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Millions Watch Walk; Apollo II Makes History -LONDON (AP) - Laplanders scuffed the lunar dust, it was lieve it is taking place as one In Venezuela, today is a na- through the night, Laplanders whom Threlfall placed the bet President Guiseppe Saragat of In Havana, where the Voice ofpasturing their reinder listened just before sunrise in most of sees it.” national holiday, and the bells of sat around their campfires com- at 1.000-1 odds when he was 26, Italy said: ‘ of all the senti- America broadcast went un-on transistor radios. Japanese Europe and a crowd of 2,000 still Crowds in front of TV screens hundreds of churches pealed posing sing-song folk poems said the touchdown was “good ments that stir us, gratitude to- jammed, one Cuban industrialstayed up all night to watch on clustered around a giant televi- at Paris sidewalk cafes and during the walk. A Japanese about the astronauts as they lis- enough for us.” ward the American people dom- worker. Luis Sosacotilla, 43,television. Millions aruond the sion screen in London’s Trafal- bars in Rome cheered as Arm- girl in Tokyo said as she tened to their transistors. As newspapers prepared spe- inates, that people formed by in- said: “Their experiment * doesworld hung on every word from gar Square. strong bounded over the moon’s watched a streetside monitor. Poles jamed the lobby of the cial editions with huge head- numerable immigrants from ev- nothing to benefit humanity ”the two U.S. astronauts walking At the Jodrel Bank radio ob- surface and Buzz Aldrin began ‘It’s like a dream, although I U.S. Embasy in Warsaw while lines, world leaders went on ery country, that has given hu- He said the money should haveon the moon. servatory, Sir Bernard Lovel, his descent. know it’s not a dream. hundreds applauded outside. So- television to express their admi- manity so great a victory.1’ been used to wipe out povertyBritain’s leading space expert, There was no word from the One Y u o o s 1 a v teen-ager viet media reported the landing ration and sent congratulatory Indian Prime Minister Indira and misery in the United StatesIn some countries many re- stoped tracking the progres of Vatican on whether Pope Paul sounded a dissent: “They have without fanfare, but many Rus- cables to President Nixon. Gandhi said: “The moment oi a reflection of the government mained unaware. Communist the Soviet craft Luna 15 over VI stayed up to watch the walk, stolen the romance out of the sians undoubtedly stayed up to Prime Minister Harold Wilson triumph and achievement is view 0n ApolloChina, with one quarter of the the moon to watch Armstrong, but when the astronauts landed moon and it will never be the listen to Western broadcasts of Britain called it a “most his- also a moment of humility and Klaus Bahnke, president ofworld’s population, did not “I'm just speecheless with the 71-year-old pontiff hailed same again. Now the moon is about the exploration. toric scientific achievement in self-search . . Let us direct this West Germany’s Radical Social-broadcast news about Apolo 11, amazement,” Lovel said, them as “conquerors of the real, and lovers won’t have it Pravda, the Soviet Union’s the history of man” and told his power of man which soars star- ,,! German Student. Federa-nor did North Vietnam or North ‘There is nothing more I can moon.” He said man faces “the for themselves alone anymore.” leading newspaper, gave the audience: “Above all we must ward into strengthening the tion. said he and his colleaguesKorea. ^ say than that it is absolutely expanse of wales space and a In arctic Norway where the U.S. moon triumph only a small pay tribute to the heroism and bonds of peace and brotherhood were avoiding* the news “oe-As Neil A. Armstrong s boots fantastic. One can scarcely be- new destiny. midnight sun kept skies bright headline above a small story fortitude of the men who are out on earth.” , c luse they are only tryingnear the botom of the front there and to the men who have Not all the reaction was fa- cover up the real goals of theMoonHoursWalk Shining For Americanspage.In a more prominent place at the top of the page was a larger story on the shift of Luna 15, the unmaned Soviet spacecraft,closer to the mooo. Pravda still gave no hint what Luna 15’s mission was.At headquarters bases and other