Grand jury reform proposal in Pennsylvania debated
A Pennsylvania debate urges voters on November 6 to amend the State Constitution to allow counties to abolish indicting grand juries. The measure preserves investigating grand juries and requires Supreme Court approval to apply where meaningful. The Pennsylvania Bar Association backs the reform as a step toward judicial modernization.
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Ford Indiscretion and Oil Industry Market Split
Washington analysis questions the Agnew Ford era disclosures and notes a lobbyist link to Ford, while a Center for Science in the Public Interest study claims Big Oil divides the U S into regional markets. It cites Winter Berger and Kellogg ties, and contrasts with Ford's public image.
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Center For Science In the Public Interest
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September 6 7 1973 news clock round up
A snapshot of events from September 6 to 7 1973 includes Rome seizing five Arabs and two ground to air missiles, a congressman jailed for drunk and disorderly conduct Rep John Melcher allegedly backing his car into another and fleeing, Sen Harold Hughes announcing retirement to devote life to religious work, a Chicago nun robber released on probation, a St Francis de Sales priest pastor acquiring a guard dog for the church plate, harness racing rigging reports, Irish call girl scandal involving officials, Abbie Hoffman's cocaine arrest, and Indiana high court asked to reveal birth records about George McGovern's paternity claim.
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White-collar moochers in the office illustrated
In a humorous New York AP piece, various office moochers are outlined from Merton the Muncher who never buys lunch to Minnie the Moocher who spends hours applying makeup and pursues borrowed affection. The essay mocks these freeloaders and their tactics, ending by asking readers to name the remaining unclassified moocher.
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Corporations Probe Ways to Boost Aid to Colleges
In New York AP report, U S business leaders recount corporate gifts to higher education rising from 50 million in 1954-55 to 375 million in 1968-69, then dipping by 35 million the next year amid economic unease. By 1972 leaders urge revitalization, citing top private universities such as Harvard Princeton Chicago Cornell Stanford Johns Hopkins UC Berkeley MIT Caltech Columbia Yale. Under the Corporate Committee for the Support of American Universities, school heads meet executives to seek increased aid.
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