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Before they depart, the astronauts will leave behind three items of symbolic import: a 3-ft. by 5-ft. U.S. flag stiffened with thin wire so that it will appear to be flying on the windless surface of the moon; a silicon disk bearing good-will messages for posterity from world leaders, including President Tito, Pope Paul and Queen Elizabeth; and a metal plaque bearing the names not only of the three astronauts, but also of President Richard M. Nixon, a fact that has stirred some criticism...
...regular customers in a Lincoln motel lounge. With a borrowed $500 they recorded 2525, which has a simple and schmaltzy tune and a chugging, nostalgic instrumental backup right out of the early 1950s. They released the record on their own label (Truth), gave a copy to some friendly disk jockeys in Lincoln, then watched it take off as a regional hit (11,000 copies sold...
...fans no longer have to rely on memory. The man who became his era's favorite radio disk jockey, then gave television Garroway at Large and launched the Today show is back at work in a 90-minute, late-morning local show in Boston...
...malfunction because of rusting brake lines. Nissan executives also revealed that there are potential defects in 300,000 of their cars, including 39,000 of the 1969 Datsuns exported to the U.S. Other manufacturers listed shift levers that snap off, front suspensions that can be bent by rough roads, disk brakes that are not reliable and axle assemblies that burn...
...Dimension's double-bill Aquarius/ Let the Sunshine In, which has sold more than a million copies, was No. 3 on Billboard's top 100 records; the Cowsills' Hair is just a notch or so behind. Rising fast on the charts is a new disk of Good Morning Starshine by a singer named Oliver. Another performer who has successfully dipped into the Hair repertory is Nina Simone, whose soulful Ain't Got No/ I Got Life for a time was the top pop hit in Britain. Last month, the gospel-oriented Staple Singers came out with...