What Things Cost in China A Ledger travel note
A Ledger editor recounts a visit with an American delegation detailing typical costs in urban and rural China. He notes state ownership of housing and cars, affordable rents, bicycle prices, radio and sewing machine costs, wages, and daily meals with concrete yuan and fen figures, reflecting daily life and living costs observed during five provincial stops.
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Ledger
China
American Society of Newspaper Editors
Revolutionary Committee
Peking
Shanghai
Saigon Open to Peace Pact as Talks Near End
South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam said Saigon is ready to accept a peace agreement and seeks clarifications on technical annexes before Kissinger and Tho resume talks in Paris. Lam noted Haig’s return to Saigon for another meeting with President Thieu as he briefed leaders in Cambodia, Laos and Thailand.
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Saigon
Tran van Lam
Nguyen van Thieu
Haig
Thieu
Cambodia
Laos
Thailand
Washington
White House
United States
North Vietnam
Kissinger
Tho
Paris
Lam
Republic of
South Vietnam
Sam
Unbelievable soybean market drives price surge
The local soybean market soars as prices hit 4.43 dollars and rise again this afternoon. MFA Mill manager Kermit Head reports unprecedented demand and storage space strain at the Mexico facility. US futures spike on the Chicago Board of Trade while traders await a USDA planting intentions report and further price shifts.
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Kermit Head
MFA
Mexico
Chicago Board of Trade
Mr. Head
Higginsville
Four New Cabinet Members Delayed Confirmations Stall
President Nixon faces Senate delays on four Cabinet nominees as Republicans and Democrats clash over executive power and Vietnam policy. Frederick Dent and Claude Brinegar confirmed. Elliot Richardson, James Lynn, Caspar Weinberger, and Peter Brennan await action with hearings highlighting executive privilege and impoundment concerns. A farmer humorously marks hunting season with painted animal names on stock and a John Deere tractor riddled with bullets.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Frederick B. Dent
Commerce
Claude S. Brinegar
Department of Transportation
Vietnam
Indochina
Democratic Caucus
Congress
Hugh Scott
Elliot L. Richardson
Defense
James T. Lynn
Housing and Urban Development
Caspar W. Weinberger
Finance Committee
Health, Education and Welfare
Peter J. Brennan
Labor
Labor Committee
Brennan
John Deere
K&m
Curators Approve MU Changes
ST LOUIS AP The University of Missouri curators approved revisions to the four campus academic plan through 1985 submitted by president C Brice Ratchford. Changes include transferring many graduate programs from Columbia to St Louis and Kansas City campuses and Rolla campus. New timetable moves proposal submissions to December 15 this year and calls for an all inclusive plan by July 1, 1974.
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ST. Louis
University of Missouri
Normandy
C. Brice Ratchford
Columbia
Kansas City
Rolla
Ratchford
Beef and hogs set price records at Mexico market
Beef cattle and hogs reached new highs with hogs at 44.50 and steers 42.70, heifers 42.25, lowest 18.50 for good grade heifers. Beef up 1 to 2 per hundredweight, hogs up 25 to 50 cents. Receipts light at Central Missouri Livestock Auction with 900 slaughter hogs and 425 cattle. Missouri cattle on feed down 17 percent from last year while national on-feed totals rise 4 percent.
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Mexico
Central
Missouri
Missouri Crop and Livestock Reporting Service
Bucks Star Calls Killers Lunatics After Slayings
Milwaukee Bucks star Kareem Abdul Jabbar, who bought and donated the Hanafi home, labeled the killers as lunatics after seven people including five children were killed in an expensive Washington, D.C. residence linked to a Hanafi Muslim sect. Police pursued four or eight suspects, with victims ranging from infancy to 30 years and some bodies recovered in a bathtub. Jabbar noted the violence could be linked to an attack on him, while clarifying Hanafi ties to Elijah Muhammad’s Black Muslims.
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Washington
Milwaukee Bucks
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Jabbar
Lew Alcindor
Ucla
Milwaukee
Bibi Khaalis
Almina Khaalis
North Carolina
Reginald Hawkins
Joseph O'Brien
Iife
Elijah Muhammad
Spy Details Warning To Burglars In Watergate Case
Former FBI agent Alfred C. Baldwin testified he watched from a motel balcony as five men entered Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate complex on June 16 1972. He said he radioed a warning after seeing armed men on several floors and noted the arrival of uniformed police. Baldwin identified E Howard Hunt Jr and estimated G Gordon Liddy as another man, while recounting Hunt later entering the motel room and discussing what to do with the equipment.
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Washington
FBI
Nixon
Alfred C. Baldwin
Democratic Party
Watergate
Baldwin
E. Howard Hunt Jr
Mr. Liddy
G. Gordon Liddy
Hunt
Howard Johnson
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Richard Vance
Head
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Demilitarized Zone
Mekong Delta
Smash Price Records
Bucks Star
Alfred C. Baldwin II
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