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all eyes were glued to live coverage of a United Nations debate on the Mideast

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This photograph was used as a promotional photo for "The Boer War" around its release March 31

the cars traveled along the Hudson River

The Times eagle print is part of The New York Times Early Edition collection

Helmet Day processing-sub-photo all eyes were glued toLong before baseball teams started giving away bobbleheads and souvenir cups like candy, there was Helmet Day at Shea Stadium. Some 54,424 spectators, the largest crowd of the season, packed the ballpark in Queens for a New York Mets game and a free helmet on May 30, 1970. They gave out 37,212 plastic batting helmets to the small ones in the crowd on a cool and sunny Memorial Day afternoon, wrote The Times after the Mets beat the Houston Astros, 4 3.