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Millions Watch Walk; Apollo 11 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'd^world 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 humanitv ”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. been used to wipe out povertyBritain s leading space expert, There was no word from the One Yuooslav teen-ager viet media reported the landing ration and sent congratulatory Indian Prime Minister Indira and misery m the United State-In 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 Apollo.China, 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- *t German Student- Fedora,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 non. said he and his colleaguesKorea. say than that it is absolutely expanse of enales 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 Neii 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 iuse 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 Vietnam Americans 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 theThe 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 moon landing on about the first stePs before re-I think it’s an entirely new certainly wouldn’t want the men coverager-Anchorage with mili* DjSne^and TV screen. viewing Sunday’s fierce air bat-era in civilization. Probably an from the moon down here.” tay equipment brought in to * tie with Israel,ultimate change in the way of Gregory Laroque, 15, of Balti- pick up satellite signals and jn cajjf an One night club owner in Bei-life. And every scientific ad- more, watched the lunar land- Jetchikan by picking up Cana- cream compan’y moments after rut stoPPed a striptease act toie ..uimafoiv fnr pood ” ino than cnia “Tf innlr th*»m dian siomal. A Armstrong first stepped te^ tbe audience, “We’ve madegone before them.”vorabl.United States.”vance is ultimately for good,” ing, then said, It took them dian signals, said Judge Alvin Williams of long enough to get there.”Neal Armstrongour efforts to bring peace and tranquility to earth.”Leafy Noble, 74, of Moonville, Ind., reflected, It was evenit.”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 *be r0cks they pick up on the Cheese Cake. child in Britain to be named aft-Cape Kennedy, Fla., where an moon and they migbt pay for er an foree astronauts,estimated crowd of one million the entire mission. In the Nevada gaming cities 0n British television Sundaywere on hand when the Apollo of Las Vegas and Reno, gam- night 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 th® Silver Slipper fore 1971, received a check forteacher, laughed and laughed. ber newborn Neil Armstrong Casino peeled a simulated space $24,000 even though ArmstrongI was exhilarated and start- suit, and at Reno’s Harrah’s hadn’t left the lunar module yet.ed laughing,” she said couldn’t understand exactlywhat had transpired technically, but I was excited over the factMount Vernon, 111. Officials of the light, gas and the moon’ startelt;i dlshm2 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 couldn’t find a was used in a seven-minute House, tolda ast^uts single baseball game on radio span starting at 3:14 p.m. Sun-Armstrong and Edwin E^Aldrin or television ending a five.mjn. day and, with an alarming Jr Foif °ne.p i s^ m ™erj{ ute harangue that the moon buildup of pressure, all five of in the whole history of man all lanlt;Ji was „a lot of nonsense/■ the city’s pumping stations were of the people on this earth are Jn ^ Quentin prigan Siran closed for a time.truy °!le' .. , ., .. a n/tiin Bishara Sirhan, the convictedThe President said the Apol o sIayer of ^ Robert F Kenne. Near Sonora, Calif., severalmission inspires us to redouble ^ 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 understated because of sick assasin of Dr. Martin Luther calls” and couldn’t track down King Jr., did not see the moon the skinny dippers, landing. There is no televisionin his maximum security cell. In Bend. Ore., Phil F. Borgan,Michael CollinsLunar Module Landing Sitei a » t-i «»Kt « Club, they pushed a new drink,™ -Slw th« Moonstwt CockttilRichter penned a song entitled,------ '■WeVeGotag to Honeymoon on A( Farr,p,t s(ate park inthat man had made it to the ine Moon. nortfu»m Tdaho Bov ScoutsIn her home at Worcester, n0rtliefnl ldT°’ T°-Mass., the w,dow of rocket pie- werf «athfred ,or^ir ™ ?: neer Robert H. Goddard sat They huddledaround radios and a few televi-A spokesman for the London bookmaker William Hill, withThis is an artist’s conception of tile Apollo 11 lunar module landing on the moon. The landing took place