Dec 8 1962
From The Space Library
U.S.S.R., U.S., and 13 other countries proposed that U.N. General Assembly call for urgent efforts to break deadlock over legal problems of space exploration. Compromise resolution was submitted for consideration ill General Assembly's Political Committee, which was debating report of the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.
Evidence suggesting plant life has existed on earth for 2.7 billion years (a billion years longer than previous estimates) was reported by Caryl P. Haskins, President., Carnegie Institution of Washington, in his annual report. Research by Thomas C. Hoering of Carnegie's geophysical laboratory indicates existence of one-celled algae in world's oldest known sedimentary rocks—Bulawayan limestone of Southern Rhodesia. Hoering isolated chemicals, mostly hydrocarbons, thought to be "the end products of cellular chemicals that have been subjected to reactions for more than two billion years and, as such, have lost their identity." Two of Hoering's colleagues. Philip H. Abelson and Patrick L. Parker, isolated more complex organic compounds known as fatty acids from rocks as old as 500 million years.
Secretary of Defense Robert J. McNamara announced Operation Dominic nuclear test series was "highly successful." Tests were conducted from April 25 to Nov. 3 by Joint Task Force 8.
Another Atlas F squadron was declared operational at Walker AFB, Roswell, N.M.
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