Pickering to retire as JPL director in 197? period
Dr William Pickering, a leading figure in Amelias First satellite and multiple spacecraft, will retire this year as director of JPL Pasadena. He led Explorer I Ranger Surveyor and Mariner programs, and is a member of NAS and NAE. Bruce Murray named new JPL director, after a decade in lab.
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Pasadena
William Pickering
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pickering
SPL
Caltech
National Aeronaubts and Space Administration
Bruce Murray
JPL
Ranger
Surveyor
Mariner
National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
American Philosophical Society
British Interplanetary Society
NASA
Blunt star Gloria Swanson critiques modern film
Gloria Swanson, 87, critiques today’s movies saying they lack appeal and are often sordid while expressing delight in blunt honesty. She notes she rarely attends films and prefers staying physically productive over being sedentary. Nearby, a coyote in Utah befriends the Lanes’ yard, plays with their Frisbee, and eats dog food until a rightful owner is found.
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Miami
Fla
Gloria Swanson
North Salt Lake
Utsh
Ami
Harry Lane
Jane Lane
Paul
Mrs. Lane
White House communications chief named with new posting
Margita White is named director of the White House Office of Communication by President Ford and will earn a 38000 dollar annual salary. Dixy Lee Ray, former Atomic Energy Commission chair and now an assistant secretary of state, resigns and weighs a run for Washington governor as a Democrat.
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Margita White
White House
Ford
Dixy Lee Ray
Atomic Energy Commission
Ms. White
Ms. Ray
Washington
AP Wirashoto
Victoria Fyodorova talks love not defection after wedding
Russian actress Victoria Fyodorova, wife of Pan American pilot Frederick Polly, insists her marriage to an American does not mean she defected. She appeals for visa extensions and says she has not betrayed her homeland.
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Lamana
Fla
Victoria Fyoporova
United States
Zoya Fyodorova
Jackson Tate
Orange Park
U.S
Sunny
Moscow
Victoria
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Man wakes from eight year sleep in Seymour Texas
SEYMOUR Texas United Press staff report Gene Tipps awoke after eight years in a coma-like state following a 1967 car crash. Doctors say no earthly explanation exists for the sudden recovery and Tipps faces speech difficulties from brain damage. His mother and doctors call it a miracle and a freak medical event.
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Seymour
Tex
Bobby Kennedy
Gene Tipps
Tipps
Rip van Winkle
Cisco Junior College
C.£. Tipps
Randal
Gene
Mandal
Tie
After 13 days adrift two men faced cannibalism in Gulf
Galveston Texas report describes Richard Lebo offering to kill himself so Gary Gillespie could eat his body and stay alive. The Fort Lauderdale pair, adrift since June 6 after their cabin cruiser sank north of the Straits of Yucatan, drank urine, had 12 cans of food, and lost weight. A rescue by a Petroleum Helicopters crew 70 miles south of Galveston ended the ordeal. One man remains missing. the other, Gillespie, weighed 138 pounds at 21 years old.
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Galveston
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Richard Lebo
Gary Gillespie
Lebo
Gillespie
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Straits of
Yucatan
Andy Carmone
Coast Guard
Ioc
Ecclesiastical Court Recommends Admonition for Ohio Bishop Beebe
The five member Ecclesiastical Court delivered a unanimous verdict and also urged Bishop John Burt of the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio to admonish Beebe. The decision reflects church authority actions within the diocese and related ecclesiastical discipline.
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John Burt
Episcopal Diocese of
Ohio
Beebe
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