Senate passes landmark campaign reform tied to debt bill
The Senate approved a sweeping campaign finance bill limiting presidential spending and setting matching funds up to 100 dollars in primaries. Arizona's Fannin and Goldwater were absent in Arizona for speeches, drawing criticism for missed votes and weak attendance records.
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United States Senate
House
Arizona
Paul Fannin
Barry Goldwater
Fannin
Goldwater
Congress
Florida
Kansas
California
Republican Party
Spiro Agnew
Senate
Nixon urges energy saving and personal example
The president warns of an energy shortage and urges Americans to conserve. He calls for lower thermostat use, less driving, and other sacrifices, and he suspends lighting and may wear a sweater. He cut back a Florida trip, suggesting further reductions to set an example.
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Nixon
Florida
Chilly rooms and costs of crisis fuel
The oil crisis critique notes President Nixon urging voluntary energy cuts while Americans face higher prices and cold beds. It questions equity of sacrifice, explores government spending on White House resources, and urges enhanced public transport and domestic oil steps, ending with a claim that cold rooms can aid weight loss as a byproduct of higher fuel use.
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Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Zaki Yamani
Nixon
White House
San Clemente
Congress
Volvo
Henry Jackson
D-Wash
Pierre Rinfret
National Petroleum Council
Texas
California
Sen. Jackson
Naval Petroleum Reserve
On the Line Haunting ghostwriting tale
A rich New York hotel resident plans to write a book about himself but cannot write. A six foot tall muscular woman in a trench coat offers ghostwriting services, drugs the host, and absconds with a valuable ikon and cash. The piece tongue in cheekly comments on ghostwriters and famous figures who used them. It cites Babe Ruth, FDR, JFK, Nixon, Eisenhower, LBJ, Truman with varied writers, ending noting the trenchcoat ikon heist as a sharp point.
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Rooster
New York
George Meany
Ikon
Amazon
Richard Harding Davis
Robert E. Lee
Gost
Goast
Spook
E. P. Dutton and Co
Babe Ruth
Babe
Bob
Toots Shor
United States
Lincoln
Robert Sherwood
Fdr
Ted Sorensen
Arthur Schlesinger Jr
John F. Kennedy
Nixon
Pat Buchanan
Redskin
George Allen
Eisenhower
Alexander —_ Throttlebottom
LBJ
John Wayne
Harry Truman
Missouri
Education First in Energy Crisis Fight
A reader urges protecting children's education amid the energy crisis. The speaker likens classrooms to hospitals and stresses preventing thermostat cuts from harming learning, proposes carpooling, reduced driving, vehicle maintenance, walking for short trips, and turning off lights to save energy.
Michigan Representative Urges Pluto to Skip Rose Bowl
The speaker at the Big Ten meeting proposed avoiding the Rose Bowl due to cost, risk, and publicity. He referenced Bo Schembechler’s health scare and Woody Hayes’s reluctance, arguing the Big Ten could suffer financially and reputationally.
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Ohio State
Bo Schembechler
Michigan
Big Ten
Woody Hayes
West Coast
George Holmes
Scottsdale
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Her
Washington
Harriet van Horne
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Jonatha
Jerry McElfresh
Blisher
W.B
Doc’ Wright
Audit Bureau of Circulation
Ariz
Arizoka Newspapers Association
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