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...effect. Bank charges on personal loans lately have fallen from 5¾% to 5¼%, and New York's First National City Bank has chopped its mortgage rate three-eighths of a point, to 7%. Bankers say privately that one reason for these declines is a desire to confirm the Administration in its belief that no direct controls on interest are needed...
...administration with graft and corruption, failure to control rising living costs, and a double standard of justice for rich and poor. They also accused the President of intending to circumvent the constitutional limit of two terms by running his lovely wife Imelda for President in 1973. Marcos seemed to confirm as much when he said recently that his wife might have to run "to prevent a Communist tool from becoming President...
...expected to reach Mars some five to ten days after Mariner. But U.S. scientists who recently visited Russia revealed last week that they had been told by their Soviet counterparts that Mars 2 and 3 will attempt to land instrumented packages on the Martian surface. That seemed to confirm speculation by U.S. space officials, who had anticipated a Russian landing attempt simply on the basis of the great lift-off weight of Mars 2 and 3 (about 10,000 lbs. each). If their landers work properly, the Russians will leapfrog ahead of the U.S. by at least four years...
...little more than a quarter of an hour, Nixon overturned these expectations and very probably accomplished an enduring the change in American judicial history. In Assistant Attorney General WIlliam H. Rehnquist and Richmond Lawyer Lewis F. Powell Jr., the President appointed men who confirm to his standards of "judicial conservatism." Yet, especially in comparison with the dimmer talents that he had been considering, Rehnquist and Powell possess sufficient legal distinction to still most professional criticism and make their Senate confirmation seem probably...
Rampton declined to confirm that the Boston office had a Chinese-speaking employee on its staff to take calls from readers of the leaflet. "We understand these problems," he said. He also refused to comment about whether the New York office was using the same leaflet, or if the FBI office in San Francisco--which also has a sizable Chinese community--was using a similar leaflet...