Inflation slowed by controls says Grayson at hearing
price controls reduced inflation by an estimated 1.5 to 2 percentage points. 85 percent of CPI items rose slower under stabilization, with notable declines in rent medical care and clothing. Javits urged extending wage and price controls to April 1974 to curb food price spikes and considered tightening farm subsidies and labor participation.
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Price Commission
C. Jackson Grayson
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R-N.y
Javits
Dies Sr. dies at 72 foe of subversives and HUAC founder
Martin Dies Sr., Texas congressman and founder of the House Un-American Activities Committee, died Tuesday night at age 72, likely from a heart attack. A longtime anti communism figure elected in 1930, he led investigations into German American Bunds, fascists, and later communists, drawing praise and sharp criticism from Roosevelt and Ickes. Born November 6, 1901, in Colorado City, he was a father to Martin Dies Jr., who also pursued public service. Dies suffered a fatal heart attack on November 6, 1967.
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Roosevelt
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IRA launches new campaign to frighten fraternizers
In Belfast British army sources report the illegal IRA has started a campaign of intimidation in Catholic districts to frighten informers and fraternizers. At least three women were beaten by TRA gangs over the past week, including Agnes Griffith a mother of four who was beaten, shaved, tarred, and ordered to leave the area or die. Soldiers reported additional beatings and the discovery of weapons and ammunition as the IRA uses schools as arms drops, threatening children.
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Sanity tests ordered for man who starved son
MIAMI authorities ordered psychiatric testing for Michael Nozza 41 after he was charged with murder in the death of his 3 year old son Dean whom he allegedly starved by ordering his wife not to feed him. Neighbors called the home a house of terror andjuvenile authorities took the other five children into protective custody.
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Michael Nozza
Dean
Lois Jean Nozza
Nozza
Variety Children's Hospital
Nora
Robert Lawson
Nowa
Nozas
Celeste Venero
Gilberto Veneto
Dow Jones closes above 1000 for first time in history
The Dow Jones Industrial Average ends at 1,003.16, surpassing the 1,000 level for the first time in its 76-year history, with the gain fueled by optimism about the economy. The Standard & Poor index also hits a record at 114.95 as traders celebrate the milestone on Wall Street.
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Ralph DeNunzio
Nyse Board of Governors
Kidder Pencdy
Charles Henry Dow
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American Tobacco
American Brands
General Electric
Pvt Billy Smith acquitted in Vietnam fragging case
Pvt Billy D Smith, 24, from Watts Los Angeles, was acquitted of most charges in the Vietnam fragging deaths trial. He received one conviction for assaulting a military policeman and was reduced in rank, spending 20 months in an Army stockade before verdict. He planned to meet Angela Davis in San Francisco and expressed no lasting resentment toward the Army.
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Angela Davis
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Thomas A. Dellna
Mechanicville
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Richard E. Harlan
Dallas
United States
Randall Rigby
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At the Movies CINEMAT CINEMAS and New Film Lines
A collage of theater notes lists Brother of the Wind at Cinema I a Marx Brothers program Horsefeathers and Duck Soup on a double bill at Cinema II and a Williamstown College cinema pairing Elvira Madigan with The Virgin and the Gypsy. Also notes showtimes and contact details for area cinemas.
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New York Times News Service
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Te Oye
Main St. Bennington
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