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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1969
Page
7
The narrator describes a pre Apollo 10 weather rocket test using Loki Dart from Cape Kennedy. A small white cylinder payload reached 209000 feet, parachuted data to a computer, and confirmed readiness for the Apollo 10 launch. He details pad procedures, safety checks, and the launch sequence.
UNESCO published a 91 page book The Birthright of Man listing human rights quotations. Gandhi leads with 19 quotes, Marx has 1, Washington and Wilson have two each, Jefferson and Roosevelt one each. The collection also includes 30 Old Testament, eight New Testament, 15 from the Kazan and 11 from the Talmud.
Milton Tenenbaum’s macaw drew attention as thieves raided his neighbor factory area. They seized a 12 foot sailboat, dragged it through a second floor window, crossed a sawtooth roof and lowered it to a parking lot.
In Fort Worth the Byers opera house light bulb, installed September 21, 1908 by stagehand Barry Burke, has burned continuously for decades. Texas Electric Service official C. C. Carlson notes the bulb’s longevity, attributing it to a heavy carbon filament and no interruptions. The Byers house later became the Palace theater and Burke is long dead.
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