Social Security overhaul sparks tax hike and controversy
The administration seeks to fund Social Security with general revenues, shifting payroll burden to employers and raising overall taxes by about 30 billion over five years, while critics warn of pension erosion and higher costs for workers and businesses. A separate note recounts a York England Museum purchase of a 1,000 year old Anglo Saxon sword found on a fishing trip by Gary Fidd, funded largely by a trust and a bicycle for the boy.
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Joseph Califano, Jr
Carter
Congress
Mr. Carter
Gary Fidd
York
England
The Salvador Agron Case and a Second Chance
A 16 year old Salvador Agron killed two boys in 1959 and faced the electric chair. He was sentenced to death then commuted to life in 1961. He educated himself, wrote poetry and court appeals, and became a model prisoner praised by governors for rehabilitation.
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Salvador Agron
Manhattan
Agron
Salvador
New York
Moody Kid
New York State
Nelson Rockefeller
Salvador Agron escape tale from New York to Phoenix
An escaped New York murderer, Salvador Agron, evades a days long escape after missing a bus at a college, pleads to authorities for return, hides in Phoenix, and is captured after a lieutenant, using a National Crime Information Center database, tracks his past. He faces four more years. The tale spans Fishkill secure to a Phoenix halfway house.
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Peoria
Arizona
Roy Foltz
Phoenix
Agron
Foltz
National Crime Information Center
Salvador Agron
New York
Nixon Frost show judged as high television impact
Critics praise the Nixon Frost program as a visual experience that reveals the medium’s power. The piece questions Nixon’s handling of China and Taiwan, detente, and Soviet relations, noting gaps in Nixon’s responses and questioning what tape might remain unseen.
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Nixon
Garry Wills
Ivan the Terrible
David Frost
Niagara Falls
Frost
Mao Tse-tung
Mao
Heloise
Abelard
Pat
San Clemente
America
Robert Abplanalo
Bebe Rebozo
Edgar Guest
China
Taiwan
Oklahoma Ideas Stir Conference Plans in Enid
David Boren invites 13 governors to Enid for a conference while stressing his one program. He testified before a congressional subcommittee where officials were polite but offered no encore applause. Oklahoma oil and gas views seem unusual to the nation.
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David Boren
Enid
Boren
High Salary Levels In Pro Sports Eyed
Washington notes the surge in pro sports salaries and compares it to broader economic issues. The piece examines free market impacts, antitrust constraints, and how executive decision making shapes talent bidding in leagues like the NFL and MLB.
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Joe Morgan
Cincinnati Red Stockings
Chrrsler Corporation
Mellons
Armed Services
Tulsa
Forget-Me- Nots
New York Yankees
Yankees
Dodgers
Cincinnatii
Kansas City
Bob Woolf
Boston
Fortune
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