Pratt Institute - Prattonia Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 40 of the 1973 volume:

Wi _ XV ya} from Si aie bi ote wey! ar a3 rig S, Pe 9) ne [s Z — Ly tom iV Y) M4 HH) poe i os al ss a Reeassialll| | InPratt’s firstcatalogue, Charles Pratt, Pratt’s founder, stated: “The twofold aim of the Institute is based on an appreciation of the dignity as well as the value of intelligent handi- craft and skilled manual labor. It en- deavors to give opportunities for complete and harmonious education, seeking at the same time to establish a system of instruction whereby habits of thrift may be inculcated to develop those qualities which produce a spirit of self-reliance, and to teach that per- sonal character is of greater conse- quence than material productions. “It offers its advantages to those only who purpose to do their own part ear- nestly and well. Its aim is to aid those who are willing to aid themselves. Its classes, workshops, library, reading- room and museum are for this purpose, and while tuition is required, yet it will be the endeavor to make possible by some means consistent with self-help- fulness and self-respect the admission of every worthy applicant” Leather tanning and foundry opera- tion are now alive only in the archives and in the memories of a select few, but has Pratt itself really changed? Richardson Pratt, Jr. must rule without the autocratic privileges enjoyed by his great-grandfather, but he still has the same responsibility. People are still the same: their bodies are clothed in different dress, but their thoughts and ideals are much the same. Throughout the years Pratt's reputa- tion has been consistently excellent, but has the promise of the best possible education been kept? And if not, where does the fault lie? Jerry Pratt sees the problems of the central city as the main problems to be solved today and in the near future. He wants Pratt to train not technicians, but professionals with a broadly based professional education with the hu- manities to provide total mental devel- opment, who will be able to do the whole concept behind a thing and who will be able to apply their skills to the problems of the central cities’ So this is where the future supposedly lies. We have another Pratt as president. Where does the cyclic spiral go now? Valentine “Some men break your heart in two, Some men fawn and flatter, Some men never look at you; And that cleans up the matter.” TER 4 � . ? y ti age La ' i® i li tie bi yy a oe a rs bE E E € i 4 LL ELT TE | G yf Lhem 2 Ay Z i f Yh) Gorte ¢ THES oo Eee yer mteD SS SPEER LT PTT TO CATCH: aie Memorial hall - Admission $1.00 -TAQ - March 10 = 6:30, : 45 LST LN Te ET OE ETT eet ae ce eer ee NMP. INA INO I IAL. 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Besides $2,000,000 in $20 and $50 bills and $8,000 worth of gold bars—the highest ransom demanded in the U.S.—he insisted upon items ranging from three Thompson submachine guns and 300 feet of nylon rope to ammonia inhalers, smelling salts, pep pills and sleeping pills. Once the passengers were off the plane; it flew to Vancou- ver, B.C. Told that that much U.S. currency was not on hand in Vancouver, Sibley ordered the ¢ : plane to Seattle. En route, he handed the crewa four- page statement explaining his motives, and ordered the cap- tain to have it read over radio stations in Vancouver and Seattle. “We are a well-disciplined, para- military organization fed up with Nixon's broken promises and deceit, which is clearly expressed by his secret buildup of forces in Thailand, Laos and Cambodia,” began Sibley’s statement. He went on to say that United Air Lines was a “major con- tributor to the war effort,” and he threatened to destroy not only the plane he had hijacked but the entire United fleet.“ It is those who support and encourage this war who should be prosecuted, not us,” the hijacker wrote, By sunset, 40 FBI agents had coor- dinated an attack on the plane, which was parked at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Two agents, posing as relief pilots, boarded through the side door from a forklift truck, while others stormed up the rear gangway. Sibley, wounded in the shoulder and leg, was taken to a the hospital. When it was an- nounced that no one else if had been injured in the shoot-out, the crowd of observers broke into applause.” LBI Dies in Texas Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President, died Jan, 22 after he had been stricken with a heart attack at his ranch in Johnson City, Tex. Johnson, 64, had been resting when he summoned Secret Service agents who administered aid and notified a doctor. Johnson was then flown to Brooke Army Medical Cen- ter in San Antonio and was pro- nounced dead at 4:33 p.m. (CST) at the San Antonio Interna- tional Airport. Death was 68 attributed to a coro- oe nary thrombosis after an autopsy 