Debris hunt for Shooting Star starts to span coast
Search for the Shooting Star and Caspers family boat begins near San Benito Island south of San Diego and expands as air and sea units join. Four C130s, two P2Ys, HS helicopter, two foreign merchant men and a Mexican navy vessel take part amid dusk patrols. Coast Guard Vessel Venturous conducts radar searches while efforts continue with no survivors found by day three. Caspers, an Orange County supervisor, is tied to a fishing vacation after reelection.
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Baja Peninsula
San Benitoi Island
San Diego
Coast Guard
Shooting Star
Suipper
Fred Harber
Orange County
Jess Unruh
Los Angeles
Tom ‘Klein
Fullerton
Tim
John
Orange
County Board of Supervisors
Ralph Clark
Utah
Leonard Basher
Anaheim
Richard Tull
Robert Basher
Axaheim
Long Beach
Caspers
South Coast Regional Commission
Westminster Savings and Loan Company
Harker
Beriy
Local beaches see massive crowds and rescues on warm weekend
Long Beach lifeguards made 5 rescues from 68 degree waters and treated 70 plus for jellyfish stings as nearly a million people packed Southland beaches Sunday. Highs ranged from 75 to 81, with cooler trend expected across Southern California and notable incidents at Marina Del Rey and harbor patrol rescues after sailboats capsized.
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Long Beach
Southland
Dows
Marina del Rey
Harbor Patrol
Couple Ties Knot at LA Supermarket Altar
A Los Angeles couple married in a supermarket between the bread and pastries after meeting over lettuce. Larry Wilde recalled courting Mery Poulos Wilde with a cart vigil and a quirky blessing from TV writer Stanley Ralph Ross on an improvised soap pad altar. An elderly guest disrupted the ceremony by pushing through for doughnuts. The bride cut a two layer cake and tossed a bouquet as friends applauded. Local shopper Rose Ester, 44, lamented never meeting anyone there in 20 years.
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Los Angeles
Larry Wilde
Mery Poulos Wilde
Wilde
Stanley Ralph Ross Sinister
Universal Ele Church
52 Crewmen Jump From Carrier Midway At Yokosuka
The US Navy reports 52 crewmen were absent when the carrier Midway left Yokosuka last Friday in a dispute over alleged racial discrimination and long working hours. Nine returned. about 4500 aboard. Absent sailors are listed as unauthorized.
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Carrier Midway
Tokyo
UPI
Midway
Yokosuke
Navy
AUS. Navy
Yokosuka
Naval
Japan
Nixon Pledges Israel Atoms and Peace Talks
President Nixon visited Israel amid security tightness and protests, pledging potential Israel atom capabilities while pursuing peace talks with Rabin and a Knesset session. He toured Yad Vashem, rekindled the Nazi concentration camp memorial flame, and planned a Washington return after a Moscow summit.
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Nixon
Jordani
Azores
Antonio de Spinola
Washington
Moscow
Rabin
Knesset
Kalmbach to serve prison term in Watergate case
Kalmbach, 52, pleaded guilty and was ordered to surrender in two weeks. He testified before the Senate Watergate Committee that he raised 220000 dollars later passed to the defendants in the Watergate break in. He faces up to three years in prison under a deal to cooperate.
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Simca
Kalmbach
Dadbury
Conn
Allenwood
Fab. M
Senate Watergate Committee
Nuclear tests by China and France spark regional concern
Reported Chinese and French nuclear explosions add to tensions amid US Egypt Israel talks. Australia criticizes atmospheric tests near Tahiti, calling for safer practices as Canada and New Zealand urge restraint and Canada’s Trudeau denounces atmospheric detonations.
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Indias
United States
Egypt
Israel
Nixon
Middle East
New. Zealand
Norman
Kirk
Pari
Linister
Pierre Trudeau
Canada
Yas. Seleax
Explaining the 4 in 60 oil wildcat statistic
A Mobil television spot claimed 4 in 60 wells pay off and a detailed clarification follows. The piece defines new-field wildcats, outlines AAPG classifications from A to E, and explains factors like field size, costs, crude type, transportation, and oil prices shaping outcomes.
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Mobil
American Petroleum Institute
API
American Association of Petroleu Eolddists
Samle
APS
United States
Tate
American Association of Petroleum Geologists
AAPG
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