Bicycle boom and safety tips in a changing economy
The piece notes rising bicycle popularity with millions of riders and injuries expected this year. It cites Health Insurance Institute data, safety factors for children, night riding tips, and a shift toward service industry employment, plus plans for large regional garbage dumps in New York State.
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Health Insurance Institute
Institute
United States
Life Insurance Company
U.S
New York State
Profit Controls Might Be Added To Economic Freeze
Administration debates adding profit controls to the wage price rent freeze as three cabinet members suggest more than voluntary limits. JE Committee hears McCracken and Lincoln as Romney Stans and Godson weigh post 90 day options while officials discuss timing and effectiveness.
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Washington
UPI
Nixon
Joint Economic Committee of Congress
Paul W. McCracken
President’s Council of Economic Advisers
George A. Lincoln
Office of Emergency Preparedness
George Romney
Commercce
Maurice H. Stans
Labor
James D. Godgson
Stans
Cabinet members discuss future profits and controls after freeze
Hodgson hints at a profits ceiling as a possible Phase II option while stressing it is too early to decide on future controls. Stans signals some restraints may persist beyond the 90-day freeze but expects them to last less than a year.
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Hodgson
Stans
Nixon Back From Cruise
President Nixon returns from an overnight ocean cruise to Santa Catalina Island aboard the Mojo. He tells reporters such interludes help him put problems in perspective though he can never fully escape them. Accompanied by C G Bebe Rebozo and Paul Keyes the trip provided quiet time and reading on history.
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Calif
UPI
Nixon
Santa Catalina Island
Mojo
Newport Harbor
White House
Hollywood
Frank Mueller
C. G
Bebe) Revozo
Key Bisceyne, Fla
Paul Keyes
State Fair Attendance Sets Record in Indianapolis
The Indiana State Fair closed with attendance poised to exceed the 1969 record of 1,009,426 as post fair events begin. Bobby Unser won the Century 100 mile stock car race at the fairgrounds, Engelbert Humperdinck performed at the Coliseum, and events continue with the English Horse Show and Hoosier Hundred auto race planned for September 11.
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Indianapolis
Dollar Steadies as Yen Float Triggers Markets
The dollar held near 5 percent below official parity in Tokyo trading after Japan floated the yen. In Europe the currency slipped, with Paris and West German markets showing declines as traders watched U.S. policy and trade impacts risk shifting to a weaker dollar.
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UPI
USS
Japan
Nixon
United States
Paris
Bombings Continue In Northern Ireland Weekend Violence
In Belfast and across Northern Ireland a brutal weekend of bombings sees more than 20 explosions and one British soldier killed. The heaviest incident near Crossmaglen involved a patrol crossing into the Irish Republic on an unmarked road, killing Colonel Armstrong and wounding another soldier, amid IRA activity.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
UPI
Crossmaglen
Irish Republic
Lan Armstrong
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Officer Shot In Attempted Jail Break
Dearborn County authorities hold Willie C Bennett 23 of Cincinnati on a preliminary assault with a deadly weapon count after a pistol shot wounded Russell Waldon 24 of Aurora in the left thigh while Waldon was disarming Bennett during an attempted jail break Bennett fled but was captured near Cincinnati and returned to Lawrenceburg Mason 39 being held on a break in at Terrace View Exterior Care Home July 22.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
UPI
Dearborn
Cincinnati
Willie C. Bennett
Russell Waldon
Aurora
Walden
Waldon
Bennett
John G. Mason
Terrace View Exterioa
Captain Charged In Disaster In Italian Waters
Brindisi authorities charged Greek ferry captain Demetrios Anthipas with multiple homicide after the Heleanna burned at sea near Italy. He was arrested aboard the Egnatia as he attempted to depart for Patras. The disaster left 24 dead with 1,125 aboard when the ship burned after a gas cylinder exploded in the kitchen.
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Italy
UPD
Demetrios Anthipas
Heleanna
Anthipas
Egnatia
Patras
Greece
Ancona
Podgorny to Visit Hanoi for Friendship Visit
Soviet Tass reports President Nikolai V. Podgorny will visit North Vietnam in early October at Hanoi's invitation. It would be the first Kremlin troika member's trip since Kosygin attended Ho Chi Minh's funeral in 1969. The trip aims to affirm continued Soviet support amid Hanoi Peking distrust.
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UPI
Nikolai V. Podgorny
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Kremlin Troika
Alexei N. Kosygin
Ho Chi Minh
Kosygin
Podgorny
Peking
Nixon
China
Nin Dan
Million Dollar Blaze Destroys Burr Building in New Castle
A four story Burr Building in downtown New Castle suffered an estimated 1 million dollars in damage after a Sunday fire. No injuries were reported though three firefighters were treated for smoke inhalation. Top floor apartment residents were evacuated as police found the blaze in a ground floor clothing shop. Water remained on the scene Sunday night as investigators awaited access altered by collapsed floors and roof.
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New Castle, Ind
UPI
Burr
New Castle
Reds Stage Attacks as Saigon Votes Under Fire
The heaviest wave of Communist attacks in four months failed to disrupt South Vietnam’s National Assembly elections. Spokesmen said 96 enemy incidents in 48 hours include 44 rocket or mortar strikes. Voter turnout reached 78.5 percent with 7,332 polling sites and only three enemy acts against sites. Eight killed and two wounded in election-related violence. seven dead and 36 wounded in Binh Dinh when a grenade hit a polling station. An old man was slain outside a ballot booth in another act of political propaganda.
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Qui Nhon
Government Elections Committee
Saigon
Lau Vinh Thai
Nguyen van Thieu
National Assembly
UPL
UPS
Republic
le Trun Hien
Hien
Binh Dinh
No Injuries In Weekend Accidents
Greene County deputies investigated three weekend crashes. Randall Brashear, 20, of Indianapolis, lost control of a 1971 Chevrolet truck on Highway 54 near Bloomfield. no injuries but total loss. Charles Duncan, 52, of Linton, swerved to avoid horses on Highway 431 near Bloomfield. damage about 250 and a horse died. Eric Wenders, 18, of near Bloomington, stopped to turn. Lloyd Cook, 48, of West Terre Haute, rear collided. no injuries and no arrests. damages around 150 for Wenders and 200 for Cook.
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Greene County Sheriff's Department
Mike Holtsclaw
Bloomfield
Randall J. Brashear
Indianapolis
Bill Collins
Charles Duncan
Linton
Eric T. Wenders
Glenburn Road
Lloyd H. Cook
West Terre Haute
Sadat Claims U S Arms Supplying Jordan Tanks
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said Jordan has been receiving large quantities of American weapons including heavy tanks. He suggested the weapons could be used against Syria and noted no shipment ties to Jordan’s attack on Syria. Syrian border clashes followed.
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Syria
al Ahram
Sadat
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Arab Socialist Union
Egypt
Israel
Hales Assad
Limier
Moammar
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