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Goggle-Eyed Cops. At dawn on the day of the planned raids, New York City cops swooped down on Goldy's Diner in South Ozone Park, Queens, and arrested six coffee drinkers who claimed that they were simply going hunting with the grenades, pipe bombs and rifles in their car. At the same hour, another platoon of policemen moved in on a Westchester County country house, which was flying a U.S. flag with 13 stars not far from its hillside fallout shelter; they found enough arms to fill a truck. In Syracuse, Brewerton, and Bay Shore, L.I., officers flushed...
...NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY SPECIAL (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). More on evolution. "Dr. Leakey and the Dawn of Man" deals with Anthropologist Dr. Louis Leakey and his family of fossil hunters in East Africa. After more than 30 years, the Leakeys have made such finds as Zinjanthropus, a manlike creature believed to have lived 1,750,000 years ago, and the 2,000,000-year-old Homo habilis, who was found among some of the earliest signs of "culture," and is believed to be a direct ancestor of modern...
...revolving moon brings lunar dawn, and temperatures rise quickly. The meteorites give up their stored energy in the form of visible light. Thus, Sun suggests, in a strip less than 100 miles wide alongside the lunar terminator-the line that divides the moon's areas of day and night-the moon emits light of its own, which may be almost as intense as its reflected sunlight...
Julia Spring '67 and Allan Tobin, a Quincy House tutor in Biology, were seriously injured in an automobile accident near New York City on the New England Thruway before dawn Sunday morning...
...south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured, they would land about dawn, surprise the British Governor and police chief in their beds, and take possession of the islands without firing a shot...