Editorial An Unnecessary List Of 1973 Big Stories
The piece criticizes year end lists editors use to rank the year s top stories. It notes the mixed quality of items, from elections to crimes and disasters, and questions the value of forcing disparate events into a single ranking. It suggests compiling a list of the 10 Happiest News Stories of 1973 instead.
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Elisberg
Ponder
Tom Bradley
Los Angeles
Liz Taylor
Richard Burton
Sam Yorty
Miss Taylor
Compton
San Fernando Valley
Holifield aided his brother in a land sale
Washington representative Chet Holifield pressured Army Engineers and Los Angeles Water and Power to clear towers from Streamland Park, boosting his brother Jack Holifield’s 38 acre Pico Rivera property. Jack bought for 1.115 million, resold for 1.8 million, netting about 685 thousand after costs, while rezoning later overturned.
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Washington
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
Damm
California
Holifield
Army, Engineers
Los Angeles Water and Power Department
Streamland Park
Pico Rivera
Jack
Los Angeles
L. 1. Ork
Chet Hollifield
L. H. York
Army Engineers
Jack Hollifield
Bul Holifield
House
Government Operations Committee
Army
Floyd Goss
Jack Holifield
I,pt
George Danielson
Nixon Ford a delicate balance in the presidency
Washington notes a fragile tension between President Nixon and Vice President Ford. The piece argues impeachment or resignation questions loom over Ford’s actions, Kissinger’s role, and the wary politics of Ford’s potential succession amid domestic and international strain.
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Washington
United States
Nixon
Ford
Andrewohnson
Roosevelt Garner
Kennedy-Johnson
Eisenhower-Nixon
Congress
Javits
New York
Brooke
Massachusetts
Henry A. Kissinger
Kissinger
Mercedes Ads Embrace Metric Speed To Woo Engineers
A look at how Mercedes uses km per hour in advertising to imply high speed while fitting a post energy crisis tone. The piece notes how metric speed avoids explicit mph and suggests target readers understand kilometers as a luxury cue. It hints that other brands like Chrysler Lincoln and Cadillac may follow.
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Mercedes- Benz
Mercedes
Scientific American
O.K
Letters to the editor wage injustice
A reader blasts the Nixon Cost of Living Council for denying some aerospace workers the same per hour wage adjustment as others under the same contracts. The writer warns against small injustices snowballing into larger harms and cites historical wisdom. Another letter discusses the Rescheduled School Year by Walt Murray, suggesting fuel savings from nine weeks of school closures during cold months and questions California’s RSY viability and parental tax concerns.
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Aos
Nixon
Cost of Living Council
Aerospace
Long Beach Unified
California
President's joke about taxes and travel plans
Barbara F. Hoepfl questions advisers about taxing the train to Key Biscayne after Christmas while a jet burning 20,000 gallons of fuel travels anywhere, asking who is kidding whom.
Cautionary note on vanity and kindness in daily life
A reflective snippet warns against boastful claims of holy living and pursuing easy gains. It suggests that overpraising others can hide weak motives and that personal integrity declines when honesty is sacrificed for mere flattery.
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