Lunar Orbiter Pictures Hint at Moon Landing Proof
In Pasadena, experts awaited Lunar Orbiter photographs that could confirm landing sites for Apollo astronauts. The 850-pound craft captured first close ups of the equatorial region, including Site 1 in the Sea of Fertility and Site 2 in the Sea of Tranquility, with results due after several days.
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Pasadena
Calif
America
Space Agency
Earth
Lunar Orbiter
Lunar Oriber
Kowalski’s Break With Johnson Sparks Campaign Promise
Kowalski announces a vacation then shifts to opposing President Johnson’s Vietnam War, saying the war serves no national interest and he will campaign against Johnson. Once a Bailey-backed congressman and later Senate bid hopeful, he claims his career was made and will be ended by party bosses.
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John
Viet Nam
Johnson
Barry Gold- Water
Kowalski
Connecticut
Bailey
Congress
Kowalsi
Senate
Abraham A. Ribicoff
Washingon
Litical
U.S
Meing
Congress weighs Vietnam protest law amid hearings
Hearing in the United States Congress centers on a bill by Rep. Joe Pool to curb interference with troop movements and the funding and supply of the Viet Nam war. Deputy Attorney General Ramsey Clark signals DOJ opposition as constitutional questions loom over advocacy and solicitation.
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U.S
Viet Nam
Justice Department
Ramsey Clark
Joe R. Pool
D-Tex
Berkeley
Calif
Pool
Smith
Supreme Court
Biblesque Admonitions and Moral Proscriptions Found In Fragment
A fragmentary text presents exhortations on mercy toward widows and orphans, condemns usury against the poor, and forbids reviling elders or cursing rulers. It calls readers to holy conduct and references dying flesh and civic contribution in a cryptic context.
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Thong
Starfighter losses haunt West German air force
West Germany has lost 61 Starfighters since 1961 due to maintenance gaps and pilot training shortfalls after U S Air Force schooling. The F104G can speed 450 to 500 miles from base and back, and remains the nation’s first supersonic combat aircraft amid political criticism of air force leadership support and procurement. Lt. Siegfried Amdt, the latest casualty, died in a North Sea crash.
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Luftwaffe
U.S. Air Force
American Southwest
West Germany
Panitaki
Helmut Schmidt
Socialist Party
Panitzki
Josef Kammhucher
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Burbank
Calif
Flensburg
Siegfried Amdt
Naval Air Arm
North Sea
Viet Nam Combat Claims Highlight Australian Action
The 16th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment fought a large scale clash described as the biggest Australian operation since Korea, reporting at least 245 enemy killed from a 1,000 man force. U.S. and South Vietnamese air forces carried out extensive missions over North and South Viet Nam, claiming numerous destructed bunkers, depots, bridges, trucks and oil depots, with 114 American planes lost to date. Radio Hanoi reported the Viet Cong rejected peace proposals and demanded foreign troop withdrawal and a dismantling of U.S. bases before talks.
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Saigon
16Th Battalion
Royal Australian Regiment
U.S
North Viet Nam
Hanoi
South Viet Nam
Radio Hanoi
Thailand
Malaysia
Philippines
China
Viet Nam
South
Aftershocks Hit Turkey As Quake Moves Southeast
A major earthquake devastated parts of Turkey with aftershocks shaking Var and M usa. Premier Demirel called an emergency cabinet meeting in Ankara while health minister Somunoğlu ordered typhoid inoculations and local chlorination. CARE released 30000 to aid Ankara relief. Swiss Red Cross sent 2500 blankets and supplies as villages remained cut off by landslides.
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Pakistan
West Germany
Yugoslavia
Malaysia
Greece
France
Italy
Israel
Tunis
Vatican City
Swiss Red Cross
Demirel
Var
Ankara
Edip Somunoglu
CARE
Mus
Price Trends Show Mixed Increases Across Goods and Services
Costs in transportation and medical services rose 5 percent with 4 to 4.5 percent gains in beauty barbershop utilities and related services. Other items such as fuel oil apparel newspapers cigarettes and furniture climbed 3 to 5 percent. New cars and appliances priced slightly lower while brisk demand in July pushed used car prices down about 2 percent from a year earlier.
Man Trapped In Plane N Early Week
MERIDEN Conn AP George Emmanuel said his brother John Emmanuel 39 of Hartford was trapped in a small plane wreckage for nearly a week near Middletown on Mt Higby. A pilot Richard Grimaldi 32 of Newington died. John Emmanuel is in serious condition with shock and exposure but expected to recover from injuries and incoherent speech.
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Meriden
Conn
George Emmanuel
John Emmanuel
Hartford
Emmanuel
Mt Higby
Middletown
Richard Grimaldi
Newington
Block Island
Mt. Higby
Faith the Sixth Tropical Storm Spotted Off Africa
The sixth tropical storm of the Atlantic season was 700 miles west of Africa moving westward named Faith. The U S Weather Bureau in Miami said it posed no immediate US threat as Faith sits more than 3000 miles from the mainland with top winds 30 to 35 mph. Tracking responsibility lies with the National Hurricane Center and the military.
