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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1969
Page
10
In August television slows to reruns and previews as Hollywood stars push old quotes and networks dream up new angles. A CBS bid to televise In Cold Blood was rejected to keep the climactic hanging scene, per director Richard Brooks spokesman.
An Augment item notes visitors Duke Ellington and author Mary McCarthy will appear on Cavett’s program. Ellington, famed composer, and McCarthy, novelist of The Group, are billed as guest performers and interview subjects for the upcoming episode.
The Gulf Central Pipeline Co. seeks authority to build 468 miles of anhydrous ammonia pipe as part of a 2000 mile line from the Gulf Coast to Iowa and through Illinois Nebraska Missouri and more. A study on eminent domain use is set amid farmer concerns and railroad and fertilizer firm opposition. hearings and safeguards follow.
Listings show a Friday prime time lineup featuring a 8:00 p.m. movie titled Tunes of Gtor and an Alfred Hitchcock program. Stations include KORG TY Cedar Rapids TORWWLTV Watarloo DAKIVO Oilumwa 4 WHEF TY Rock Ilana B WOG TY Dagnnpart B WKBT TY La Cran 19 KROC TY Ronhmatwe 3 WHO TY Dar Maines Asoo J Allptar Preview TF finny.
A tractor driving caravan of 200 farmers will establish a lobbying outpost in Washington to press for higher farm prices through Congress and the agriculture department. Illinois farmers plan to stay at their own expense. more will fly out to relieve them. They seek a national price adjustment to meet farmers’ costs, but some lawmakers remain skeptical about significant change. Senator McGovern expressed support for government authority to grant relief under current policy.
New York AP report cites Thor Heyerdahl noting that omitting a detail from 4000-year-old Beyplian drawings during papyrus raft Ra construction may have contributed to its incapacitation during the Atlantic crossing. He argues line art on the boat’s sail deck could have aided navigation and storm handling.
Cambodian chief of state Prince Simtok invites President Nixon to make an official visit on his next Asia trip. The invitation comes as Hartke urges Nixon to push Senate ratification of a 1025 national accord outlawing chemical and biological warfare.
Pasadena AP report notes Mariner 6 flyby produced serial images showing desolate, cratered Martian terrain with no signs of life. Scientists caution that life, if any, would be macroscopic or vegetation, not microscopic. A second close-up pass by Mariner 8 is planned after Mariner 7 an earlier failed approach.
Neil Armstrong says earth listeners misheard his moon walk line. The official transcript read That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Armstrong privately revised it to That’s one small step for a mankind, noting the article a was omitted.
Authorities in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti said a Monroe youth Michael Moore was cleared as a suspect in the killings of seven young women and girls. Sheriff Harvey and Police Chief Krasny said Moore’s boasting to two runaway Michigan girls came from a desire to impress, not from evidence.
A prisoner under escort by two federal officers hijacked a jetliner with 131 aboard to Cuba after pressing a razor to a stewardess throat. Lester Perry, 32, was identified later aboard the Boeing 727 in Havana. The hijacking, the 97th to date this year, sparked prison terms for two skyjackers in Miami.
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