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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1973
Page
4
Editorial lauds the Skylab mission as a triumph of human ingenuity over technical failures. Pete Conrad Robert Kerwin and Paul Weitz repaired heat shield and battery systems, enabling most planned experiments and 30 000 sun images.
Former Memphis mayor William Ingram outlines a plan for a pyramid with a mile square base near downtown, costing about 100 million dollars. He envisions an all weather stadium hotels shops and indoor sports floors inside the structure with rocket shaped elevators on the four corners. Critics question practicality while noting alternative uses for public funds.
James Reston analyzes how the Senate Watergate Committee should proceed after John Dean III testimony. He weighs timing and witnesses like Ehrlichman and Haldeman, the White House strategy, and the President's potential moves to influence public opinion before the July Fourth recess.
Metropolitan Museum of Art president Douglas Dillon said evidence shows the Euphronics vase bought for 1 million dollars last year was not smuggled out of Italy. He noted no museum inquiry into acquisition contradictions, questioned the vase’s Provenance, and warned the findings could be a major swindle.
Northern Ireland braces for the provincial assembly election as bombings and assassinations surge. One million voters prepare to cast ballots amid warnings from the Ulster Freedom Fighters and increased security led by William Whitelaw.
June 27 1973 was a Wednesday. The brief notice identifies a Byline from the Associated Press in collaboration with the New York Times News Service and Congressional Quarterly. The item notes agencies involved but provides no specific event details.
The House Crime Committee, under pressure from broadcasters and drug firms, weakened a D-Fla. proposal to ban most drug ads from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The original report, claiming ads shape children’s drug use, was substantially edited with key passages deleted.
The notice lists Associated Press mail rates of 36 dollars per year in trade zones and 42 outside trade zones, including all sales tax. Carrier delivery is 39 dollars per year, or 3.25 dollars per month, with tax included.
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