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(Studio) October unemployment figs. show rate up for month to 7.9%; details noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Effect of Ford Motors strike on figs. noted. At Congress hearing, Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Julius Shiskin says economy at standstill; Senator William Proxmire asks if tax cut will help. [SHISKIN - says it would.] [PROXMIRE - asks with regard to effect on prices.] [SHISKIN - says prices would rise.] [PROXMIRE - says it seems there's no way to expand econ. without higher inflation.]
REPORTER: Irving R. Levine
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(Studio) UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) and Chrysler Corporation reach agreement and avert strike at last minute.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Detroit, Michigan) Details with regard to agreement and wild cat strikes in Detroit and Canada noted.
REPORTER: Eric Burns (WWJ-TV newsfilm, Detroit)
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(Studio) President Ford meets with cabinet; gets ovation.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Cabinet meeting noted; later, Carter transition team chief Jack Watson meets with Ford team chief John Marsh and chief of staff Richard Cheney; later Watson talks with reporters
REPORTER: Ford Rowan
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(Studio) John A. Knebel sworn in today as Secretary of Agriculture; will serve till Carter takes office.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Carter prepares for vacation on island off Georgia coast.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Plains, Georgia) Events of Carter's day noted. Secret Service man escorts daughter Amy to school; Carter and son Chip followed by reporters on walk. [CARTER - says he'd rather have reporters follow him than Mo Udall or Henry Jackson.]
REPORTER: Kenley Jones
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(Studio) Carter pollster tells Washington, DC Press Club today that personality and character biggest factors in Carter win, not economy, as many had thought.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Eugene McCarthy says today both Ford and Carter should have lost election; now people will see there's no difference in 2.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Report on results of state legislature elections.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) State Department announces United States and Mexico have reached tentative agreement with regard to prisoner exchange; details noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Swine flu vaccine is now about 1 month old.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(DC) Report on swine flu program; requests for shots have dropped. [National Swine Flu Program Director Dr. Delano MERIWETHER - says they can't make anyone do anything, but shots still believed best way to combat possibility of epidemic.]
REPORTER: Carole Simpson
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(Studio) Another site to be chosen for accused Chowchilla kidnap conspirators Fred Woods and James and Richard Schoenfeld.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) New Jersey voters say Atlantic City can have legalized gambling.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Atlantic City, New Jersey) Views of busmen. with regard to gambling in city noted. [Merchant Abe BRAHA - says people feel there will be money in city overnight.] Problems of legalized gambling, especially with regard to organized crime, noted; New Jersey officials say they'll be able to keep organized crime out. [Governor Brendan BYRNE - says he's insisted on law enforcement surveillance so there's nothing illegal.] Most people apparently feel legal gambling will bring money to city; question is who'll get it.
REPORTER: Brian Ross
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(Studio) Report on losses of Britain's Labor Party in Thursday elections; comment of Prime Min. James Callaghan noted.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Margaret Fuller survives experience at sea after falling off deck of British passenger liner "Windsor Castle" off coast of Angola; Captain Patrick Saint Quentin Beadon retraces course to find her.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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(Studio) Some people adopted years ago feel incomplete because of not knowing who parents are.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(Atlantic City, New Jersey) [WOMAN - cites questions she has with regard to parents.] [2nd WOMAN - tells how she was found.] [Joyce LAVALLO - cites questions she has.] Adoptives Liberty Mvt. Association is organization helping adopted people find real parents. [3rd WOMAN - describes how each may go about searching for clues.] [MAN - says when clue turns out wrong it's letdown.] Joyce Lavallo lives at Cozy Oaks Mobile Home Park in Cardiff, New Jersey; here money for lawyers to get court orders for records not easy to come by. [LAVALLO - explains why she wants to find parents.] Court case challenging law for court order brought by Mrs. Lavallo, Christina Hadney and 2 others noted. [HADNEY - says she had to give up son for adoption and wants him to find her someday and for this reason she wants to find own mother.] Arguments by deputy attorney general and defense attorney noted; New Jersey Superior Court Judge Philip Gruccio indicates he'll rule soon on case. Cases like this prepare way for act of adoption to not be the finality it once was.
REPORTER: Richard Hunt
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(Studio) Report is on cold comfort.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
(NYC) Report on frozen yogurt business [CHILD - says frozen yogurt as good as ice cream.] Children not only ones who try to get it. [MAN - says he looks all over for it; it's not easy to find.] [WOMAN - says it's as good as ice cream and feels less guilty about eating yogurt than ice cream.]
REPORTER: Betty Rollin
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(Studio) Report with regard to election of Fred Schroeder in Winston, OR, to city cncl., but Schroeder moved to California and wrong Fred Schroeder elected.
REPORTER: John Chancellor
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