Apollo 8 Enters Lunar Orbit In Historic Christmas Eve Flight
Apollo 8 circles the moon in a historic first human lunar orbit. Astronauts Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders report the grey surface seen from 132 miles high and prepare a Christmas telecast.
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AL Rossiter Jr
UPI Space
Wiiter Space Center
Houston
UPI
America
Earth
Lunar
Frank Borman
James Lovell
William Anders
Moon
Anders
Apollo 8
Lovell
Gilbert
Pueblo crew returns home after North Korea captivity
Exhilarated USS Pueblo crew members reach San Diego after 11 months in North Korea. Cmdr Lloyd Bucher hails courage, recalls torture while stressing no brainwashing. families welcome with private ceremonies, medical checks, and a festive beachfront homecoming.
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Jack V. Fox
San Diego
Calif
UPI
Pueblo
Midway Island
Cmdr
Lloyd Bucher
United States
Bucher
Quartermaster J.C Charles Law Jr
Tacoma
Wash
Bridge of No Return
Hell
Heaven
Mainland
West Coast
Miramar Naval Air Station
North Korea
Edrwin Rosenberg
Seoul
Balboa Naval Hospital
Rosenberg
Praved
Pueblo Skinner
Mark
Michael
Sharon McCartney
Glendale
Seaman Edward S. Russell
Frank Curran
Ronald Reagan
California
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Berard Raeder
First Fleet
Allen Shinn
Naval Air Forces
Pacific Fleet
Rosenders
Navy
David G. Yoowen
Christmas Eve clashes erupt in Holy Land amid firefights
Israeli jets struck riverbank sniper nests after bazooka fire along the Jordan River Front. An Israeli patrol near the ceasefire line exchanged fire with attackers, with no casualties reported. Bethlehem saw thousands of Christians attend prayers as tensions rose during the holiday.
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Holy Land
Jerusalem
Jordan River
Israel
Truce Line
Sea of Galilee
Bethlehem
Ereen Bereted
Jesue
Moscow
Crim
Andrei A. Gromyko
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Kremlin
Middle East
UPI
Fliay Simon
Richard M. Nixon
Warm Weather Forecast For Christmas Day In Texas
United Press International reports that Christmas Eve started seasonably crisp in Texas with subfreezing dawns but a quick warm up would bring near balmy highs for Christmas Day. Many Panhandle regions saw temperatures in the teens with Dalhart at 12 and San Angelo near 20, as a southerly flow warmed the state and cleared skies. Highs were forecast from the 40s to 60s across Texas with sunny conditions.
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United Press International
Texas
Dalhart
Panhandle
San Angelo
Christmas Truce Marred by Viet Cong Mortar Attacks
The 72 hour Christmas cease fire began at 1 am with 1.5 million U S and South Vietnamese troops and Viet Cong shelling two outposts near Saigon within hours. Casualties were light as both sides observed a brief respite amid halted offensive operations in the final 32 hours of the truce.
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Saigon
Vpi
U.S
Bill Graham
Terrence Cook
Bob Hop
Hope
da Nang
James W. Brigham
Ocala
Fla
Thomas N. Jones
Lynnville
Ind
Donald G. Smith
Akron
da Nanges
Fanning Rites Today In Sayre Oklahoma
Funeral services for James Kenneth Fanning of Hereford, formerly of Childress, will be held at 2 p.m. today at the Sayre Church of Christ. W R Craig and Jim Hamilton will officiate. Burial is in Sayre Doxey Cemetery. Fanning owned City Drug in Hereford and was a pharmacist.
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James Kenneth Fanning
Hereford
Childress
Sayre
Okla
Church of Christ
W. R. Craig
Elk City
Jim Hamilton
Hereford Church of Christ
Childress Church of Christ
Sayre- Doxey
Rose Chapel Funeral Home
Fanning
Hereford Hospital
City Drug
Coda Beavers Test Closed For Holidays
The Cayman Corporation No. 1 Coda Beavers near Chilcrest will close for Christmas. The test has reached 6,867 feet and is planned to drill to 8,400 feet in the Ellenberger formation.
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Chilcress
Ellenberger
Paramount TV Lines Up June Allyson Cast for 90 Minute Feature
Paramount television announced a 90 minute feature with June Allyson Greg Morris and Don Porter. The package includes a Style segment and a Hollywood focus.
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Hollywood
UPI
Paramount Television
June Allyson
Greg Morris
Don Porter
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el Cortez
San Diego Chamber of Commerce
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Borman
MacLeish
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North Vietnam
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North Pole
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