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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1960
Page
12
The USS Roosevelt, the first Polaris nuclear submarine, sailed for acceptance trials off the West Coast. Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine, led the crew aboard from Mare Island Naval Shipyard. A second larger Polaris is under construction there, two years and seven months after the keel was laid.
An article reports Sir Hillary Hillary arriving in Chicago with a 240 year old scalp claimed to be from a Himalaya yeti. Officials at the Chicago Museum of Natural History plan to study the artifact while skeptics doubt its origin and note the expedition included Desmond Ring of the Calcutta Statesman and Nepalese village headman Khumjo Chinmti.
William Rickenbacker, 34, son of World War I ace and Eastern Air Lines head, was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in New York for tearing up a Census Bureau questionnaire. He denounced the survey as unconstitutional and uncivil, while noting support from the National Review editor and Civil Liberties Union interest.
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