Christmas Tranquil on Mackinac Island
Mackinac Island, Michigan, hosts a quiet Christmas with 550 residents. No cars allowed, only fire, ambulance, and snow plow operate. travel by horse-drawn sleigh or snowmobile. Snowy lanes glow as carols play and a decorated tree lights the street.
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Mackinac — Island
Mich
Ebenezer Scrooge
Mackinac Island
Michigan
Currier & Ives
Hillside Fort
Straits
Eileen McGreevy
Ishbah
Clemens E. Gunn
St. Ignace
Coal mining contractors strike ends amid weather calm
Weather in Middletown brings mild temperatures with no snow for Christmas Eve or Day. Outlook shows rain Tuesday and Wednesday, cloudy tonight with a low in the low 40s, and Tuesday highs around 50.
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Middletown
Tax cut proposals urge stimulus to avert deep recession
The Joint Economic Committee urged tax cuts up to 12 billion dollars a year and a gasoline tax increase to reduce demand. It warned unemployment may reach 7.5 percent by next summer and urged immediate tax relief focused on low and moderate incomes.
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Washington
Congressional Joint Economic Committee
Congress
Andrew F. Brimmer
Federal Reserve Board
Walter M. Heller
Council of Economic Advisers
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Brimmer
Harvard Business School
Heller
NBC
Meet the Press
Congressional Joint Committee
Ford
United States
Rescue for 15 Month Old From Florida Well
In Florida a 15 month old girl Amber Noel Peebles was rescued after four hours trapped in a narrow irrigation well. Firefighters dug a larger shaft and tunnel to reach her while spectators cheered. The child walked away unharmed and her parents described the frightening incident amid a tomato field where a recent well death prompted a cap or marker ordinance.
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Miami
Fla
Amber Noel Peebles
Pete Hendricks
Amber
Harry S. Peebles
Homestead Air Force Base
St.Petersburg
Peebles
Hendricks
Mine workers accept new contract to resume coal production
In Charleston West Virginia AP report workers in the United Mine Workers sign a new three year pact with the Association of Bituminous Contractors ending a stoppage. 4400 construction workers idled half of the soft coal miners while truckers refuse to join the pact seeking a separate trucking deal.
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Charleston
W.va
Association of
Bituminous Contractors
United Mines Workers
Washington
UMW
Western Pennsylvania Coal Haulers Association
John Lyons
Ebensburg
Ford vows zero tolerance for illegal CIA domestic spying
President Ford denounces alleged CIA domestic surveillance as intolerable and says Colby assured him such activity is not ongoing. The Times report spurs calls for investigations by Congress and the Justice Department. Colby, Helms, and other officials face scrutiny.
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Washington
Ford
Central Intelligence Agency
CIA
Nixon
William E. Colby
Grand Junction
Colo
Colby
Sunday
New York Times
Congress
John McCone
Agency
S’ Foreign Advisory Board
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Justice Department
Henry A. Kissinger
Richard Helms
Iran
Benjamin
FBI
John C. Stennis
Dmiss
Lucien N. Nedzi
D-Mich
the Times
IRA opens truce amid Christmas cease-fire in Britain and Ireland
The Irish Republican Army declared an 11 day Christmas cease-fire from midnight, suspending guerrilla attacks until Jan 2 after bombings in London and Northern Ireland. Provisional leader Dave O Connell signaled a potential extension if Britain offers a peace response while demanding troop withdrawal and amnesty as terms.
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London
Irish Republican Army
Northern Ireland
Edward Heath
Belfast
Lurgan
IRA
Provisional
Britain
David O’connell
Provos
Dublin
United Kingdom
Gallup Poll Finds U S Church Attendance Steady at Forty Percent
The Gallup study shows 40 percent of adults attend church or synagogue in a typical week, unchanged from prior years. Married people attend more. educated young Protestants and Catholics are likelier to go. attendance is lowest in the Far West. women attend more than men. over 6,200 people in 300 locales were surveyed.
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Princeton
N.J
U.S
Gallup Organization
Far West
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