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Millions Watch Walk; Apollo 77 Makes HistoryLONDON (AP) - Laplanders pasturing their reinder listened on transistor radios. Japanese stayed up all night to watch on television. Millions aruond the world hung on every word from the two U.S. astronauts walking on the moon.In some countries many remained unaware. Communist China, with one quarter of the world’s population, did not broadcast news about Apolo 11, nor did North Vietnam or North Korea.As Neil A. Armstrong’s bootsscuffed the lunar dust, it was just before sunrise in most of Europe and a crowd of 2,MO still clustered around a giant television screen in London’s Trafalgar Square.At the Jodrel Bank radio observatory, Sir Bernard Lovel, Britain’s leading space expert, stoped tracking the progres of the Soviet craft Luna 15 over the moon to watch Armstrong.“I’m just speecheless with amazement,” Lovel said. ‘There is nothing more I can say than that it is absolutely fantastic. One can scarcely believe it is taking place as one sees it.”Crowds in front of TV screens at Paris sidewalk cafes and bars in Rome cheered as Armstrong bounded over the moon’s surface and Buzz Aldrin began his descent.There was no word from the Vatican on whether Pope Paul VI stayed up to watch the walk, but when the astronauts landed the 71-year-old pontiff hailed them as “conquerors of the moon.” He said man faces “the expanse of enales space and a new destiny.”In Venezuela, today is a na-national holiday, and the bells of hundreds of churches pealed during the walk. A Japanesegirl in Tokyo said as she watched a streetside monitor, ‘It’s like a dream, although I know it’s not a dream.”One Y u o o s 1 a v teen-ager sounded a dissent: “They have stolen the romance out of the moon and it will never be the same again. Now the moon is real, and lovers won’t have it for themselves alone anymore.” In arctic Norway where the midnight sun kept skies brightBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS“The moon is the only place in the universe where there is both humans and peace,” said a man in a Miami bar. Other Americans viewed Apollo 11 as a symbol of peace and progress.“I think it’s an entirely new era in civilization. Probably an ultimate change in the way of life. And every scientific advance is ultimately for good,” said Judge Alvin Williams of Mount Vernon, 111.President Nixon, speaking by radio-telephone from the White House, told astronauts Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., “For one priceless moment in the whole history of man all of the people on this earth are truly one.”The President said the Apollo mission “inspires us to redoublethrough the night, Laplanders sat around their campfires composing sing-song folk poems about the astronauts as they listened to their transistors.Poles jamed the lobby of the U.S. Embasy in Warsaw while hundreds applauded outside. Soviet media reported the landing without fanfare, but many Russians undoubtedly stayed up to listen to Western broadcasts about the exploration.Pravda, the Soviet Union’s leading newspaper, gave the U.S. moon triumph only a small headline above a small story near the botom of the front Page.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 Vietnam Americans gathered around ra-10, of Scottsdale, Ariz. normally finds farmers sitting watched the three huge TV dios at midmorning to hear theSarah Greer, 13, of Rochester, on their parches and listening to screens erected in Central Park, broadcast of the walk as did theN.Y., said, “Man, was I wor- the corn grow, thousands were staff at the U.S. Embasy inried. I was afraid they might inside, in front of TV sets. Across the nation, in Ana- Saigon.see somebody up there who Only two areas of Alaska, An- heim, Calif., 80 members of the In the war-torn Middle Eastwouldn’t like the idea of our chorage and Ketchikan, were Soviet Union's track and field Cairo Radio broadcast newsbeing up there. After all, we able to receive live television team saw moon landing on about the first stePs before re-certainly wouldn’t want the men coverage^-Anchorage with mili- Disneyland TV screen. viewing Sunday’s fierce air bat-from the moon down here.” tay equipment brought in to * tie with Israel.Gregory Laroque, 15, of Balti- pick up satellite signals and jn Burbank Calif an ice 0ne night cIub own€r in ®ei-more. watched the lunar land- Jetchikan by picking up Cana- enun compa ’ mon^ents after mi stoPPed a striptease act toinn than caiH “Tt innlr them dian sivrulc ...... ’ .. . tell the au/lianno “Wa’uo m-jrloNeil A. Armstrong first steppedMoon Walk Shining Hours For Americanswhom Threlfall placed the bet at 1.000-1 odds when he was 26, said the touchdown was “good enough for us.”As newspapers prepared special editions with huge headlines, world leaders went on television to express their admiration and sent congratulatory cables to President Nixon.Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain called it a “most historic scientific achievement in the history of man” and told his audience: “Above all we must pay tribute to the heroism and fortitude of the men who are out there and to the men who have gone before them.”President Guiseppe Saragat of Italy said: “of all the sentiments that stir us, gratitude toward the American people dominates, that people formed by innumerable immigrants from every country, that has given humanity so great a victory .Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said: “The moment oi triumph and achievement is also a moment of humility and self-search ... Let us direct this power of man which soars star-war d into strengthening the bonds of peace and brotherhood on earth.’’Not all the reaction was fa-vorabl.In Havana, where the Voice of America broadcast went unjammed, one Cuban industrial worker. Luis Sosacotilla, 43,said: “Their experiment does nothing to benefit humanity.” He said the money should have been used to wipe out povertyand misery in the United States, a reflection of the governmentview 0n Apollo.Klaus Bahnke. president of West Germany's Radical Socialist German Students Federation. said he and his colleagues were avoiding*the news “oe-eiuse they are only trying to cover up the real goals of the United States.”ing, then said, “It took them dian signals.Officials of the light, gas and « the moon' startcd dish!nS out At Meriden, Conn., a man water division at Memphis, called the Morning Record and Tenn., said not a drop of water cmplained he couldn’t find a was used in a seven-minute single baseball game on radio span starting at 3:14 p.m. Sun* or television, ending a five-min- day and, with an alarming ute harangue that the moon buildup of pressure, all five of landing was “a lot of nonsense.” the city’s pumping stations were In San Quentin Prison, Siran closed for a time.Bishara Sirhan, the convictedslayer of Sen. Robert F. Kenne- Near Sonora, Calif., several dy, watched the televised ac- hundred nude hippies swam un-count 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 understafed 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. ®end. 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 namedkfM at.Neal Armstrongour efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth.”Leafy Noble, 74, of Moonville, Ind., reflected, “It was even more exciting than that day in July 1918 when the first airplane flew over Moonville.”Charles Stuart, 23, of Portland, Ore., said, “When my grandmother was young they were just learning how to fly. Now I wonder what’s going to happen by the time I’m her age.”Frederick Durant, an employe of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, found Apollo 11, “a tremendous thrill, sharing with everyone in the world this event which could open the next stag 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 cen-tersa nd everybody is scared because God didn’t intend the moon landing. God didn’t intend man to set foot on the heavenly bodies.”Barry P. Peterson of Salt Lake City agreed: “I think it’s a waste of the taxpayers’ money. I think they could find something better to spend it on ... like about a million poor people in the United States. I think when they solve the problems down here they can go looking other places.”The Rev. Joseph S. Crowder of Richmond, Va., took a middle ground: “Man is not able to deny his adventurous side for the sake of social responsibility ... Both are part of man’s total experience.”Younger Americans had their own special points of view.“I’d like to go with the astronauts because I like to collect rocks,” said Lance Rider, 10, of Virginia Beach, Va.