Moon quake from Intrepid crash hints at hollow interior
A 30 minute lunar tremor after the Intrepid Impact on the moon produced a seismic signal scientists call unprecedented. Dr. Frank Press of MIT and Apollo 12 researchers say the event could yield a major discovery about the moon's interior. The reverberation was recorded by a seismometer after the craft struck 45 miles away.
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Maurice Ewing
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Manned Spacecraft Center
Taft To Race Rhodes For Senate Seat
Taft, son of the late U. S. Sen. Robert A. Taft and grandson of President William Howard Taft, enters a Senate primary against Gov. James A. Rhodes. Incumbent Sen. Stephen Young does not seek renomination. Rhodes holds a news conference in Columbus as Taft’s candidacy is expected. Cincinnati Councilman William Keating could run for Taft’s House seat.
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Franklin County
Columbus
Cincinnati
William Keating
Keating
Hardin Plans Tight Limits on DDT Use Nationwide
Agriculture Secretary Clifford M. Hardin announced steps to curb persistent pesticides beyond DDT. He will cancel registrations for house yard tobacco and aquatic pest use within 30 days and outlaw all nonemergency DDT applications by December 30 1970.
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Clifford M. Hardin
Hardin
Government allows cyclamate use in labeled foods
Washington(AP) The government indicates a shift from a near total cyclamate ban to permitting its use in clearly labeled foods and as a sugar substitute in liquid or tablet form.
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Apollo 12 Moon Mission Schedule Highlights
The report outlines Apollo 12's days eight and nine with times in Eastern Standard. Key events include the 2 minute 9 second retrorocket burn for lunar departure, a 4 17 p.m. TV view of the Moon, meals, rest periods, and navigation experiments. Astronauts Gordon, Bean, and Conrad participate in planned activities aboard Yankee Clipper.
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Apollo 12 crew completes moon photography and prepares return
Astronauts Charles Conrad Richard Gordon and Alan Bean: from the Yankee Clipper conduct hours of lunar surface photography. They plan to fire the engine at 3 49 P M to depart moon orbit and return to Earth, splashing down in the Pacific at 3 57 P M Monday after the second lunar expedition.
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Charles
Pete’ Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon Jr
Alan L. Bean
Pacific
Bean
Earth
Conrad
Mission Control
LRL
Houston
Apollo 12 snaps lunar photos then heads home
NASA reports Apollo 12 capturing lunar surface imagery during the return flight to Earth. The craft fires its thrusters en route to splashdown expected in the Pacific on Monday.
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Middletown Weather Outlook Warm Saturday with Showers Likely
The forecast for Middletown and vicinity calls for partly cloudy and warmer tonight and Saturday. Lows tonight in the upper 20s. Highs Saturday in the middle to upper 40s. Outlook Sunday mostly cloudy and turning cooler with a chance of showers. Yesterday's high was 30 and this morning's low was 18.
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Whittell Will Fuels Fight Over Animal Trust Funds
In Redwood City California George Whittell left about 40 million to animal groups and a million to San Mateo County. Some 34 lawyers and 20 groups seek portions from a loosely written will filed after his death April 17. Judge James O Keefe set a hearing to decide how the estate of 50 to 100 million dollars will be divided among Defenders of Wildlife the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the National Audubon Society or their branches. The widow Elia Whittell supports the idea of benefitting animals and recalls their wildlife estate near Lake Tahoe and Woodside.
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George Whittell
San Mateo
Whittell
Defenders of Wildlife
Society For Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
National Audubon Society
James O'Keefe
Elia
Lake Tahoe
Woodside
Africa
Indians seize Alcatraz in protest over 1868 treaty claim
About 78 Indians from 30 tribes landed on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay to demand that the federal government turn the island over under the 1868 treaty. Leader Richard Oakes said unused federal land reverts to Indians. GSA oversees disposal and talks continued with officials.
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San Francisco Bay
Richard Oakes
General Services Administration
GSA
Thomas Hannon
Alcatraz
Oakes
Hannon
Publishers Defend Policies In Response To Agnew Speech
Washington Post Co president Katherine Graham and Washington Post publisher defend internal autonomy across Post Newsweek WTOP-TV and WTOP radio. Arthur Sulzberger of the New York Times counters Agnew's monopoly claims and urges open debate and fact checking.
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Washington Post Co
Washington Post
Spiro T. Agnew
Montgomery
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Wtop Radio
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Post Co
Arthur Sulzberger
New York Times
Agnew
the Times
FCC rules Nixon speech coverage protected by First Amendment
The FCC told Houston resident Mrs. J R Pauli that television commentators did not violate the fairness doctrine reviewing Nixon's November 3 Vietnam speech. Chairman Dean Burch said the First Amendment permits analysis even if one side dominates and action was not warranted.
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