Yeager parachutes from NF104 jet after spin near 100000 feet
At Edwards Air Force Base Col Charles Yeager forced to bail out from an experimental NF104 fighter when the rocket plane spun while reentering the atmosphere. He suffered facial burns from oxygen ignition. the aircraft was destroyed. Nina Khrushchev urges more US Soviet contact to improve mutual understanding and peace.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Charles Yeager
Aerospace Pilot School
Yeager
Air Force
McNamara Says He Plans to Stay at Defense Post
Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara says he has no plans to leave his Cabinet post. He told reporters at a news conference he will serve as long as President Johnson believes he can effectively carry out his policies.
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Washington
Robert S. McNamara
Pentagon
McNamara
Kennedy
Johnson
Mass burial considered for plane crash victims
ELKTON Md AP a mass burial may be held for some of the 81 victims of Sunday's plane crash near here Dr Russell S Fisher Maryland chief medical examiner said Tuesday this might be necessary because of the difficulty in identifying some of the remains of the 73 passengers and 8 crew members We have about a dozen of them which I am prepared to certify did die in that plane crash.
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Elkton
Here
Russell S. Fisher
Maryland
Snowstorm and Cold Lock Large Areas Across Nation
A winter storm and extreme cold spread from the Rockies to the northern Midwest with rain sleet and cloudy skies across the nation. Montana saw 21 below in Butte and Bozeman as arctic air surged through the Northern Rockies and Plains with subzero readings in the Dakotas Colorado and Nebraska. Denver fell from 4 above to 10 below in hours as sleet and freezing rain stretched from the Texas Panhandle across Oklahoma and into Missouri and Kansas.
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Midwest
Appalachians
Montana
Butte
Bozeman
Plains
Dakotas
Colorado
Wyoming
Nebraska
Denver
Texas Panhandle
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Couple Killed Near Greensburg in Two-Car Crash
In Greensburg Kansas area Mr and Mrs Paul Funk both 75 of Ew ing Nebraska were killed Tuesday night when their car collided with a second vehicle on U S 54 two miles west of Greensburg. The other driver Don D Tatro 34 Pratt Kansas was hospitalized with non life threatening injuries.
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Greensburg
Kan
Paul Funk
Ewing
Neb
U. S. 54
Don D. Tatro
Pratt
Names on Australian maps mark stations and homesteads
Many place names such as Poonda Eth el Creek Walgun and Balfour Downs appear not as towns but as sheep and cattle stations and individual home steads.
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Poonda
Ethel Creek
Walgun
Balfour Downs
Moon Brightness Limits Color Moon Pics in Ranger 6
Pasadena AP reports that lunar reflectivity is low, forcing black and white shots. Ranger 6 will carry only television gear with 300 pounds of instruments stripped to boost cameras and power. Cameras will transmit from 1,000 miles for about 10 minutes, with tape-recorded data and 24 to 48 hours to publishable pictures.
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Pasadena
Calif
Earth
United States
Ranger 6
Moon
Lunar
Ranger 5
Schurmeier
Houston Jones Jruy wins after crash story at school
Houston Jones Jr. phoned a local radio station after an auto crash near his school and earned a $25 bonus for a good story. His father, Jones Sr., who is commercial manager at another station, was unhappy about the outcome.
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Louisville
Houston Jones Jr
Jones
Jones Sr
Snow spreads across the North Central region and Midwest
Snow blanketed the heavy belt from southern Colorado and northern New Mexico to central Nebraska and central Kansas. One to three inches fell in much of the Midwest while rainfall exceeded two inches in parts of Arkansas, northern Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas. Western skies were mostly clear with near seasonal temperatures.
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North Central
Colorado
New Mexico
Nebraska
Kansas
Midwest
Arkansas
Mississippi
Tennessee
Texas
Flame Is Relighted Over Kennedy Grave
The eternal flame over John F. Kennedy's grave at Arlington National Cemetery was relighted minutes after an accidental extinguishing when a bottle of holy water sprinkled by school children spilled water onto the flame. Arlington Cemetery superintendent John C. Metzler said the cap came off the bottle and a stream of water hit the flame, putting it out.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
John C. Metzler
Arlington National Cemetery
Ranger 6 to Take Best Moon Photographs Yet
The Chanute Tribune notes Ranger 6 aims to capture superior lunar pictures. It contrasts the 1959 Russian moon photos, which came within 6,000 miles, with Ranger 6’s expected closer approach.
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Fla
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University of Miami
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