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13 ECONOMY The resurgence of interest rates is threatening to collapse the nation's securities markets and smother economic recovery, a highly respected financial Commy adviser has told the Admin. John Winthrop Wright, who advises many of the nation's largest brokers and close to 1, 000 banks compared the situation to the 1930s. This is exactly what happened then, rt he said in an interview. "I cantimagine they'd be so stupid as to permit it again, he said in reference to the Fed. (AP) Petef. Tell arthur Brings brain Pris I thind wright is connect Criticizing Admin. steps to control inflation as "timid, isolated and erratic, " Sen. Proxmire says Beep he'll introduce legislation to compel RN to set voluntary n price and wage guideposts. "We need a systematic, continuing incomes policy which would be conducted at all times as a matter of law, 11 Proxmire said. "And we need to begin this policy now. (AP) * Reporting on a nationwide survey, the FTC said 86% of the country's creditors are complying with the two-year old "truth in lending" law. It said new car dealers have the best record and used car dealers the worst. (UPI) Lockheed reported a net loss of $86, 282, 000 for the year 1970, compared with a net loss of $32, 642, 000 the year before. (UPI) * The USDA estimated the size of the 1970 cotton crop at 10, 184, 300 bales, up only two percent from 1969 despite government hopes for a larger increase. (UPI)