Living fossil fish eaten on Comoro Island expedition
Dr. John McCosker and teammates ate a frozen coelacanth on Comoro Island after natives offered part of a rare fish. The director of Steinhart Aquarium notes coelacanths live fossils dating back 300 million years. They returned with boxes of specimens for study, including two frozen catches from 1973.
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San Francisco
UPI
John McCosker
Indian Ocean
Earth
Steinhart Aquarium
Comoro Island
Comoro
McCosker
David Powell
Fire at New York Telephone Plant Sparks Suspicion
Firefighters responded for the eighth time since February 28 to a blaze at a New York Telephone Co. installation on East Thirty seventh Street. The fire, in a training room, was deemed suspicious with stationery ignited and no customer equipment damage.
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NEW York
New York Telephone Co
East Thirty-seventh Street
Telephone Company
Rights Leader Threatened in Mississippi Letter from FBI
The FBI allegedly pressured civil rights activist Donald Wilson Jackson now Muhamad Kenyatta to leave Tougaloo College in 1969. Lawyer John Shattuck says documents show the agency acted with Hoover's approval and may have forged a committee to mask its involvement. Kenyatta, later a Philadelphia mayoral candidate, sued over telephone taps, which the FBI partly admitted.
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New York
Mississippi
FBI
John Shattuck
American Civil Liberties Union
J. Edgar Hoover
Shattuck
Donald Wilson Jackson
Muhammad Kenyatta
Tougaloo College
Jackson Human Rights Project
Tougaloo College Defense Committee
Kenyatta
Philadelphia
Committee
Vandals Remove Spikes On Burlington Tracks
Prairie du Chien police report vandals pulled up the spikes on Burlington train tracks on Sunday. A handcar derailed on the loose tracks but no injuries occurred. A freight train was due to pass about an hour after the discovery.
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Praire DU Chien
Prairie du Chien
Burlington
Arabs Buy American Cowboy Boots in Middle East
In El Paso, the Tony Lama Co reports Middle East customers barter for cowboy boots as oil receipts grow. Texas and Oklahoma technicians lead orders, with boutiques in Bahrain placing a 350-pair purchase worth about 12000 dollars for various boot styles and toes.
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EL Paso
Texas
U.S
Middle East
Stan Stein
Tony Lama Co
Stein
Tony Lama
Sec
Oklahoma
Rama Abdul Wahab Abdulaziz
Bahrain
Persian Gulf
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Parimode
Black Patent
Bone Patent
RED
White Patent
NAVY
Mint Green
Lindale Plaza
Iowa City
Killian
Cedar Rapids
Sycamore
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