2e had been per- or formed at a Brooke o Center Jan aye ah Mrs. Johnson, who had been noti- fied at her office at the LBJ Library in Austin, Tex., flew to San Antonio, A national day of mourning, Jan. 25, was proclaimed by President Nixon, who said Johnson was “‘a great patriot.” In a statement Jan. 22, Nixon praised him as “a dynamic leader, a unique personality and a man of great ability and unshakable courage.” “We are grateful for his life,” he said, because “he believed in America, in what America could mean to all its citizens and what America could mean to the world. In the service of that faith, he gave himself completely.” Other tributes came from world and national leaders. Yankees Stay Home The New York Yankees signed a lease with New York City August 16 to play at Yankee Stadium for the next 30 years. Under the terms of the lease the city would begin renovation of the 49-year- old stadium by the end of the 1973 base- ballseasonand complete the modernization for the 1976 season, ” THE NEWS, 1973 THE NEWS, 1973 Cease-fire Takes Effect in North and South Vietnam A cease-fire agreement aimed at ending the war in North and South Vietnam was signed in Paris Jan. 27. The battlefield truce officially went into effect at 8 AM January 28 Saigon time. The pact was signed by representatives of the four parties directly involved in the conflict: US. Secretary of State William P. Rogers and the foreign ministers of North and South Vietnam and the Viet Cong’s Provisional Revolution- ary Government. The truce accord is eventually to be extended to Laos and Cambodia. In addition to a halt in combat other military aspects of the agree- ment provide for withdrawal of all American troops from South Viet- nam, release of U.S. prisoners and other captives and a four-nation international Commission of Con- trol and Supervision that is to police the truce. The political section of the agreement establishes a frame- work to enable the rival factions of North and South Vietnam to work toward reconciliation and eventual reunification of the country. The cease-fire pact was worked out by Henry A. Kissinger and Le Duc Tho after months of intensive discussions and was initialed by the two U.S. and North Vietnamese ne- gotiators in Paris January 23. The agreement was announced in a nationwide address by President Nixon. In a simultaneous speech, South Vietnamese President Ngu- yen Van Thieu expressed doubt about the permanence of the agree- ment. Meanwhile, the fighting in South Vietnam continued at an acceler- ated pace up to the time the cease- fire went into effect. Gates to China Opened An injunction against travel to China by U.S. ships and planes, es- tablished during the Korean War, was lifted November 22 by President Nixon. In announcing the move, White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler emphasized that such travel would continue to be subject to Chi- nese authorization in each instance and that there were no plans at pres- ent to establish regular commercial service to China. Commerce De- partment officials were reported as saying, however, that World Airways and Trans International Airlines, both charter firms, had been given permission by the department to fly to China. Zeigler said the easing of restrictions was designed to “facili- tate development of trade and con- tacts between the American and Chinese people in the spirit of the joint communique” issued after President Nixon's visit to China in February. Termpaper Market Sells Suspensions The University of Wisconsin noti- fied 600 students that it was holding up their grades, transcripts and (in the case of graduating students) de- grees on suspicion of submitting term papers bought on the commer- cial market, it was reported June 17. Wisconsin Attorney General Robert W. Warren had subpoenaed the records of three firms engaged in the sale of academic papers and take-home exam answers, and the 600 names were uncovered as cus- tomers of one of the firms. The sub- poenas were based on charges of defrauding the university and its supporting taxpayers. Undergradu- ate papers reportedly sold for. be- tween $2.25 per page for used material and $6.45 per page for orig- inal work. Individual instructors were given discretion in handling each case, with failures, lowered grades or makeup work as possible sanctions. Paul Ginsberg, Wisconsin dean of students, said the growing market in academic papers, which involved in- terstate connections, would force the university either to require closer supervision of academic work or to abandon the use of term papers entirely. Women Unite at Conference The Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW), a specialized agency of the Organization of Amer- ican States, held its 16th assembly in Washington from September 20-29, passing a long list of resolutions de- signed to achieve a more equitable role for women throughout the hem- isphere. Otilia Arosemona de Tejeira, a Panamanian writer and teacher, was elected chairman of the executive committee September 29. Other items included analysis of [ACW activities over the past two years and study of the results of the Inter- American Specialized Conference on the Integral Education of Wom- en, held in Buenos Aires in August. 