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Pan Amer uses substitute Boeing 747 for inaugural flight to London at craft scheduled to make flight develops overheated engine during taxiing and is forced to return to terminal, illus; craft and flight described
HEW Dept rept covering 3-yr period ending in June '66 charges city educ authorities with laxity in handling of Fed funds for city's educ projects; cites as example $141-million of Fed funds advanced to city during 3-yr period for which city made no acctg to State Educ Dept; G Satin, dir of state and Fed programs in city, says mgt of Fed funds has improved in recent yrs and that many early problems were result of newness of program and lack of Fed guidelines and regulations
coroner's jury rules deaths of Hampton and Clark were 'justifiable' based 'solely on evidence presented'; debated for over 5 hrs after hearing coroner's chemist testify that 2 examinations of Hampton's blood did not disclose any trace of barbiturates; coroner's autopsy asst also testified that he immediately washed only bullet recovered from Hampton's body and did not notice any traces of plaster on wound or slug; plaster trace would indicate bullet struck Hampton through wall of bedroom in which he died; woman identified as Clark's mother rejects 'justifiable' ruling; Hanrahan hails verdict
Chesapeake Bay Crossings: Navy cargo ship Yancey breaks loose from anchorage, smashes 5-sec gap in Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel; bridge officials see at least 4-wk delay before crossing can be reopened to traffic; illus; map
Sen adopts amendment that makes it necessary to return funds bill to HR, thus delaying confrontation with Nixon; Repr Albert urges HR Dems to unite in overriding veto; says bill gives Dems chance to label Adm anti-educ and anti-health; Scott challenges case Dems are trying to develop that it is they who are interested in reordering priorities
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 21, 1970, covering January 22, 1970.
The Beatles
Led Zeppelin
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tom Jones
The Rolling Stones
1970Abraham Olano, Spanish cyclist[†]
Abraham Olano Manzano is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced as a professional from 1992 to 2002. He won the World Road Championship in 1995, and the World Time Trial Championship in 1998, becoming the first male cyclist to win both.
1970The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.[†]
The Boeing 747 is a long-range wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes in the United States between 1968 and 2023. After the introduction of the 707 in October 1958, Pan Am wanted a jet 2+1⁄2 times its size, to reduce its seat cost by 30%. In 1965, Joe Sutter left the 737 development program to design the 747. In April 1966, Pan Am ordered 25 Boeing 747-100 aircraft, and in late 1966, Pratt & Whitney agreed to develop the JT9D engine, a high-bypass turbofan. On September 30, 1968, the first 747 was rolled out of the custom-built Everett Plant, the world's largest building by volume. The 747's first flight took place on February 9, 1969, and the 747 was certified in December of that year. It entered service with Pan Am on January 22, 1970. The 747 was the first airplane called a "Jumbo Jet" as the first wide-body airliner.
In 1970, the world population was approximately 3,694,683,794 people[†]