Saturday, October 12th, 1974 was - if you can believe it - 40 years ago. While youre sweating over homework and a Homecoming date, heres what else is going on. President Ford went on TV this week to launch his program, “Whip Inflation Now” or WIN. The President called upon Americans to spend less and conserve energy in order to force prices down through reduced demand. Want your own WIN button? Sure, who wouldnt. Just fill out the coupon in your paper pledging cooperation and send it to The President’s WIN Coordinating Office, The White House, Washington DC 20500. You’ll receive the button and a certificate signed by President Ford authorizing (yes, authorizing) you to be an “energy saver and inflation fighter.” Actor Chuck Connors has been ejected from the island nation of Malta for starting a bar fight with a policeman. Connors was in the Mediterranean filming a movie to be called “Seawolf.” President Ford wants a 5 per cent surtax on incomes above $7,500, but the House Ways and Means Committee has a message to Americans: Stop worrying. Congress may consider a surtax on the wealthy - say, household incomes over $25,000 - but ordinary Americans will not see their taxes rise. The Committee made its announcement without its powerful chairman, Wilbur Mills. Details are still emerging, but the 65-year-old Arkansas Democrat was involved in a bizarre incident Sunday night. Apparently his car was stopped in Washington for drunk driving and a stripper named Fanne Foxe leaped from his car into the Tidal Basin. Harold Wilson moves into 10 Downing Street today as Labour pulls off a narrow victory in Britain. Land Use Planning is on everyone’s mind. A bill on the state ballot next month, passed by a wide margin in the state legislature last winter, is intended to prepare for growth, roads, and potential future water shortages. It is surprisingly controversial with voters. Elizabeth Montgomery, whose “Bewitched” TV series has been cancelled, has ended her 11-year marriage to the series’ producer, William Milton Asher. No more AEC. President Ford abolished the Atomic Energy Commission today. It will be replaced by an agency that will consolidate nuclear regulation with the Environmental Protection Agency and the National Science Foundation. O.J. Simpson in legal trouble?! Incredible but true. The amiable star halfback is being fined for failing to produce manuscripts for two books he was under contract to write. Top 40 entries this week include: “Honey, Honey” by Abba; “Everlasting Love” by Carl Carlton; “Overnight Sensation” by the Raspberries; “My Melody of Love” by Bobby Vinton; “Carefree Highway” by Gordon Lightfoot; “Whatever Gets You Through the Night” by John Lennon, “Back Home Again” by John Denver; and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” by Bachman-Turner Overdrive, although my copy of that r-r-record k-keeps sk-sk-sk-ipping.
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