Apollo 8 Engine Test Marks Space Breakthrough
At Space Center Houston astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders tested the Apollo 8 main engine aboard the Saturn 5 rocket. Launch from Cape Kennedy sent the crew into space on a mission to orbit the moon with two orbits before leaving Earth. The control room hailed the reliability of the engine as it powered the historic flight toward lunar orbit.
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South Viet Nam Blames Hanoi For Deadlock
Paris dispatch reports South Vietnam formally charged North Vietnam and the Viet Cong National Liberation Front with not negotiating peace but imposing it. The Saigon delegation urged a two sided conference table and rejected Hanoi’s four party plan as delaying tactics and a bid for NLF recognition.
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The Trouble With Good Advice Interferes With Plans
A short humor item notes that well meant guidance often disrupts personal plans. The quip plays on the paradox of advice helping yet hindering when followed in daily choices.
LBJ Appeals For Nigerian Cease-Fire
President Johnson appeals from Bethesda naval hospital for a permanent end to the Nigerian civil war. He urges a two day cease fire on December 24 and 25 and praises Emperor Haile Selassie for urging Nigeria and Biafra to observe restraint. federal troops are to observe the truce.
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Yakubu Gowon
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Gromyko’s Cairo Visit Spurs Settlement Hope
The arrival of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and deputy Vladimir Semionov in Cairo signals Moscow’s push for a Middle East settlement. Talks with Egyptian leaders follow recent U S envoy visits as Cairo weighs a broad peace initiative with big powers and the Jarring mission stalls.
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Mrs. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. dies of cancer at 54
Mrs. Jo seph Pulitzer Jr. wife of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editor and publisher died Saturday afternoon at her home after battling cancer.
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Escape convict captured in Florida after ransom plot
Gary Steven Krist, 23, who abducted Barbara Jane Mackle and buried her for ransom, was captured on Hog Island off southwest Florida. Authorities recovered about 480000 of the ransom in a rotting boat hull. Krist was brought ashore with hands bound, appearing calm and making no comment.
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Marengo Woman Dies in Crash on Snow Slick Highway 149
Geneva M. Bell 36 of Marengo route two was killed in a two vehicle head on crash on snow slick highway 149 south of Amana Saturday at 3 25 p m. Robert D. Sandersfeld 31 of Amana and passenger Mrs Don Larson 25 of Amana were taken to St Luke's hospital Cedar Rapids with injuries. Bell is survived by husband Glenn. Services pending at Hoover Valentine Marengo.
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White Plains
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Hope in Korea Brings 50 000 GIs to Seventy Shows
Bob Hope visits Korea to entertain 50 000 soldiers across DMZ outposts and Seoul. He performs for 15 000 troops at Yonggogil and via armed forces TV, highlighting U N peacekeeping and South Korea unity against communism.
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Like To Be Somewhere Else In Seoul DMZ report
A correspondent recounts South Korean donations of nearly 900000 to aid counter espionage under a newspaper auspice. At the DMZ frontline US troops report mine incidents and tense patrols as North Korean provocations rise and defectors cite Kim Il Sungs promises amid a fragile truce.
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