Nixon Preferred In Midwest
Midwest GOP chairmen survey shows Nixon as the favorite for 1968, with Michigan Governor Romney gaining strength. Interviews from Iowa Kansas Minnesota Missouri North Dakota Wisconsin and Michigan report Romney leads in some states while Nixon remains popular with GOP loyalists and early backers.
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Lansing
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Richard Nixon
Michigan
George Romney
G.O.P
Republican Chairmen’s Association
Lucius Clay
National Finance
Robert Ray
Iowa
Oliver Hughes
Kansas
George Thiss
Minnesota
Ethan Campbell
Missouri
Thomas Secrest
North Dakota
Ocy Fish
Wisconsin
Elly Peterson
Romney
Kansas City
St. Louis
Topeka
Campbell
Fish
Nixon
Barry Goldwater
Weather Halts Investigation of Airplane Crash
Bad weather paused the probe into a charter airliner crash that killed 75 army soldiers and six crew. Of 98 aboard 17 survived. Investigators seek clues from pilot communications and blackened instruments from a four engine Lockheed Electra.
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Ardmore
Okla
Edward Slattery
Civil Aeronautics Board
Gene Auby Airport
Arbuckle Mountains
Oklahoma
Fort Ord
Calif
Fort Benning
Nimbus II to launch on April 29 for global weather pictures
NASA plans for Nimbus II, the bulky 912 pound weather satellite, to launch April 29. It will provide day and night infrared pictures to 150 APT stations in 26 foreign countries and to several TV stations. The craft will measure the earth's albedo and heat balance to study storm development.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Nimbus II
Nimbus C
Nimbus I
APT
Polar
NASA
Earth
Goddard Spaceflight Center
Greenbelt
Nimbus
Western beauty yields to bulldozer power on land
The piece notes a shift from riders preserving the West to machines overtake landscapes. It laments development and encroachment on natural beauty, highlighting the tension between heritage and progress as men on bulldozers reshape the terrain.
20 Mule Team Wagon Heads for South Dakota
Trail Boss Jean de Haven and a crew of 12-year-old son and six cowboys travel a 1700 mile route from Death Valley to Wessington South Dakota to honor pioneer travel and mark the 50th year of the National Park Service. The authentic wagon train includes a water wagon and two wagons dating to the 1850s with planned stops through Utah Nevada Wyoming and South Dakota lasting about four months.
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Calif
South Dakota
Jean de Haven
Wessington
S.C
National Park Service
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South
Salt Lake, City
Utah
Little America
Wyo
Lead
Mt. Rushmore
Pierre
Second Train Bombing Kills 30 in Assam
In Diphu in the Mikir hills, a second railway blast in a week killed 30 and injured over 65 as Naga tribesmen were blamed. Across central Assam three wrecks on the same line have killed 124 and injured many, with telegraph and telephone service disrupted.
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Calcutta
Assam
Diphu
Mikir
Tinsukia
Two Migs Shot Down In North Air Battle
North of Hanoi US air force jets shot down two Soviet built Mig 17s in a five minute aerial battle. American spokesmen announced Saturday.
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North Air
Saigon
Hanoi
Solons Say U S Slow To Invest in A Ships
A Senate Armed Services panel denounces the Defense Department for slow adoption of nuclear powered surface ships. It urges Congress to scrap two conventional destroyers and order nuclear powered equivalents, arguing higher military effectiveness justifies costs.
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U.S
Washington
Senate-House Atomic Energy Committee
Department of Defense
Congress
Defense Department
Senate Armed Services Committee
Joint Committee
House
Armed Services Committee
Navy
Enterprise
Bainbridge
Humphrey Urges Viet Election Support and Peace Talks
Vice President Humphrey told the Americans for Democratic Action that the United States backs elections in South Vietnam and calls on Hanoi to hold North Vietnamese elections under free campaigning and world press access. He framed U.S. aim as allowing South Vietnamese to determine their future and pursue peace at the table, while maintaining containment of China and patience in policy.
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Washington
Humphrey
U.S
South Vietnam
Saigon
Hanoi
North Vietnam
World
Americans For Democratic Action
Vietnam
Johnson
China
Heart Patient Improves With Artificial Heart
Mar cel De Rudder showed improvement as artificial heart pumps life blood through his body in Houston. Doctors reported normal circulation and blood pressure with no injury to blood, marking progress toward broader use for doomed heart patients.
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Houston
UPI
Marcel de Rudder
de Rudder
Montgom ery Urges Army of Bachelors in Britain
London AP report on Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery proposing an all bachelor army to cut costs and avoid family settlements. Critics from military groups call the plan impractical and potentially ruinous, while Montgomery defends the idea as national service reform.
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Viscount Montgomery
House of Lords
Lord Montgomery
Britain
Richard Gale
Rhine Army
Army League
Royal Air Forces Assn
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