NASA Eyes Viking I Mars Landing For Bicentennial
The article notes NASA aims to land on Mars by 1976 as part of bicentennial celebrations with a Viking I probe planned for 1975. Target date may be July 4, but specifics are undecided. The unmanned mission would report instrument readings from the Martian surface.
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Mars
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Earth
Martian
Viking
America
Conferees End Battle Over Cancer Strategy and Agency
House and Senate members reach agreement on expanding federal cancer fight. They choose to keep the Cancer Institute within the NIH, rejecting a new independent agency. The plan shifts to a stepped up, multi piece approach rather than a single breakthrough. The decision sets the stage for NIH affiliated institutes to implement broader efforts.
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Senate
Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Movement seeks lower ages for Senate and House service
Senators Bayh and Drinan propose an amendment to cut the minimum ages to 27 for the Senate and 25 for the House a shift meant to widen youth eligibility by about 9.4 million in the House and 7.9 million in the Senate. The piece notes little demand from younger people for congressional service and recalls Henry Clay as a rare postwar example.
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Sen. Bayh
Indiana
Rep. Drinan
Massachusetts
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Senate
House
Henry Clay
Congress
Katanga Secession Ends Pending Local Approval
President Moosse Tshombe agrees to end Katanga secession but requires Elisabethville supporters to approve before implementation. Independent action by Jess Kiracofe Jr. sees Royal Crown beat Gray & Eddy 3 1 in the Lucky Strike headliner. Reverend Phillip Turner ordained in Washington Cathedral on December 16 19 Rep Howard Smith outlines peacetime strike control. George A Schroth to purchase George Washington Garage effective January 1 1947. Handley High School bows to Hagerstown 55 16 in boys basketball.
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Katanga
Elisabethville
Jess Kiracofe, Jr
Royal Crown
Battlers
Gray & Eddy
Phillip Turner
Constance Buckley
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Washington Cathedral
Howard W. Smith
D Va
George Barnsley
George Washington
Joseph A. Schroth
Winchester
Hagerstown
Heavenly Joy in the Christmas Season
The piece contrasts Saturnalia with Christ birth, noting the shift from drunken revelry to wholesome joy. It highlights carols, angel songs, gift giving, and the emphasis on heavenly joy over earthly delight during the Christmas season.
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Christ
Jesus
Veto by China Reordering UN Alignments Looms Large
Washington reports suggest a Chinese veto at the UN Security Council could force a realignment following Nixon's outreach to Peking. The India Pakistan war is viewed as a Soviet victory and Chinese setback, with Beijing warning of no South Asia tranquility while tensions shift toward the Middle East.
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Gannett News Service
Washington
United Nations Security Council
Nixon
Peking
Russia
China
U.N
International Forum
East Pakistan
Subcontinent
South Asia
Middle East
United States
Israel
Asia
Moscow
Soviet Union
Pakistan
Chou En-lai
India
Yakov A. Malik
Chiano Kuan-hau
New Delhi
Cairo
Europe
Africa
Sad Magazine and Global Politics Clash in Opinion
The piece reviews Ms magazine's inaugural issue, condemning what it calls petulant feminists and a threnody of complaint while urging a more descriptive name. It also reports on Mainland China’s UN admission and Sino Soviet tensions, and notes a Detroit Michigan ruling on de jure segregation.
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Washington
the Mail
Women's Liberation Movement
Gloria Steinem
Florence
S.C
Morning News
South
North
Detroit
Michigan
Styptic Pencil Becomes Family Christmas Tradition
Joy Stilley recalls a quirky family Christmas ritual built around styptic pencils. Each year Gay buys the father a pencil, later escalating to a 15 cent item, with surprises from Paris and California shaping the tradition and ending with a French hemp stick gift on a special return visit.
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Gay
Jack the Ripper
Brenn
California
Paris
Sweden’s Smorgasbord and Blond Beauties Tourists Traps
In Stockholm a feature contrasts Sweden’s two first class tourist traps the blondes and the smorgasbord. The piece explains smorgasbord origins and current practice with courses beverages and prices and notes changing tastes among travelers and immigrants. The article ends with a political aside about John Mitchell and a California Republican gathering.
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Sweden
Russia
John Mitchell
Martha
Supreme Court
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