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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1971
Page
1
A historical clipping outlines an Action Line service for reader questions and state legal aid. It cites Texas lawmakers who are lawyers and notes university tuition and meal prices, with a continuation line reference.
French experimenter Michel Siffre descends 200 feet into Midnight Cave near Yel Rin Texas to live in complete isolation with six atoms monitoring a proposed 48 hour day. He aims to study the body clock by severing daily duties and emerging next month.
Unclear readable segments show names and places but missing context. The text mentions San Antonio and delivery actions with dated references but lacks coherent events or outcomes. The record cannot determine a definite main action or result from the fragment.
An off duty Mine Way police officer pursuing two youths from a Kwik N Neat cleaners break in was attacked. The officer fired into the ground during a struggle and aided by other officers who later captured the youths, one of whom carried marijuana. A 24 year old man was also detained for related charges.
Shots fired from a Hunter College window near the Soviet Mission to the UN injure no one as a high powered rifle is recovered. Police trace the event to East 62nd Street amid a tense exchange about Soviet Jews.
An explosion in Glasgow devastates Cilnsymy and Toll districts killing at least 13. Emergency teams rush to rubble as fifteen shops on Tils hy Street are damaged with victims buried. A bakery staffer describes chaos as ambulances ferry the injured to hospitals.
A San Antonio housewife plans a Christmas spending spree funded by the latest $100 winter sweepstakes from The Light. Mrs. Fangs Brown says she has never won a contest before and will save proceeds for holiday shopping.
President Nixon may drop two of six initial nominees after ABA veto. Senate GOP Leader Hugh Scott says the chamber could approve any of the six. Scott favors Judge Frank Johnson or a similar figure but warns political acceptance varies. The ABA had rejected Mildred Lillie and Herschel Priday as unacceptable picks.
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