Sunday. Drawing is fromthe Grumman Aerospace Corp. (AP Wire- photo)moon. I laughed for five minutes.”crowd so dense youLunar Explorers Hit Moon Paydirtwouldn’t even walk- jammed alone and watched television asJuly 1918 when the first airplane flew over Moonville.”Charles Stuart, 23, of land, Ore., said, When myino Chicago’s Alder Planeta- man stepped on the moon forSPACE CENTER, Houston They set up a seismometer delighted that tha 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,” said ... .. of two former scouts, Arm- struck paydirt in their prospect- tremors, although these might variety of rock types, as Edwin Dr. Gerard P. Kuiper of thePort- wat”1 e If 6' strong and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. ing on the moon. be only from the footsteps of the Aldrin described it. University of Arizona Lunar and«uu, bam, my aJiaLJ0 * When a newsman phoned she phladelohia a huge crowd Their luck especially was in astronauts, especially when Landing near a crater is an Planetary Laboratory in Flags-grandmother was young they JESSEI “id: 'Tm T* ’” M gather d in front' o, hlLTc In finding . great variety of After- unusual opportunity to collect taff. •‘This is an opportunity towere just learning how to fly ?*£££$£* *» * my!elf - ** dependence Hall and cheered ent rocks, which could tel! muchNow I wonder what s going At Ku| Devll Hill, N.C., where stand' ., . . when Ragle reached the moon’s about the moon s age and ort-happen by the time 1m her 0rviUe and wilbur Wright made A soft ram fell at Auburn, sur[a„c gin.a8e- man’s first Dowered flight 65 Mass., where Goddard fired his Tli«y saw a curious purpleFrederick Durant, an employe television screens first liquad fueled rocket in 1926. In Seattle, pregame ceremo- rock and perhaps put it in one atof the Smithsonian Institution in ^ insta;]ed t0 r6]ay pictures In New York’ S-000 P«0* nies before an American League the tw0 treasure chests they areWashington, found Apollo 11, ^a of man,s first landing on ^ pi€ watched the moon landing at baseball game between the bringing home.tremendous thrill, sharing witha huge television screen at Ken- hometown Pilots and the Minne- they cored out a fivc-incheveryone in the world this even. Indians at the Pottawatomie nedy International Airport. Hun- sota Twins were interrupted by deep sampie 0f lunar soil thatwhich could open tne next stag pow.Wow in Mayetta, Kan., dreds crowded, in front of anoth- an announcement of the moon ‘looks mo;st,” a suggestionin the evolution of manKin . broke into a victory dance to er big screen at the Time-Life landing. The fans cheered, stood there might be water and so-ilerate the moon landing. Building across from Radio City up and sang America the perhaps microscopic life be-In Iowa, where a July evening Music Hall. An estimated 4.000 Beautiful.**Dean Hatvick, of Havre, , , . . .. i j • celerate the moon landing.Mont., stood in the Smithsonian T_ T _____» t..i„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 be-World's Most Historic Call Made By Nixonrock samples which came from pick up lunar lava in a scientifi-ccnsiderable depths (thrown out cally perfect spot.”Television ReviewEdward E. Aldrin Jr.NEW 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 anima-surface, the world was bound to- tion.gether, so President Nixon After Sunday night’s thrillingneath the moon’s surface. Bur the moist, dark appearance could simply be from tightpacking of fine particles of material, cautions David McKay, geologist of the Manned they cavorted on the desert-like claimed. pictures it apparently was antbSpacecraft Center. moun uke kids in a piaygreund. The television commentator climactic to many people andThey found the crust of the thg moQn stjU shimmies a,ft. mentioned only in passing that audiences were down considera-mocn much harder than numer- er ^ jeave todayt scientists the greatest audience ever to bly.WASHINGTON (AP) — After ow of the late President Dwight Johnson told Nixon, Ziegler ous geologists and astronomers tdink ^ uitra-sensitive instru- witness a historic event saw the There were many highlights_ 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 ^ the moonwalk- of the long coverage, but herecause 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- quakes come fr0m volcanic ac- **, was eas^ to take te^ev*‘ ar« a few things we wiii rememmoon landing. God didn’t intend . il0W proud ^ alI are »» presi- is looking at them too”—refer- appreciated Nixon’s call at the pies and to plant the American tivil or hits by meteorites. sion s role for £ranted amid the berman to set foot on the heavenly dent ]sjjXon phoned Mamie Ei- ring to the late Gen. Eisenhow- historic moment. flag. drama. You build a camera, —Walter Cronkite riibbing hi?bodies.” senhower 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 relief and exBarry P. Peterson of Salt Lyndon B JohnSon 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 f« Lake City agreed: I think it s a jubjiation 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 theSe:waste of the taxpayers money. 