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excerpts of conversations between Scott and capsule communicator during 30 mins hatch was open and between Scott and Irwin and ground controllers during lunar module's final descent to moon's surface
Cong conferees break deadline on Mansfield amemdment to draft extension bill; agree on compromise earlier worked out with Sec Rogers; withdrawal deadline dropped, but Nixon is urged to set 'date certain' for withdrawal of all US troops in return for release of all US POWs; text of revised amendment
Comecon announces agreement on complex plan for econ integration, including convertible currency; economist attending 3-day meeting says convertible currency is needed to facilitate multinatl trading within bloc since most of E Eur's trade is bilateral and complexity of currencies offers little opportunity to settle accounts between partners and make trading arrangements with 3d parties
crash is worst air disaster on record; pilot of F-86, who had only 21 hrs of training in craft, reptdly entered air space reserved for commercial airliners, police say they will arrest pilot, Y Ichikawa, for 'professional negligence'; other major air disasters listed, illus
NYC Police Comr Murphy announces that Narcotics Div head Deputy Chief Inspector J P McCahey and his 2d in command Inspector E L Holtzman have been removed from their commands; unit had been criticized by SIC as inefficient and corrupt; comm investigations and police officials stress that there is no evidence that either man had been involved in any improper assns
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 28, 1971, covering July 31, 1971.
Carole King
James Taylor
The Rolling Stones
Paul & Linda McCartney
Various Artists
1971Gus Frerotte, American football player and coach[†]
Gustave Joseph Frerotte is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Washington Redskins in the seventh round of the 1994 NFL draft. He played college football at Tulsa.
1971Walter P. Carter, American soldier and activist (born 1923)[†]
Walter Percival Carter was an activist and central figure in Baltimore, Maryland during the Civil Rights Movement. He earned that designation by organizing demonstrations against discrimination throughout Maryland. Carter is best known for his work as the chairman of the Baltimore chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) from 1960 to 1963 and as the Maryland coordinator for the 1963 March on Washington. A hospital, an elementary school, a recreation center, a college library, and a day-care center in Baltimore have been named in his memory.
1971Apollo program: the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.[†]
The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the United States human spaceflight program led by NASA, which landed the first humans on the Moon in 1969. Apollo followed Project Mercury that put the first Americans in space. It was conceived in 1960 as a three-person spacecraft during President Dwight D. Eisenhower's administration. Apollo was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal for the 1960s of "landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth" in an address to Congress on May 25, 1961. It was the third American human spaceflight program to fly, preceded by Project Gemini conceived in 1961 to extend spaceflight capability in support of Apollo.
In 1971, the world population was approximately 3,769,847,865 people[†]