Soviet Firsts Hint at New Scientific Feats in Geophysical Year
United Nations dispatch outlines Soviet plans for further discoveries during the Geophysical Year. It notes a likely November 7 announcement of the Russia turbo prop airliner capable of 600 mph and 170 passengers, plus ongoing magnetic field surveys using the Zarya schooner and a broad drive to showcase Russia's science leadership.
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United Nations
INS
Soviet Union
Sputnik
Moscow
Russia
New York
U.N
Y. V. Peive
Academy of Science
S.S.R
Indians Ready to Fight Fires in U S Timberlands
Thousands of American Indians including the Apache Cheyenne Navajo Zuni Hopi Crow and Blackfeet form a 10,000 man reserve for wildfire fighting in national parks and forests. Trained by the U S Bureau of Land Management and Park and Forest Service they ride to blazes and clear paths to stop fire from spreading. They work in 25 man teams under a native team boss with only metal helmets for protection as flames leap and debris roars nearby.
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Jerry Bennett
Ashington
NEA
West
National
U. S. Bureau of Land Management
Park and Forest Services
Betsy the chimpanzee sparks cross Atlantic art row
Baltimore critics dismiss Betsy as a monkey while London reviewers hail her finger paintings as refined and original. Betsy has sold works for up to 100 dollars and earned over 3000 through seven months of sales.
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Ralph Villers
INS
Baltimore
Betsy
London
Congo
Bailiwick
Adelyn Breeskin
Baltimore Art Museum
Meena
Communist Daily Worker
London Zoo
Winter forecasts predict colder, wetter decades ahead
MIT meteorologist Dr. Hurd Willett says the next 50 years will bring colder, wetter conditions with more rainfall in the Midwest Southwest and South. He forecasts fewer hurricanes along the Atlantic seaboard, with storms mostly in the Caribbean Gulf of Mexico or dissipating over the Atlantic, and a gradual cooling through 1995 with regional variations.
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Daniel J. Coughlin
Ambridge
Mass
Hurd C. Willett
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Willett
America
Middle Atlantic
New England
Caribbean
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Ocean
Middle West
Great Salt Lake
Government auction nets tiny return on confiscated slot machines
In Philadelphia an internal revenue agent bought six three slot machines seized by the government for about 60,000 in value. The auction in the federal building basement yielded only 10 dollars as the agent was the sole bidder among few allowed to purchase. The machines will be smashed and sold as junk.
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Philadelphia
Federal Building
Internal Revenue
Purse Pickings Slim for Robber
Police report four women robbed on a Grand Rapids street within 24 hours. The robber stole small sums totaling 2.51 dollars, including 1 dollar 51 cents from one victim, 70 cents, 75 cents, and 6 cents in successive holdups.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Full-time Meteorologist Willett Pursues Global Circulation Study
Rhode Island born meteorologist Dr. Willett built a career on weather study. He joined the U S Weather Bureau in 1924 after Princeton, earned a Ph D at George Washington, studied European forecasting, then joined MIT in 1929. Since 1936 he has specialized in general circulation and long range forecasting. 1957 has been
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Wiljlett
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Institute of Technology
MIT
U.S. Weather Bureau
Princeton
George Washington University
Europe
Weather Bureau
Willett
Phoenix Magic Tells Children About Safety
Phoenix police officers perform their Magicops show to teach traffic safety to students in Phoenix area schools. Patrolmen Jack Ashley and Francis Morrison use sleight of hand and cardboard sign props to reinforce rules at crosswalks and crossings. In six years the program has reached over 250000 children with no serious injuries at patrolled crossings in 18 years.
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Phoenix, Ariz
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Phoenix
Jack Ashley
Francis X. Morrison
Ashley
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