Skylab marks crossover in frontier space efforts
Experts view the Skylab mission as a turning point in man’s push beyond Earth, offering a 28 day orbital window to study Earth resources, solar physics, and human responses while testing space station concepts and paving the way for future shuttle based construction and international docking with Soviet crews.
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Richard Witkin
New York Times
Cocoa Beach
Fla
Earth
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Johnson Manned Spaceflight Center
Houston
Space Agency
Poor legal aid diminishes under Phillips at OEO
A nationwide survey shows the poor receive less Legal Services aid since Howard Phillips became acting director of the OEO. Lawyers handle fewer cases postpone litigation or turn clients away, prompting some to quit amid Nixon’s push for a separate national legal-services body.
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Legal Services Program
Howard Phillips
Office of Economic Opportunity
Legal Services
Nixon
National Legal-Services Corporation
OEO
Phillips
National Colloquium On
Edgar S. Cahn
Antioch Law School
Washington
Grable Improves After Illness in California
Actress Betty Grable, 56, is ambulatory and improving after a serious illness from a duodenal ulcer at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. She has been hospitalized three weeks. no surgery is planned.
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Betty Grable
St. John’s Hospital
Miss Grable
Three Die in Ireland Violence Weekend Toll Rises
In Belfast and surrounding areas three deaths occurred over the weekend as sectarian clashes continued. John McCormack a 44-year-old Catholic died in Belfast while Kevin Kilpatrick 21 was found dead near Coagh after a shooting. A 20-year-old Catholic youth was shot outside a Belfast garage as a British soldier died from a blast the same day raising the year’s military fatalities to 32. Police detained three Protestant suspects after an explosion injuring 12 and damaging a Belfast bar.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
John McCormack
Lower Falls Road
Kevin Kilpatrick
Coagh
Khadafy Says Oasis Oil Co Hired Israelis in Libya
Libyan leader Muammar Khadafy at a six hour news conference alleged Oasis Oil Co employed Israelis in its desert fields. He did not indicate any retaliation and cited a “people's committee” of company workers as the source of the claim.
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Tripoli
Libya
Muammar Khadafy
Khadafy
Eople
Oasis Oil Co
Flood devours farms as river recedes across Mississippi Valley
The Mississippi River receded from St Louis to the Gulf while flood waters devastate farm land across Illinois Missouri Louisiana and Mississippi. Officials estimate damages between 420 and 480 million with more than 35000 homeless and at least 27 deaths. Agricultural leaders warn the disaster could worsen the nation’s food supply as soybeans and cotton crops face heavy losses and mosquitoes surge in Memphis.
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Mississippi River
St. Louis
Gulf of Mexico
Howard Waters
Midwest
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Mississippi River Commission
Corps of Engineers
Darrell M. Trent
Office of Emergency Preparedness
Illinois
Bill Schwien
Missouri
Louisiana
Mississippi
Memphis
Tenn
Kelly Moseley
Health Department
SIU Honor Society Initiation Set at SIU Center
An initiation dinner and ceremony for Phi Kappa Phi at Southern Illinois University is planned for 6 30 p m Tuesday in Ballroom D at the SIU Student Center. Dean George Mace will speak on The University and the Extended Colloquium. Mary Adams notes 178 students meet the eligibility criteria including minimum quarter-hour and GPA requirements.
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Phi Kappa Phi
Southern Illinois University
Tuesay
SIU
George Mace
Mary Adams
Newspaper Route Teaches Work Ethic to Youth
The article argues chores once common like woodbox filling still exist in a newspaper route teaching responsibility and maturity. It suggests parents consider a paper carrier for youth to gain work experience and discipline.
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United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Planets
Space
National News
Alabama
Tuskegee
Ala
Alabama Advisory Committee
U.S. Commission On Civil Rights
US Public Health Service
New York
Edward Nager
Mrs. Nager
Manhattan
Irving E. Rosen
Scarsdale
N.Y
Plaza Hotel
Rosens
Nager
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
Santa Monica, Calif
Bobby Seale
Oakland
Calif
Black Panther
John Redding
Redding
Seale
Joe Torre
Redbird
Grando Cepeda
Atlanta
General Motors
GMC
Jim Roaden
Jim Pearl
Jim Pearl, Inc
Oldsmobile
Pontiac
Cadillac
GMC Sales & Service Center
Carbondale
Mac McCormack
Mgr
E. Main Carbondale
Ken Akers
Walnut
Murphysboro
Harry Spears
N. Park Herrin
Jon Patton
N. Market
Marion
Lil Rip
Harold Mitchell
S. Emma W. Frankfort
Ken Kapper
S. Main
Anna
Ireland
U.S
The
Associated Press
Siam
Thailand
Land of the Free
SIU Honor Society
Fubar
Laquatte
Walgreen Drugs
Herrin
Carterville
Beck’s Pharmacy
Fullertons Hearing Aid Service
N. Jackson
Harrisburg, Ill
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Otarionioticon
LEHRS
Ster
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