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...Chicago's radio and television stations, Lar Daly, an obscure stool jobber with an unappeased appetite for public office, is a chronic squawk of static. Each time Perennial Candidate Daly runs for mayor of Chicago or President of the U.S., he shrilly demands his full free share of the air waves.* By law he has it coming: Section 315 of the Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision, requires a broadcasting station to give any political candidate as much time as it gives any other-as Daly knows full well. Last week Lar Daly's insistence...
...important than the outcome of Capitol Hill's political give-and-take over spending, for the theories of today are the policies of tomorrow-and the day after that. Central question before the debaters: Does the Administration's fight for a balanced budget-with its stand against chronic price up-creep-help or hinder economic growth...
...Chronic sinusitis and respiratory infections afflict many refugee children in the dry climate of Jordan...
Blood-Pressure Gauge. Most obvious, says Dr. Bontzolakis, is anxiety accompanied by nervous tension. This may range from irrational fear, when confronted with something as objective as a photograph, to chronic delirium or schizophrenia. Then he often finds local itching which he attributes to allergic reactions with an emotional basis. Finally and more surprisingly: among Dr. Bontzolakis' patients, the higher the blood pressure, the greater the tendency to abstractionism...
...Hill was not the only fixed winner in the Journal contest. Another was Robert Alvich, 53, a hotel desk clerk. A chronic puzzle contestant. Alvich bit on an anonymous telephone caller's proposal to make him a cinch winner. Following orders, Alvich phoned Detroit, where another anonymous voice gave him the answer to the Journal's current Cashword Puzzle. Sure enough, Alvich won $2,950 and. still following instructions, wired $2,000 to one "Harry Valk'' in Detroit. Meantime, a Portland disk jockey. Fitzgerald ("Eager") Beaver, admitted that he had been similarly...