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Humphrey, claiming to see his own victory in Muskie's 48 per cent showing in this week's New Hampshire primary, toured Miami by helicopter Thursday. Senior citizens greeted him with choruses of "for he's a jolly good fellow." Speaking before them. Humphrey urged a 25 per cent hike in social security benefits and a guaranteed annual income for the elderly of $125 per person each month Humphrey spent Friday in Tampa returning again to Miami last night...
Britain began lighting up again last week. The country's striking coal miners (TIME, Feb. 28) overwhelmingly accepted the government's offer of a 21% pay hike and started returning to the pits. Despite the widespread public relief that the power crisis was over, darker days ahead for Prime Minister Edward Heath are predicted by Correspondent Honor Balfour, who has covered the British scene, including Parliament, for TIME since 1944. Her assessment...
...American dairymen last September, the thing that he wanted most was "a glass of good, fresh milk." The assembly cheered lustily, and for good reason. Only six months before, the Administration had reversed a hold-the-line policy and raised the federal price support levels for dairy products. The hike came two days after the President had met with a delegation of dairymen...
...senior staff economist in 1970-71 and last October was named to the Price Commission. There she has proved a tough and highly capable overseer of Phase II prices; she argued strongly against allowing coal companies to pass along, through higher prices, all of the exorbitant wage hike for miners approved by the Pay Board. Mrs. Whitman plans to move back to Washington with her husband, an English professor who will work on a research project, and their two children. Women's Lib disapproves of the professional use of a married name, but Mrs. Whitman...
Stephen R. , attorney for HSWOC, said yesterday that the negotiation for higher wages is not in conflict with the terms of the wage-price freeze if the wage hike does not go into effect us after the freeze has ceased...