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Nixon can also try to persuade Arthur Burns' independent but Republican-leaning Federal Reserve to put more money into circulation, making credit cheaper and easier for everybody. Chairman Burns, in uncharacteristically defensive testimony at midweek to the Senate Banking and Currency Committee, sought to get across that the Fed was doing its part. He came as close as he could, without actually using the words, to saying that the board has already begun expanding the nation's money supply for the first time since last summer. He called attention to weekly monetary figures, which so far show only...
Other trophies of the Apollo 12 mission also preceded the astronauts to Houston. Some 80 Ibs. of lunar rock were delivered by midweek to eager scientists at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL). Although a thick coat of clinging dust prevented immediate detailed observation, geologists could see that several of the rocks were igneous-formed out of molten material like lava. They were also of a lighter hue than the brownish gray Apollo 11 rocks from the Sea of Tranquility-and much larger. The biggest of these "grapefruits," as Conrad had called them, weighed as much as four pounds and were...
Most marchers probably did not think of it that way; they were just nonviolent types moved by the spirit of Woodstock?a mingling of festive mood and soulful reflection. Beginning in midweek, by bus, train, plane and car, the kids poured into Washington. Pea coats, bellbottoms, old Army field jackets and blue denim dominated the fashion scene. Those over 25 and conventionally dressed were a small minority...
...They bought stock in close to record amounts and sent the market to its sharpest gains in months. Prices spurted early in the week on hopes that the Moratorium demonstrations would compel the Nixon Administration to take some action that might further scale down the war. Stocks paused at midweek as investors took profits, but climbed again on news of the Communist offer of direct talks between the U.S. and the Viet Cong. Prices tapered after the U.S. rejected the offer...
Loyalty Test. Despite his blunder, Mitchell again proved his clout with Nixon. The President, Mitchell and Presidential Counsel John Ehrlichman went to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's house on Washington's Linnean Avenue for dinner at midweek. Mitchell bore down heavily on the point that the Haynsworth affair was being turned into a political attack on the President. Agreed on that premise, Nixon and his Attorney General decided to cast the issue as a test of presidential prerogative and party loyalty. The Senate Republicans who opposed Haynsworth and those who had strong misgivings about him were selected...