ONE of the four letters of support that President Nixon read during his television address was written by Virginia Jones, 42, a widowed schoolteacher from Woodbury, N.J., who had missed a scheduled pay raise because of the freeze. While the President was quoting Mrs. Jones, she was listening to another speech: George Krajewski was proposing marriage to her in front of the TV set, which was turned off. Mrs. Jones accepted. Krajewski, a foreman at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, gave her a diamond ring midway through the President's peroration, and she never heard...
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