rear areas in VietnamAmericans gathered around ra-By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 10, of Scottsdale, Ariz. normally finds farmers sitting watched the three huge TV dios at midmorning to hear the“The moon is the only place Sarah Greer, 13, of Rochester, on their porches and listening to screens erected in Central Park, broadcast of the walk as did thein the universe where there is N.Y., said, “Man, was I wor- the corn grow, thousands were staff at the U.S. Embasy inboth humans and peace,” said a ried. I was afraid they might inside, in front of TV sets. Across the nation, in Ana- Saigon.man in a Miami bar. Other see somebody up there who Only two areas of Alaska, An- heim, Calif., 80 members of the In the war-torn Middle EastAmericans viewed Apollo 11 as wouldn’t like the idea of our chorage and Ketchikan, were Soviet Union’s track and field Cairo Radio broadcast newsa symbol of peace and progress, being up there. After all, we able to receive live television team saw the moon landing on about the first stePs before re-“I think it’s an entirely new certainly wouldn’t want the men coverag^-Anchorage with mili- Disneyland TV screen. viewing Sunday’s fierce air bat-era in civilization. Probably an from the moon down here.” tay equipment brought in toultimate change in the way of Gregory Laroque, 15, of Balti- pick up satellite signals andlife. And every scientific ad- more, watched the lunar land- Jetchikan by picking up Cana- CTeam~company ^nomente*after 1111 stoPPed a striptease act tovance is ultimately for good,” ing. then said, “It took them dian signals. j^eij ^ Armstrong first stepped f*H fh°said Judge Alvin Williams of long enough to get there.” ‘ Ait!UJTvLMount Vernon, 111. Officials of the light, gas and « *he moon' 5tarted dlshm8 out_ ., . ... .. . , At Meriden, Conn., a man water division at Memphis.President Nixon, speaking by cal]ed the Morning Record aml Tenn., said not a drop of water radio-telephone from the White cmplained he find a was used in a seven-minuteHouse, told^ astronauts_N®d A; singie baseball game on radio span starting at 3:14 p.m. Sun-Armstrong and Edwin ^ldrin or television ending a fjve.mjn. day and, with an alarmingj “te harangue that the moon buildup of pressure, all five oflanding was “a lot of nonsense.” the city s pumping stations wereIn San Quentin Prison, Siran closed for a time.Bishara Sirhan, the convictedNear Sonora, Calif., several dy, watched the televised ac- hundred nude hippies swam un-gone before them.”vorabl.United States.”tie with Israel.In Burbank, Calif., an ice °»« club nwner ” Bel‘in the whole history of man all of the people on this earth are truly one.”The President said the Apollo RobertF Kmne.mission “inspires us to redoublecount of the moon landing in his molested in mountain creeks on death row cell. In the Tennessee the slopes of the Sierra Nevada. State Prison at Nashville, The sheriff’s office said it was James Earl Ray, the convicted understated because of “sick assasin of Dr. Martin Luther calIs” and couldn’t track down King Jr., did not see the moon the skinny dippers, landing. There is no televisionin his maximum security cell. Bend, Ore., Phil F. Borgan,Michael Collinstell the audience, “We’ve madeit.”In Australia it was lunchtime when the astronauts stepped onto the moon. From the cities to the lonely cattle stations in the moon-like Outback, Australians regarded the lunar exploration with awe. Australian newspapers highlighted their “kangaroo” movements.For many people in the Asian subcontinent and Africa, the Voice of America broadcast was the only means of hearing about the two astronauts.Thousands of Europeans without TV sets spent the night at friends’ houses to follow the lunar adventure.In Fife, Scotland, a boy born Sunday night was to be namedOnly 4,000 persons took the suggested the astronauts sell a new flavor called Lunar Neil Edwin Michael-the secondKennedy Space Center tour at cocks tbey pick up on the Cheese Cake. child in Britain to be named aft-Cape Kennedy, Fla., where an moon and tbey might pay for er all three astronauts,estimated crowd of one million *be entire mission. In the Nevada gaming cities Qn British television Sundaywere on hand when the Apollo of Las Vegas and Reno, gam- njght David Threlfall, who bet11 blasted of last Wednesday. MrS' Patrick Dial of