No-Fault Debate Rises Over Auto Insurance Crisis
The piece surveys the 1970s auto insurance crisis with rising premiums and policy cancellations, notes no fault plans in Massachusetts, and discusses mixed public opinion. It highlights industry pulls, legal pushback, and the aim to serve American motorists amid shifting transportation policy.
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New York
New Jersey
Massachusetts
University of Michigan
Survey Research Center
Michigan
Mills Aims At a Plan That Could Alter White House Strategy
Syndicated columnists note Rep. Wilbur Mills weighs a welfare overhaul linked to revenue sharing backlash. The Arkansas Democrat outlines a gradual federal withdrawal from welfare, reshaping state finances and giving big states relief while preserving smaller states’ influence. Nixon faces a tough choice on opposing or praising Mills if the plan proves viable. Politics described as the art of the possible hinges on presidential timing and partisan theater.
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Washington
Wilbur D. Mills
House
Ways and Means Committee
Congress
White House
Arkansas Democrat
New York
California
Nixon
Rowland Evans
Robert Novak
Mills
Clerk Fired Over Greeting Love Delights London shoppers
A London department store clerk was fired for greeting customers with the word love rather than addressing them formally. The manager's policy demanded utmost formality, prompting public protest and swift rehire amid a wave of press backing the clerk. The clerk, now 50, continues greeting customers with Good morning, love, and a smile. The piece also cites political stances on budgets and taxes by Senator Wallace Bennett.
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London
Little
Isle
The
Daily Mirror
Letter to editor questions Alaskan Safari ad claims
A reader disputes Mr Lebherz's claim that no shot of a hunter with a gun occurred in the film Alaska Safari and notes the TV ad showed a hunter firing. The letter urges wildlife protection from poachers and development, praises Alaska's Department of Wildlife, and cites manpower shortages with 37 field wardens nationwide as a key enforcement challenge.
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The
News- Post
Lebherz
Department of Wildlife
Alaska
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Credible War Critics and Laos Cambodia Involvement
Washington and Washington area readers see critics question U S credibility over Vietnam War claims while noting past air and ground actions in Cambodia and Laos. The piece argues political constraints and Nixon's withdrawal priorities limit large scale force deployment and cites Senate reports and Fulbright records.
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Washington
NEA
U.S
Vietnam
Laos
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
Nixon
Congress
Pich Nil Pass
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sihanouk
Lon Nol
Moscow
Hanoi
J. W. Fulbright
Senate
Souvanna Phouma
Thieu
South Vietnam
Saigon
Fredericktonians to Attend University Extension Lectures
A lecture course by Earl Barnes, famed American lecturer, is promised to eclipse prior city offerings, presented with Hood College authorities. Francis Scott Key Council No 48 marks Washington's birthday with Edgar H. McBride delivering a life of Washington. Moose Mardi Gras committee works toward a major Frederick event.
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Fredericktonians
Hood College
Earl Barnes
Francis Scott Key Council
Order United American Men
Washington
Edgar H. McBride
Frederick
Paving Condition on East Street Prompted City Action
February 24 1951 report notes deplorable paving in the track area of the Pennsylvania Railroad on East Street. Mayor Munshower sent a letter to T E O Boyle superintendent of the Maryland division demanding immediate remedy as the street is unsafe for traffic. The piece also covers a drive to collect old pills for indigent patients abroad and reports the Frederick Farmers Co operative Association stockholders meeting with about 400 attendees at Frederick High School.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
East Street
Elmer F. Munshower
T. E. O'Boyle
Maryland
Women's Auxiliary
Frederick County Medical Society
Farmers Co-Operative Association, Inc
Frederick High School
Global View The Free Press Is the Bogeyman
Leon Dennen argues Moscow tightens grip on press freedom as KGB harassment rises against foreign correspondents. Pravda and Trud attack dissidents, warning Soviets to distrust Western journalists. Kremlin seeks anti American sentiment ahead of the March 30 Communist Party congress.
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New York
Nea
Moscow
Kremlin
Russia
Lenin
Pravda
KGB
A. D. Sakharov
Jaures Medvedev
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
First Circle
Trud
Col. F. Nikitin
Sovetskaya Rossiya
United States
Nixon
Russian Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
Newspaper Enterprise Assn
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