[News Script: Population commission/ Patton] Page: 1 of 2
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IN WASHINGTON, THE UmS POPULATION COMMISSION HAS WOUND UP ITS
FIRST PUBLIC HEARINGS AND PLANS NEXT TO VISIT THE NATION'S TEEMING
URBAN CENTERS. THE YEAR-OLD PRESIDENTIAL COMMISSION IS FORMULATING
A NATIONAL POPULATION POLICY.
MAINE'S DEMOCRATIC SENATOR EDMUND MUSKIE TODAY BEGINS A 40-HOUR
ROUND OF SPEECHES, MEETINGS AND NEWS CONFERENCES IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
THE STATE'S PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY IS ONLY ELEVEN MONTHS AWAY.
MAGAZINES AND NEWSPAPERS HAVE FILED SUIT TO HALT TEMPROARY INCREASES
IN POSTAL RATES WHICH THEY CLAIM COULD BOOST THEIR MAILING COSTS
20 PER CENT THIS SPRING.
(HOLLYWOOD) - THE BLOOD-AND-GUTS FILM "'PATTON" HAS SWEPT SEVEN
OSCARS, INCLUDING ONE AS BEST PICTURE OF 1970. AND THE BEST
ACTOR AWARD WENT TO GEORGE SCOTT WHO PLAYED THE TITLE ROLE OF
THE WORLD WAR TWO GENERAL. BUT SCOTT HAD SAID PREVIOUSLY HE WOULD
DECLINE THE OSCAR, CALLING LAST NIGHT'S ACADEMY AWARD PRESENTATIONS
"A MEAT PARADE." THE BEST ACTRESS AWARD WENT TO BRITAIN'S
GLENDA JACKSON FOR HER ROLE IN "WOMEN IN LOVE." THE WINNING
SONG WAS "FOR ALL WE KNOW" FROM "LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS."
NEWS DIRECTORS:
IN 2ND TAKE ABOVE, READ THE 2ND ITEM:
(PHILADELPHIA) - TRANSIT UNION MEMBERS IN PHILADELPHIA APPANENTLY
HAVE DEIFED THEIR PRESIDENT'S INSTRUCTIONS TO END A STRIKE THAT
HAS INCONVENIENCED MORE THAN ONE (M) MILLION DAILY COMMUTERS
SINCE MONDAY. . .TO FIX GARBLED
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Population commission/ Patton], script, April 16, 1971, 6:30 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1428017/m1/1/: accessed June 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.