Viking lands on Mars to search for life and images arrive
Viking 1 touched down on Mars at 4 53 a m PDT sending line by line pictures from 213 million miles away. The mission aims to test for life and analyze soil with onboard laboratories as scientists celebrate the historic event and officials hail the achievement.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Mars
Viking
Thomas Mutch
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Chryse Planitia
Earth
Ford
Ray Bradbury
JPL
Bradbury
Mutch
Buffer zone agreed in Beirut as sectarian fighting eases
Christian and Moslem leaders announce a 100 yard wide buffer zone in Beirut to separate sectors. The Arab League peacekeepers will man the zone within 48 hours after fighters withdraw. Arafat seeks end to Syrian Palestinian tensions and Lebanon war with mediation by Libyan premier Jalloud.
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Yasir Arafat
Damascus
Tal Zaatar
Beirut
Red Cross
Kamal Jumblatt
Arafat
Christian Phalange Party
Phalange Party
No Man’s Land
U.S
Francis E. Meloy Jr
Arab League
Abdul Salam Jalloud
Middletown Engineer Installs Home Garbage Delivery System
Jay Wright, an electrical engineer and Armco administrator, creates an automated trash retrieval and delivery device at 4109 Manchester Road. A rock shelter houses four cans on a motorized platform moved by a timer each Monday at 5 am, with a heating slab to prevent freezing. Neighbors hail the invention as ingenious and entertaining Big M workers who watch from the curb.
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Jay Wright
Big M
Wright
Armco General Offices
Manchester Road
David Driscoll
Sheckler
Weather outlook shows showers and warm midweek
Skies will be partly cloudy tonight then mostly cloudy Wednesday with a 40 percent shower chance rising to 50 percent showers or thunderstorms. Lows near 65 tonight and highs around 85 Wednesday. Extended outlook calls for showers Thursday and fair weather Friday and Saturday with highs near 80 and lows near 60.
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Lebanon
Ann Landers
Suerte
Heloisell
Middletown
Area
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