Jan 1 1970
From The Space Library
Apollo 11 lunar landing had been voted biggest news story of 1969 in poll of Associated Press member newspapers and radio and TV stations, AP announced. Astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, Apollo 11 commander, had been voted top newsmaker of year. AP poll ranked Vietnam war second biggest story and "story of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's political fortunes" third. (Rock, AP, W Star, 1/1/70, A3)
President Nixon in San Clemente, Calif., signed National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Act declared Government policy "to create and maintain conditions under which man and nature can exist in productive harmony and fulfill the social, economic, and other requirements of present and future generations of Americans." It established within Presidential Executive Office full-time, three member Council on Environmental Quality and required President .to submit environmental quality reports to Congress annually, beginning July 1, 1970. President said that "the 1970's absolutely must be the years when America pays its debt to the past by reclaiming the purity of its air, its waters, and our living environment. It is literally now or never." (PD, 1/5/70, 11-3)
Dr. Charles H. Townes, Nobel Prize winning Univ. of California physicist and member of NAS Council, was appointed Chairman of NAS-NRC Space Science Board. Dr. Townes had headed President Nixon's task force to make recommendations on national space program in 1969. (NAS P10; NAS-NRC-NAE News Rpt, 3/70; A&A 68)
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