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...finances began to concentrate in October of 1973 on donations by dairymen. By August of 1974, the Government had amassed enough evidence to win a Washington grand jury indictment charging Connally on five counts for having allegedly accepted $10,000 from Associated Milk Producers, Inc., the nation's largest dairy cooperative...
...Lough at two young men whom they apparently took to be the bombers. The tragedy of Narrow Water was now complete. The two were merely gawking at what had happened. One was shot in the arm; the other was killed. In addition, 18 soldiers, including Blair, had died -the largest number of British troops lost in a single incident in Ulster...
...from the minute Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre found a way to fix images on silver-coated plates in 1839. "Photography was art from the moment the first shutter clicked," insists Graham Nash, 37, a San Francisco musician (formerly of Crosby, Stills and Nash), who owns one of the largest private collections on the West Coast. But only in the past decade has the general public placed photography alongside the other major arts. The first commercially successful New York City gallery devoted solely to photographs was opened in 1969 by Lee Witkin, who is credited with helping start the boom...
...NASA's Pioneer 11 spacecraft is also on the verge of making history. On Saturday, Sept. 1, the 260-kg (570-lb.) robot will become the first envoy from earth to reconnoiter Saturn, passing within 21,300 km (13,300 miles) of the solar system's second largest planet. If the flyby goes as planned, Pioneer 11 will not only send back 50 colored closeups of the great ringed gaseous sphere but provide valuable data on its interior structure, temperature, density and magnetic field...
...Ames Research Center, near San Francisco, say that the probe could be destroyed as it swoops close to the outermost of Saturn's thin visible rings. But safe passage should provide a scientific bonus. After passing Saturn, Pioneer 11 will turn its electronic eyes on Titan, largest of Saturn's ten known moons, which seems to have a solid surface and methane atmosphere. The satellite could shelter organic molecules and-it is an extreme long shot-even primitive life forms. Since scientists have found no life on Venus, Mars or Jupiter, sighs Project Scientist John Wolfe, "Titan...