Seattle biers were asked to halt the ac- $24 five years ago that man Barbara Guilford, a 29-vear- gave birth to a son just as Eagle tion briefly. In Las Vegas, a would set foot on the moon be-old Cheyenne, Wyo., school- was touching down and named stripper at the Silver SKpper fore 1971, received a check forteacher, laughed and laughed. J^ri newborn Neil Armstrong Casino peeled a simulated space $24,000 even though Armstrongsuit, and at Reno's Harrah’s hadn’t left the lunar module yet.Lunar Module Landing SiteNeal Armstrong_,., , , ,, _ Club, they pushed a new drink, A spokesman for the LondonPhiladelphian W111 i a m B. ^ Moonsj1§t Cocktail. bookmaker William Hill, withThis is an artist’s conception of the Apollo 11 lunar module landing on the moon. The landing took place Sunday. Drawing is fromthe Grumman Aerospace Corp. (AP Wire* photo)our efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth.”Leafy Noble, 74, of Moonviile, Ind., reflected, “It was evenJuly 1918 when the first airplane flew over Moonviile.”Charles Stuart, 23. of Portland, Ore., said, “When myRichter penned a song entitled,“We’re Going to Honeymoon on the Moon.” ,, uIn her home at Worcester. northera, Mass., the widow of rocket pio-At Farragut Slate Park in Boy Scouts were gathered for their 7th an-neer Robert H. Goddard sat ual )ami*'ree' “liedaround radios and a few televi-jOOKiudKcr w 1111 dm nui) wiui % -t,’ ”’«• ' ^Lunar Explorers Hif Moon Paydirt“1 was exhilarated and start- D*ak ed laughing,” she said. “I couldn’t understand exactly what had transpired technically, but I was excited over the fact that man had made it to the moon. I laughed for five minutes.”MUldnT'iven^w.fk'^'i.rnmed alone and watched television asino Chicago’s Alder Planeta- man stepped on the moon for ^ twQ farmer scouts, Arm- struck paydirt in their prospect- tremors, although these might variety of rock types, as Edwin Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of thewa!l f Strong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. ing on the moon. be only from the footsteps of the Aldrin described it. University of Arizona Lunar andana 300 more wa c v when a newsman phoned she Jn ppi]adeiiphiai a huge crowd Tbeir luck especially was in astronauts, especially when “Landing near a crater is an Planetary Laboratory in Flags- ------A unusual opportunity to collect taff. “This is an opportunity torock samples which come from pick up lunar lava in a scientifi-ccnsiderable depths (thrown out callv perfect spot.”SPACE CENTER, Houston They set up a seismometer delighted that the astronaut* by meteoric impact) in compar-sion sets for news of the exploits (AP) — The Apollo astronauts which soon was recording moon landed in an area with a great ison to the surface rocks,” saidgrandmother ~was young they ££ gather^In'Lot of hX7n- fed* great variety of d.ffer-were just learning how to fly. ** be by myself ... you under- d ch„rcd ent rocks, which could tell muchKW atAT»D„£ ,C. wherestand.”dependence Hall and cheered fell at Auburn, whe * as,c r8adled the mocm'5about the moon’s age and ori-happen by the time I'm her 0^niJwilto W^ht made A soft rain ™ surfacc gi,sge- man’s first powered flight 65 Mass., where Goddard fired his TTicy saw a curious purpleFrederick Durant, an employe television screens first liquid fueled rocket in 1926. In Seattle, pregame ceremo- ^ck and perhaps put itin one ofof the Smithsonian Institution in ^ instal’]ed t0 ^ pictures In New York* 3000 i*0* befor« an American League the tw0 treasure chests they areWashington, found Apollo n, ^a ^ man,s fjrst landing on ^ pie watched the moon landing at baseball game between the bringing home.m0on a huge television screen at Ken- hometown Pilots and the Minne- COred out a fivc-inchIndians at the Pottawatomie nedy International Airport. Hun- sota Twins were interrupted by deep sampie of lunar soil thatFrederick Durant, an employe the Smithsonian Institution in ’ashington, found Apollo 11, “a tremendous thrill, sharing with everyone in the world this eventwhich could open the next stag pow.Wow in Mayetta Kan., dreds crowded-in front of anoth- an announcement ef the moon -looks moist,” a suggestion in the evolution of mankind.Dean Hatvick, of Havre,Mont., stood in the Smithsonian beneath the Spirit of St. Louis, the tiny airplane in which Charles A. Lindbergh flew alone