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Died. Harold Babcock, 86, pioneer astronomer credited with discovering periodic reversals in the sun's magnetic field; of a heart attack; in Pasadena, Calif. Babcock was in semiretirement in 1958 when he noticed the reversals, theorized they would occur every eleven years and would change the shape of sunspots, dark areas on the solar surface that cause magnetic storms...
Married. Jonnie Miller, 23, adopted daughter of the swing era's top bandleader, the late Glenn Miller; and Frederick Swendson, 23, student at the University of Minnesota; in Pasadena, Calit...
Died Dr. Charles E. Fuller, 80, Baptist minister turned radio evangelist whose sermons reached 10 million weekly in the 1940s; of heart disease; in Pasadena, Calif. "If you are not in Jesus Christ, you are a child ot Sa-tan!" cried Fuller on his Old-Fashioned Revival Hour, and at the peak of his career the message was beamed out every Sunday on 900 stations across the U.S. Though his popularity faded in recent years, he could still be heard on some 500 stations, many of which will continue to broadcast his sermons on tape...
Even with luck, mission controllers at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory gave themselves only a 40% chance of a successful landing. If one of Surveyor 7's three feet landed on a high rock, the craft would tip over, rendering its cameras and testing equipment useless. Or the feet might straddle a rock, which would then smash into the spacecraft's delicate underbelly. In an almost shoot-the-works mood, therefore, Surveyor 7's controllers fired the retrorockets at the end of the 66-hour, 225,000-mile journey last week. The craft obediently braked from...