SST debate in US faces pro and con positions
In a Q and A with AP Aviation Writer Vern Haugland, William M. Magruder defends the U S SST program, arguing it must proceed to keep up with foreign competition while addressing environmental uncertainties. He cites historical canceled programs and notes support from major airlines for a prototype by 1978.
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Washington
William M. Magruder
U.S
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Associated Press
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Department of Transportation
Secretary of Transportation
Volpe
Nixon
Williams College
DCI
Federal Aviation Administration
Free World
Earth science boost in Texas schools through new booklet
The Oil Information Committee of Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assn funds a Texas education program distributing Earth Science and Energy by University of Texas geoscience professor Robert E. Boyer and Austin Public Schools teacher Richard B. Hale. The set links earth science to energy with established ideas and open questions, plus a separate yes no one zero computer booklet by Dr. Kenneth M. King. The program, backed by the petroleum industry, reaches Texas classrooms with hundreds of thousands of items annually. The Natchez Trace description appears as a separate note.
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Texas Public
Oil Information Committee of
Texas Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Assn
Earth Science
Robert E. Boyer
Department of Geological Sciences
University of Texas
Richard B. Hale
Austin Independent Public Schools
Texas Edu
Texas Mid-Continent
G. C. Bankston
OIC
Kenneth M. King
Computer Center
Columbia University
Petroleum Industry
Texas
Something Fishy At State Fair
There will be something fishy at Fair Park as the Exposition of the Seven Seas opens during the 1970 State Fair of Texas in October for a 16 day run. A S S S S S S S S S
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Fair Park
S. S. Seven Seas
Fair adds photography and scale model divisions
Mrs. Elizabeth Peabody, director of the Women's Department, notes the fair remains a family affair. New divisions in photography and scale models aim to entice men to participate, alongside competitions for girls, mothers, and boys throughout the event.
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Fai
Elizabeth Peabody
Clowns’ Talk To Lure Bulls From Fallen Riders
Sidney Iowa AP report profiles rodeo clowns Bobby and Gene Clark. The brothers risk severe injuries to help riders escape bulls, describing lifelong devotion to the craft and daily dangers at major rodeos.
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Chris Roberts
Associated Press
Sidney
Iowa
Bobby Clark
Warner, Oklo
Clark
Today In History Highlights Sept 17 special events
The Sept 17 history page notes events from 1784 constitutional completion in Philadelphia to Washington's farewell in 1796 and Civil War actions at Antietam Creek in 1862. It also recalls the 1873 Jay Cooke collapse, 1935 Quezon election, 1939 German invasion of Poland, the Noronic disaster in 1949, Khrushchev at the UN in 1959, India-US arms talks in 1965, and the 24th UN General Assembly in 1969 led by Ange Brooks.
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Associated Press
U.S
Philadelphia
George Washington
Antietam Creek
Maryland
New York
Jay Cooke and Company
Manuel Quezon
Commonwealth of the Philipines
Germany
Poland
Great Lakes
Noronic
Toronto
Nikita Khrushchev
United Nations General
Earth’s equator longer than polar diameter by 26 miles
The Earth has an equatorial bulge making the diameter at the equator about 26 miles greater than the pole to pole diameter. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized in 1946 as the first U.S. citizen saint.
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Natchez Trace
Nashville
Tenn
Natchez
Mississippi
Equator
U.S
Frances Xavier Cabrini
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