Boots Rot Away In Viet Nam Describe 101st Gear Woes
In Saigon AP report soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division faced boots with gaping holes and peeling soles after jungle marches against the Viet Cong. Brig. Gen. John Norton said airlifted jungle boats helped meet emergency boot needs, but it would take weeks before replacements arrive. Some troops had fought in tennis shoes, and Norton warned of continuing foot ailments while stockouts persisted.
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Saigon
01St Airborne Division
John Norton
U.S. Army
Viet Nam
101St
Norton
U S. Seeks To Seize Initiative In Viet Nam Drive
High U S military officials aim to shift the Viet Nam war from reaction to offense by building up forces to about 127 000 troops, leveraging the 1st Cavalry Division and air power as the dry season begins. They expect intensified operations and improved intelligence while pacification plans unfold and Vietnamese allies assume more responsibility in the delta. In England a weed show prize went to butcher Peter Critchley for a seven-foot purple monstrosity, a contest for those who hate gardening, with weed killer as the prize.
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Washington
U.S
William Co. Westmoreland
South Viet Nam
Fivo
Viet Nam
I 1
1St Cavalry Division
Westmoreland
Delta
Elworth
England
UPI
Peter Critchley
Jungle boots replace leather uppers for Vietnam wearers
Soldiers report that leather uppers separate from soles in Viet Nam humidity. New jungle boots debut with heavy canvas uppers, leech-proof drains, and water drainage holes to keep feet dry during jungle fighting.
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Viet Nam
Moon Radioactivity Claim Shocks Caltech Seminar
Russian physicist Dr. V. S. Troitsky told an international science gathering in Pasadena that lunar radio emissions indicate the moon is highly radioactive. He said the moon’s core is intensely hot, with a surface layer overlying denser rock, suggesting possible interior molten conditions and core temperatures higher than Earth.
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Pasadena
Calif
V. S. Troitsky
Scientific Research Radiophysics Institute
Gorky
Troitsky
Frank Drake
Cornell University
Texas
Peru
Moon
Earth
Lunar
Dr. Troitsky
Aquanauts Cite Queer Effects Undersea Tests
Nine aquanauts after 15 days at 205 feet below the Pacific tested an all helium atmosphere and reported high pitched voices and ear trouble. They suggested future mobile undersea labs for up to 35 men, potentially via nuclear submarine modifications, with efficiency dropping after three weeks.
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LA Jolla
Valif
Pacific Ocean
Berkone
Jay D. Skidmore
Skidmore
George Bond
Bond
Seaborg Named U NIA Delegate And Alternates
The Senate approved Glenn T. Seaborg as U.S. representative to the IAEA General Conference ninth session. Alternates named include Henry Smyth John Palfrey James Ramey Verne Lewis and Kenneth Holum. Separately Chicago reports U.S. state sales tax collections rose to 24.2 billion in 15 years but still 25 percent of total state revenue.
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Washington
Chicago
UPI
Commerce Clearing House
CCH
Persists in Fight to Reconsider Greylock Bills in Boston
Statehouse headlines show Rep. Sidney Curtiss forcing a reconsideration of Greylock tramway legislation and a quorum struggle as Malden Medford and Lowell primary schedules cut attendance. House and Ways and Means debate a $189 million tax package versus Gov Volpe’s $211 million plan, focusing on sales and income tax shifts. Senate approves a district court judges' 26 Saturdays off with pay, amid party divides and last minute amendments. A tax collection rise totaling $14 million is reported, driven by gasoline and cigarette levies. No firearms legislation will pass until further studies.
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Boston
Sidney Q. Curtiss
Sheffield
House
Greylock
Curtiss
Charles Shea
D-Quincy
Richard E. Landry
D-Waltham
Malden
Medford
Lowell
Mt. Greylock
Massachusetts
Oregon
Ways and Means Committee
Gov. Volpe
Senate
Maurice A. Donahue
D-Holyoke
Andrea Nuciforo
Pittsfield
Sen
George D. Hammond
Westfield
Berkshire
Volpe
Stanley J. Zaredig
State Department of Taxation
Special Commission On Public Safety
Liquor Delivered To Viet Nam GIs By Air Express
An air express shipment from a West Babylon liquor store delivered vodka bourbon scotch pink champagne screwdriver mix and snacks to a Marine unit in Viet Nam. The order included cheese dip salted nuts olives cherries onions chips olives cigars and a quart of scotch for the company commander.
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New York
Viet Nam
Air Express
Long Island
al Russice
West Babylon
N.Y
Rustice
Minority Voted Labor Contract Voided by NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board ordered a new election at Dorman Tool Manufacturing in New York City to decide whether employees will be represented by Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union District 65 or United Mine Workers District 50, or neither. The contract signed last January was invalid for lacking union member ratification, after 45 workers quit a ratification meeting and 24 approved.
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Washington
National Labor Relations Board
Dorman Tool Manufacturing Corp
New York City
United Mine Workers of America
New York
Dorman
NLRB
District 50
Wessin alleges U S officer forced him from Dominican Republic
General Elias Wessin accuses a U.S. Army lieutenant of brandishing a bayonet to compel his exile from Santo Domingo. He says he was denied permission to retrieve clothes and see his family, condemning the action as a blow to democracy in Latin America. Wessin's six page letter to Dominican provisional president Hector Garcia Godoy, dated September 10, accompanies his rejection of a consul post in Miami.
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Miami
Fla
Elias Wessin
Wessin
Dominican Republic
Santo Domingo
Latin America
Hector Garcia Godoy
Panama
State Orders Racial Census In Schools
Massachusetts Education Commissioner Owen Kiernan sets October 15 as the deadline for a racial census in public schools. Superintendents are urged to complete the census as a first step under the new law against imbalance. Forms must be returned to Kiernan’s office between October 1 and 15.
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Boston
Owen B. Kiernan
Massachusetts
Kiernan
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