Government freeze rules spark mixed complaints and yen revaluation
The article details how seasonal pricing rules and a price freeze prompt complaints, with agencies using jawboning to enforce compliance. It covers yen revaluation against the dollar, Bank of Japan intervention, Tokyo stock behavior, and U S Nixon policy effects on imports and exchange rates.
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Weber
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Internal Revenue Service
Japan
U.S
Nixon
Bank of Japan
Tokyo
Dow
Money Center
Hong Kong
Storm Doria Leaves Damage Across New England Coast
The East Coast storm battered Augusta South Portland Westbrook and Cape Elizabeth with boats washed ashore and a Sebago Lake wharf destroyed. Doria moved in midmorning from Rhode Island to Maine with gusts to 80 mph, cutting power to 40000 Rhode Island homes and felling trees and boats from their moorings.
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Land
Augusta
South Portland
Westbrook
Cape Elizabeth
Coast Guard
Sebago Lake
Block, Island
Portsmouth
N.H
Eastport
Maine
New England
Doria
Rhode Island
Scattered Rains and Severe Storms Hit Gulf Coast
South Plains saw light showers while a warm air mass sparked hail and winds along the Texas coast. A waterspout was reported off Brownsville and gusts reached 58 to 63 mph as severe thunderstorm warnings were issued. Farther north, Doria caused power outages and flooding from New Jersey to New York, with New York City briefly clearing to sunshine after the storm moved in.
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South Plains
Gulf
Texas
Victor
Beaumont
Orange
Lakeview
Port Arthur
Brownsville
National Weather Service
Morton Geta
Morton
Floydada
Post
Perryton
Crosbyton
Silverton
Dimmit
Brockton
Mass
Boston Edison Co
Greater
Boston
Doria
Seaboard
North Carolina
Morehead City
N.C
Virginia
Maryland
Delaware
Maine
New York State
Penn Central Railroad
New York
Philadelphia
Trenton
N.J
Penn Central
New Jersey
Connecticut
New York City
Long Island Sound
Westchester County
Rockland County
Atlantic
Coast Guard
Atlantic City
Norfolk
Chesapeake Bay
George Gregory
Chesapeake-Eliza‘beth
A Warwick
R.1
Marina
Off Road Auto Plunges Through Mackenzie Park
A maroon Ford Torino or Dodge Charger veered from eastbound E 4th Street around 8 p.m. and plowed downslope near Mackenzie Park overpass. It ripped a fence and several trees before continuing through the park as police search for the driver.
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Lubbock
E. 4Th Street
Mackenzie Park
Greek ferry disaster claims dozens as fire rages at sea
The Heleanna ferry burns for six hours leaving 70 to 95 dead or missing as survivors are rescued by a Lebanese freighter Universe Defender and a Greek shipowner notes the vessel’s overhaul. Turkish and Italian witnesses describe lifeboat accidents and widespread debris in a stormy Adriatic.
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Adriatic
Italy
Cartoonist’s Wife Killed Near Albuquerque
Mrs. Natalie Sarah Mauldin, 46, wife of Bill Mauldin the Chicago Sun Times cartoonist, died in a single vehicle crash about 15 miles north of Albuquerque. The station wagon ran off NM Highway 422, skidded, became airborne, and struck an embankment. She died of massive internal injuries at the scene. Survivors include her husband and four children Andrew David John and Nathaniel, her mother Alice Rossin, her father John G. Evans, and sister Mrs. Paul C. Frank.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Natalie Sarah Mauldin
Chicago Sun- Times
Bill Mauldin
Mauldin
Santa Fe
New Mexico
Andrew
David
John
Nathaniel
Alice Rossin
Tesuque
John G. Evans
Paul C. Frank
Police Nab Two On Drug Counts
Detectives Mike Cooper and Mike Beebe arrested two Lub bock men after midnight Friday in the 3700 block of 19th Street. A water pipe and cigarette believed to contain marijuana were confiscated.
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Mike Cooper
Mike Beebe
Lubbock
19Th Street
Mururoa Lagoon
France cancels final two Mururoa nuclear tests
Paris announced the cancellation of the sixth and seventh nuclear explosions planned at Mururoa Atoll in the Pacific. French sources said the tests set for September, part of a series begun June 5, were scrapped with no immediate government confirmation.
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Papeete
Tahiti
France
Pacific
Mururoa
Hydro
Survivors criticize Heleanna crew after Greek ferry fire
Survivors from the Heleanna describe chaos aboard the burning ferry near Brindisi. They accuse crew of poor coordination and lack of guidance as lifeboats filled sparsely, while owner Efthymiades defends the crew and notes inflatable rafts could aid many more.
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Brindisi
Italy
Heleanna
Jean D'Herbonnet
France
D'Herbonnez
Maddalena Toscano
Milan
Constantine Efthymiades
Piraeus
Greece
Efthymiades
Golden Timber East of Vancouver Greatest Provincial Resource
British Columbia forests cover 58 percent of the province and account for 62.3 percent of export trade. The timber sector is described as the region’s largest single asset and economic driver in the report from Vancouver.
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Golden Timber
Vancouver
B.C
UPI
British Columbia
New Texas Laws Change Road Rules And More
New rules of the road set stricter towing and trailer limits, ban visible TV sets from drivers and curb flashing lights near intersections. Bicyclists face two-seat requirements, night-light rules, and stricter riding positions. The legislature raises motorcycle speeds, waives some licenses for disabled veterans, and expands trespass and campus riot controls. Other measures tax gains, vehicle inspections, school calendar changes, and new sexual assault and public safety provisions.
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Texas
Bennet Cerf Publisher of Boni & Liveright and Random House
Bennet Cerf a pun loving publisher died at 73 after a career that spanned Boni & Liveright Random House and RCA He co founded Random House later edited jokes and columns and appeared on Whats My Line His marriages included Sylvia Sidney and Phyllis Fraser Cerf visited Lubbock on Feb 2 1955 en route to Albuquerque for a speech
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New York Herald Tribune
Wall Street
Boni & Liveright
Cerf
Donald S. Klopfer
Theyegan
Rockwell Kent
Random House
Ime
Lye Ena CA
Alfred A. Knopf, Inc
Pantheon ‘Books
LW. Singer Co., Inc
Dextbooks
Besinner Books
Random House School and Library Service, Inc
RCA, ‘Inc
RCA
Saturday Review
Phyllis Fraser
Beginner Books
Lubbock
Albuquerque
Texas road deaths climb above last year
Texas traffic deaths reach 2,187 in 1,897 fatal accidents through Friday noon, up 104 from the same date in 1870 and 5 percent higher than last year. DPS notes increases across urban state and interstate highways.
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Austin
UPI
Texas
Department of Public Safety
DPS
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Kountze
Silsbee
Gregory
Ing
Giuseppe Gentile
Heraklion
Crete
Police Nah
Survivor
State Highway Commission
Estate Parks and Wildlife Commission
Shiner
Tex
Bennett Cerf
Columbia
Columbia School of Journalism
Romaiaen
Tan Me
Cowgill
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