118 Killed in Plane Crash Minutes after takeoff from Lon- don’s Heathrow Airport June 18, a British European Airways Trident airliner plunged into a nearby field killing all 118 aboard. It was Britain’s worst air disaster. Data recovered from a flight re- corder June 19 indicated that prema- ture retraction of the wing-flaps caused the plane to stall and crash. Among the dead were several prom- inent Irish businessmen on their way to European Economic Community meetings in Brussels. African Neptune Collides into Bridge An 11,500 ton freighter, the Afri- can Neptune, November 7 rammed the mile-long Sidney Lanier Bridge near Brunswick, Ga. killing at least 10 motorists waiting for the ship to pass. A 450-foot section of the bridge was destroyed. The ship's captain, Frank Stanej- ko, testified at a Coast Guard hear- ing November 13 that his orders to the helmsman, Darling C. Woodall, had been misunderstood. But Wood- all said November 14 that he had been given incorrect steering direc- tions. Acupuncture Used on George Wallace Governor George Wallace of Ala- bama, a contender for the Demo- cratic Presidential nomination who was shot at a Laurel Md. rally, has been a patient undergoing acupunc- ture therapy at a Chinese doctor in New York City. He was anesthetized February 12, 1973 by acupuncture, a centuries-old Chinese technique of deadening or easing pain by needle therapy. Acupuncture therapy is most common in hospitals in China, where it is used more often than Western-style drugs to anesthetize patients. Hospital officials did not reveal details of the acupuncture tech- nique, however Governor Wallace's personal press secretary told the news that it was his second treat- ment with acupuncture in New York City and his condition is better than before. He will be back for more acupuncture therapy in the near future. 3 Japs in a Jungle World War II ended for Shoichi Yokoi, 57, only last year when the former Japanese imperial army cor- poral was found hiding out in the jungles of Guam. Now a prosperous tailor in Nagoya, Yokoi brought his new bride Mihoko, 45, back to the island for their honeymoon. Visiting his cave hideout, a favor- ite spot with tourists these days, Yokoi asked: “How could I have wasted all those years in this dirty hole?” Trapped in the jungle for a couple of steamy hours because of helicopter trouble, Yokoi muttered that he simply “hated the-looks of the jungle” and couldn't wait to get back to Japan. Two other former Japanese sol- diers are reported still in hiding on Guam. TV Emmy Awards “All in the Family,” the comedy series about a middle-class bigot, won a major share of awards at the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in Hollywood. | Let’s Make a Deal The three Apollo 15 astronauts were disciplined for carrying 400 unauthorized first day postal covers to the moon last July and giving 100 to an acquaint- ance who alledgedly sold them to a German stamp dealer. P The three astronauts of Apollo 14 were reported also to have taken 200 silver medals struck by a private mint on their moon flight in January 1971. 69 per cent water, salt, spices, corn syrup, cereal Goat meat, pigs ears, eyes, stomachs, snouts, udders, bladders and esophagus Surprise Party A Korean vintage F-86 Super- sabre jet skidded on takeoff from the Executive Airport in Sacramen- to, California September 24 and plowed into an ice-cream parlor filled with some 100 birthday cele- brants. Twenty-two were killed. The pilot, Richard Bingham, 37, said at a hearing of the National Transportation Board October 17 that he felt his plane vibrating on takeoff but did not abort the flight because he felt the plane would fly. Toadstools Bugged The FDA said February 25 that the United Canning Corp. of East Palestine, Ohio was recalling 50,000 institutional-sized cans of mush- rooms that might have been contaminated with botulism toxin. The firm had recalled 30,000 cans earlier, it had been announced February 17. The Stouffer's Food Co. com- pleted a recall of 14,000 cases of frozen foods February 21 that might have contained mushrooms from the contaminated batch. Illustrations by: Maria de Oro George Moy 4 THE NEWS, 1973 Duke of Windsor Dies Edward Albert, Duke of Windsor, who gave up the throne of England to marry the American woman he loved, died on May 28 at his home in Paris at the age of 77. West Goes East President Nixon arrived in China Feb. 21 to begin his historic visit with leaders of the Peking