Yule safety light check halted by legal maneuvers
A U S government safety program to detect defective Christmas tree lights was halted after the National Ornament and Electric Light Christmas Association filed for a court stay. The program would have used 500 to 600 consumer deputies to inspect store inventories and test strings, but industry lawyers objected to volunteers entering retailers.
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Washington
UPI
Consumer Product Safety Commission
National Ornament and Electric Light Christmas Association Inc
Butter prices surge to record 1.16 per pound in New York
Wholesale butter hits a record 1.16 dollars per pound as consumer demand outpaces national milk production. Experts attribute the rise to Indian summer weather, high butter substitute prices, and strong milk drinker demand with shortages expected to ease only next year.
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New York
UPI
Gerald Foskett
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Philadelphia
Foskett
U.S
Sy Goldstein
Hotel Bar Foods
Goldstein
Cleaver fears radicals in state prison system
Eldridge Cleaver, once a Black Panthers figure, will be held in a federal facility due to fear of black radicals in California state prisons. He requested federal custody and forfeited bail in 1968, facing assault and attempted murder charges plus a Senate subpoena.
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San Diego
UPS
Eldridge Cleaver
Black Panthers
California
Cleaver
Nelson Kempsky
State Corrections Depart
San Francisco
UPI
Evelle Younger
Younger
California Adult Authority
Ment
Kempsky
Timothy Leary
Senate Judiciary Committee
Washington
White House
United States
Public figures in libel suit against Penthouse ruled
Los Angeles judge ruled four La Costa resort officers are public figures, requiring the plaintiffs to prove actual malice. The decision strengthens press freedom in the dispute over 1974 Penthouse allegations of Mafia ties and questionable loans linked to the resort. Also: John Sawhill invested as 12th NYU president, pledging cost cuts amid private higher ed pressures.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Rancho la Costa Resort
Penthouse Magazine
Thomas LeSage
Louis Nizer
Penthouse
Lowell Bergman
Jeff Gerth
San Diego
Teamster’s Union
Morris
Moe) Dalitz
U.S. Senate
Kefauver Crime Committee
Allard Roen
Dalitz
Las Vegas
Nev
Mervyn Adelson
Irwin Molasky
Lorimar Productions of
Hollywood
LeSage
la Costa
Nixon
Alan Gelb
Nizer
New York
John Sawhill
Federal Energy Administration
New York University
Sawhill
James Hester
NYU
Hester
United Nations University
Tokyo
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