Word: rays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last month the committee in effect re-convicted James Earl Ray of stalking and slaying the civil rights leader in the spring of 1968. In the process, the Congressmen discredited the persistent theory that Ray did not act alone. Last week the committee turned to the Kennedy assassination and added credence to the main finding of the Warren Commission: Lee Harvey Oswald alone killed the President and wounded former Texas Governor John Connally...
...JULY the Massachusetts State Legislature passed a bill restricting state funding for abortions, leaving poor women without the freedom to decide whether or not they would like to have abortions. The bill, which was sponsored by state representatives Ray Flynn and Charles Doyle, is damaging and reprehensible because it places an economic constraint on a private and moral decision...
...then astronomers had turned their wartime technology to the peaceful pursuit of stargazing. Rockets equipped with X-ray detectors roared off the pad. Soaring high above the atmosphere, which prevents celestial X rays from reaching the earth, they enabled astronomers to begin charting X-ray sources in the heavens. Old radar antennas were converted into sensitive radio telescopes, making it possible for scientists to listen to more of the sky's puzzling beeps, squeals and hums. Some of this noise came from so-called radio galaxies that were all but invisible in the mirrors and lenses of ordinary optical telescopes...
...this telltale radiation that was apparently detected from Cygnus by the pioneering Uhuru and Copernicus X-ray satellites. A similar partnership of two stars?one of them also a black hole?may be responsible for the X rays that are being picked up from Scorpius...
DIED. Charles Eames, 71, modern designer whose name became synonymous with his curved chairs; of a heart attack; in St. Louis. In 1941, while designing molded machine parts for the U.S. Navy, Eames collaborated by night with his wife Ray to produce the "potato chip," a sculptured wood back and separate seat, both affixed to a steel frame. Today his molded plastic chairs are found in airline terminals and office lobbies the world over...