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...Washington conceded that, if nothing were done to stop the fast climb, it would continue at least until July and perhaps longer. For consumers, the problem of high and rising food prices is literally a gut issue, and they have been demanding with ever greater insistence that President Nixon clamp on controls...
Kasler's right thighbone had been set with an iron clamp when he reached Hanoi, but the leg continued to swell under his full body cast. The cast was finally removed and the leg lanced, but the infection spread and the leg puffed up to twice its normal size. For most of that first winter, he lay in fever, alternately freezing and roasting. His roommate, Air Force Captain John Brodak of St. Louis, gave up his own blanket to keep Kasler warm in the 40° nights. "I'm probably here because of his care," says Kasler. (Brodak...
...They had these iron manacles with a screw that they could clamp on your wrists or ankles. They'd take your wrists, put them behind you and screw down those manacles to the bone. Then they'd take a rope and pull it through your upper arms and squeeze your arms together or pull them up. They had a lot of tricks...
...larger inconsistencies of Richard Nixon's decision to clamp wage and price controls on the U.S. economy 16 months ago was that he had originally opposed the legislation that authorized his move. Last week, in a step that brings the turn-around full circle, Administration officials announced that they will ask Congress for an extension of the law, which gives the President sweeping powers to "issue such orders and regulations as he may deem appropriate to stabilize prices, rents, wages and salaries," before it expires April 30. Nixon evidently plans to do some reshaping of the anti-inflation program...
This summer, the Administration proposed and helped draft legislation that would clamp a $250 billion ceiling on spending and grant Nixon wide latitude in making the necessary cuts to meet that limit. In part, Nixon was motivated by a genuine desire to rein in runaway expenditures. But he was also seeking grounds for castigating the Democratic Congress as a fraternity of high spenders, setting it up as the scapegoat for what seems to be an inevitable tax increase next year. He also hoped to obscure the fact that his Administration had set spending records in spite of his self-proclaimed...