Soviet Luna-9 makes first soft moon landing
Soviet Tass reported Luna-9 provided telemetric data on moon age and surface, marking the first soft landing of a space probe. Observatories in Leningrad and Jodrell Bank tracked the craft and expected early television pictures from the site.
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Moscow
UPI
Soviet Union
Tass
Kremlin
Russia
Gherman Titov
Belkas
Strelkas
United States
America
Earth
Pulkovo Observatory
Leningrad
Jodrell Bank
England
Moscow Radio
United States Congratulates Russia on Space Accomplishment
UPI report from Washington notes Russia’s soft lunar landing drawing praise from U.S. space officials and prompting a tougher American push. President Johnson telegrammed USSR leader Podgorny praising the feat as a boon to mankind and Space Agency officials called it encouraging for Apollo. Senators Anderson and Aiken commented on timelines and leadership in space development.
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Russia
Washington
UPI
U.S
Johnson
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Presidium
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Edward C. Welsh
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Italian Censors Crack-Down On Nudity in Rome Galleries
In Rome police seized 13 nude drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele from the Marlborough Gallery on obscenity charges. The works had recently hung at the Guggenheim in New York and in London. A gallery director warned the crackdown risks harming Rome as a world art capital. In separate action at Terni, police confiscated 5,000 postcards depicting erotic acts claimed to be unfit for mailing.
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Rome
UPI
Michelangelo
David
Eternal City
State Attorney
Marlborough Gallery
Gustav Klint
Egon Schiele
Guggenheim Museum
New York
Marlborough
London
Klint
Schiele
Terni
Italy
Inmates volunteer for Viet Nam service from Stillwater prison
Stillwater State Prison inmates William Aird and Willard La Jeunesse led a survey of 42 prisoners showing 38 willing to enlist in Vietnam. They wrote to Vice President Humphrey and Joint Chiefs asking to serve, proposing a battalion of cons and self contained units to prove themselves. World War II veteran William Perry notes veterans more willing to enlist.
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Stillwater, Minn
UPI
Stillwater State Prison
Viet Nam
William Aird
Willard la Jeunesse
Hubert H. Humphrey
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Minnesota
William Perry
Americans May Be First To Use Moon Spaceport
SPACE CENTER Houston report notes Luna 9 became the first craft to land on the moon and endure a return trip, signaling progress toward an American Apollo lunar landing by 1968 while highlighting debates on lunar surface texture and dust skepticism. Contemporaneous Boston weather forecast adds regional normals and five day outlook with light snow possible in northern sections.
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Moon
Space Center
Houston
UPI
Soviet Union
Earth
United States
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Lindbergh Joins Spain Bomb Retrieval Effort
Jon Lindbergh son of Charles Lindbergh arrived in Palomares Spain with U S Ambassador Duke to assist in recovering a suspected 20 megaton H bomb lost after a B 52 crash. Navy divers reported 67 metal pieces scattered over a three mile seabed as efforts to locate the bomb continue for about a month.
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Palomares
Spain
UPI
America
Charles Lindbergh
Jon Lindbergh
Oceans Systems Corp
California
U.S
Angier Biddle Duke
Lindbergh
United States
Duke
U.S. Navy
Mediterranean
Navy
Bennington Banner Publication Details and Rates
The Bennington Banner publishes daily except Sundays and holidays at 425 Main St Bennington Vermont 05201. It lists advertising and newsroom contacts and United Press International affiliation with home and motor delivery options and subscription rates by mail for various regions.
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Bennington Banner
Main St
Bennington
The
Banner Publishing Corporation
United Press International
UPI
Vermont
U.S
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Senate Space Committee
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