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ARIES-The Ram, Mar. 21-Apr. 19 (Governs the head) Mars, Pluto- rulers of the 1st house Positive: Enterprising, incisive, spontaneous Negative: Impatient, impetuous Career: Pioneer, architect, soldier
Captain Bobby Bauer, setting up the first of his line's two goals, broke into the Pioneer zone all alone, and caught the Denver defense sleeping with a pass to Ron Mark. Mark fired the puck and stunned the confident defending champions with his goal...
Reducing the Bill. The volunteers are doing pioneer work in a comparatively new field of law: the rights of the poor. In an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, the Legal Aid Society seeks to have the state's tenant-eviction statute declared unconstitutional because the law makes it all but impossible for the evicted persons to defend themselves in court. Volunteer lawyers are also challenging in a federal court state welfare laws that provide payments for a parent's first three children but none for any born thereafter...
Died. Eugene Vidal, 73, pioneer promoter of civil aviation and father of Author Gore Vidal; in Los Angeles, Calif. Vidal starred in football at West Point and competed in the decathlon in the Antwerp Olympic Games of 1920. He later taught aviation and coached football at the academy, resigned his commission in 1926 to become assistant general manager of Transcontinental Air Transport (now TWA). From 1933 to 1937 he was Director of Air Commerce in Washington, where he organized and expanded the Government's civil aeronautics program. Later he served as a director of Northeast Airlines and as aviation...
...rebels. Guyana's ambassador to Venezuela, Novelist E. A. Braithwaite, handed the foreign ministry in Caracas a note written in words more angry than those of the gentle author of To Sir, With Love; the Venezuelans handed it back. As for the heirs of that old South Dakota pioneer, Ben Hart, they fled over the border to Venezuela. And the fine houses that the Harts built, under the trees they watered, were blackened heaps of ashes, burned down by the flamethrowers of Forbes Burnham's soldiers...