Watergate tops AP top stories of 1973 in AP poll
AP editors and radio TV directors named Watergate the year’s leading news event. The list highlights Agnew’s resignation, Vietnam peace with POWs, inflation, Yom Kippur war, energy crisis, Texas boy murders, Johnson’s death, Skylab, and Chile’s coup ending Allende era.
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Associated Press
Spiro T. Agnew
Vietnam
Middle East
Texas
Lyndon B. Johnson
Chile
Democratic National Committee
Washington
Watergate
White House
Richard M. Nixon
Watergate Committee
Nixon
United States
Lyndon Baines Johnson
John F. Kennedy
Abraham Lincoln
Johnson
Edward G. Gibson
Salvador Allende
Allende
Santiago
Shapp Approves Pennsylvania Ecology Advisory Bill
Harrisburg AP Gov Shapp signs a bill allowing the creation of local environmental advisory councils of three to seven members to advise local agencies. The act requires state agencies to back programs and allow councils to propose environmental solutions. The same session sees Senate action to raise benefits for unemployed and injured workers while aiding jobless and pregnant workers.
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Harrisburg
Gov
Shapp
Senate
Pennsylvania 1973 saw few new laws enacted
In 1973 Republicans controlled the House and Democrats led the Senate but legislative reforms were only partially successful. Major laws limited to rental assistance for the poor and elderly, school construction tax rules, and a death penalty bill pending. Open committee rules and ethics bills prompted debate, while budget fights delayed fiscal year funding and broader reforms remained stalled.
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Harrisburg
State House
House
Senate
Pennsylvania
Washington, D.C
Lovelace Dazzles in Pajama Tops Debut in Philly
Linda Lovelace, star of Deep Throat, made her stage debut in a French sex comedy at the New Locust Theater. The show drew a half full audience as she admitted nerves and a missed line but kept going. She hopes to improve over three weeks in Philadelphia before touring to Pittsburgh and Boston. She also reflected on Deep Throat’s impact and her desire for tasteful scripts. Separately, San Diego zoo reports objects hurled at animals including coins found in a seal autopsy, with coins among many items recovered.
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Phuladelphia
Linda Lovelace
Linda
Elaine Stritch
Diana Barrymore
Mary Beth Hughes
Barbara Eden
June Wilkinson
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
New Haven
Boston
Toronto
San Diego
Calif
San Diego Zoo
Polar bear visit at Maruska home delights holidays
Nancy Maruska daughter of Cincinnati Zoo director Ed Maruska hosts a six week old polar bear at their Cincinnati home. The eight pound ten ounce cub will stay with the family until old enough to join the zoo’s polar bear grotto as an attraction.
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Nancy Maruska
Cincinnati Zoo
Ed Maruska
Cincinnati
Maruska
Some Low License Plates Eliminated in Harrisburg
Harrisburg AP reports the state will eliminate about 300 low number license plates on March 31. Transportation Secretary Jacob G. Kassab said many numbers duplicated numerals on regular plates without the seal, leading to citations issued to wrong vehicle owners. Shop Your Corry Stores.
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Harrisburg
Transportation
Jacob G. Kassab
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