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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moon. But he cautions that there is "an exceedingly small risk of possibly great harm" in not maintaining strict quarantine procedures for the returning Apollo 11 astronauts. "Maybe it's sure to 99% that Apollo 11 will not bring back lunar organisms," he says, "but even that one percent of uncertainty is too large to be complacent about...
...been grades. A large group of first-year students realized in the middle of the winter that in June they would face examinations which would virtually determine their legal careers, and they found the prospect simply unacceptable. They prepared a report which urged several educational reforms, and eventually 80 percent of the first-year class signed a petition demanding pass-fail grading this year...
...high-performance, low price-class Plymouth, popularized by the familiar "beep-beep" ad campaign since its introduction last model year, garnered 28.5 percent of the votes cast for entries in the Super Car Class of the national magazine's seventh annual Readers' Choice poll. Nine cars were included in the Super Car category...
...ballots tabulated by an independent survey agency, 2,240 chose Road Runner to top the list. Second in the Super Car category was the Dodge Charger with 19.5 percent of the total. Pontiac's GTO/Judge placed third...
...that it may well reflect the future of much of urban America. "Newark is the urban prototype," says Rutgers Urbanologist George Sternlieb. "A few years from now it will be Buffalo, Cleveland, St. Louis and Akron, and then it will be every older city in the country." Thirteen percent of Newark's citizens are on welfare. The city led the nation in serious crimes per 100,000 of population in 1967, and violent crime rose 41% in the first nine months of 1968. Double locks are becoming standard in most dwellings. One physician has been mugged so many times...