Meat import quotas off through '76
Washington reports the Nixon administration will continue the six month suspension of meat import quotas through 1973. Australia New Zealand Mexico and other suppliers can sell as much beef and meat as domestic demand allows, aiming to ease rising prices and boost supply while maintaining overall control.
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Washington
UPI
Treasury
George P. Shultz
Nixon
Australia
New Zealand
Mexico
United ‘States
Nomic
U.S
Shultz
United States
Retirement costs rise as social security taxes climb
Washington reports higher retirement costs for Americans as 9 million workers face increased withholdings for 1973. The changes raise taxable income, tax rates, and Medicare coverage, with escalator provisions promising automatic benefit growth as living costs rise.
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Miles Benson
Washington
Congress
Social Security Administration
Social Security
Ailing boy tours Pacific aboard USS Ticonderoga
Kevin Steen, 12, from Carefree Arizona, aboard the USS Ticonderoga for a nine day Pacific voyage. Afflicted by a malignant kidney ailment with months to live, he met Apollo 17 astronauts and watched the splashdown from the flight bridge. He called the trip a real good Christmas present and was greeted at the airport by his father Orion.
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UPI
Kevin Steen
Carefree
Ariz
Ticonderoga
Space Agency
Phoenix
Pacific
Kevin
Earth
Navy
Orion
Helen
Christamas
Sen
Barry Goldwater
Apollo 17 astronauts enjoy first long break after lunar run
Apollo 17 crew Eugene Cernan Ronald Evans and Jack Schmitt wrap up 124 days of activity with three days of detailed debriefings before Christmas. They pause for holidays with families aboard the Ticonderoga and look forward to future space programs and renewed exploration.
Texas to take land for Johnson Park expansion
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission will acquire 550 additional acres for Lyndon B. Johnson State Park by condemnation if private owners refuse to sell. Officials say the farm and ranch land near the Pedernales River could be paid about $500,000, with per acre offers of $1000 upland and $1500 riverfront, while opponents argue the land is worth more.
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Lee Jones
Austin
Tex
Texas Parks and Wildife Commission
Lyndon B. Johnson State Park
Ken Lindig
Pedernales River
President Johnson
George Adams
Commission
Lindig
Adams
Eugene
Soil Conservation Service
Johnson
National Park Service
Coffee intake linked to higher risk of heart attack
A Boston study from four Boston hospitals and four international sites finds that drinking more than five cups of coffee daily may double the risk of an acute heart attack compared with no coffee. The link was stronger than that for cigarette smoking. no association with tea was found.
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Chicago Daily News Service
Boston
United States
Dumas to become aide to Anderson
Albany correspondent Charles Dumas of the New York Daily News will join Senator Warren M. Anderson as director of communications early next year. The 44 year old will be paid about 34 thousand dollars annually. Anderson, a Republican from Binghamton, succeeds retiring Senator Earl W. Brydges as Senate majority leader.
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Albany
N.Y
Charles Dumas
New York Daily News
Warren M. Anderson
Senate
Dumas
Associated Press
Malcolm Wilson
Anderson
Binghamton
Earl W. Brydges
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