State Dept Fears Held Up Nuclear Space Batteries
congressional head says State Department opposition delayed launching the first U.S. nuclear space battery for two years due to Cuba radiation fears. President Kennedy approved the mission in 1961, and the device remains in space powering the Apollo era experiments. The SNAP-27 aboard the moon and the Transit-4Ay satellite illustrate long lived power for space data gathering.
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State Dept
Waslington
Congress
Joint Committee On Atomic Energy
State Department
Cuba
U.S
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Holifield
Smithsonian Institution
White House
Navy
Moon
Charles Conrad
Alan Bean
Smithsman’s
National Air and Space Museum
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Dayton Commission Delayed by Absence in Quick Meeting
Dayton Ohio AP report shows city commission met with no commissioners present. Clerk Don Crawford read the roll, announced no quorum, and adjourned after 55 seconds. Mayor and commissioners attended a national conference in Atlanta, leaving weekly session unmet per charter.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton
China Deploys Nuclear Missiles Says Adm McCain
AP reports Admiral John McCain says China is deploying nuclear armed medium range missiles with about 1100 mile range. He cautions China does not yet have many such weapons and notes their threat is to Asian neighbors not the United States. He also cites marijuana in the military as a social issue. At Grand Central, five men quiz reporters on the rail strike amid a bachelor party tail end.
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Los Angeles
John McCain
U.S
Pacific
China
McCain
New York
Grand Central Station
Oac
Youth Sues Jail Haircut Wins Small Award
In Harrisonburg Virginia a youth awarded 25 dollars after suing for 10000 over deputies clipping his long hair at Page County jail. Judge Ted Dalton ruled the cut offended but caused no real damage. Mauck claimed distress from the act while under arrest for disturbing the peace and assault.
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Harrisonburg
U. S
Louis Craig Mauck II
Page County
Mauck
Ted
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