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...Midlesex Republican Club, the oldest Republican Club in the country, is a statewide organization, but is not part of the regular party hierarchy. "We don't support candidates for office," Bellamy said. "We just like to get together and discuss politics," he said...
...because of the earthquake danger. Since then, buildings as high as 43 stories have been erected-and they all withstood the strain last week. There were new warnings from some scientists, however, that skyscrapers should not be allowed. Mostly it was older buildings that suffered heavy damage (including the oldest residence in Los Angeles, the downtown Avila Adobe, which had withstood quakes for 150 years). A further worry was the fact that 20 schools suffered severe structural damage...
...achieve objectives well beyond the capabilities of any machine that has yet been devised." Although he has not been overly enthusiastic about the space program lately. President Nixon also was exhilarated. "You gave all of us older fellows hope," he told Shepard, who at 47 is the oldest American ever to venture into space...
...continued, "is that it goes back as far as five million years. Ten years ago, scientists thought the Australopithecus, a direct ancestor of Homo sapiens, was only a half a million years old. Then several fossils were discovered which proved he lived long before that. But this is the oldest bone discovered...
...explained in letters which he wrote the same day to Belmont's school superintendent, school committee chairman, and selectman that he had been referring to the condition of the school system in 1964-when he decided to send his oldest child Hilany to the private Belmont Day School-rather than today...