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President Nixon on nationwide television last night called for voluntary wage-price restraints to replace the 90-day freeze on wages, prices, and rents that expires at midnight on Nov. 13, but announced the formation of a tripartite board with the legal authority to enforce restraint where necessary...
...restraint on profits and dividends will follow the 90-day freeze. "Higher profits are good for every person in America, but windfall profits are quite another thing," Nixon said. Without specifying any legal power of the Price Commission over profits, Nixon warned that "the commission's policy will be that business should pass a fair share of business swings to the consumer by cutting prices...
...Court Justice of the same name, Harlan opposed the Warren Court's decisions calling for reapportionment of legislatures in pursuit of a one-man, one-vote principle and the Miranda ruling throwing out confessions from criminal suspects not advised of their right to counsel. An advocate of judicial restraint, he objected to intervention by federal courts in state obscenity cases unless the state action was "clearly the product of prudish over-zealousness." In a recent capital-punishment decision-the court's most emotional pending issue-Harlan argued that there was no constitutional obstacle to a jury both determining...
...rock-lyric, "Sweet Jane," begs for music, but it might not bear too many listenings. Elizabeth Fenton's "More Rain", on the other hand, is a list of the conditions of a strained relationship that builds an undertone of anguish by effectively calculated repetition and an ironic sense of restraint...
...reduce the carnage, if motorists wore them. According to Government surveys, only 30% of riders buckle into the belts, and a mere 5% use the harnesses. To protect people more effectively, the Department of Transportation has ordered that all 1974 model cars be equipped with some kind of passive restraint, which in effect means "air bags": huge porous plastic bags that must pop out like balloons between motorist and instrument panel. They must inflate within forty-thousandths of a second after automatic sensors detect a collision, and then quickly deflate. In theory, at least, such a system could save...