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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1964
Page
13
Members gathered at Kitty Hawk to celebrate Wright brothers failed takeoffs. They argue such misfires deserve notice even as the Wrights are credited with first powered flight. The group views these crashes as notable milestones in aviation history.
A Chilean navy report notes Easter Island natives protest a rumored plan to withdraw the island and join a Polynesian Federation with Tahiti. They threaten sovereignty change, citing foreign influence and the lone island bulldozer as a trigger.
Dispatch portraits Emperor Hirohito in a Japan embracing democracy as a women’s garden club from northern Japan pays a day’s labor for charity at the Imperial Palace. A young Tokyo professional derides the throne as outdated and calls for a presidential system.
In Santa Fe New Mexico an ordinance from 1953 limits construction around the 250 year old plaza to Pueblo Spanish and territorial styles with flat roofs and 80 percent stucco to resemble adobe. Signs are tightly controlled and modern features must be hidden. The rule provoked court battles and slowed new builds including changes to the state Capitol.
In a reflective newspaper feature, readers are urged to consider gender differences beyond simple education. Dr. Lynn T. White Jr. and psychiatrist Helene Deutsch are cited on traits like narcissism, passivity, and masochism as core feminine aspects. The column invites readers to request a 20 page booklet "This Way to Marriage" and discusses parental honesty and acting sophisticated as signals of growing up.
Dr. John Linvill of Stanford University is developing a pocket size device letting blind readers feel printed text. An experimental version shown in Stanford aims to roll over pages and vibrate reed tips to convey letters and words. Candy Linvill, Linvill’s 12 year old daughter, reads with the prototype, though speed improves with practice. Government support and a commercial manufacturer are sought to bring the device to market.
Puzzle list contains hints for entries such as senor s relative condemn rumor personified and various abbreviations including First clase and Emblem. The text references New York race tract resort and a biblical peak with scattered stray phrases from a crossword grid.
A 250 ton 10 foot diameter rocket motor built for the Titan space booster was successfully fired in a vertical static test at Edwards Air Force Base California. The five segment motor produced over 1 million pounds of thrust and tested the ablative nozzle throat under Colonel Harold W Robbins Air Force guidance.
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