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Miami
Fla
Africa
Faith
U.S. Weather Bureau
United States
National Hurricane Center
Threatened bus driver strike delayed to study union proposals
Portsmouth AP report says Community Motor Bus Co drivers delayed strike until Wednesday to give management time to review union proposals. Negotiators met three hours with no decision. union plans to present details again at 2 p.m. Tuesday. Main issues include higher wages, time and a half for over 40 hours, and fringe benefits.
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Portsmouth
Community Motor Bus Co
Harold A. Smith
Amalgamated, Transit Union
Inion
Smith
CMB
Wallace C. Barry
ATU Social
Portsmouth Transit Co
King Refuses to Cancel Cicero March Request
Cook County Sheriff Ogilvie urged Dr. Martin Luther King Jr to cancel a planned march into Cicero amid past riots. King refused, saying open city policies require resolving metropolitan Chicago tensions. Civil rights leaders planned a mass meeting as housing discrimination protests continued despite rain and hostile crowds.
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Chicago
Richard Ogilvie
Cook County
Martin Luther King Jr
Cicero
Ogilvie
King
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Atlanta
Cicero Police Department
Illinois National Guard
Chcexo
Bevel
Deering
Evergreen Park
Geese Invasions Stir Suburban Virginia Shoreline
Mrs Barron reports a rise in resident geese near a Virginia suburb lake. Interior Department experts and Marines attempted a net capture but local police blocked motor boat use. Geese proved no molt. increasing from 10 to about 45 in two years. Goose season starts November first, firing is prohibited near Barron home.
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County Health Department
Barron
Barrons
Virginia
Washington
Two Women Are Killed in Queens Shooting
In Queens, Gina Danilo, 2, found grandmother Mary Gentile, 57, dead after a gun attack. Delores Prezant, 35, and her 4-year-old son George were wounded. Prezant later died after shooting herself, the boy in critical condition. Police say Prezant and Gentile were cousins who argued before the fatal shots.
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New York
Gina Danilo
Gina
Philip
Queens
Mary Gentile
Delores Prezant
Elmont
George
Father and son face off in Kansas House race
Bruce Madden 53 a Republican and his son Robert Madden 22 a Democratic candidate in Wichita clash as they contest the Kansas House seat. The duo recounts frequent political debates and family dynamics shaping their campaigns and positions.
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Bruce Madden
Kansas
Wichita
Kan
Kansas House of Representatives
Robert Madden
Madden
Robert
Bob
United States
Police Volunteers Face Riots Across City
Cooper and O'Malley, patrolmen married with families, serve on a volunteer task force earning 7454 yearly with overtime time off. They describe long shifts and varied duties from marine patrol to surveillance, facing threats as rioters clash with marchers. They defend life and property amid racial tension during West Side unrest.
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Cooper
O’malley
O'Malley
West Side
W. Wilson
Wilson
Sheriff in Shootout Leaves Sheriff Wounded in Nebulous Night
A rural sheriff and deputy were involved in a dawn shooting incident in Cleveland County. Sheriff Oaks was struck in the neck while directing a flashlight beam when Liverett opened fire with a .22 pistol. Liverett fled into darkness as deputies searched village homes around 4 30 a m. Paul Lucas, a mill worker, reported the encounter and described the moments when officers removed a .38 slug from Oaks. Liverett, jailed for murder, was transferred to an undisclosed facility after the shooting. Lucas, a material witness, said Liverett sought admittance claiming threats and asked to stay until dawn. Police said the warrant for Liverett, sworn by Roy Rudisill and Jackson Scruggs, alleged threats against them.
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Oaks
Liverett
Cleveland County
J. Haywood Allen
Rutherford County
Damon Huskey
Allen
Morganton
Alvin Wise
Lucas
Burns
Roy Rudisill
Jackson Scruggs
Livsett
Autos wage split drives anticipated early buy rush
General Motors rejected a union request citing wage growth since 1940 and noting the skilled to production pay gap has remained fairly. The last contract reopenings were in 1953 during the Korean War with modest raises and pension boosts. Tradesmen protested for reopenings. nearby plants faced brief shutdowns due to absenteeism. GM projected Sept earnings with production workers at about $3.17 and die makers around $4.13.
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General Motors
Chrysler
Detroit
Illness Ends Lonely Transatlantic Voyage by 72YearOld Sailor
New York AP reports Captain William Willis, 72, aboard the Coast Guard cutter Ingham bound for Argentia after illness halted his solo 11 foot Little One crossing from New York on June 22 toward Plymouth England. Willis had planned a 3000 mile 45 to 70 day voyage but contracted a hernia while pursuing the eastward voyage. The Ingham ferried him to hospital with his health uncertain. Willis had previously sailed solo voyages including a 115 day Pacific crossing and a 1963 Pacific raft voyage.
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New York
William Willis
Coast Guard
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Ingham
Argentia
Willis
Plymouth
England
Sapaphire
Robert Manry
Cleveland
Ohio
Pacific
Peru
Samoa
Two teens threaten to jump over Beatles stay nearby
Two Staten Island girls, 17 and 16, perched on the Americana Hotel ledge for about 30 minutes threatening to jump unless they could deliver a letter to the Beatles. A police officer knelt and talked them off the ledge after one girl cried, then both were led away to safety as Beatles fans watched from the Warwick.
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New York
Warwick
Atlanta
Warren L. Moody
54Th Street
Carol Hopkins
Susan Richmond
Staten Island
Roosevelt Hospital
Richard Powers
Powers
Patrick O’connor
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