govern- ment. The airport recep- tion was restrained, and == later in the day Nixon — met with Chairman Mao Tse-tung, an event which had not been announced be- forehand. On hand to greet the USS. visitors were Pre- mier Chou En-lai, sev- eral other Chinese dignitaries and a 500- man military honor guard. There were no crowds, no apparent ef- forts to decorate the city and no speeches. President Nixon’s visit with Chairman Mao, took place at Mao’s residence some- { where in old Forbid- denCity. Itlasted one hourand was describ- ed afterwards as “frank } andserious.” Nixon was ($3 j accompanied by Henry ' A. Kissinger, the Presi- dent's adviser for national security. The Chinese hosted a ban- quet on the evening of Feb. 21 at the Great Hall of the People. Chou offered a toast to the Nix- on party in which he said that Nixon's visit “provides the lead- 3 ers of the two countries with an % opportunity of meeting in per- son to seek the normalization Merny countries and also to exchange views on questions of concern? Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star The U.S. interplanetary probe Pioneer 10, launched March 2 on a mission to bypass Jupiter, crossed Mars’ orbital path May 24 and en- tered the asteroid belt July 15. It was the first spacecraft to accomplish either feat. By the end of 1972 after flying more than 350 million miles, it was three-quarters of the way through the asteroid belt. Down on Your Knees A new ceasefire agreement was reached March 8 between about 250 Indians occupying the hamlet of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, and some 300 federal law officers. Nego- tiations between the two sides re- sumed after a mediation offer by the National Council of Churches was accepted by the Indians. Despite the agreement to negoti- ate, Ralph E. Erickson, special assistant to Attorney General Rich- ard Kleindienst, told a Washington news conference March 8 that the government had dropped its previ- ous offer of safe passage out of the village, and said all those remaining who had committed law violations would be subject t o immediate arrest. He rejected outright the In- dians' demand that Richard Wilson, Oglala Sioux Tribal Council presi- dent, be removed. The Fabulous Hoax of Clifford Irving The tale came wrapped extrava- gantly—boxes within boxes, each festooned with its own diminished fantasies, each gaudily papered in ever thinner tissues of lies. The serial revelations in the Howard Hughes- Clifford Irving affair became: an extraordinary popular entertain- ment, a top of the TV news, a front- page divertissement that evoked the distractions of an earlier, less des- perate age. Like the Americans who once crowded the docks waiting for the latest chapter of Dickens to ar- rive by boat, devotees anticipated the next surprises. As Irving’s outrageous Story col- lapsed in on itself, one principal ele- ment in the puzzle loomed ever larger and more baffling: Where had the material he spun into his summa of non-books come from. All the supposed Hughes letters, now clear- ly revealed as forgeries, and all the affidavits of supposed meetings with Hughes had helped Irving create an atmosphere of verisimilitude. But the essence of its apparent validity— and the key to the big con job—had been the words in the manuscript it- self. Several experienced editors and publishers at McGraw-Hill and LIFE magazine had read Irving’s work and found it convincing in its tone and above all its remarkable wealth of detail about Hughes’ com- plex life. It seemed beyond mere in- ventive compilation, even given all that has been printed over the years about Hughes. It had an undeniable smack of authenticity. But finally on February 21 Irving admitted through his lawyer that his baroquely detailed scenario was a fraud. THE NEWS, 1973 Life Meets Death Life magazine has folded. After 36 years as the nations leading weekly mass audience publication, Life magazine December 9 announced it would cease publication with the December 29 issue. Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of the board of Time, Inc., which owns the publication, said the same pres- sures that had led to the closing of other once-prominent magazines- competition from television, rising postal rates and dwindling revenue —had caused Life's death. Heiskell said there had been “emotional ago- ny in the decision” to discontinue the magazine but predictions of heavy financial losses were of prime consideration, Life had lost more than $30 million in the last four years. Life had pioneered in photo- journalism techniques and, along with Time magazine, had been the principal showcase of the firm founded by the late Henry R. Luce. The closing put 325 staff members out of work and cost Time $7 million for closing expenditures. Truman Dies at 80 Harry S. Truman, the 33rd presi- dent of the U.S., died December 26 at