Opinion roundup on Senator Kennedy
By United Press International
By United Press International Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's televised account of the automobile accident that killed a young woman continued to draw critical editorial comment from newspapers which said many questions were still unanswered.
The New York Times said Kennedy's story "raises more questions than it answers."
The Times added: "Personal and political sympathy aside, his emotion-charged address Friday night leaves us less than
satisfied with his partial explanations for a gross failure of responsibility, and more than ever convinced that the concerned town, county and state officials of Massachusetts have also failed in their duty thoroughly to investigate this case because of the political personality involved."
The Akron Beason-Journal Sun said in an editorial by John S. Knight, president and editor of Knight newspapers:
"One must deplore the excessive gloating over his
misfortune by some Republicans and other detractors whose blood boils whenever the Kennedy name is mentioned.
"The damage to Sen. Kennedy's political aspirations is very real, perhaps fatal. The hurt to members of his family, already plagued by years of misfortune, must be more than most could bear. Isn't that enough?"
The Newark, N.J., Sunday News said: "As politics has repeatedly proved, public
memory is notoriously short, the reaction of an emotional public almost impossible to guess, and personal crises have been surmounted before.
"Nevertheless, more than a mail-order campaign by Massachusetts voters will be required to restore Mr. Kennedy to the privileged place he occupied in the Democratic party prior to the tradey on Chappaquiddick Island."
An editorial cartoon by Conrad in the Los Angeles Times portrayed a limousine with the
license plate 1972 being hauled out of a pond by a derrick.
The Pittsburgh Press said: "Sen. Kennedy's explanation has not rolled away the clouds of doubt as to his qualities in hours of crisis."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer: The senator's appearance on television Friday night, forthright as he tried to make it. did not spell out for the American people the complete story of the unusual accident which claimed the life of Mary Joe Kopechne.
Moon samples hold many fascinating secrets
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—The moon rocks brought back by the Apollo 11 astronauts, after being unpacked, sliced and quarantined, will become the most studied chunks of stone in history.
And if you think the Apollo 11 astronauts are getting a royal welcome, you should see what is planned for the rocks.
Some of the brightest people in the world have gathered at the Space Center to welcome two boxes filled with dirt and rocks,
carrier USS Hornet still inside the "Columbia" command shu.
The rocks, along with the films made on the moon, a strip of foil that was exposed on the lunar surface for more than one hour to collect solar particles, and the filter canister from the vacuum a roll of foil and a used vacuum cleaner bag.
The lunar samples, including the two containers of rocks and core samples collected by Armstrong and Aldrin on the lunar surface, were hoisted aboard the
cleaner used to clean the astronaut's space suits, were loaded aboard two twin-engine prop planes for a flight to Johnston Island. Then everything was loaded aboard a C-141 Air Force cargo plane for the flight to Ellington AFB near the Space Center.
Faculty-student committee picked to choose new journalism dean
A joint faculty-student committee will help select the new dean of the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas.
The committee will begin interviewing candidates in the fall to select a successor for Dr. Warren K. Agee. Dr. Agee resigned to become dean of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism at the University of Georgia. Lee F. Young, assistant professor of journalism, is serving as acting dean.
Dr. Francis H. Heller, dean of faculties, is chairman of the committee. The other faculty members are: Dr Robert W. Ridgway, associate dean of the Graduate School, and Profs. Peter Dart, James E. Dykes, William O. Seymour and John Bremner of the School of Journalism.
A full-time security guard is on duty at Ellington to keep the curious away as the samples are loaded into a truck and escorted to the Lunar Receiving Laboratory at the Space Center today.
The three student members, all majoring in journalism, are Alan T. Jones, East Aurora, N.Y.; Philip R. Higdon, Prairie Village; and Reacon O'Neill, Overland Park. They represent students enrolled in the news-editorial, radio-TV-film, and advertising sequences.
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four years. Enrollment has increased from 135 students in 1965 to 361 undergraduate and 19 graduate students in the 1969 spring semester. During the same period the full-time faculty has increased from 12 to 18. Programs have been added in international communications, communication theory, advertising research, film documentary, magazine, public relations and photojournalism.
First words on moon
SPACE CENTER, Houston (UPI)—The first words spoken on the moon by Apollo 11 commander Neil A. Armstrong are as much of an enigma now that he's said them as they were before.
Before he left for the moon, Armstrong was asked countless times what he would say, and he had no answer. When he stepped onto the lunar surface Sunday night, Armstrong said to the world: "That's one small step for me; one giant leap for mankind."
Monday, nobody was sure whether the words were original. A space agency official said he space agency official said he spent several hours studying reference books and could find no quote similar to what Armstrong said.
"I guess we'll just have to wait until he gets back," he said.
One sample, the contingency lunar soil sample Armstrong collected first on the moon's surface, will go another route, just in case.
This sample was placed in the Mobile Quarantine Trailer used to transport the astronauts back to the receiving lab. It will arrive Sunday.
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Once the samples are so secured and isolated, then the scientists, leading men in all areas of physical and chemical sciences, will start the job of trying to unlock the secrets they may contain.
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Then, the pieces of rock—ranging in size from a single grain to several hundred grams—will be shipped to 142 scientists in various parts of the world. They will use them to hunt for the secrets of the moon.
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quarantine manager, said the animals and plants were raised in germ-free environments and have an "exquisite sensitivity to infection."
For 50 days the pieces of lunar landscape will be kept in isolation at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) here while a team of scientists make certain there are no dangerous elements on, in or around them.
"We will know more about those lunar rocks than any comparable terrestrial rocks," said Dr. Wilmot N. Hess, director of science applications at the manned spacecraft center.
Inspection Invited
This is where the first word could come if a strange moon organism affects earth forms of life.
Testing Rocks
While the soil and rocks are being quarantined, the Apollo 11 astronauts—Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins—will be undergoing a very similar process. For 21 days from the time the Eagle lunar module hatch was closed, the astronauts will not be considered safe. A team of scientists will live with them in the specially-designed quarantine facility through the period considered long enough for any lunar disease to show itself.
The rocks will undergo radiation and gas tests in vacuum moonlike conditions before being sliced wafer thin and sent to members of the hand-picked study team. The containers they are in will be given acid baths before they are opened to keep earth germs from spoiling the virgin condition of the moon rock. For the lunar samples, first-class handling all the way.
Although the "clean rooms" employ every possible tactic to keep living things from coming into contact with possible contamination, one section of the LRL will be used to deliberately expose plants, white mice, oysters, minnows and single-cell animals to the untouched lunar rock.
However, there were no plans for a ticker-tape parade.
Dr. William Kemmerer, LRL
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