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Millions of people justifiably feel that the economy is cheating them of the rewards of hard work and thrift. A few more years of skyrocketing prices that wipe out much of the middle class and reduce some Americans to eating dog food could well cause many voters to question whether a system so fundamentally flawed can endure...
...training camps across the nation last week as the N.F.L. Players Association-backed by most of the league's veterans-put pressure on owners to meet contract demands. At a minimum, the dispute threatens to delay the start of the exhibition season. At a maximum, the confrontation could wipe out an entire season and change the basic structure of the league...
...Helms' telephone conversations with President Nixon, H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman. A few days before the destruction, the Senate had requested the agency to safeguard all evidence pertaining to Watergate; Helms later insisted that none of these conversations were related to the matter. He also explained that the wipe-out of the tapes was customary before a new director took over. But the report contends that never before had there been such a sweeping destruction of CIA tapes...
...Crimson first showed how useless the IRA title was by stopping in Wisconsin to wipe out the Badgers twice--first on a shortened 1500-meter course, and the next day on a 2000-meter Lake Mendota...
Within hours after making the figures public, Harold V. Gleason resigned as chairman and president, completing an almost total wipe-out of Franklin's top management. He took the new post of executive vice chairman, and was succeeded as chief executive by Joseph W. Barr, a former Democratic Congressman from Indiana arid Secretary of the Treasury during the last few weeks of Lyndon Johnson's Administration. Frightened depositors continued to withdraw their savings. The bank lost more than $100 million in deposits last week, bringing withdrawals to $930 million, or almost a third of the $3 billion deposits...