the age of 88. His death occurred in Kansas City’s Research Hospital and Medical Center, where he had been fighting lung congestion, heart irregularity, kidney blockages and failure of the digestive system. President Nixon, declaring De- cember 28 a national day of mourn- ing for the former president, eulo- gized Truman as “one of the most courageous presidents in our history, who led the nation and the world through a critical period with excep- tional vision and determination.” Lyndon B. Johnson, the nation’s 36th President, called Truman “a 20th century giant who will live on in the memory of free people as one ofthe greatest men to lead freedom’s cause.” Truman's body was returned to his home town of Independence, Mo., where it lay in state funeral, with full military honors in the court- yard of the library December 28. Nixon and Johnson were among those travelling to Independence December 27 to pay their respects to Truman, visiting his wife, Bess, 87, and his only daughter, Margaret, Mrs. Clifton Daniel of New York, at the Truman home, and the bier. An estimated 70,000 persons later filed past the bier. A national memorial service for Truman was _ held on January 5, 1973 at the Washington Cathedral for national and world figures wish- ing to honor the former president. Truman, president from 1945 to 1953, assumed office at the death of Frank- lin D. Roosevelt near the end of World War II. Christ Crushed Michelangelo's Pieta, one of the world’s sculptural masterpieces, was severely damaged on May 21 when a Hungarian-born emigrant, Laszlo Toth, 33, attacked it with a hammer in St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican. Toth pushed through a crowd of worshippers and tourists, jumped onto the altar where the Pieta was on display, and reined hammer blows on the sculpture of the Ma- donna holding the dead Christ. Toth shouted during the attack, “I'm Jesus Christ.” Toth’s attack, which reportedly lasted about two minutes before he was finally subdued by an Italian fireman and other onlookers, shat- tered the left arm of the Virgin Mary and chipped her nose, left eye and veil covering her hair. Toth was turned over to the Ital- ian police for criminal proceedings. Martha Makes Muscles Mrs. Martha Mitchell, the wife of President Nixon’s campaign man- ager, John Mitchell, declared in a telephone call to a wire service re- porter in June 25 that she is “a political Prisoner” and is leaving her husband unless he quits politics because she cannot stand “all those dirty things that go on” G-Man Goes J. Edgar Hoover, in his 48th year as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, died at his home on May 2. Hoover had directed the work of the bureau since its incep- tion in 1924. A’s KO Reds for Series The Oakland Athletics, who orig- inated in Philadelphia and were transplanted to the West Coast by way of Kansas City, won baseball's 69th World Series October 22 as they beat the Cincinnati Reds in the sev- enth and deciding game, 3-2, in Cin- cinnati. It was the A’s first world championship since moving to Oak- land in 1968. The original Philadel- phia Athletics had won five world titles, but in Kansas City the A’s struggled as also-rans. The A’s went into the 1972 series as underdogs because two of their top players, slugger Reggie Jackson and relief pitcher Darrell Knowles, were out with injuries. The A’s over- came the odds with timely if erratic hitting and solid relief pitching. Dick Williams managed the A’s. Sparky Anderson managed the Reds. The series hero and outstand- ing player was A’s catcher Gene Tenace, who tied a series mark by hitting four home runs. Tenace, who only broke into the A’s starting line in July, finished the seven games with eight hits in 23 at-bats for a .348 batting mark. Pat Pets Pandas At the National Zoo in Washing- ton, D.C., Mrs. Nixon officially ac- cepted the two pandas presented by China to the American people on April 20. Soft Eggs Kill Dinosaurs A new theory about why dino- saurs became extinct gained further substantiation in the discovery of eight dinosaur eggs—two of them intact —inarock wall near Corbieres in the French Pyrenees, the Wash- ington Post reported July 17. Ks : According tothe theory, proposed by a team from Bonn University’s Institute of Paleontology, the dino- ‘saurs died out because their egg- shells became sothin they frequently broke or dried out. The Bonn Institute team, headed by Professor Heinrich Erben, had first developed its theory in 1971 when it found over 800 fragments of dinosaur eggs in four successive layers of rocks in Provence, France. The shells from the oldest rocks were 2 to 2.8 millimeters thick but the youngest were only 1.1 to 1.4 mil- limeters; the Corbieres shells cor- responded to the latter in age and thickness. Electron microscope stu- dies of the Corbieres eggshells indi- cated they were