Nixon price freeze slows Consumer Price Index rise
The govern ment said September saw the sharpest food price drop in four years and a slower overall living cost increase amid Nixon’s price and wage freeze. Grocery prices fell one percent, auto prices declined, and the CPI rose two tenths of a percent. Average weekly earnings for about 45 million workers fell 27 cents to 128.76 dollars due to shorter work weeks. Major Southwest oil firms rolled back propane price increases totaling nearly 100 million dollars annually, with two Texas firms rescinding boosts and Wanda Petroleum already cutting prices. The Cost of Living Council continued its probe into other oil companies as new economic readings were due.
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Nixon
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jor
Cost of Living Council
Texas
Sid Richardson
Nixon's Court Nominees Surprise Senate
President Nixon named Lewis Powell Jr and William Rehnquist to the Supreme Court, surprising many lawmakers. The picks, described as judicial conservatives, faced cautious praise from Republicans and some Democrats, with ABA screening to be dropped for future nominations.
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Nixon
Lewis F. Powell Jr
William H. Rehnquist
Supreme Court
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Congress
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Richmond
Rehnquist
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Massachusetts
Birch Bayh
Indiana
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Little Rock
Mildred L. Lillie
Los Angeles
ABA
Federal Judiciary
New York
Visers
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
ABA Committee For
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John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Leon Jaworski
Lawrence E. Walsh
West Virginia Mediator Seeks End to Coal Strike
Gov. Arch A. Moore Jr. acts as mediator as 39,000 WV miners walk out over contract lapse. He urges reopening talks with UMW and industry leaders in Charleston while wage loss and aid programs mount amid broader strike impact across Appalachia.
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Charleston
W. Va
Washington
West Virginia
Arch A. Moore Jr
United Mine Workers
Britain Severs U.N. Support Over Taiwan Seat Vote
London abandons two decades of backing for U S efforts to block expulsion of Nationalist China from the United Nations. Sir Colin Crowe says Britain will vote for the important question resolution while opposing a U S backed plan to admit Communist China and keep Chiang Kai-shek in the U N Security Council.
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Britain
U.S
China
Colin Crowe
General Assembly
United States
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U.N
People’s Republic of China
Chiang Kai-shek
Crowe
Security Council
Chiang
Peking
State official asks appeal on student voting ruling
Secretary of State Ted Brown said he has asked Attorney General William Brown to appeal a federal court decision allowing Ohio college students to vote in campus communities. Ohio McGovern backers charge lawmakers aim to bypass the ruling by amending election reform to require student residency certification by local boards.
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Ted Brown
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William Brown
Ohio
McGovern For President Committee
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Warren
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Robert McAlister
Ohio Committee
George McGovern
South Dakota
Columbus
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South Carolina
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Florida
Ziegler
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