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...Nixon's re-election campaign. He said he would be willing to give enough money to pay the whole tax bill because "Nixon is the greatest President of the U.S. ever." Nancy Davis, of Tulsa, Okla., proposed that "as many people as possible send in $1 or $5 or $10???nothing big" to assist the President. Her suggestion, and others like it, was also declined...
...late '60s, when the rise of rabid Arab nationalism coincided with the increasing dependence of Japan and the West on Middle East oil. By 1970 Libya was becoming a major producer, and its low-sulfur oil was selling for $2.23 per bbl. The Libyan government asked for a moderate 10?? per bbl. increase, but a group of Western oil companies offered only 6¢. Led by Colonel Gaddafi, the government struck back by cutting production by 25% and lifting the posted price by 30¢, to $2.53 per bbl., the largest increase in Middle Eastern history until then. Most...
...Detroit, a Free Press reporter alerted federal agents that the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel was replacing the 10?? locks on its men's room pay toilets with 25¢ locks. Hotel Manager Patrick Birmingham, flushed with embarrassment after word of his overpriced plumbing began to seep out, ordered the old, noninflationary devices reinstalled...
...Brooklyn, Rudolf Wiesen, a store designer, caught the city of New York trying to reduce the time limit on the 10?? parking meter in front of his office from two hours to one hour. After Wiesen reminded the city's traffic department about the freeze, the department agreed to reconvert other parking meters around the city to pre-Aug. 15 prices. > In Hopkinton, N.H., some 30,000 New Englanders flocked to a county fair over the Labor Day weekend. After visitors complained that this year's $2 admission charge, 50¢ more than last year's, was an unfair fair fare...
...Namath said that a nude scene in his latest movie had been done in very good taste, Cavett commented, "I'm sorry to hear that," then brightly switched to something more lighthearted: "Have you ever been offered a bribe?" He asked Actress Sally Kellerman, who is 5 ft. 10?? in., how tall her husband is, and she placed her hand on her forehead, saying, "He comes about up to here." Cavett: "How often?" Cavett's summary of the Laotian invasion, during a discussion with TV Newsman Edwin Newman: "We're not widening the war, we're merely narrowing Asia." Then...