so thin they ap- parently could not provide the necessary calcium for the skeletons of the dinosaur embryos. Spitz Wins Seven Gold Medals. Mark Spitz swam into Olympic history at the Munich games by win- ning seven gold medals, the most won by an athlete since the modern games began in 1896. Bored on Borman? Ladislas Farago, an author and former head of U.S. Navel Intelli- gence research, described Decem- ber 10 statements as false “in their entirety” disputing his claim that Martin Bormann, personal secretary to Adolf Hitler and head of the Nazi party apparatus, was alive in Argen- tina, Mitchell: Henpecked Husband John N. Mitchell resigned as President Nixon’s campaign man- ager on July 1 after receiving an ultimatum from his wife that he choose either her or politics. A Record of Eagleton’s Past, Clouds Democratic Ticket Senator Thomas F. Eagleton’s fu- ture as the Democratic vice-presi- dential candidate was called into question July 25 by the senator's dis- closure that he had been hospital- ized several times for treatment of mental depression. His insistence that he was fully cured and able to fill the vice-presi- dency if elected was strongly sup- ported by the party’s Presidential candidate, Senator George S. McGovern. However, the re- action to Eagleton’s disclosure indicated that some Demo- cratic leaders felt his disclosure had seriously hurt the ticket and that he should withdraw his candidacy. The issue was com- pounded by charges July 27 that Ea- gleton had been arrested several times for drunken driving and speed- ing. Eagleton denounced the charges angrily and insisted he would fight to stay on the ticket. Senator Eagleton told newsmen at a joint press conference with Senator McGovern July 25 that he had hospitalized himself three times between 1960 and 1966 for psychia- tric treatment of nervous exhaustion and fatigue. On two of these occa- sions, Eagleton said he had under- gone electroshock therapy which he termed “the prescribed treatment” for manifestations of emotional de- pression. Eagleton told reporters at the Custer, South Dakota news confer- ence that alcoholism had played no part in his illness. In response to a newsman’s question, he said, “Alco- hol was not involved in any iota, in any way, shape or form whatsoever, I can assure you—categorically and without hesitation, unequivocal. Franco’s Granddaughter Wed to a Bourbon Generalissimo Francisco Franco gave his eldest granddaughter, Maria del Carmen Martinez-Bordiu Franco, away in marriage to a mem- ber of the Bourbon family, the grand- son of the late King. Alfonso III of Spain, Alfonso de Bourbon y Dampierre in March. In 1969 Prince Juan Carlos, of the Spanish royal house of Bourbon, was designated rulerelect and heir to the throne in the event of Franco's death. WS, 1973 THE NE LEY Satan OEE THE NEWS, 1973 7 SS SS SSS SE ‘French Connection’ Japsicles Heroin Stolen Eighty-one pounds of high-grade heroin seized by New York City de- tectives in the celebrated “French Connection” case 10 years ago has been reported stolen from the police department's property storage room. Nineteen mountain climbers died on Mt. Fuji, Japan’s highest peak, when an avalanche struck. Walk on Water President Nixon, on an official visit to Canada, signed an agree- ment for a joint endeavor to clean up the Great Lakes on April 15. Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy said December 14 that he believes the heroin had been stolen before 1970 but had only recently been discovered missing during an audit by the department's property clerk. Police estimate that the 81 pounds had a street value of $15-$17 million. The heroin had been held as evidence because the police had never officially closed the French Connection case. The Watergate Case A former agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) dis- closed late in 1972 that he had de- livered information obtained by espionage from the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate building in Washington to an official at the Nixon campaign office. In an interview published in the Los Angeles Times the ex-FBI agent, Alfred C. Baldwin III said he had (lS : monitored telephone and other con- Borrorencwenet, The Tramp Returns Charlie Chaplin returned to Hollywood after twenty years of exile outside the United States and was welcomed by -ovation and a special Oscar. U.S. Olympic Streak Ends in Protest The U.S., which had never lost an Olympic basketball game, dropped a controversial 51-50 decision to the Soviet Union September 10 in the final seconds of the championship game. U.S. coach Hank Iba protested the game, but the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) disallowed his protest. At issue was whether the Soviet Union's final basket was scored in violation of inter- national rules. Trailing throughout the game, the U.S. pulled B even