Apollo 17 Ends an Era the Beginning Continues
The Apollo 17 mission marks the last manned American lunar flight for decades yet ignite nostalgia and pride as Cernan Schmitt and Evans plan a 75 hour, three moonwalk odyssey. They will bring back 200 pounds of lunar rocks and data guiding future space ventures.
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Nixon Overhauls Cabinet to Boost Efficiency and Control
President Nixon reshapes his team with Elliot Richardson as Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger heading HEW and Roy Ash taking the Budget Office. Ash will wind down Litton ties while implementing executive reorganization ideas and a broad program review. Nixon seeks leaner government, closer White House contact, and reduced payrolls while courting the silent majority.
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California
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White House
Nelson Rockefeller
John Connally
Laird
George Romney
Romney
John Gardner
Ralph Nader
Congress
Japanese investment in U.S. could rise to bypass import limits
Japanese firms eye more U.S. subsidiaries and finished products made in America to dodge potential import restrictions. Ottawa and Tokyo discuss trade pacts to curb exports. Japan plans to boost overseas investments to over a billion dollars in 1973, with North America as a leading recipient.
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France
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Europe
Latin America
South Korea
Aid for Thalidomide Victims Clears German Law
West German parliament enacts a special law to enable a trustee organization to distribute about 150 million deutsche marks in pensions to Thalidomide victims. The fund comprises 100 million marks from the drug firm and 50 million from the Bonn government, totaling roughly $46.5 million.
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Today in History 1972 highlights and past events
On December 6 1972 the day marks events from 1941 Pearl Harbor context to 1966 Rhodesia sanctions and 1957 AFL-CIO union actions. Notable items include FDR peace appeal to Hirohito on eve of Pearl Harbor and Lincoln’s 1847 House seat. Birthdays listed Angel Moorehead and Lou Little. Thought quotes by Phillip Massinger.
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Earth
Ken
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Hirohito
Japan
Pearl Harbor
Afl-Cio
Teamsters Union
Britain
U.N
Rhodesia
London
New York
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chung Hee Park
Angel Moorehead
Lou Little
Phillip Massinger
Boyle's Bites: Dentists and Patients on the Couch
HAL BOYLE collects light anecdotes from a dentists chair about patient habits and opinions. The column lampoons routine dental visits with jokes about aches, dentures, bridges, tasting paint fumes, and the absurdity of small talk during procedures.
Quiz questions on presidents faith land and brightness
Quick quiz items list three facts: Herbert Hoover and Richard Nixon embraced Quaker faith, Columbia University owns the Rockefeler Center land in New York, and the sun is about 400000 times brighter than the full moon.
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Herbert Hoover
Richard Nixon
Rockefeller Center
New York
Columbia University
Forest fires blamed on people in 1970 figures
The World Almanac notes that through carelessness or incendiarism, people caused 103,619 fires in 1970, 89 percent of those on protected lands. Millions of acres are protected under the Federal State Cooperative Forest Fire Control Program.
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Texas Insurance Board urged rate cuts across most regions
The Texas Insurance Advisory Association urged the State Board of Insurance to cut extended coverage and homeowners rates in all regions except the 27-county Gulf Coast, with statewide fire rate reduction proposed. Central Inland and Seacoast areas show varied decreases and increases, while total savings are projected for some zones. Public-insurance hearing drew about 560 agents approving the plan amid protests over commission standardization.
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Seacoast
Beaumont-Port Arthur
Houston
Galveston
Corpus Christi
Brownsville
Inland Territory
Seacoast Territory
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