Relativity Test May Finally Probe Einstein Theory
MIT scientist Irwin I. Shapiro proposes a 1960s radar experiment to test general relativity by bouncing signals 160 million miles to Venus or Mercury. Using Haystack’s high power radar and precision timing, the test could confirm if gravity alters light speed as Einstein predicted, with results possibly by mid-1960s.
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Alan Wade Bedford
Mass
UPI
Irwin I. Shapiro
Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Venus
Mercury
Haystack
Air Force
Westford
Shapiro
Suits Hit Airline Refueling Firm Over Fatal Elkton Crash
Ten families file nearly 21 million dollars in Circuit Court claims against Butler Aviation Friendship Inc alleging dangerous fuel caused the Boeing 707 crash near Elkton Maryland on December 8 1963. The flight from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia stopped at Friendship Airport and 81 people died. The suits claim weather and aircraft type made the fuel hazardous and note the FAA found the plane likely exploded after a lightning strike.
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Baltimore
Elkton
Butler Aviation Friendship, Inc
Friendship Airport
Federal Aviation Agency
Puerto Rico
Philadelphia
Friendship
Widow of auto heir Gregg Dodge to marry Moran in April
Palm Beach Florida AP Gregg Sherwood Dodge widow of Horace Dodge Jr 41 confirms she will wed Daniel D Moran former New York City policeman in New York in April The former model and show girl known as one of the battling Dodges has been seen with Moran here recently Dodge died December 1963 and she previously filed an 11 million suit against Ann Dodge later settled for 9 million
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Dodge
Palm Beach
Battling Dodges
Europe
Detroit
Gregg
Ann Dodge
Dodge Oceanfront
John Dodge
Helen Fjelstad
Humanities Program To Be Sought Again
Rep. William S. Moorhead plans to introduce legislation when Congress convenes June 4 calling for a national humanities foundation similar to the NSF. The foundation would offer loans grants fellowships and scholarships to scholars teachers and artists with private funds also sought.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
National Humanities Foundation
Johnson
Great Society
William S. Moorhead
D-Pa
Moorhead
National Science Foundation
Domestic Peace Corps Gains 4500 Applicants
Washington AP reports 4500 people have applied to join the Volunteers in Service to America VISTA program. Director Glen W Ferguson says volunteers will be self selected after screening and training then placed in poverty environments for four to six weeks to decide their fit. They will live and work in urban slums reservations or migrant camps for a year and perform locally conceived labor in the field. Birth control language and English teaching for migrant workers are noted as possible roles if requested by communities.
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Washington
Peace Corps
Glen W. Ferguson
Volunteers In Service To
America
VISTA
Ferguson
Radio Press International
Ferrguson
Iin
Southwest
Thrift-Seeking Boy Returns $10,000 Treasury Note to Bank
A 14 year old New York student, Israel Kallus, opened an envelope from Garrett National Bank and found a $10,000 Treasury note. Bank officials believe the note was misrouted and intended for the Federal Reserve. He had requested a checking account amid inquiries about low charges.
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Mad
Israel Kallus
New Israel Rabbinical College
Garrett National Bank
Oakland
Treasury
Rabbi Hillel Sittner
Bank
Nordeck Shaffer
Kallus
Federal Reserve Bank
Richmond
Saunders St
Forest Hills
Queens
New York
Ex-Convict Slain In Boston Stabbing After Parked Car Find
George E. Ash 43 of Boston was stabbed more than 50 times and found in a sedan near St. Philip's church on Harrison Avenue. Police labeled the death an extremely violent killing as part of a nine month surge of unsolved gangland style murders in Greater Boston.
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Boston
George E. Ash
Greater Boston
Ash
St. Philip’s Church
Harrison Avenue
Richard Ford
Mary Ash
Marshfield
Mass
Rhode
Island
Alfred Freeland
Freeland
Rhode Island
William
George P. McLaughlin
FBI
McLaughlin
Bernard
Edward McLaughlin
William J. Sheridan
Man Converts Car to Run on Manure Gas in Britain
Harold Bates, 60, claims he drives a car on methane produced from chicken or pig manure or leaves. The vehicle, heated fuel in a tank, reaches about 70 mph. The Ministry of Agriculture seeks a demonstration. Exeter's Dr. Graham Barrett calls it quite practical but not for everyone due to time and effort.
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Brixham
England
UPI
Harold Bates
Bates
Ministry of Agriculture
Graham Barrett
Exeter University
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