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Exempted altogether from the freeze are wages, which the President correctly judged as being held to "responsible" increases of some 5% a year -without stiff controls. Rents, interest rates and dividends are also exempted...
...fire agreement. The product of their labors did not quite seem commensurate with the effort. Last week they produced a "communiqué" that even the Viet Cong's Provisional Revolutionary Government (P.R.G.) and the usually recalcitrant government of South Viet Nam could affix their names to at a stiff ceremony inside Paris' International Conference Center...
...granting of immunity to some witnesses will complicate any later prosecution. But the editorial was written essentially from a British legal point of view and reflects the strict rules limiting British press coverage of court proceedings. U.S. courts have generally been able to limit grand jury leaks by imposing stiff restrictions on prosecutors, witnesses and other potential leakers. If, over Watergate, there has been too much disclosure, that is partly because the implicated men and their lawyers are struggling through a case of unprecedented nature, partly because prosecutors now may want to avoid any appearance of a coverup. Moreover...
...Horse Race. Unlike Citation, who won the Belmont in a breeze over a middling field, Secretariat figured to face stiff competition from Sham, the gutsy bay colt who had finished second in the first two legs of the Triple Crown...
...Body, 70, the judge who sentenced Eros Magazine Publisher Ralph Ginzburg to jail in 1963; of a heart attack; in Earlville, Pa. A trial lawyer in Pennsylvania for 30 years, Body was appointed a Federal judge in the eastern district of Pennsylvania by President Kennedy in 1962. For his stiff sentencing of Ginzburg (five years in jail and $42,000 in fines on 28 counts of sending obscene matter through the mail), Judge Body was called both "a defender of common sense" and "the scourge of the free press...