Jul 19 1970
From The Space Library
Alabama Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville had attracted 60 000 visitors since March 17 opening, New Haven Register reported. Averaging 770 visitors per day, Center had registered visitors from 49 states and 35 foreign countries. (New Haven Register, 7/19/ 70)
Tass announced U.S.S.R. would conduct carrier rocket tests in Pacific from July 25 to Aug. 25 and warned ships and aircraft to avoid area 966 km (520 nm) northwest of Midway Island with 74-km (40- nm) radius between noon and midnight local time. (UPI, W Star, 7/20/70, Al)
Widespread hostility to science was evident in broad sectors of public; particularly the young, and "reflected in the attitudes of legislators who control funds for university and laboratory research," Walter Sullivan said in. New York Times. While public disaffection was partly to blame, "this drop in research support is also attributable to the Vietnam war and other budget demands."' There was "growing feeling in Washington and on the campuses that efforts to explain science to the young, as well as to the adults, have failed-that new ways must be found to do so and that the old clichés are not enough." (NYT, 7/19/70, 5, 7)
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