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SOVIET UNION. After Ford lands at Vladivostok (see box) on Saturday, his hosts intend to whisk him by helicopter to a remote, wooded compound of guest houses some twelve miles away for his talks with Brezhnev. Soviet leaders pushed hard during Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's recent visit to Moscow for the meeting with Ford. They know little about Ford except that as a conservative Representative he supported high defense budgets...
...gasoline stations are gone, and American homes will probably be warm and snug this winter. But high oil prices remain, and they threaten to knock the world off its axis. They greatly fuel the rocketing rate of inflation in most nations. They stunt economic growth almost everywhere. They compound balance of payment woes-Italy totters on the brink of bankruptcy-and thus threaten international trade, the lifeblood of an interdependent world...
...Lungren, ordered new tests, unconvinced that the anticoagulant drug Nixon was taking orally at home was keeping his patient's phlebitis under control. Lungren admitted Nixon to the hospital a second time for further tests and treatment. A venogram, X rays of a vein injected with an iodine compound, revealed clots in Nixon's left leg in areas other than the femoral vein above the knee, where some of his previous clots had formed. The additional clots (doctors could not be certain that they were new ones) were found higher in his leg. Dr. Scott H.M. Driscoll...
...chess board and Bible, will probably be most annoyed by a pair of revelations. First, that during off moments in Reykjavik he frequently took to the mineral baths with a pair of adoring young lovelies in bikinis. And second, that for six months thereafter, while secluded in a California compound run by the Worldwide Church of God, he not only dated but, at his request, was introduced to "vivacious" girls with "big breasts...
Living costs are now lunging ahead at a compound annual rate of 16.8%, and even the most optimistic forecasters do not expect them to come down much below 8% until mid-1975. The price surge has cut factory workers' real in come by 4.1 % below a year ago and has flattened consumer spending...