Apr 28 1973

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Dr. Robert C. Seamans, Jr., retiring Secretary of the Air Force, was named by the National Geographic Society to receive its Gen. Thomas D. White Space Trophy. The citation said: "Under his leader­ship great strides were made in Air Force space programs, and new early warning and communications space systems were placed in op­eration." [See April 30.] (AP, W Star & News, 4/29/73, A6)

U.S.S.R. scientists had named a newly discovered mineral "armstrongite" after the U.S. astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, first man to set foot on the moon, the Associated Press reported. The mineral, belonging to the zirconium-silicate compounds, had been found by a joint Soviet-Mongolian expedition in the Gobi Desert. A sample of the mineral had been sent to Armstrong. (AP, NYT, 4/29/73, 53)

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