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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1967
Page
1
Moscow announces Cosmos 186 and Cosmos 188, two Soyuz type satellites, joined in orbit in an automatic docking at 12 20 p m Moscow time. The pair remained securely coupled and all systems functioned normally as television footage was sent to Earth.
In Rutland Vermont the Halloween parade has grown from a small 1960 start to a major event with high school bands drum corps theatrical groups and 4-H entries. The Rutland Herald runs The Vermont Pumpkin Bureau spoof and Jack O Lantern unmasking adds intrigue as the Pumpkin Princess pageant draws contestants.
Vatican officials said after a weekend relapse Pope Paul VI’s fever fell and he rests to prepare for prostate operation. The date is not set and officials noted the illness delayed his attendance at a canonization and the first world synod of bishops.
Kenneth Lindstrand 32 died after a gunman burst into a Los Angeles suburb Halloween party. Guests initially believed the shooting was a skit as Lindstrand writhed on the floor. the attacker fled and detectives pursued questions with no identification of the killer.
Expo 67 closed after 185 days with the Soviet pavilion as the crowd favorite attracting about 13 million visitors. Canada drew 11 million, the US 9 million, and the event set attendance records surpassing the 42 million mark. Other stats include 374 600 train miles on Expo Express and over 5.9 million hamburgers consumed. Mrs. Martha Racine became the 50 millionth visitor, winning a trip to Osaka.
The Swedish Academy awards the 1967 Nobel in physics to Hans Bethe of Cornell and in chemistry to George Porter Ronald Norrish and Manfred Eigen. Bethe’s work covers stellar energy production and nuclear reactions. Porter and Norrish are attached to the Royal Institution and Cambridge, while Eigen is with the Max Planck Institute Goettingen.
Lida Caldwell nineteen was freed from a University Heights home after a weekend held by her former boyfriend Robert Batch twenty three. Both were shot and rushed to a Cleveland hospital. Batch was captured by police after a dawn volley of gunfire.
Michigan Governor George Romney sharpens attacks on President Johnson during a five day New England tour amid calls for credibility reform. Senator Frank Church and third party candidate George Wallace weigh in on Johnson and Vietnam policy while Governor Ronald Reagan suggests antiwar protest laws.
In Saigon Humphrey visits Vung Tau and Mekong Delta fronts to reaffirm U S aid for Vietnam. He cites Maj Nguyen Be of the Revolutionary Development Training Center praising frank talk and warns corruption at provincial levels hurts the large development program backing the war effort.
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