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...Christian Fellowship South House Drama Society Tr. of newly formed SoHo Waltz Society Dir. of Godspell" at Leverett Clothing drive for Goodwill...
Settles was cruising to work in his Triumph TR 7 on the morning of June 2 when he was stopped for speeding in Signal Hill (pop. 5,600), a city surrounded by Long Beach. According to Officer Jerry Lee Brown, Settles refused to cooperate. Two other policemen helped bring him to the Signal Hill lockup, where he was booked for resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer and possession of cocaine Two hours later, Settles was found dead in his cell, hanging by a mattress cover...
...importance of statistics on the U.S.-Soviet military balance can be, and is, debated endlessly and inconclusively. The trouble is, the numbers do not reveal qualitative comparisons. For example, the Soviets have nothing to match a brand-new U.S. spy plane, the TR-1, that went into service last week; its cameras from an altitude of some 80,000 feet can draw a picture of enemy movements 200 miles beyond a battlefield. Though the Soviets have more submarines, the U.S. can easily detect where they are?whereas the Soviets, so far as is known, have never tracked even...
...long Ariane rocket rose into high earth orbit, it evoked multilingual cheers from technicians at France's Guiana Space Center and from European space officials watching a huge TV monitor outside Paris ("Très jolie!" "Excellent trajectory!"). The rocket carried a European weather observatory called Meteosat 2, an Indian communications satellite and a packet of heat-measuring devices. The flawless launch marked the first time the European Space Agency (ESA) had sent major payloads into orbit with its own booster...
...world is deteriorating morally, and if there is a chance of doing something beautiful, I want to do it," said Singer Joan Baez of her determination to give a Christmas Eve concert in front of Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame. But doing something très belle can be très difficile in France, Baez found. To arrange her hour-long concert, to be attended by 50,000 and televised on both sides of the Atlantic, she spent four years negotiating with Paris' city hall, archdiocese and police. "In the end they were genuinely excited about...