Federal Employes Will Face a Check On Output of Work
Date: 27 December 1972
The Washington Star-News
Civil Service Comm announces that it will embark early in '73 on major program to develop new system to measure productivity and effectiveness of each Fed employe; system will be used to discharge employes who do not measure up to work output and efficiency standards and will be primary factor in determining promotion
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Hatfield to Act on Press
Date: 27 December 1972
Sen M O Hatfield on Dec 26 says he will introduce bill that will help newmen protect their sources; says legis to ensure press freedom 'must be top priority item' when Cong reconvenes; says 1st Amendment freedoms are threatened by recent ct actions eroding ability of newsmen to present information to public
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6 ARE NAMED TO PICK '73 NIEMAN FELLOWS
Date: 27 December 1972
Harvard Univ on Dec 26 announces selection of committee members who will select Nieman fellows in journalism for next academic yr; members are C W Bailey (Minneapolis Tribune), R Dudman (St Louis Post-Dispatch), D C Simons Jr (Lawrence Daily Journal-World), Harvard Prof D H Kearns, Harvard vp for community and govt affairs W H Pinkerton, and Nieman Fellowships curator J C Thompson Jr
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Mr. Truman, Mr. Nixon And the Press
Date: 28 December 1972
By Tom Wicker
Tom Wicker
T Wicker, commenting on Nixon Adm policy on release of news, notes that every item of information given out by Adm on Vietnam peace negotiations in Paris from Oct to present has come from anonymous source; holds that Adm, because of natl security, was able to hold any factual information that existed tightly among handful of individuals; says that tradition and ethic of Amer press award high priority to information deriving from official sources, particularly 'confidential' information coming from 'highest levels of Govt'
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By Arthur Schlesinger Jr.
Date: 27 December 1972
Excerpts from speeches on press freedom at recent luncheon meeting of Foreign Policy Assn by White House communications dir H Klein and former aide to Pres Kennedy A Schlesinger Jr; Klein holds it is essential that Amer people work to preserve 1st Amendment and that media continue to subject itself to careful self-examination; Schlesinger says current issue between media and Govt concerns present Adm's record in balancing secrecy and disclosure; holds Govt has striven to preserve secrecy and Pres Nixon has ignored his personal responsibility to keep people informed; holds Nixon has encouraged his Adm in acts of deception; holds Adm has become 1st in Amer history to seek to impose prior restraint on pub of news
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Metropolitan Briefs
Date: 27 December 1972
TB&TA discloses that on Nov 13 two cartons containing forty thousand 50c toll tickets were reptd missing in shipment from printers; says tickets were lost or stolen at Jersey City truck terminal
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Chervet Retains Flyweight Crown
Date: 27 December 1972
F Chervet on Dec 26 retains Eur flyweight boxing champ by defeating J McCluskey in Switzerland
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Liberated, Women to Pay Full Price
Date: 27 December 1972
Special to The New York Times
Liberty Bell Race Track in Philadelphia announces on Dec 26 that it will discontinue ladies' day in compliance with new city ordinance that bans discrimination based on sex in places of public accommodation
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Cosmos No. 541
Date: 28 December 1972
USSR on Dec 27 launches Cosmos 541 satellite; repts craft is orbiting earth every 90.3 mins with 230-mi apogee and 150-mi perigee
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