Tall Americans Rising In Height Across Generations
National Geographic notes Americans have grown about 1.12 inches in two generations to an average of 5 feet 8.2 inches, with Europeans growing similarly. Evidence spans nutrition, health care, and immigration effects, while tall players appear in sports and history.
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Nore
East Africa
Tere
National Basketball Association
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
David
Goliath
Da Nang under attack as U S consulate closed amid chaos
Rioting in Da Nang led to the suspension of the American airlift of refugees as U S forces faced gunfire and a threatened show of force. The Saigon command repulsed a North Vietnamese tank incident near the southern perimeter while Lam Dong Province fell to the North and the Phnom Penh airlift was paused after heavy shelling. U S officials evacuated more than 300 Americans as Air America and Air Vietnam aided exits. General Weyand arrived in Saigon to assess needs for further support under President Ford.
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U.S
Saigon
Lam Dong
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Phnom Penh
CIA
Air America
Air Vietnam
Put parish on trial with Beebe in Ohio case
OBERLIN The Christ Episcopal Church vestry asks that the parish be a co defendant with Rev L Peter Beebe who faces church trial May 13 in Sandusky for ecclesiastical disobedience. The vestry votes 9 3 to share responsibility and inclusion in the case, arguing unity of interest. The diocese may later rule, with Beebe’s supporters and opponents split among parishioners.
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Oberlin
Christ Episcopal Church
L. Peter Beebe
Beebe
Sandusky
Ed Henderson
John Rea
Episcopal Lawman
Henderson
Peter
James Reasner
St. Andrew Church
Toledo
Sterling Newell
Carter Heyward
New York
Christ Church
Alison Cheek
Virginia
John H. Burt
Ohio
Hong Kong
Trinity Cathedral
Weather Outlook with Rain and Snow Chances
Rain from night into Sunday with 80 percent tonight and 70 percent tomorrow. Clouds persist with a chance of rain or snow Sunday and Monday, ending Tuesday. Highs mostly in the 10s, lows in the 30s and upper 20s. Winds southeast 15 to 24 mph tonight. Sunset 7:48 pm, sunrise 7:18 am.
FBI Fourth Elusive New Left Fugitive Captured
Susan Edith Saxe, 26, Albany, N.Y., arrested in Philadelphia on charges of interstate flight to avoid prosecution for the murder of a Boston police officer after a bank robbery. She is the fourth major radical arrested since last November, part of a shrinking fugitive left that once dominated the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. The Weather Underground remains at large, while others linked to bombings in New York and Wisconsin have faced charges and prison terms.
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FBI
PBS
Susan Edith Saxe
Boston
Miss Saxe
Albany
N.Y
Philadelphia
Saxe
Weather Underground
Karleton L. Armstrong
University of Wisconsin
Jane Alpert
New York City
Cameron D. Bishop
East Greenwich
R.I
Colorado
Bombs injure 13 pilgrims in Jerusalem
In Jerusalem on Good Friday two bombs hidden in baskets wounded 13 Easter pilgrims on a bus in the Jewish sector as crowds followed the Way of the Cross. A second blast in Zion Square caused no injuries, police rounded up about 10 Arabs for questioning, and security remained tight around Church of the Holy Sepulchre while Pope Paul VI led Catholic observances.
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Holy City
Zion Square
Henry A. Kissinger
East Jerusalem
Christ
Calvary
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Via Dolorosa
United Nations
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Stretch
Robert Wadlow
George Esper
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Central Coastal Plain
al Francis
Frederick C. Weyand
U.S. Army
Nguyen van Thieu
Laos
Vientiane
Pathet Lao
Wartorn
Vietnam
Oberlin Vestry
Burt
Jane Hwang
Anglican Diocese of
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Brattleboro, Vt
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