by Loretta Lynn’s kick-off rally and voluntary “talking positive” drive.
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Aiken County
AS. Freeman
Jack Oldenburg
Savannah River
City of
Freeman
Loretta Lynn
Commercial
Lindsey Alley
Aiken County United Fund
John Busch
Waddell Confident U S Approval For Billboard Bill
Sen. James Waddell says the billboard control bill should meet federal rules after final Senate passage and a Washington check. The measure would curb signs on federal highways, targeting non urban areas and facing opposition over rural advertising impacts.
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James Waddell
John Lindsay
UPI
Columbia
D-Beaufort
Senate
Waddell
Washington
Department of Transportation
John West
South Carolina
Len Jack Lindsay
Marlboro County
Lindsay
Atty
Daniel McLeod
Reds Continue Harassment Of Fire Base Pace
North Vietnamese gunners harassed allied artillery bases along the Cambodian border for a 26th day at Pace 60 miles northwest of Saigon. Mortar and rocket fire wounded under 30 U S personnel. South Vietnamese rounds reported 10 wounded in a 15 round barrage. Maj. Joseph Dye, commander, said activity level had declined and patrols found less incoming fire. Pace houses American and South Vietnamese troops.
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Saigon
Pace
Joseph Dye
Portland
Ore
Associated Press
Richard Merron
New Campaign Mounted To Cut Funds For War
Anti war senators launched a push to cut funding for Indochina after House leaders blocked a direct vote while contending House rejection of a Senate six month war deadline. Conferees moved to shape a 21 billion weapons bill with the deadline as a heated House battle looms.
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Washington
House
Senate
House Armed Services
F. Edward Hebert
Cooper Church
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
John Sherman Cooper
Frank Church
Idaho
Leslie C. Arends
Illinois
Vietnam
Charles W. Whalen Jr
Ohio
Nursing Home Fire Kills 15 in Pa
A blaze at Geiger Nursing Home in Honesdale killed 15 elderly residents, many bedridden, from smoke inhalation and some burns. The fire started near 8 p.m. in a laundry room. a single licensed practical nurse, Vaudine Lyon, escaped.
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Honesdale
Pennsylvania
Robert Jennings
Wayne County
Jennings
Kosygin Held Up Under Strain in Ottawa Uproar
Premier Kosygin appears to bear pressure from constant demonstrators with surprising steadiness in Canada capital. The public otherwise shows marked indifference, unlike Khrushchev era clashes. Observers note Kosygin’s reserved, methodical background fits a quiet, unflashy diplomacy.
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Ottawa
Alexei N. Kosygin
Canada
Kosygin
Nikitai Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Nixon seeks extension of control powers and new penalties
President Nixon asks Congress to extend wage and price controls through April 30 1973 and to back pay and price board authority plus a special court of appeals. He wants federal subpoena powers for two new control heads and civil penalties of 2 500 dollars extra to the current 5 000 dollar fine. House and Senate committees set hearings with emphasis on limits and phasing for the emergency powers.
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Washington
Congress
Nixon
Capitol
Pay and Board and Price Commission
Special Court of Appeals
Wright Patman
Dtex
House Banking Committee
Proxmire
Senate
House Economic Committee
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United Fund
U.S
Vaudine Lyon
Hawley
Communist Party
Apparatchiks
Alexei Kosygin
Sie
Senate Banking Committee
William Proxmire
Wisconsin
Yond
Treasury
Charles Walker
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