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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1973
Page
10
A page notes two contests for the New Book of Knowledge asking for questions jokes and riddles with entrants SHERYL BARTEL from San Jose California and JOHN FREELAND from Lorain Ohio named as today s winners. It includes silk description and a riddle drawing puzzle with instructions and place names.
The June 30 total solar eclipse will reach 7 minutes 8 seconds in Africa with 5,000 amateurs and 2,500 scientists expected, plus observers aboard ships off Mauritania and on Lake Rudolf shores. Concorde observers will chase the shadow for about 80 minutes, enabling unprecedented corona recordings.
Dispatch of the Times reports on a Peking shop selling a large mechanical Chinese typewriter. The device uses a four‑direction grab to pick characters from a 2000+ character font, prints via carbon, and requires learning radical and stroke classifications. Demonstrations show limited vocabulary yet fascination for about $250.
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