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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1968
Page
5
SYLVAN FOX details the Walker reports on savage police violence during the Democratic National Convention week of Aug 24. Demonstrators provoked with epithets rocks tiles and even feces while officers weakened by poor training unleashed unrestrained force on bystanders and newsmen.
NASA’s Robert R. Gilruth says space stations like those in 2001 may be feasible soon using present rockets. A roughly 615 by 100 foot rotating station would simulate earth gravity for 50 to 100 crew, include a zero-g chamber, and aim for a near-earth atmosphere. Three Saturn 5 launches could cost about 750 million dollars in the 1970s-80s.
Astronaut Bill Anders, part of the Apollo 8 crew, bets on the human eye to surpass cameras in moon observations. He argues the eye's integrated processing and persistence of vision can reveal details cameras miss, predicting a richer view on Christmas Eve.
Washington column argues the idea of a golden yesterday is a delusion. It critiques nostalgia across eras from the 1960s to the 18th century, noting each period has flaws and that one era’s glory is another’s brass. The piece mocks childhood, politics, and social progress as remembered improvements.
A university church in Miami Florida offers a prayer of thanks for the food on tables and the labor from planting to transport. The prayer requests blessings on those who make food possible and expresses gratitude in Jesus name.
In 1968 Junior Scientist explains microelectronics to fit a transmitter inside a tooth. The article asks readers to count five letter words in a list to deduce that a normal adult mouth has 32 teeth and notes the tech could monitor chewing stresses and strains with sensors.
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