23. децембар 1972. је био субота под знаком звездице ♑. Био је 357 дан у години. Председник Сједињених Држава је био Richard M. Nixon.
Ако сте рођени на данашњи дан, имате 53 година. Ваш последњи рођендан је био уторак, 23. децембар 2025., пре 154 дана. Ваш следећи рођендан је среда, 23. децембар 2026., за 210 дана. Живели сте 19.512 дана, или око 468.305 сати, или око 28.098.313 минута, или око 1.685.898.780 секунди.
Date: 23 December 1972
Washington Evening Star and Daily News says in Dec 22 ed that if reporters of Washington Post are barred from White House events 'we should take our fair turn in the cold'; says simplest solution would be to invite reporter D McCardle (Post) to resume her White House coverage; McCardle was barred from covering 4 recent social events at White House
Date: 24 December 1972
By MAVIS GALLANT
Mavis GALLANT
M Gallant humorous description of various news repts that might have appeared in French newspaper Le Monde
Date: 24 December 1972
-- WALTER RUGABER
Rev of events surrounding jailing and subsequent release of Los Angeles Times Washington bur chief J F Lawrence, who refused to release to ct tapes of int held by reporters J Nelson and R J Ostrow with A C Baldwin 3d, key Govt witness in Watergate bugging case
Date: 23 December 1972
Calif Appeals Ct on Dec 22 refuses to release reporter W T Farr (Los Angeles Times) who was jailed for refusing to disclose source of information he used to write article on C Manson for Los Angeles Herald-Examiner; says it will keep his latest appeal under advisement; Farr's atty M Hurwitz files new appeal alleging that indefinite sentence given Farr is 'tantamount to life imprisonment'; appeal raises grounds not cited before, that reporter may be serving sentence in violation of const ban against cruel and unusual punishment
Date: 24 December 1972
Special to The New York Times
Ct of Appeals, San Francisco, on Dec 23 accepts argument of writer T Miller, who has been resisting Fed grand jury subpoena for more than 1 yr, that disbanding of grand jury that had originally subpoenaed Miller makes further arguments in case moot; Miller, who has written for various underground pubs, was originally called in Aug '71, before Tucson grand jury that had been investigating various forms of radical activity; Govt contended that Miller's pol and social advocacy activities and his freelance status disqualified him as newsman
Date: 24 December 1972
Colo Appeals Ct, ruling on state's open records law on Dec 19, says state's vital statistic records of births and deaths are not open to public; rejects Cervi's Journal suit seeking to force Jefferson County officials to open records for pub in paper
Date: 24 December 1972
Richmond News Leader on Dec 23 names J A Finch managing editor, succeeding K L Gould
Date: 24 December 1972
By GENE THORNTON
Gene THORNTON
G Thornton discusses implications of death of Life magazine on photography; maintains that with Life's demise, photography's great era has come to an end: notes pub gave 2 or 3 generations of photographers opportunities to exercise their craft as no other photographers ever had before, and none are likely to have again
Date: 24 December 1972
article describes how amateur radio operators recd 1st news of Dec 23 Managua earthquake from amateur Nicaraguan broadcaster, who appealed for help and described death and destruction in city
