McDonald’s debuts in Moscow with record-opening day
Thousands of Soviets queued before dawn on Pushkin Square as McDonald’s opened the first Moscow restaurant. The 700-seat outlet sold 30,000 meals on 27 registers, with Big Macs priced at 3.75 rubles and half proceeds donated to the Soviet Children’s Fund.
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Radio receiver to scan universe for alien signals in Argentina
The Planetary Society funds META II a two fridge sized receiver to be installed at the Institute of Radioastronomy near Buenos Aires. META II will join META I from Harvard Observatory in a plan to search the entire sky for extraterrestrial signals starting in June. The effort aims for a three year listening campaign with daily operation and potential first contact.
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