across the Atlantic in 1927, and said, “It’s quite a night!”Not everyone looked at the bright side of the moon venture.Nellie Lawrence of Atlanta said, “Man ain’t supposd to be there. I’ve been to shopping een-broke into a victory dance to er big screen at the Time-Life landing. The fans cheered, stood there might be water and socelerate the moon landing. Building across from Radio City up and^sang “America the perhaps microscopic life beneath the moon’s surface. Bur, the moist, dark appearance could simply be from tight packing of fine particles of material, cautions David Mc-In Iowa, where a July evening Music Hall. An estimated 4.000 Beautiful.**World's Most Historic Call Made By NixonWASHINGTON (AP) — After ow of the late President Dwight Johnson told Nixon,Television Reviewtersa nd everybody is scared be- a super long distance call to tell D. Eisenhower had commented said, he had been following the expected they would. It took ments can teu them jf the moonwalk cause God didn’t intend the America’s men on the moon earlier that “somebody up there Apollo 11 activities all day and work to dig out two core sam- k « nTr volcanic ac- 11 wasNEW YORK (AP) - The the Pacific Thursday, great potential for space was The liftoff from the moon and ably demonstrated by Apollo the rendezvous Monday after-11—and so was the great poten- noon went smoothly and there tial for global television. was little for television to doFor one shining moment as other than present the facts and Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin demonstrate it as best they “Buzz” Aldrin walked the lunar could with models and anlma-Edward E. Aldrin Jr. surface, the world was bound to- tion.gether, so President Nixon After Sunday night’s thrillingKay, geologist of the Manned they cavorted on the desert-like claimed. pictures it apparently was anti-Spaeecraft Center. moon like kids m a playground. The television commentator climactic to many people andThey found the crust of the If the m00n stjU shimmies aft- mentioned only in passing that audiences were down considera-mccn much harder than numer- er ^ 1(?ave today scientists the greatest audience ever to bly.Ziegler ous geologists and astronomers thjnk the uitra-sensiitive instru- witness a historic event saw the There were many highlights* of the long coverage, but hereIt was easy to take televi- are a few things we will remem-sion’s role for granted amid the ber:drama. You build a camera, —Walter Cronkite fibbing hifIncredibly calm most of the load it aboard, and it works, hands in great relief and exat the sab __________ 2 on the SetWhite House Press Secretary first step on the moon. dark colored mica that, usually ers specially trained in geology, watch it, we are enthralld by of Tranquility. „ . ... “This certainly has to be the Ronald L. Ziegler told reporters “It’s an unbelievable thing — contains two to four per cent Medically, their excursion it, we are isappom e —Jules Bergman’s informeithing better to spend it on ... mogt historic telephone call the President informed Johnson fantastic,” he was quoted as water. They found the surface showed the moon to be not so bY jt- Those ghlt;ostly imaiges comments on even step of thlike about a mi ion poor peope ever made from the White that “I thought we ought to saying at the moment Arm- dusty, getting their boots coated fearful a place as caut.ous plan- ^^whHeGI ^ a 6 3 ' criU^ operatiomAmerica’s men on the moon earlier that “somebody up there Apollo 11 activities all day and work to dig out two core sam- quakes come from volcanic ac-moon landing. God didn t intend lt;jK)W proud we all are,” Presi- is looking at them too”—refer- appreciated Nixon’s call at the pies and to plant the American ^ity. or hits by meteorites, man to set foot on the heavenly Nixon phoned Mamie Ei- ring to the late Gen. Eisenhow- historic moment. ilag.bodi®5 ” senhower and former President er. Like people around the world, They found rocks that lookBarry P. Peterson of Salt Lyndon B. Johnson to share his Nixon telephoned Johnson at Nixon watched the television like basalt, born of volcanoes, time, the astronauts performed Television is so much a part of claiming, Wow! Lake City agreed: 1 think it s a jubilation with them. his Texas home. screen intently to see man’s and rocks resembling biotite, a well their role as good