Illinois no fault plan struck down as discriminatory
The Illinois Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling invalidating the no fault auto insurance law for discriminating against the poor. The ruling halts the plan that would have provided up to 15000 in benefits without fault determination, with a later court opinion to follow.
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Illinois
Supreme Court
Illinois Supreme Court
Daniel A. Covelli
Circuit Court
Covelli
Robert C. Underwood
Charles Davis
Protest cancels debate at Wright College in Chicago
A planned race and heredity debate between William Shockley and Edgar Epps was canceled after a chaotic scene with heckling and chanting by SDS members. Campus security and police halted proceedings after attempts to display a sign and disrupt speakers, with president William V. Clements ending the event.
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Chicago
Wright College
William Shockley
Stanford University
Edgar Epps
Luskegge Institute
College
William V. Clements
Humphrey Nixon listed in Indiana primary
President Nixon and Senator Hubert Humphrey were entered on Indiana's May 2 Democratic ballot. Humphrey joins Muskie and Wallace. Ashbrook backers strive to add his name. Hartke has abandoned his bid. he held a press conference after noon. Wallace filed for the primary after visiting Indianapolis.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Nixon
Hubert H. Humphrey
Indiana
Humphrey
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Alabama
George C. Wallace
John Ashbrook
Ohio
Vance Hartke
Hartke
New Hampshire
Florida
Muskie
Ashbrook
Wisconsin
Wallace
Nixon ceremony paused by restless child at Easter Seals
In Washington a four year old girl from Pennsylvania briefly sat in Pat Nixon's lap to promote Easter Seals. The girl cried she needed to go, halting the moment as an Easter Seals official exclaimed the detail was forgotten. Mrs. Nixon then kneeled to accept the symbolic sheet from Jo Ann Shaffer of North Hampton, Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Pennsylvania
Pat Nixon
National Easter Seals Society For
Jo Ann Shaffer
Stephen E. Shaffer
North Hampton, Pa
Crow Becomes Local Favorite At Dongola School
Rickey Harper, a sixth grader at Dongola Grade School, chats with the town's crow. Superintendent Ralph Layman notes the crow flies around town in summer, makes noise, and is friendly with students when the weather is fair.
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Rickey Harper
Dongola
Ralph Layman
Ed Greer
Study finds many college-bound blacks favor integration
Nationwide survey of 54,000 high school juniors and seniors, conducted for the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students during 1970-71, shows 66.6 percent favor integration and 25.8 percent favor militancy. Major concerns cited include environmental pollution crime prevention and eliminating poverty.
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National Scholarship Service and Fund For Negro Students
Weather outlook for LA tonight and Friday
Fair and quite cold tonight with lows 20 to 26. Partly sunny and cold Friday with a high in the 40s. Small chance of precipitation tonight and Friday. Weather details on map page 18.
Grocery prices jump as CPI hits new high
February CPI shows 0.5 percent rise, with grocery prices up 1.9 percent the sharpest monthly gain since 1958. Labor report notes weekly earnings up 35 cents to 130.27, yet purchasing power falls 24 cents. Phase 2 costs climb at 4.9 percent annual rate amid wage policy tensions.
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Afl-Cio
Nixon
Nixon to outline Pay Board future after leadership walkout
President Nixon will announce plans for the Pay Board's future composition and procedures after meetings with the Cost of Living Council. He acted following AFL-CIO leaders quitting the 15 member panel, citing anti worker inflation and price controls concerns.
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Afl-Cio
White House
Gerald R. Warren
Cost of Living Council
Warren
George Meany
Secretary of the Treasury
John B. Connally
George P. Shultz
Office of Management and Budget
Herbert Stein
Council of Economic Advisers
Donald Russeild
George H. Boldt
Boldt
Ronald L. Ziegler
Meany
I. W. Abel
United Steelworkers
Floyd Smith
Afl-Cio International Association of Machinists
Price hearings planned on rising food costs
C Jackson Grayson, chairman of President Nixon's Price Commission, announced public hearings in Washington to examine escalating grocery prices. He cited Phase 1 price controls and rising meat demand as contributors, with hearings set for April 12 to hear from all economic sectors.
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Grayson
Nixon
Federal civil rights group to probe Cairo unrest hearings
A subcommittee of the US Commission on Civil Rights opens three days of hearings in the Cairo Illinois district courthouse to determine the causes of racial strife. State and municipal officials along with black and white residents will testify as the commission weighs housing, employment, economic development and education.
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US. Commission On Civil Rights
U.S
Cairo
Commission
John C. Ulfelder
Bipartisan
Richard
B. Ogilvie
United Front
Roe
James Walder
Theodore M. Hesburgh
University of Notre Dame
Frankie M. Freeman
St. Louis
Maurice Mitchell
University of Denver
Ulfelder
Hesburgh
Congress
National Guard
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