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...with the deceptively gentle name of Camille. Camille visited on the Southeastern U.S. wind, rain, and floods of such unexpected scale that Dr. Robert Simpson, head of the National Hurricane Center in Miami, called it "the greatest storm of any kind that has ever affected this nation, by any yardstick you want to measure with...
...yardstick that is most apparent to Americans-prices-the economic situation is more alarming than ever. The Labor Department reported last week that consumer prices spurted at an annual rate of 7.2% in June, double May's increase. The rise was led by the higher cost of food, particularly meat. But prices should begin to slow down later this year as lagging beef and pork production picks up, and as unsustainably high rises in services and medical costs taper off. Clothing and furniture prices should level out this month. Nevertheless, over the past twelve months, the dollar has shrunk...
...Approved. Many papers go along with the businesslike rationale of the Detroit Free Press. "We're a family newspaper," says Bill O'Flaherty, the national ad manager, "and there's no point in losing our readership by giving them what they don't want." His yardstick...
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Pennsylvania is probably the best yardstick by which to measure the likelihood of a Humphrey upset. Nixon is now favored there, but if the Harris Poll indicates a genuine last-minute shift, one which could continue till balloting time, then the Democrats might well carry the state. Without it, Humphrey is virtually assured of defeat...