Getty Still Refuses to Pay Kidnapers for Grandson
London AP report on oil magnate J Paul Getty standing firm against paying ransom for his 17 year old grandson missing in Italy for five months. A alleged photo showing Getty with a severed ear circulated in Rome with a threatening note from kidnappers, while sources say investigators believe the images are genuine and a ransom lowered to 3.4 million dollars.
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Gasoline price spike sparks Thanksgiving controversy
In Monroe Township New Jersey Shell station owner Harry Simmerman sold regular gas at 82 cents and premium at 86 cents a gallon on Thanksgiving Day drawing charges of price gouging from local officials who called it blackmail while Simmerman defended it as voluntary rationing to keep traffic moving. He planned to return to normal prices the next day.
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Philadelphia
Conviction On Slavery Overturned
MIAMI AP Joe L Brown's conviction for keeping a migrant worker in slavery was overturned by Judge Clyde C Atkins after prosecutors failed to prove Hart had no means of escape. Hart testified he was beaten for trying to escape a Dade County migrant labor camp but left the camp three times in seven days and was returned twice.
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Dade County
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Kohoutek To Be Studied By Skylab Astronauts
Skylab 3 astronauts Gerald Carr William Pogue and Edward Gibson plan to aim a camera at comet Kohoutek 140 million miles away to begin weeks of studies. They spent Thanksgiving Day space walk time regrouping storing suits and gear and completed a 6 hour 34 minute 35 second EVA record.
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Houston
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Food Ban Discouraged By Report
A Library of Congress study for the House Foreign Affairs Committee says a U S food embargo would not counter the Arab oil embargo. It notes world food markets are smaller than petroleum markets and Saudi Arabia and Algeria have had little wheat demand, making the embargo ineffective.
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House Foreign Affairs Committee
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President Nixon enjoying secluded holiday at Camp David
President Nixon spends a four day weekend at Camp David with family and friend Charles G. Bebe Rebozo. They have turkey dinner after holiday football watching. Nixon arrived Thursday afternoon from the White House. Also present are Mrs Nixon Tricia Cox and son in law, while Julie Eisenhower and David Eisenhower visited relatives in Pennsylvania.
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