Skylab 1 Crew Rehearses For Friday Launch Bid
Skylab 1 astronauts Conrad Kerwin and Weitz rehearse the first two mission days to free a jammed solar panel and deploy a sunshade to cool the lab. A decision on Friday launch is due Thursday as cap constraints loom and contingency gas purges are planned.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Johnson Space Center
Houston
Tex
Orbiting Laboratory
Space Agency
Charles Conrad Jr
Joseph P. Kerwin
Paul J. Weitz
Conrad
Kerwin
Weitz
Mission Control
Skylab
Charles
Pete’’ Conrad
Today in History Highlights May 21 1973 AP
A compact digest of notable events on May 21 across the years including the 1956 Bikini Atoll hydrogen bomb test, De Soto’s death in 1542 search for gold, Clara Barton founding the Red Cross in 1881, Lindbergh’s 1927 Paris flight, Truman Alaska statehood push in 1948, Montgomery bus protest crackdown in 1961, a Brussels department store fire in 1967, the 196? wheat policy referendum in the Kennedy era, De Gaulle France strikes, and the 2004 Vatican Pieta damage incident concluding with a recent event.
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Associated Press
U.S
Bikini Atoll
Pacific
Hernando de Soto
Mississippi River
Clara Barton
American Red Cross
Charles A. Lindbergh
Paris
Atlantic
Harry S. Truman
Congress
Alaska
Montgomery
Ala
Brussels
Belgium
Kennedy
France
Charles de Gaulle
Michelangelo
Pieta
Vatican
Weather brief for Texas and Oklahoma regions
Temperatures show highs from 87 to 104 and lows from 50s to 70s across Texas regions. Forecast calls for partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered thunderstorms tonight through Tuesday, and variable winds with slight to choppy seas along coasts.
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Snyder
Texas
South Central
Oklahoma
Helms Confirms Memo On CIA Pressure Over Watergate Inquiry
Former CIA director Richard Helms testified to Congress that Haldeman told Vernon Walters to tell FBI Director Gray the President wished the CIA to discourage the Watergate investigation. Helms recalled the June 23, 1972 White House meeting and said any White House order carries strong authority. He stressed the CIA aimed to stay out of Watergate entirely and questioned whether that stance affected his departure.
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Washington
Senate
White House
H. R. Haldeman
CIA
FBI
Richard Helms
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vernon Walters
Walters
L. Patrick Gray
Len Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Helms
Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
Symington
Senate Armed Services Committee
Gray
Mexico
Ations
Barn Estimates Presented for Scurry County Facility
Rex Robinson led a delegation to Scurry County Commissioners with a $388 557 estimate for a stock show and rodeo facility at the Scurry County Coliseum. The plan covers 15 664 square feet for offices and arena plus a 40 976 square foot barn connected by a 10 500 square foot covered area. The commissioners will study the proposal and may place it before voters or survey a 51 percent petition. Also discussed were library space needs and a $5 000 library resources grant to Western Texas College for 1973.
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Rex Robinson
Scurry County
Scurry County Coliseum
Don L. Hampton
Welch and
Hampton Architects
Sweetwater
Bob Watlington
Glenn Barron
Library Board
Legislature In Final Week Faces School Funding and Penal Code
The Texas legislature heads into its final week with two key items. The House seeks final action on a school financing bill facing Senate Education Committee changes, while the House aims to pass the Senate-approved revised penal code. A separate oil unitization vote collapsed, darkening energy hopes. The House also sent a public records bill to the governor after unanimous approval.
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Austin, Tex
Senate Rejects House School Financing Bill In Favor Of Gov Briscoe Plan
A Texas Senate committee killed the $97 million House bill and backed a $39 million plan from Gov. Dolph Briscoe. Senator A. M. Aikin Jr. said he supported only a vehicle to move the governor's bill, not the measure itself, keeping a path to a conference and possible special session open. The outcome delays a quick fix to school funding.
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Austin, Tex
Senate
Dolph Briscoe
A. M. Aikin Jr
D-Paris
Aikin
House
Sesson
Court Affirms Reversal of Richmond Desegregation Case
The Supreme Court, split, affirmed an appeals court reversal of a lower court order to merge Richmond Virginia schools with Henrico and Chesterfield Counties. The decision leaves metropolitan desegregation unresolved while noting broader anti-busing actions and pending similar suits in Detroit Atlanta and nine other cities.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Richmond
National Labor Relations Board
Lewis F. Powell Jr
Richmond School Board
U.S. District Court
Robert Merhige Jr
Richmond City
Henrico
Chesterfield Counties
U.S. Circuit Court
Merhige
Detroit
Atlanta
Capitol Hill
Nixon
Naacp Legal Defense Fund
Circuit Court
State
Merfuge
100 Degree Readings Rally Across Texas Weekend
Weather warmed with readings near 100 degrees in Snyder and a 94 degree high Sunday. Thunderstorms hit Northwest Texas, with half an inch of rain and marble sized hail reported in Dunn around 10:45 p.m. Sunday. Hail damaged plants but little else. moisture is expected to aid planting.
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Snyder
Scurry County
L. A. Scott
Dunn
Texas
Scott
U.S. Weather Service
Colorado City
San Angelo
Texas Panhandle
National Weather Service
Mitchell Stans Plead Innocent in Vesco Probe Case
Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans pleaded innocent to perjury conspiracy and obstructing a federal investigation of financier Robert Vesco. Barry Sears also pled not guilty as Vesco remains at large. The indictment cites efforts to derail SEC probes into IOS and a $224 million alleged looting.
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NEW York
Atty
John N. Mitchell
Commerce
Maurice H. Stans
Robert l. Vesco
Mitchell
Stans
Vesco
New Jersey
Barry D. Sears
Nixon
Sears
U.S. District Court
John M. Cannella
Investors Overseas Services
The
Securities and Exchange Commission
U.S
General
SEC
IOS Mutual
Stansted
G. Bradford Cook
Costa Rica
Switzerland
IOS
Cox Asserted Power as Watergate Special Prosecutor
Harvard professor Archibald Cox testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he is satisfied he has been granted broad independent authority to oversee the Watergate probe. He noted Elliot Richardson, awaiting confirmation as attorney general, has the power to challenge him while Cox promises a full, fair, impartial inquiry.
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John F. Kennedy
Senate Judiciary Committee
Elliot L. Richardson
Richardson
Cox
Secretary of Defense
Justice Department
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Omar Burleson
U.S. Office of Education
Western Texas College
Legislature
Senate Education Committee
Oscar Mauzy
Dallas
Maury
Briscoe
Bill Hobby
Hobby
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