observ- our common experience ^e landing of the Eaglewaste of the taxpayers money. - ~n~ *-=—-» ----1— u»n*nh if u,* are enthrall hu nr v- no..I think they could find some-ners had had to paint it.down here they can go looking other places.”The Rev. Joseph S. CrowderDavid Brinkley’s wa;, .The men surprised doctors when world ,eaders §et wringing profound meanings onand others by their quick adap- around t0 discussing ways the 0f few and simple words. Aftetanon to the moon's low gravity. sPace can ProIole all the scientific explanation lt;Their energy exnendittu-e in using the rat™111''311™5 sa el' Engle's liftoff from the moon hUrfd! tarits was withfnlhe^hmits “a.T^aX T'Uf, T “ih tra nintr s globa^ understanding. that s the important thing.Hawk n a Maybe some way can be -Harry Reasoner’s wry wa!n:5‘ found to get Russia and Red of putting things in perspecthshown in their earth training, said Dr. Willardinu the United States. I think H0USe ». NjXon told astronauts share this great moment.” strong put foot on the moon. cocoa brown with itwhen they solve the problems ^ Armstmng and Edwin EMillions of television viewers Lunar Contamination Splashdown Problemof Wchmond!vaTtook a“middie ^ Sunday night's telephoneground: “Man is not able to conversation though a split pic- AB0ARD uss HORNET (AP) purpose of daily recovery train- when its parachutes pop out anddeny his adventurous side for Iure snowing ooih tne Fresiaent _ A ^ s space agency official ing exercises was to establish are not closed until after touch-the sake of social responsibility and astronauts. 4 . says he is still trying to deter- ground rules for positioning the down.... Both are part of man’s total •Fof* ‘®n® Priceless moment in mjne hQw far away thig recov. Hornet at splashdown time ear-experience.” wbole history of man all of ery ship must be when Apoj. ]y Juiy 2\ “to avoid possible “If the ship was close enoughYounger Americans had their tbe people on this earth are tru- ]0 jj C2psUie ]ands jn the Pacif- contamination of the ship.” down wind,” he said, ‘it might . ----w~.v ---------------own special points of view. ly one,” Nixon said during his jc to insure that the 2,200 people Asked how the tightly sealed be possible for the ship to be ^1„ , ?ri1 * ‘ a*! the moon walk- The Soviet Un' with the moon had already s“I’d like to go with the astro- brief message congratulating ,aboard, including President capsule could endanger a ship contaminated.” Clifford Charlesworth. flight d;- jon showed taped sequences of in and observed that as a syrnauts because I like to collect the astronauts. Nixon, are ^ from possible expected to be at least two He said he had asked NASA rector, Mid rt occurred when he the lunar walk Monday. bol it had inspired a “lot of goirocks,” said Lance Rider, 10, of After talking with the astro- lunar contamination. miles away when it hits the wat officials at Houston, Tex., to was doing his hardest labors. Meanwhile, the networks end- songs and bad poetry.”Virginia Beach, Va. nauts, Nixon called Mrs. Eisen- Existence of the problem er. Dr. Donald Sullken of the compute safe distances under There were no indications the ed their marathon coverage of Next: A live color transmi“Someday I want to take a hower at the nearby White arose at Thursday news briefing National Aeronautics and Space varying wind conditions and astronauts were hit by tiny mi- the lunar phase of the Apollo sion from the returning Apol. vacation to the moon—and I House mansion where she is vis- at which the ship’s commander, Administration said that air that he expected an answer in crometeorites. mission and prepared for live is scheduled at 7:02 7:17 p.iL frill, too,” said Connie Pellerito, iting. He disclosed that the wid- Capt. C. J. Seiberlich, said one vents on the Apollo craft open adeqate time. Scientists were particularly coverage of the splashdown in EDT Wednesday.flight surgeon- china to participate. They were when we are most in dangerOnce, Neil Armstrong s heart- the only major nations which taking them too seriously. In lt;beat rose to 160 per minute, bu: did not carry live television of essay, he said disenchantmethe moon walk. The Soviet Un- with the moon had already sClifford Charlesworth. flight di- jon showed taped sequences of in and observed that as a syi
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