Good News From Retail Sales Signals Recovery
The article notes retail spending rose 13 percent from a year earlier after inflation adjustments, with durable goods leading gains in autos and appliances. It credits the Federal Reserve and Dr. Arthur Burns for steering the recovery, stressing careful money supply management to avoid inflation while sustaining growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conference Board
Finance Facts
National Consumer Finance Assn
John Q
Arthur Burns
Federal Reserve
Fed
Debate format yields limited insight in North Carolina vote race
A televised North Carolina gubernatorial debate with five Democratic candidates produced little new information as they stayed general and promo driven. The hour highlighted similarities in reform aims and schooling concerns while introducing Love Valley Mayor Andy Barker to viewers, underscoring calls for a livelier format and stronger questions from reporters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alr Five
George Wood
Utilities Commission
North Carolina
Andy Barker
Love Valley
Professional Self Regulation in Public Life and Medicine
The piece argues for stronger self regulation across professions from law to medicine and media. It highlights Nixon's disbarment as a rare prompt for peers to discipline leaders, notes physician unfitness and underreporting, cites ombudsmen in newspapers, and quotes opinion leaders on the need for accountability while acknowledging limits of self regulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard M. Nixon
New York State
Watergate
United States
New York Times
Robert C. Derbyshire
New Mexico
David S. Broder
Washington Post
Senate
Justice Department
Congress
Harry Truman
Bob Hope
Hope
Texaco
Mike Viner
Farm Success and Tax Battles Highlight North Carolina Life
Agronomist John Wilkins praised for diversifying Cleveland County farms into fiber plants and fruit markets, boosting incomes. Economic officials urge phasing out inventory tax to attract high tech industry, projecting $121 million annual revenue and 31,000 jobs by 1985. Obituaries note passes of Easter, Goldman, and Pritchard, with remembrances from civic, college, and church circles.
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High Point
John 8. Wilkins
Cleveland County
North Carolina
Cleveland
Wilkins
Earl Wilkins
Hogue Mall
Shelby
Mr. Mull
Mittee
General Assembly
South Carolina
Tennessee
Alabama
Mississippi
Virginia
Florida
Kentucky
Georgia
Southeast
Broughton
Corporate Bagmen Draw Customs Attention
The piece notes federal inquiry into corporate bribery schemes involving payoffs to foreign officials. It details the $5,000 reporting threshold, firms named, and the push by Justice, Customs, SEC, and prosecutors to indict. It highlights examples across many countries and cites ongoing IRS and SEC investigations.
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Washington
Raksheesh
Cumshaw
Brazil
Colombia
France
Gabon
Iran
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
South Africa
South Korea
Taiwan
Turkey
West Germany
Ashland Oi
Burroughs
Exxon
Gulf Oil
Lockheed
McDonnell Douglas
Merck
Northrop
G.D. Searle
Tenneco
United Brands
Securities and Exchange Commission
SEC
Frank Church
D.-Idaho
Ben Rosenthal
D.-N.y
Justice Dept
Customs Service
Special Prosecutor's Office
United States
Federal
Internal Revenue Service
Nicaragua housing boom cited by Somoza letter to editor
In response to Jack Anderson's July 6 column, a Managua official defends government housing work post earthquake. He notes US AID support of 3 million dollars funded about 11,400 dwellings housing 60,000 in 90 days, with 160,000 residents housed and 20,000 more under construction. He says Somoza's government upgrades these homes to permanent dwellings and explains a legal action restricting a publisher’s travel was judicially driven.
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Jack Anderson
Somoza
Nicaragua
Anderson
Las Americas
U.S. Agency For International Development
U.S
U.S. A.ld
Managua
Comment on W W Robbins letter spurs criticism in High Point
Respondent condemns W W Robbins for attempting to control public opinion, comparing his influence to a dictator and noting relief that Robbins lacks censoring power. The critique targets Robbins’s alleged overreach rather than the newspaper operation, referencing Wilmington and World War II analogies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.W. Robbins
Wilmington
High Point
Hitler
Robbins
Also Mentioned on This Page
Federation of State Medical Boards
Valery
Discard d
Thomas B. Broughton
Department of Natural and Economic Resources
Howard B. Easter
Furniture
Furniture South Magazine
Moe Goldman
Atlanta
Scouting
American Humanics Foundation
High Point College
Uncle Moe
Wilbur D. Pritchard
J. H. Pritchard
Oakwood Memorial
Emmett
Fred
G. G. Preston
Abingdon
Pritchard
Wilbur Pritchard
Old First Methodist
J. E. Pritchard
Randolph
Lower Guilford
CHE
Lwauree Journal Ee Ete Ga
Paramount
Labor Dept
Michael Moskaw
Interior Dept
Thomas Kleppe
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