Recycling Rockets and the Space Shuttle Debate
The piece argues NASA should pursue returnable reusable rockets to cut costs, envisioning a shuttle system enabling orbital assembly and routine lunar trips. It contrasts 1960s urgency with modern budget constraints and questions air defense readiness highlighted by a Cuban airliner incident.
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Wright Brothers
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Atlantic Ocean
Nixon
Congress
Surgeon General Reports Smoking Health Risks
Washington notes the sixth annual report on smoking and health finds cigarette smoking remains a major US health problem. It shows higher death rates from heart disease, emphysema, bronchitis, and lung cancer, plus risks to pregnancy. the Senate will hold hearings on these findings amid 44 million American smokers.
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Washington
U.S
Senate
United States
Surgeon General
Moss
Goteborg
Sweden
The
Tobacco Institute
Flat Earth Society
Big Debate Still to Come In 1972 Nomination Fight
The piece outlines Democratic and Republican conventions set for July 10 in Miami Beach and August 21 in San Diego, noting preconvention campaigning, foreign policy influence from Nixon trips to Beijing and Moscow, and the chance that domestic issues and Vietnam will shape the race. It discusses recovery timing, party strategies, and the search for a clear nominee with a stance on both domestic welfare and foreign policy.
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Washington
Miami Beach
Fla
San Diego
Calif
United States
Peking
U.S
Vietnam
Congress
Nixon
Hanoi
Paris
State Senator McCUE seeks trimming of salaries in budget
News notes include Charlottesville state senator E C McCUE calling for reduced fat salaries in the 1962 64 budget. James Wood senior David Braithwaite attends the National Poultry Fund Conference in Kansas City as one of two State Future Farmers Association reps. A citywide real estate reassessment proceeds through year with four year cycle. A Winchester merchants delegation asks council to abolish parking meters from Boscawen to Cork.
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E. C. McCue
Charlottesville
David Braithwaite
James Wood
National Poultry Factfund Conference
Kansas City
State
Future Farmers Association
Truman
Congress
United Nations
Conrad-Hoover Post 21
American Legion of Winchester
M. B. Clowe, Jr
Loudoun Street
Winchester
Divine Call While At Work In Everyday Tasks
The meditation notes how God called key biblical figures like Moses David Gideon Elisha and the apostles while they were busy with ordinary labor. It argues against the idea that leisure is the preferred path to salvation asserting that God speaks to people in work as well as worship and street life.
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Moses
Midian
David
Gideon
Elisha
Andrew
Peter
James
John
Death Penalty Issue Looms in Supreme Court Battle
Columnist William S. White discusses the looming U S Supreme Court review of capital punishment amid wider political and moral divides. He recalls witnessing electric chair executions and reflects on the deep social conflict over punishment.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the
United States
Penguin study headlines as world news drifts
A British expedition sails to the Galapagos to study penguin sex life and activity as world events spanning Vietnam to the Middle East continue. The item also includes a trivia score guide and a quiz about U S cabinet posts and constitutional basics.
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Anniston
Ala
Star
Galapagos Islands
South American
Vietnam
Middle East
Animal Kingdom
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Moon
Pacific Ocean
NASA
America
House Armed Services
Subcommittee
Pentagon
House
Defense Department
New Orleans
Florida
California
By James J. Kilpatrick
Utah
Frank E
By David Lawrence
Moscow
Doctors Hospital
New York
Boston
Institute
the Star
Ivan Roberts
GOD
Winchester Evening Star
Jack F. Davis
Eugene P. Miller
Thomas T. Byrd
Douglas B. O'Connell
William S. White
Britain
England
Church of England
House of Lords
Labor Party
London
Normandy
I.Q
Hudson River
Hudson Bay
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