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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...died of kidney failure in 1976, his purported will surfaced mysteriously in Salt Lake City on a desk at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dubbed the Mormon will, the document bequeathed his fortune to an improbable collection of institutions and individuals, including a Utah gas station attendant, Melvin Dummar, who claimed that he had once given Hughes a ride to Las Vegas...
...seemed fully satisfied with the Administration's contention last week. Though the evidence produced by U.S. intelligence has not been made public, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter has learned that it includes transcripts of the radio traffic between Katangese rebel units during the invasion. Monitored by a U.S. intelligence station in Lubumbashi, the traffic points to a tangible Cuban presence in the area...
NASA officials originally expected Skylab to remain in orbit for at least a decade. That would have allowed ample time for the space shuttle to rendezvous with the space station and help boost it to a higher orbit, extending its lifetime indefinitely. But now the shuttle, plagued by engine problems, is at least four months behind schedule and there will be no manned flight before December 1979, which could be too late to save Skylab...
They flock to the festival in four-wheel-drive pickups, station wagons and huge recreational vehicles for a couple of days of shopping for items that range from electrified fences and worm medicine to a $200 "rocking sheep" covered in natural fleece. Wolfing down golf-ball-size chunks of fresh lamb barbecue (at $3.50 a plate), they watch as skilled artisans turn piles of fleece into yarn with Rumpelstiltskin-like skill. After hours spent looking over the thickset Dorsets and Suffolks, fine-haired Merinos, goatish Barbado black bellies and exotic Karakuls on display, people whose only past experience with sheep...
...avoid more serious shutdowns if the glacier retreats, the Coast Guard has been considering a number of alternatives. One proposal, to build a powerful radar station near Valdez to monitor icebergs, would require large amounts of money before geologists can confirm that the glacier is indeed retreating. Also, most icebergs calved by Columbia Glacier are "growlers" (20-ft.-wide slabs of ice that rise less than four feet above the water line) and somewhat larger "bergy bits" that are not easily picked up by radar. Another idea is to tow bergs out of the shipping lanes. But both solutions would...