Mississippi River recedes after record crest winds down
The Mississippi River near St Louis falls back from crests reached last month while lower heights reduce run off. Forecasters predicted crest at 38.5 feet this Saturday, with earlier forecasts at 39 feet. Floods affect 12 million acres and 39 000 people remain displaced. Army engineers cut back backwater flood projections in Vicksburg area as Yazoo basin flood water holds for weeks. In Louisiana deer starve along levees and 2500 deer driven from bottomlands seek aid.
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Associated Press
Mississippi River
St. Louis
National Weather Service
Weather Service
Mississippi
Army
Vicksburg, Miss
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Yazoo
Vicksburg
Louisiana
Bill Poe
Tensas Parish
Poor grain harvest may pose starvation threat
United Nations officials warn grain reserves are at record lows and may trigger starvation in regions if the coming harvest fails. FAO officials push a minimum world food security plan asking rich nations to share stockpiling duties with grain-growing countries as current surpluses have vanished and reserves remain inadequate.
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United Nations
N.Y
Food and Agriculture Organization
Economic Committee
U.N. Economic and Social Council
FAO
Addeke H. Boerma
Rome
IA. Akban
Pakistan
United States
Canada
FAO Asst
E.M. Ojala
Farm bill proposes price support with variable subsidies
The Senate Agriculture Committee backed a farm bill that caps government payments by price supports set at 70 percent of parity for wheat and cotton and 80 percent for dairy. If market prices stay above the established level, farmers receive no cash. if below, the government covers the gap.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Herman E. Talmadge
D-Ga
Talmadge
Ehrling to Lead Juilliard Orchestral Department
Sixten Ehrling will join the Juilliard School as head of the orchestral department starting in October. He leaves the Detroit Symphony after a tenure since 1963 to conduct the Concert Orchestra and supervise student conductors at Juilliard, succeeding retired Alfred Wallenstein.
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Ehrling
Detroit Symphony
Juilliard
Alfred Wallenstein
Knapsack Tourist At Luxor Obelisk In Paris
A tourist wearing a distinctive Oriental style headgear pauses before the Luxor Obelisk in Paris. The visit draws attention as crowds gather to see the famed monument in the heart of the city.
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Obelisque de Luxor
Paris
First Lady Term Coined by Mary Clemmer Ames in 1877
In an 1877 article about Rutherford B. Hayes's inauguration, Mary Clemmer Ames used the phrase first lady to refer to the president's wife, marking the term's early public usage.
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Mary Clemmer Ames
Rutherford B. Hayes
Skylab countdown continues toward orbital launch
Skylab 1 astronauts Charles Conrad Jr Paul J Weitz and Dr Joseph P Kerwin rehearse in a Johnson Space Center simulator as NASA nears the launcher sequence for the first US space station mission. A Saturn 1B will lift the crew on Tuesday after a 1 30 p m EDT Monday countdown to a 270 mile high Earth orbit.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Charles Conrad Jr
Paul J. Weitz
Joseph P. Kerwin
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Conrad, Weitz
Kerwin
Skylab
Mission Control
Conrad
Space Station
Weitz
Skylab Timeline Charts First Manned Station Mission
Skylab mission schedule outlines launch dates from May 14 to the Pacific splashdown on May 19. It details astronauts Conrad Kerwin Weitz and equipment checks, spacewalks, daily plans, and the eight week Skylab 2 and 3 stays. it notes a lightning strike test, strike settlement, and broader U.S. road safety spending figures.
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Ome
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