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Died. Commodore John W. Anderson, 77, affable master mariner who captained the world's fastest passenger liner, the United States, on 494 safe Atlantic crossings during an 11??-year span; after a long illness; in Tenafly...
...October or at the end of November. The weather worsened, so the October date was scratched. After a National Security Council meeting on Nov. 5, Laird stayed behind and told Nixon that it was time for a decision if the raid was to be held that month. On Nov. 11???Veterans Day, renamed "Prisoners of War Day" this year by presidential proclamation?Nixon assembled Rogers, Laird, Kissinger and Admiral Thomas Moorer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Moorer reviewed the plans. The hazards were clear. The slow, low-flying, vulnerable helicopters could be detected and shot down. There might...
...lunar orbit?the Soviet Union's unmanned Luna 15 moon probe (see p. 17). Arriving in the neighborhood two days before the U.S. spacecraft, Luna went into an orbit as close as ten miles from the moon and eventually landed. The chances that Luna would be visible from Apollo 11???much less collide with it?were estimated by Houston's Christopher Columbus Kraft, director of flight operations, as about "one in a billion...
...week, when the Italian government notified Fielding that it had awarded him the Grand Cross of the Ordina al Merito della Repubblica, and wanted to decorate him on June 11 in Barcelona, it was in character for Temple Fielding to send regrets. He will be too busy on June 11???getting together with the givers of his college days at his 30th Princeton reunion...
...records for cold were broken in New England where temperatures as low as ?56° were reported. In Boston it went to ?18°, in Manhattan to ?14°, in Philadelphia to ?11??. Florida had snow and hail (which killed two cows). Dwellers on islands off the North Atlantic coast were icebound and had to be fed by airplane. Temperatures recorded included ?4° at Lynchburg, Va., ?6° at Washington, ?8° at Richmond, ?8° at Atlantic City, ?26° at Buffalo, ?12° at Toledo, ?34° at Sault Ste. Marie, ?10° at Duluth...