Oscar Awards Set for April Telecast with Stars
The Academy will honor over twenty winners for 1969 achievements at its 42nd Annual Awards show to be broadcast in color Tuesday April 7 at 10 p.m. EST on ABC. Notable participants include Bob Hope Raquel Welch John Wayne Myrna Loy Clint Eastwood Katharine Ross Jon Voight Ali MacGraw Fred Astaire Barbara Streisand and Elizabeth Taylor.
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Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy
ABC
Bob Hope
Raquel Welch
John Wayne
Myrna Loy
Clint Eastwood
Katharine Ross
Jon Voight
Ali MacGraw
Fred Astaire
Barbra Streisand
Cliff Robertson
Candice Bergen
Richard Burton
Elizabeth Taylor
Elliott Gould
Barbara McNair
Seventy Years Of Steering Progress In Automobiles
A historical comparison shows the transition from a 1900 model tiller to a 1970 energy absorbing steering column built for General Motors. The column links wheel to steering gear, absorbs impact, locks ignition and steering, and houses optional drive controls, signals, and wiring.
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General “Motors
Gm’s
Disorientation and a Revolutionary War commander noted
A brief explainer on disorientation defining the feeling of misdirected directions. It recalls John Parker who commanded the Minute Men at Lexington in the American Revolution. The text notes that the Southern Cross can be seen from Miami or Brownsville toward the south.
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John Parker
Minute Men
Lexington
United States
Miami
Fla
Brownsville
Tex
Hollywood Today reel of stars and tours
Hollywood Today surveys Frank Sinatra charity tours and a flurry of tabloid notes. Dick Martin dates Dolly Reed while Stephen Oliver faces multiple marriages, Dustin Hoffman summer film uses many Indians as props, Woody Allen scouts locations in Madrid and Barcelona, John Wayne pursues Butterflies Are Free rights, Dean Martin looks younger, Johnny Carson works Miami club for TV deals.
Quick Moon Plaque Riddle and Early School Myths
A quiz item notes Apollo 11 carried a plaque honoring the three astronauts with Richard Nixon listed as president. It also cites the Ashmolean Museum as the world’s oldest, and claims Abraham Lincoln had less than a year of formal schooling.
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Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin
Michael Collins
Richard Nixon
United States of America
Abraham Lincoln
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Gallery OF Homes
Wess
John Zachar
Gellow
John Zachar Jr
Realtors
Johnson Avenue
Hay
First Avenue
Hollywood Today
Hollywood
Frank Sinatra
Dick Martin
Dolly Reed
Stephen Oliver
Dustin Hoffman
Woody Allen
Madrid
Barcelona
Puerto Rico
Tip
Dean Martin
Johnny Carson
Palm Bay Club
Sonny Werblin
Ashmolean Museum
Oxford
England
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