FTC accuses Hertz Avis and National of airport rental monopoly
The Federal Trade Commission charges Hertz, Avis and National with conspiring since 1968 to monopolize airport car rentals. The suit alleges common bid specs, price fixing, anticompetitive ads, and pushback against rivals, inflating prices and limiting supply.
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Avis
No. 1
Federal Trade Commission
Hertz
National
FTC
Ford
Chrysler
General Motors
Madison Avenue
Growing Up Skipper and a Preservation T shirt Trends
A Washington Post writer notes Growing Up Skipper doll grows in height and slim waist when twisted, prompting jokes about Barbie’s transformation. A Preservation Is Progress Too shirt features a bulldozer over a don’t tread on me banner. Also mentioned is a book on baseball cards and a male engineer crocheting a large bedspread started at year’s start.
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Skipper
G. U
The
Washington Post
Judith Martin
U.S
Preservation
Fathers Day Musings on Modern Kids and Parental Foibles
A Washington father jokes about Father's Day and his grown brood. He riffs on university majors, costly education, and the challenges of guiding teenagers without alienating them. He wonders how to set limits, manage cars and rides, and cope with dance, art, and glam rock obsessions.
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Washington
China
Nixonism Endures as Press Clashes with Government Power
The piece argues Nixonism still taints government after Nixon's fall, citing William Safire on Nixon’s primal hatred of the press and how the Nixon White House waged campaigns to discredit reporters. It details press harassment, subpoenas, and FBI actions, condemning secrecy at the Federal Reserve and urging that free press remains vital for checks on power.
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Washington
Richard Nixon
San Clemente
Nixon White House
Nixon
Safire
H. R. Haldeman
P.R
P.O
Spiro the Terrible
Des Moines
Agnew
Patrick Buchanan
Thomas Jefferson
Federal Reserve Board
Fed
Kremlin
Consumer Reports
Federal Reserve
Arthur Burns
Arthur
FBI
12 Cent Post Rate Predicted
NEW YORK AP First class postage rates will increase this year despite recommendations from an administrative judge. A Bailar spokesman said the cost of mailing a first class letter would likely rise to 12 cents.
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New York
Benjamin F. Bailar
Bailar
Washington
Postal Rate Commission
Seymour Wenner
Bailor
New York Postal Customers Council
Commission
Postal Service
Wenner
Some Rural Areas May Lose Their Post Offices
The GAO proposes closing about 12,000 rural Kansas post offices to cut costs, shifting services to rural routes or private contractor CPI centers. The plan could save about 100 million dollars without reducing service, though lawmakers like Rep. Keith Sebelius plan to critique the report.
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Doug Lowenstein
Washington
Kansas
Congressional
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congress
U.S
Keith Sebelius
Rnorton
Postal Service
CPI
Daily New Beginnings Rise Like the Sun
A short reflection on starting anew each day and the potential to begin fresh, likening daily rising sun to fresh starts for the young child and their mother in a Biblical context. The spirit encourages timely action and avoids delay, framing renewal as a constant daily possibility.
Cros Across Puzzle Clue List from 47 to 43
A filled crossword style clue list presents Across and Down hints with numbers and partial phrases such as graft one plant to another upright outer seed structure covering lamprey tortilla center actress Lupino lake port, and Down clues including half solution Latinize epoch wing pro companion body of troops in a fort golf mount upon mix trousers.
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Lake Port
Word by Eugene Sheffer Puzzle Clues and Cryptoquip
A clipped pastiche of a Sheffer style word puzzle with clue list and a cryptoquip at bottom. It includes references to months, names, and terms from a crossword like puzzle and notes a 1976 syndicate credit. The cryptoquip ends with A equals L.
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Wmpn
King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Ity, Kansas
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Martha's Vineyard
Aspen
Alaska
Jack Anderson
Cros
Farrow
Solutio
Fiz
Eugene Sheffer
Michigan
Frank
Nancy
Supreme Veil Court
India
Priest
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Mia
Yaa
Cryptoquip
Leo
Heinold Commodities, Inc
E. Fulton
Garden City
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Bill Crotinger
Clyde Dibbens
Lubbock
Texas
Amarilla Hayat Beskite Rd
Amarillo
Charles Bronson
Rome
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Magnum Force
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