It Was a Very Good Year reviews nostalgia heavy TV
NBC and ABC push nostalgia in prime time with It Was a Very Good Year hosted by Mel Torme. The half hour series curates 1919 to 1968 with music clips photos and celebrity reminiscences highlighting World War II homecomings and roosevelt era events. Henry Fonda and the Andrews Sisters guest star.
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Apollo 5 Travels to Launch Site and Moon Prep
Apollo 15 astronauts David Scott James Irwin and Alfred Worden watched as their Saturn 5 rocket began its journey from the assembly building to the launch pad. The 36 story vehicle moved at one mile per hour atop a transporter as the trio described the mission as a landmark scientific exploration. They rehearsed on a mock moonscape and practiced with a moon buggy model ahead of a July 26 launch toward Hadley Apennine, planning three seven hour surface excursions over 67 hours on the moon, while Worden orbited.
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Retired General Gets 3 Years on Firearms Charge
Retired Maj. Gen. Carl Turner, former army provost marshal general and chief U.S. marshal, was sentenced in Alexandria to three years in prison for soliciting 136 firearms from the Chicago police and keeping them for personal use. Judge Oren Lewis noted the high office Turner once held but stressed equal treatment. Turner could face parole after one year and faces separate tax evasion charges set for June 7.
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Money Shift in German Mark to Raise U S Prices
The German mark float lifts import costs for German products, increasing prices for several US buys if the mark rises about three percent. Volkswagen and other autos would cost more. a German trip may rise to 12.80 from 12.20 dollars. Americans could see cheaper US goods overseas as imports fall.
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Davis case judge disqualified again in Marin murder plot
In San Rafael California AP reports another judge connected to Angela Davis murder conspiracy has been disqualified after a peremptory challenge by co defendant Ruchell Magee The challenged judge Alan Lindsay cited intellectual integrity as a basis while California law permits one peremptory challenge for felons Magee and Davis face conspiracy kidnapping and murder charges in the Marin Civic Center shootout that killed a judge and three others
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Railroad Signalmen Threaten Nationwide Strike Next Monday
The Brotherhood of Railroad Signalmen with 13 000 members votes 92.6 percent for a wage and fringe benefits strike, set for 6 am local time Monday May 47. President J Chamberlain says procedures under the Railway Labor Act are exhausted and action is authorized after May 14. The last wage raise was 2 percent on July 1, 1969, bringing skilled signalmen to about 3.78 an hour.
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Corn Planting Progress in Iowa Reaches 60 Percent
Iowa corn planting advances reported by the State livestock and crop reporting service show about 60 percent of acreage planted, near last year’s level and well above the five-year average. Emergence has begun on roughly 6 percent, with cool temperatures delaying seed germination. Soybeans are at a similar level to last year, with just over 3 percent planted. Plowing for 1971 crops nears completion.
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Buses Collide in Mexico Kill 25 Near Acapulco
ACAPULCO Mexico AP twenty five persons were expressively killed and an undetermined number injured in a head on collision of two buses fifteen miles east of Acapulco Monday a spokesman for the Social Security hospital reported.
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