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...Navy sent in investigators, then flew Mario Escamilla to Thule AFB in Greenland, and on to Washington. The pudgy, bespectacled Mexican American from Santa Barbara, Calif., freely admitted that he had fired the rifle. There was no place another-assailant could have hidden in the 8-ft. by 32-ft. trailer. The prosecution had a very strong case-with one catch. Though an American flag has flown on T-3 for nearly 20 years, the four-mile by seven mile ice mass does not belong to the U.S. When the State Department refused to accept Admiral Peary's annexation...
...with the caption: "O captain, stop this misery!" ··· He flew the 230,000 miles to the moon, and back. Now Lunar Explorer Alan Bean is as earthbound as a turtle. For a minor infraction of flight regulations while taking off in his T-38 from Ellington AFB, near Houston, the Apollo 12 astronaut has been grounded for 30 days. ··· Wildlife conservationists have declared open season on Gina Lollobrigida. They protest that one of her maxicoats must have used the pelts of ten wild tigers, and that there are only 600 members of the endangered...
...BATEMAN Major, Canadian Forces HQ NORAD (NEEC) Ent AFB, Colo...
...Touch. More than 30 of the superplanes have been built in Lockheed Aircraft's fabled "Skunk Works" under the supervision of Aeronautical Engineer Clarence ("Kelly") Johnson, the man who also designed the U2. The Air Force admits to one squadron, stationed at California's Beale AFB, but the planes are also known to fly out of Okinawa, the Philippines and Thailand. Although a few other aircraft can challenge the SR-71 in a brief dash, the Blackbird can fly 2,000 m.p.h. at 120,000 ft. for as long as an hour, far outdistancing any rival...
...Krokodiloes of Harvard are pleased to announce the election of: Bruce D. Merrit '71 of Quincy House and Cincinatti, Ohio; Frederick J. Murphy '71 of Kirkland House and Worcester, Mass; Jeffrey A. Nims '71 of Leverett and Sudbury, Mass; Donald C. Thomas III '72 of Straus Hall and Scott AFB, III,; Christopher R. Tunnard '71 of Quincy House and New Haven, Conn,; Lynn B. Weigel '70 of Kirkland House and Powell, Tenn,; and Walter Thomas Workman '72 of Mower Hall and Waynesville, Ohio as members of the 1969-70 group...