First Women Cadets Enter Service Academies
The Air Force Academy welcomed its first female cadets as 150 women enrolled along with 38 women at the Coast Guard Academy in New London. More female plebes were expected at the Army and Navy academies later this summer. Joan Olsen led the Air Force group, while Coast Guard upperclassmen kept order as sexes mixed in.
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Associated Press
Air Force Academy
Colorado Rockies
US Coast Guard Academy
New London
Elk Grove
Calif
Air Force
Dorothy Hamill
O.K
Coast Guard Academy
Department of Transportation
Congress
Defense Department
Merchant Marine Academy
Commerce Department
Defensive play in bridge lessons from Hal Sims
Hal Sims advocates sticking to a single suit once started to avoid giving away tricks, though he will break the rule if needed. West opens with clubs, South covers with ace and continues diamonds, Hal ducks then wins. He later finesses spades to judge East’s holdings while South remains declarer in notrump.
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Hal Sims
Hal
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Notrump South
East
Balloonist Karl Thomas cited 1200 miles out to sea
Ground crew estimates Karl Thomas remains about 1,200 miles east of New York and behind schedule on his first transatlantic balloon voyage. Radio contact was lost for 24 hours with 27 year old Thomas as the Spirit of 76 mission enters busier airspace. Authorities prepared a watch if contact is not reestablished by 8 a.m. today.
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Bernard Cohen
Associated Press
NEW York
Karl Thomas
Thomas
Paul Johnson
Wally Clayton
Alitalia New YorkRome
Robert Chariton
Karl
Johnson
New York City
Paris
General Revenue Sharing Planned Use Report
Government plans outline how federal funds distributed under General Revenue Sharing will be spent by local and state governments. The notice invites citizen input and warns complaints of discrimination may be sent to the Office of Revenue Sharing in Washington DC 20226.
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General Revenue Sharing
Office of Revenue Sharing
Wash
D.C
Nevada Township
Mower County
Rose Cree Minn
Secretary of the Treasury
Mhef
Sphan Xin
Viking team weighs alternate landing sites for Mars probe
Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists consider Chryse Phoenicia and Tritonis Lacus as safer Viking 1 landing options after midyear hazards at the Northwest region. Project Manager James Martin must choose by Thursday, with a July 5 decision on final site.
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Peter J. Boyer
Associated Press
Pasadena
Calif
Northwesterritory
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Viking
James Martin
Martin
Chryse Phoenicia
Chryse
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