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 of TranquilityI think they could find some- ,tThis certain]y has to ^ the Ronald L Ziegler told reporters It’s an unbelievable thing - contains two to four per cent Med.cally, their excursion it, so often we are disappointed _jules Bergman - informrmost historic telephone call the President informed Johnson fantastic,” he was quoted as water. They found the surface showed the moon to be not so Y 1 • ose ? os y ^ 8 a comments on everv step of 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- ^H ° d 1 crt t! cal^ ope ration.thing better to spend it on like about a million poor people in the United States. I thinkstrong put foot on the moon. cocoa brown with it.UJ‘C VJilA'u House,” Nixon told astronauts share this great moment.”w ™ J£ Neil Armstrong and Edwin E.* BU, A,dri„Jr Lunar Containination Splashdown Problemners had had to paint it.The men surprised doctorsother places.The Rev. Joseph S. CrowderMillions of television viewersof Richmond, Va„ took a middle saw Sunday night’s telephone ground: “Man is not able to «nversat,on through a split p.c-g.vuuvi. man ia uvh. au.u . _ . . 4.-.. . ABOARD USS HORNET (AP) purpose of daily recovery train- when its parachutes pop out and h jn troinm£r —----------°\ me uiipuam ideny his adventurous side for ture showing both the President _ A v g e a offidal exercises was to establish are not closed until after touch- , n Willarri Hawkins a Maybe some way Can -Harry Reasoner’♦ Wa colfa cnvnlal rocrwnncihilitv and aStrOnaCltS. ... • G... A__________SdlU Ur V* Ulam ‘ «3WKinS, a f t t Russia and Red nf mnf t i m rr-David Brinkley’s way cxirc «ww.o when world ,eaders §et wringing profound meanings onand others by their quick adap- around ,0 dlscusslnS ways lle of few and simple words. Aftetation to the moon’s low gravity. sPace Pr08ram Pan Pr0™at.e a11 *hf scientific explanation tTheir energy expenditure in usmS the communications sate - Eagle’s liftoff from the moon htoZttZZwXnte Lils L^r^irunderfaX ^ 8”has for global understanding. that s the important thing. s wry wa... , found to get Russia and Red of putting things in perspecthfhgm sul[?e.?n; . , . . China to participate. They were when we are most in danger lt;Once, Neil Armstrong s heart- the only major nati0ns which taking them too seriously. In iw n uaHautc taiiua «. u,e it..u- u* ... —....... b^at ^ ^ m‘nut,c’ “f did not carry live television of essay, he said disenchantmeown 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 ^,*as^a . cr'tlca!lt; aad the moon walk. The Soviet Un- with the moon had already sgratulating ,aboard, including President capsule could endanger a ship contaminated.” Clifford Charlesworth, flight d;- jon showed taped sequences of in and obnauts because I like to collect the astronauts. Nixon, are safe from possible expected to be at least two He said he had asked NASA rector» sa,d jt occurred when he the lunar walk Monday.the sake of social responsibility and astronauts. t . says he is still trying to deter- ground rules for positioning the down.... Both are part of man’s total For one priceless moment in mjne how far away thjs recov, Hornet at time ear-experience.” whole history of naan all of Cry ship mus^ ^ when Apoj. ]y Juiy 24 to avoid possible If the ship was close enoughYounger Americans had their people on this earth are tru- ]0 jj capsule lands in the Pacif- ccmtamination of the ship.” down wind,” he said, ‘it mightvn special points of view. ly one,” Nixon said during hlc • .....I’d like to go with the astro- brief message congratulateobserved that as a syir _ ___ . bol it had inspired a lot of golt;rocks,” 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 Suliken of the compute safe distances under There were no indications the ed their marathon coverage of Next: A live color IransmiSomeday 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 crometeoriies. mission and prepared for live is scheduled at 7:02 7:17 p.iL feillf 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.
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