“Someday I want to take a vacation to the moon—and I L ftill, too,” said Connie Pellerito,Only 4,000 persons took the suggested the astronauts sell a new flavor called Lunar Neil Edwin Michael-the secondKennedy Space Center tour at tfie r0cks P*ck UP on the Cheese Cake. child in Britain to be named aft-Cape Kennedy, Fla., where an moon and they might PaY for ... er all three astronauts,estimated crowd of one million the entir6 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. her newborn Neil Armstrong Casino peeled a simulated space $24,000 even though ArmstrongLunar Module Landing Site‘I was exhilarated and start-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.”A crowd so dense “you couldn’t even walk” jammed alone and watched television asino Chicago’s Alder Planeta- man stepped on the moon forrium to watch the moon landing the first time, and 300 more watched the event when a newsman phoned shesuit, and at P.eno’s Harrah’s hadn’t left the lunar module yet. _,., , . - Club, they pushed a new drink, A spokesman for the Londonpi the Moonshet Cocktail. bookmaker William Hill, withRichter penned a song entitled,“We’re Going to Honeymoon on the Moon.” ,. TJ ,In her home at Worcester. norttwrn, I**®,Mass., the widow of rocket pio-This 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)At Farragut Slate Park in Boy Scouts were gathered for their 7th an-neer Robert‘“h Godtart sat ual i»*oree. They huddled around radios and a few televi-Lunar Explorers Hit Moon PaydirtSPACE CENTER, Houston They set up a seismometer delighted that the astranaut* 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,” saidof two former scouts, Arm- struck paydirt in their prospect- tremors, although these might variety of rock types, as Edwin Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of thestrong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. ing on the moon. be only from the footsteps of the Aldrin described it. University of Arizona Lunar andIn Philadelphia, a huge crowd Their luck especially was in astronauts, especiallybe by myselfstand.”«id, I'm sorry ... I'd rattnr gat^dIn'ol'wrtortc'ln- finding * great variety oi dUfer-. you under- dependwiCft Hall and chcercd ent rocks, which could tell much, ... Anii, when Fagle readied the moon’s about the 11100,1 s age and OTi*A soft ram fell ait Auburn, surfacc gin.TTiey saw a curious purplefirst liquid fueled rocket in 1926. In Seaittle, pregame ceremo- and perhaps put it in one of In New York, some 3,000 peo- nies before an American League tlie ^w0 treasure chests they areof man’s first landing'on the pie watched the moon landing at baseball game between the bringing home.m0on a huge television screen at Ken- hometown Pilots and the Minne- And COred out a fivc-inchIndians at the Pottawatomie nedy International Airport. Hun- sota Twins were interrupted by deep sampie 0f lunar sod thatPow-Wow in Mayetta, Kan., dreds crowded-in front of anoth- an announcement ef the moon “looks moist,” a suggestionbroke 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 be-National Air and Space Museum at Washington, D.C,At Kill Devil Hill, N.C., where Orville and Wilbur Wright made , r ,, . ... ..man's first powered flight 65 years ago, television screens were installed to relay picturesIn Iowa, where a July evening Music Hall. An estimated 4.000 Beautiful.**World's Most Historic Call Made By Nixonneath the moon’s surface. But the moist, dark appearance could simply be from tight packing of fine particles of materiai, cautions David Mc-when “Landing near a crater is an Planetary Laboratory in Flags-unusual opportunity to collect taff. “This is an opportunity to rock samples which come from pick up lunar lava in a scientifi-ccnsiderable depths (thrown out cally perfect spot.”Television ReviewNEW YORK lt;AP) - The the Pacific Thursday,great potential for space was The liftoff from the moon andably demonstrated by Apollo the rendezvous Monday after-11—and so was the great poten- noon went smoothly and theretial for global television. was little for television to doFor one shining moment as other than present the facts andNeil A. Armstrong and Edwin demonstrate it as best they“Buzz” Aldrin walked the lunar could with models and anima-Edward E. Aldrin Jr. surface, the world was bound to- tion.gether, so President Nixon After Sunday night’s thrillingKay, geologist of the Manned thgy cavorted on the desert-like claimed. pictures it apparently was anti-Spaeecraft Center. moon like kids m a piaygr®und. The television commentator climactic to many people andThey found the crust of the thg moon stm shimmies aft. mentioned only in passing that audiences were down considera-mccn much harder than numer- er ^ Jeave toda„ scientists the greatest