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Friday February 9, 1979
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This Day In 1970's History: Friday February 9, 1979
  • Possible jury tampering in the mistrial declared last week in the perjury and bribery case of Representative Daniel Flood, a 16-term Pennsylvania Democrat, is being investigated by the Justice Department. [New York Times]

  • Iowa's legislature approved by one vote a proposal that would amend the Constitution so that a balanced federal budget would become law. With the vote, Iowa is about to become the 27th state in the effort by state legislatures to get support for the proposal. [New York Times]

  • Freezing Massachusetts' property taxes and budgets at present levels was proposed to the legislature by Gov. Edward King, who had made a campaign pledge to reduce property taxes by $500 million this year and 50 percent over the next three years. [New York Times]

  • Two physicians were found not guilty by a jury in Boston in a negligence suit for their treatment of a man with brain disease who became a paranoid schizophrenic. The case was believed to be the first in the nation involving psycho-surgery, which seeks to alter moods or behavior. [New York Times]

  • Most of Nelson Rockefeller's estate, estimated at $66.5 million, was left to his wife, Margaretta, and their two sons, Nelson Jr., 14, and Mark, 12. The 64-page will, signed last Dec. 6, also bequeathed Mr. Rockefeller's one-quarter interest in a 250-acre "park" section of the Rockefeller family's Pocantico Hills estate in Westchester to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which, with the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was designated as another "primary" beneficiary. [New York Times]
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