and then ahead, 50-49, on a pair of foul shots by Doug versations at Watergate for three weeks while employed by the ; Committee to Re-elect the Presi- dent, working from a room in a E motor lodge across from Watergate. = Baldwin said the official to whom he delivered the information was not one of those indicted é in the Watergate head- eo ree quartersraid. Baldwinrevealed 3 Collins with three seconds remain- ing on the scoreboard clock. The Russians then took possession and put the ball in play under its basket. AUS. player deflected the inbounds pass and when time ran out, the American team and its fans poured onto the court. But the FIBA representative Peter Schliesser told the officials to clear the court and reset the clock to three seconds. It appeared that Schliesser had decided that the Soviet Union had called time before putting the ball in play. When the game was resumed a Soviet player heaved a full-court pass to a 6'8” teammate under the American basket. Muscling his way between two American defenders, the Russian, Aleksandr Belov, the Russian, Aleksandr Belov,scored on a layup as the horn sounded. The defeat ended the U.S. 63 game Olympic streak, which began when the sport was introduced into Olympic competition in Berlin in 1936. Following the game, the U.S. team voted not to accept the runner- up silver medal. At the awards cere- mony September 10, the U.S. team failed to send a representative. No Noble Nobel The private ceremony in Moscow at which Soviet novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was to have received the Nobel Prize awarded him in 1970 was cancelled by Solzhenitsyn after the Soviet Union refused a visa to the secretary of the Swed- ish Academy who was to have pre- sented the award. Ink-thrower Jailed Marie-Louise Kwiatkowski was fined and sentenced to several months in prison after her January 22 ink-throwing attack on British Prime Minister Edward Heath in Brussels. Heroin Unharbored French customs agents seized nearly half a ton of heroin from a shrimp boat on March 2in Marseilles harbor worth more than $180 mil- lion on the street in the United States, the biggest narcotics haul on record. that he, himself, was a member of the raid crew. He was not in- dicted after agreeing to coop- erate with the Justice Depart- ment. He was a key witness for the governmentin the case. The Washington Post reported that Baldwin had informed the FBI that memorandums describing the intercepted Democratic conver- sations were sent to members of the White House staff and Nixon cam- paign staff. Surprise Party “Crazy Joe” Gallo, reputedly a Mafia leader, was shot to death during a birthday party at a New York restaurant on April 7, 1972. 3 Shoot 200 at Tel Aviv Airport At Lod airport near Tel Aviv, three gunmen fired into a crowd of about 250 on May 30; 24 died and 76 were wounded. The attackers were iden- tified as Japanese hired by Palestin- ian guerillas. Two died and one was captured. Dame Umpire A housewife in Queens, New York, won the approval of the state’s high- est court to be a professional base- ball umpire on January 13. Sorry Charlie, Tuna Recalled Star-Kist foods began a recall of 172,000 cans of tuna that contained an agent that had caused temporary flu-like symptoms in some con- sumers in the Midwest, the FDA re- ported February 23. Eagleton Bails Out Senator Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri quit as the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, at the request of presidential nominee, Senator George McGovern, be- cause of Eagleton’s medical history. Eagleton declared he does not want to divide the party. Endangered Wildlife Over the past 2000 years, it is known that more than 100 species of mammals alone have disappeared from the world wildlife family — nearly 75 within the last 200 years or so. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Serv- ice defines endangered as those spe- THE NEWS, 1973 cies in immediate jeopardy—for one reason or another—of becoming ex- tinct; 14 American mammal species, 50 birds, 30 fishes, four reptiles, and three amphibians are so classified. As opposed to endangered, some other American species are termed rare, i.e., existing in admittedly few numbers but “safely” as long as con- ditions remain favorable. Below is a] Blue Whale; (Antarctic Ocean) selected small list of world wildlife presently threatened by extinction. | Chinchilla; (Andes Mts.) Pop: Anatolian Leopard; (Turkey) Est. Pop: less than 50. Asiatic Lion; (India) Est. Pop: 100 Black-Tailed Prairie Dog; (Southern| Giant Panda; (W. China) Pop: rare Javan Tiger; (Eastern Java) Pop: 12 U.S.) Est. Pop: Unknown California Condor; (S. California) Mexican Grizzly Bear; (Mexico) Pop: 60 Red Wolf; (Texas) Pop: 150 Volcano Rabbit; (Mexico) Pop: rare Wild Yak; (Tibet and Sikkim) Pop: rare Whooping Crane; (Texas and Canada) Pop: 50