audience ever to bly.WASHINGTON (AP) — After ow of the late President Dwight Johnson told Nixon, Ziegler ous geologists and astronomers tnink ^ uitra-sensitive instru- witness a historic event saw the There were many highlightsa super long distance call to tell D. Eisenhower had commented said, he had been following the expected they would. It took ments can tep them if the moonwalk- the long coverage, but hereAmerica’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- .was eas^ to take televi- ore a few things we wi remem-“how proud we all are,” Presi- is looking at them too”—refer- appreciated Nixon’s call at the pies and to plant the American tjvj{y or hits by meteorites. s*on s ro*e *or 8rantec* amidtbe her:dent Nixon phoned Mamie Ei- ring to the late Gen. Eisenhow- historic moment. flag. drama. You build a camera, —Walter Cronkitc rubbing hissenhower and former President er. Like people around the world, They found rocks that look Incredibly calm most of the load it aboard, and it works^ hands in great rein f and exLyndon 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’ at the s if* 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 Eagle on the Se:White House Press Secretary first step on the moon. dark colored mica that, usually ers specially trained in geology, watch it, we are enthralld by 0f 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, so we arhe lsaPPoin e —Jules Bergman’s informei most historic telephone call the President informed Johnson fantastic,” he was quoted as water. They found the surface showed the moon to be not so V 1 • ose °fs ^ L fn comnionts on ever S,CP °f th 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- ^Q^^Ue ' crnmal ojjeration.istrong put foot on the moon. cocoa brown with it.ners had had to paint it.—David Brinkley's way .The men surprised doctors when wor,d leaders get wringing profound meanings onand others by their quick adap- around t0 discussing ways the 0, few and simple words. Aftetauon to the moon's low gravity, space program can promote „ ,he sdentlfic explanation (The.r enerev exnenditure in usm* lhe communications satel- Eagle's liftoff from the moon htheir taSrTwas wiftfn thermits TFT*' ‘TO has for global understanding. that s the important thing.Maybe some way can be --Harry Reasoner’s wry wafound to get Russia and Red of putting things in perspecthshown in their earth training, said Dr. Willard . Hawkins, aHouse,” Nixon told astronauts share this great moment Neil Armstrong and Edwin E.Millions of television viewers Lunar Contamination Splashdown Problemsaw Sunday night’s telephone!!?reI“tl0n‘l!r?cg.u.a=PlltiICi ABOARD USS HORNET (AP) purpose of daily recovery train- when its parachutes pop out and ture showing both the Pres.deot _ A u s space agency official ing ex6rcises was u estabibh are not dosed until after touch-an((_a ronau *• says he is still trying to deter- ground rules for positioning the down., It,0meTl '« cone how far away this recov- Hornet at splashdown time ear-the whole history of man all of €ry ship must ^ when Apo{. jy Juiy 24 “to avoid possible “If the ship was close enough . —.....^ —— -------- ^ ttu lt;the people on this earth are tru- lo u capsllle lands in th Pacif. contamination of the ship.” down wind,” he said, ‘it might oeal r0ie ™ P*r Du; did not carry live television of essay, he said disenchantmely one,” Nixon said during his ic to insUre that the 2 200 Asked how tightly g^ed be possible for the ship to be was ^al , not ^ the moon walk- The Soviet Un_ with the ^oon had already sbrief message congratulating aboard, including President capsule could endanger a ship contaminated.” Clifford Cbarlesworth. flight d:- jon showed taped sequences of in and observed that as a syrthe astronauts. Nixon, are safe from possible expected to be at least two He said he had asked NASA rector, said it occurred when he the lunar walk Monday. bol it had inspired a “lot of go.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.”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 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 ApolHouse mansion where she is vis- at which the ship's commander, Administration said that air that h^ expected an answer in crometeoriies. mission and prepared for live is scheduled at 7:02 7; 17 p.riting. 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 nati0ns which taking them too seriously. In lt;
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