Burt Constable
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Constable: How a rescue cat from Hinsdale became one of TV's biggest starsJul 27, 2019 1:00 am - Taking a back seat to the Apollo 11 moon landing in our coverage of things celebrating a 50th anniversary this year leaves Morris the cat in uncharted territory. "He was...
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From tennis to pickleball to Beckyball: Tweaks to games are good for athletes and environment.Jul 24, 2019 1:00 am - Headlined "Tennis, everyone?", a 1973 story in The New York Times noted that the number of indoor courts had grown from 30 to more than 1,000, and even suburbs and rural...
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Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. Tet and My Lai. Amid turmoil, moon landing united a nation.Jul 20, 2019 5:00 am - Still reeling from the 1968 assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, the violent Democratic convention in Chicago, racial struggles, riots, Cold W...
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'Space exploration is hard. We make it look easy,' says longtime NASA director from SchaumburgJul 20, 2019 5:00 am - With her family having just moved to Schaumburg in the summer of 1969, 3½-year-old Cathy Larson watched the moon landing on a black-and-white television in the new famil...
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Lombard astronaut's first flight: a pretend trip to moonJul 20, 2019 1:00 am - Astronaut Dan Tani, who grew up in Lombard, was 8 years old when NASA put a man on the moon 50 years ago. “I was doing what everybody else was doing,” remembers Tani, w...
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Neither heat, rain, cold nor drought can stop local sweet corn cropJul 19, 2019 1:00 am - In this dickens of a summer, the worst of times has given us a tale of too much sour weather for sweet corn at Wiltse's Farm Produce in Maple Park: Too wet. Too cold. To...
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Constable: Hurricanes? Earthquakes? The biggest threat is right here: extreme heatJul 16, 2019 5:30 am - My wife and I worry about our adult sons living in dangerous places. We texted Ross in Los Angeles the second we heard about the earthquakes this month. We did the same ...
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'We did that, that boot print,' says Rolling Meadows designer of Apollo 11 spacesuitsJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - This was no simple Sunday night dinner party. “We were immersed,” remembers Bob Davidson, a NASA engineer who helped design the spacesuits Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin...
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Timing put Hoffman Estates engineer on Apollo teamJul 13, 2019 1:00 am - A decade in the making, the Apollo 11 mission to land men on the moon in 1969 required precision timing. That all started in the early '60s with the central timing equip...
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Armstrong's best friend couldn't bear to watch moon landing: 'I knew it was a high-risk situation'Jul 13, 2019 1:00 am - Austin "Jim" Bailey Jr.'s best friend, the pilot he helped train, was about to use the equipment Bailey helped design to do something historic on live television. "You'v...