Von Braun's 65 Years Filled With Designing Rockets
Berlin born Wernher von Braun began rocketry as a boy in Berlin and rose to lead V2 development at Peenemuende, later shaping the U.S. space program after WWII. Born 1912, he died in Virginia at 85 of cancer, leaving a legacy tied to moon missions and Mars ambitions.
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Berlin
Wernher von Braun
Tiergarten
Britain
America
Alexandria
Magnus von Braun
Technical University
Rudolf Nebel
Tegel Airfield
West Berlin
Peenemaende
East Germany
Baltic
Peenemuende
United States
U.S
Wiersitz
Posen
Max Und Moritz
North Sea
Bothum
Baltic Sea
Space
Mars
Gulf Oil under fire in uranium price fixing probe
Washington AP reports that Rep. John Moss chairs a House subcommittee alleging massive evidence Gulf Oil Corp violated antitrust laws by participating in a multinational uranium price cartel. Gulf officials admit links via Gulf Minerals Canada but deny U.S. law violations, while Canadian and foreign producers justify actions amid import embargoes and job concerns. L.T. Gregg of Gulf Minerals Canada testified to proposed price hikes at a January 1974 Johannesburg meeting, implicating Gulf in bid to raise uranium prices for U.S. utilities after 1978.
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Washington (Ap
House
Gulf Oil Corp
John E. Moss
D-Calif
U.S
Gulf
Alastair Gillespie
Moss
L.T. Gregg
Johannesburg
South Africa
Gregg
Gulf Minerals Canada Ltd
Albert Gore Jr
Dtenn
Saccharin Ban Backed By New Canadian Study Link to Cancer
FDA says a Canadian study by the National Cancer Institute and four universities links saccharin and cyclamate use to higher bladder cancer risk in men. The finding supports the proposed ban and may sway critics, though Johns Hopkins research showed no significant link. The FDA will review the Lancet study before final action.
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Washington
The
Food and Drug Administration
Canada
National Cancer Institute
FDA
Wayne Pines
Pines
Lancet
Johns Hopkins University
Twelve Dead In South Africa Riots
In two segregated townships near Uitenhage police killed seven blacks during rioting, raising the death toll to twelve in four days of violence on Soweto anniversary. Arrests reached 278 with 33 injured as property damage neared 1.5 million dollars.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Soweto
Kwanabuhle
Kabah
Uitenhage
P. J. Hugo
Pretoria
State Pathologist
Associated Preas
Manpower Services Council split in Kansas reshuffle
TOPEKA Kansas AP The Kansas Manpower Services Council is being divided into two councils with Robert F Bennett and Friday named to lead and report to the secretary of the Department of Human Resources One council will be the Manpower Services Council the other the Comprehensive Employment Training Act Balance of State Manpower Planning project restates the reorganization of manpower planning in the state.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas Manpower Services Council
Robert F. Bennett
Department of Human Resource
Manpower Services Council
Menpower
Space Shuttle Enterprise Endeavors Scrubbed Before Flight
Engineers tuned the Space Shuttle Enterprise aboard a Boeing 747 at Edwards Air Force Base California for a first manned piggyback flight. A computer and guidance system failure forced an eight fifteen a m scrub. commander Fred Haise and Lt Col Gordon Fullerton ran preflight checks as security and hatch issues delayed takeoff. Haise, the mission veteran, and Fullerton headed the crew amid a broader NASA push after Apollo thirteen.
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Calif
Donald K
Deke’ Slayton
Fred W. Haise Jr
Air Force
Gordon Fullerton
Slayton
Haise
James A. Lovell
John L. Swigert
Earth
Fullerton
NASA
Pentagon
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
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K.U
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Chris Edmonds
Lawrence
Renee Duly
Martyn F. Brown
Valley Wear Galleries
Enola Gish
Baldwin
Ada Townsend
Kansan City
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Linwood
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Skoog
Skoog & Latimer
Ottawa
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Norma
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