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CAPE KENNEDY, Fla., Thursday, Dec. 7—For more than eight hours it stood silent in the black Florida night, a brilliant white shaft, set shimmering by floodlights.
Gov Rockefeller assails LIRR nonoperating unions strike as 'unconscionable' and demands that they return to work as 7th day of strike ends, Dec 6; refuses to enter talks himself; negotiators hold 1st formal talks since Dec 4 and rept no progress; commuters experience worst traffic tieups of strike period as heavy rains cause flooding on several LI hwys
Nixon Adm official repts, on Dec 6, that Adm has ordered postwar aid programs give highest priority to resettlement and rehabilitation of millions of refugees dislocated by fighting in Indochina; currently there is disagreement in Washington on extent of refugee problem; number of refugees in Cambodia estimated to be as many as 2 million, those in Laos about 250,000; Sen E M Kennedy's Subcom on Refugees charges Govt estimates are too small; Adm official says following cease-fire, potential donor states will be called to discuss future aid programs in Indochina; survey teams reptdly will be sent into Indochina to rept on situation and expedite detailed planning; some estimates on proposed US aid programs discussed
6-mo investigation into practices of unlicensed mental health therapists by NYS Atty Gen Lefkowitz discloses evidence of widespread 'quackery,' 'sexual misconduct,' and deception of clients through use of phony academic credentials and titles; Dec 15 public hearing has been set 'to expose practices' by 'unlicensed therapists and others purporting to practice as psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, hypnotists and marriage counselors'; investigators from Atty Gen's Consumer Fraud and Protection Bur reptdly made hundreds of contacts with people in unlicensed mental health field; evidence was gathered through undercover visits to clinics, telephone ints, lrs and complaints from former patients and rev of subpoenaed records and files; finding detailed; Asst Atty Gen Mindell says it is impossible to estimate total number of unlicensed psychotherapy clinics throughout NYS, but says they number in hundreds; says probe began in spring following disclosures by NY Times that growing number of persons holding hon or mail-order doctoral degrees, or certificates from unaccredited insts, were entering mental health field; says probe concentrated on those aspects of practice that involve deception or unfair practices toward consumer
NJ State Police Supt D B Kelly testifies on Dec 6 in Trenton, NJ, that organized crime has been using new daily NJ Lottery as means of determining winning combination in daily illegal numbers game in state; tells NJ Legis gambling-study comm that instead of driving illegal numbers game out of state, lottery is in fact enabling numbers operators to determine and publicize their daily winners on same day; testimony detailed; comm chmn State Sen W Dumont comments; illus
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1972, covering December 7, 1972.
The Moody Blues
The Temptations
Carole King
Cat Stevens
Yes
1972Hermann Maier, Austrian skier[†]
Hermann Maier is an Austrian former World Cup champion alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist. Nicknamed the "Herminator", Maier ranks among the greatest alpine ski racers in history, with four overall World Cup titles, two Olympic gold medals, and three World Championship titles. His 54 World Cup race victories – 24 super-G, 15 downhills, 14 giant slaloms, and 1 combined – rank third on the men's all-time list behind Ingemar Stenmark's 86 victories and Marcel Hirscher's 67 victories. Until 2023 he held the record for the most points in one season by a male alpine skier, with 2000 points from the 2000 season. From 2000–2013 he also held the title of most points in one season by any alpine skier, until Tina Maze scored 2414 points in the 2013 season.
1972Tammy Lynn Sytch, American wrestler and manager[†]
Tamara Lynn Sytch, commonly known by her ring name Sunny, is an American former professional wrestling personality.
1972Apollo 17, the last Apollo Moon mission, is launched. The crew takes the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they leave the Earth.[†]
Apollo 17 was the eleventh and final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the sixth and most recent time humans have set foot on the Moon. Commander Gene Cernan and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt walked on the Moon, while Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans orbited above. Schmitt was the only professional geologist to land on the Moon; he was selected in place of Joe Engle, as NASA had been under pressure to send a scientist to the Moon. The mission's heavy emphasis on science meant the inclusion of a number of new experiments, including a biological experiment containing five mice that was carried in the command module.
In 1972, the world population was approximately 3,844,917,680 people[†]