Mohole Drill Plans Begin Tests At Sea
Tests will start in March for Project Mohole aims to drill from a ship into the earth's mantle beneath the ocean. Dr Detlev Bronk calls the effort a major scientific undertaking. A four-m diesel ship will anchor precisely with buoys to test location control as part of a venture to sample mantle material.
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Associated Press
NEW York (Ap
Detlev Bront
National Academy of Sciences- National Research Council
Guadaloupe Island
Mexico
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Academy Research Council
Mohorovich
Bronk
AMSOC
American Miscellaneous Society
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Gordon G. Lill
Office of Naval Research
Washington
Tell Me Why Quiz Winner Named in Jamaica
This item notes Douglas Crosdale, 13, Kingston, Jamaica, as the day's Tell Me Why! winner from ALEOKUM’s Britannica Junior entry. It also provides basic nebulae facts and a digressive aside about a science project led by Willard Bascom and a note on the word nebulae meaning mists.
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Douglas Crosdale
Kingston
Jamaica
Extraterrestrial Nebulae and a Spiral Wonder
The article explains our galaxy contains stars and gas, with fewer than 2000 galactic nebulae, implying most nebulae lie outside the Milky Way. Extragalactic nebulae or galaxies vary in form from irregular to spiral, the latter like our galaxy with nuclei and spiral arms. Andromeda is the nearest and brightest, emitting about 1.5 billion times the Sun’s light.
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Milky Way
Andromeda
Earth
Alleged Hollywood Blacklist Targets Writers and Actors
A dozen plaintiffs file suit in Washington against eight studios and industry groups alleging a political blacklist deprived them of work. Named are Nedrick Young Albert Maltz John Howard Lawson and Gale Sondergaard among others, with defendants including MGM Paramount 20th Century Fox Warner Brothers Universal Disney and the MPAA. An injunction and damages are sought under antitrust laws.
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Hollywood
Washington, D.C
Nedrick Young
Albert Maltz
John Howard Lawson
Herbert Biberman
Lester Cole
Robert L. Richards
Frederick I. Rinaldo
Philip Stevenson
Gale Sondergaard
Alvin Hammer
Mary Virginia Farmer
Shimon Ruskin
Maltz
Young
Miss Sondergaard
Lawson
Biberman
Cole
A.L. Wirin
Wirin
American Civil Liberties Union
Hollywood Studies
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Columbia
Paramount
20Th Century-Fox
Warner Brothers
Universal - International
Walt Disney Productions
Allied Artists
Motion Picture Association of America
The
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Stevenson Man Killed After Barricade and Gunfire
A 53 year old Stevenson man Alfred Peters was fatally wounded after barricading himself in his home and firing on officers and family with a shotgun. Deputy Fred Green shot him in the leg during the confrontation and Peters bled to death. Peters had earlier fired at his daughter Jamnita and her mother and wounded a former Stevenson officer. The incident involved Jackson County deputies and a Jackson County warrant after an initial Stevens on police warrant. Peters was said to have been drinking at the time.
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Stevenson
Ala
Jackson County
Fred E. Holder
Alfred Peters
Fred Green
Holder
Peters
Jamnita
Scottsboro
Stevenson Police Department
Ficers
Robert Collins
Collins
Green
R. A. Denton
Linda Stanick Wins Today's Brooklyn Contest
Linda Stanick a 13 year old from Brooklyn New York is named the winner in today’s competition. The result highlights a young participant’s achievement in a local event.
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Linda Stanick
Brooklyn, N.Y
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