Richardson Named Secretary of Defense. Longtime Public Worker
Elliot Richardson, 52, Harvard Law graduate from Boston, former Massachusetts lieutenant governor and attorney general, named secretary of defense. He led H E W with 110000 employees, budget 78.9 billion, and pushed welfare reform while promoting desegregation. A WWII veteran with Bronze Star and Purple Heart, he later held roles on Capitol Hill and in federal government. He is married to Anne Hazard and has three children.
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H.E.W
Defense Department
Nixon
Richardson
Congress
Capitol Hill
Fourth Infantry Division
Normandy
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Eisenhower
U.S
Massachusetts
Robert Kennedy
John A. Volpe
Anne F. Hazard
Nixon releases 40 percent of pollution money for 1973
The Nixon administration announces $2 billion for fiscal 1973 and $3 billion for fiscal 1974 for municipal waste treatment construction. EPA head Ruckelshaus notes allocations follow a Nov. 22 letter from the President, with $1.9 billion already appropriated to repay states as reimbursements and $350 million for 1972 authorizations. The plan aligns with the Federal Water Pollution Control Act after Nixon veto dispute.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
Environmental Protection Agency
William D. Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshaus
Ruckelshause
Raise Offer on Drug Deformities in Britain
British distributors of the drug thalidomide raised compensation to nearly 12 million dollars for 370 deformed children and parents, averaging about 31 725 dollars per child. A group of stockholders seeks at least 47 million. Thalidomide caused births of deformed children in 1961 in Britain and Germany.
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London
Distillers Company
Whisky and Chemical Combine
Britain
Germany
White House denies Nixon Middle East trip report
The White House disputed a Beirut newspaper report claiming President Nixon would visit Egypt and Israel next spring. Press secretary Howard Ziegler said the report has no substance and offered no further details.
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White House
Middle East
Camp David
Nixon
Egypt
Israe
Howald L. Ziegler
Beirut
An Nahar
Chriguunas Goving Advertisement Shop Item
A compact want ad notes a shop listing with Chriguunas and a guiding theme of giving. It highlights a local commerce entry seeking buyers or sellers familiar with the name and item. People and place details are minimal due to fragmentary text.
Fragmented OCR notice of listings and figures at Cedar Rapids area
The text appears as garbled OCR from a Cedar Rapids Gazette page listing names, addresses, and numeric figures. It includes references to 590 Third Ave VT and 57404 with scattered numbers like 182% and 715, 920, but many words are unreadable. The overall content is a damaged listing or notice without a clear single event.
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Estaulishad
Gerwtte Co
Pecksnet Golly
Third Ave
Yemen
Weinberger Seen as Tight-Fisted Budget Chief Pick
AP report outlines Caspar Weinberger’s reputation for frugal, private-sector–minded management. Known as Cap the Knife, he led FTC briefly and then headed OMB amid Nixon’s shift toward Keynesian budgeting and deficit concerns. He long championed lean agencies and warned against asking for more money.
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Washington
Caspar Weinberger
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Federal Trade Commission
Office of Management and Budget
Weinberger
Nixon
FTC
OMB
Feder
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Mark Richardson
Abraham Ribicoff
Dconn
Justice Clerk
Harvard Law
Learned Hand
Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Sen
Leverett
Iown
Chriguunas
The
Cedar Rapids
Carrer
Aestage
Ofernom
Pew
Herreres
By Bill Neikirk
California
Isay Weinberger
San Francisco
Harvard
Republican State Central Committee
Douglas MacArthur
Rhee
China
Reds
Oshkosh
Larly
Childr
En’s
Armstrong Budget Menswear
Women’s & Children’s
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