Navy to Patrol Coast Against Smuggling From North Viet Nam
The Navy disclosed that it has established active coastal patrols to stop the smuggling of arms and personnel from North Viet Nam into South Viet Nam. Secretary of the Navy announced the new patrols at a Washington briefing.
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Navy
Nitze
U.S. Navy
Taylor
Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
State Department
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Gemini astronauts land after four day space flight
The Gemini mission ended with McDivitt and White returning to the USS Wasp in the Atlantic after a near perfect splashdown 90 miles east of New Mexico. They endured a five mile, eight g reentry without computer guidance and underwent immediate medical exams as officials hailed the mission a 100 percent success.
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Alexei Leonov
William W. McCormick
Earth
Wasp
Atlantic
Houston
White
MecDvitt
Moon
New Mexico
Bbig
McDivitt
Pat White
Pat McDivitt
U.S
Cape Kennedy
William McCormick
Space Flight
Frogmen
Mission Control Center
MecDivitt
McDvitt
Desegregation Case Shapes Virginia School Reforms
The Virginia Teachers Association represents seven Negro teachers after Giles County School Board abolished Negro schools. The court will review the superintendent’s hiring decision, with re evaluations possible while protecting pupils’ interests. The ruling signals desegregation drives and potential federal funding implications.
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Giles County
Virginia Teachers Association
National Education Association
VTA
Rupert Picott
Richmond
Virginia
U.S. Office of Education
Editors travel to Birmingham to see Alabama racial issues
The Reuters team tours Selma and Birmingham to verify civil rights coverage. Gov. George Wallace hosted the visit, with reporters paying lodging and travel. They confront empty storefronts, a slain activist site, and segregated neighborhoods on a route past the courthouse and new Negro housing.
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Dama
Reed
Birmingham
George Wallace
Alabama
Selma
U.S. 80
Detroit
Viola Liuzzo
Montgomery
Liuzzo
James Reed
Boston
Jimmie Lee Jackson
Marion
Ala
Court Rulings Highlight Supreme Court Session
The high tribunal closed its term with key rulings on privacy and labor law. Decisions declared a Connecticut birth control ban unconstitutional, ruled unions forfeit antitrust exemptions when conspiring with employers, found no conspiracy in AFL-CIO actions with Chicago retailers on hours, and struck down a federal anti Communist labor official law as unconstitutional. Estes faces possible retrial. Justice Brennan and others provided nuanced views on due process and free expression.
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Connecticut
William O. Douglas
United Mineworkers of America
Afl-Cio Amalgamated Meat Cutters
Chicago
Byron R. White
Earl Warren
Estes
Texas
Tyler
Tom C. Clark
Warren, Douglas
Arthur J. Goldberg
John M. Harlan
Potter Stewart
White
Hugo L. Black
William J. Brennan
Harlan
Trial Son Remanded After Manslaughter Verdict
Timothy Nichol son 22 is not eligible for probation and is remanded to the county sheriff after a manslaughter verdict in the fatal Dec 7 shooting of Todd in Temple City. Roberta Nicholson, mother, cried in the audience as the twins, heirs to the Cudahy fortune, face sentencing considerations.
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Timothy
Cudahy Meat Packing
Pullman
Todd
Temple City
Space race pace tightens as Gemini and Voskhod duel
Moon flown two second generation Voskhod craft while the US relied on Mercury and Gemini. Gemini 3 and 4 achieved major milestones with four days in orbit and a 20 minute space walk. Russians push ahead in rendezvous tech and long duration goals, while both nations eye future seven and fourteen day missions.
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Page One
United States
Virgil Grissom
John Young
McDivitt
White
MacDivitt
Gordon Cooper
Charles Conrad
Gemini
Agens
Tbe
Walter Schirray
Tom Stafford
Schirra
Stafford
Grissom
Young
U.S
Judy Holliday dies at 41 after cancer battle
Judy Holliday, famed Broadway star turned film Oscar winner, died Monday at age 41 after a long cancer struggle. Once shy offstage, she rose from Billie Dawn in 1946 to cinema fame with Born Yesterday, later facing Senate scrutiny over alleged Communist ties and enduring throat cancer that canceled La Laurette in 1960.
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New ‘York
Judy Iday
Billie Dawn
New York
Miss Holliday
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Gemini 4 crew report daylight and flat ground view
McDivitt tells the ground he can see the ground and it looks flat as the capsule passes over Guaymas Mexico. The crew discusses the computer, recovery, rest, and Dexedrine, with Kraft joking about the computations and Young noting the tougher phase after return. They celebrate splashdown and arrival for pickup by helicopter.
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McDivitt
Guymas
Mexico
Jim
Christopher Kraft
Chris
John (Young
Viet Nam Paratroopers Face Bridge Block In Push
A heavy 173rd Airborne Brigade convoy from Bien Hoa east of Saigon battled Viet Cong while moving toward Ben Vinh. Helicopters and air strikes supported two infantry platoons as the column halted at a blown bridge and returned to Bien Hoa after skirmishes with light casualties.
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Page One
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Bien Hoa
Saigon
Ben Vinh
Gemini 5 astronauts notch medical data and goals
Dr. Robert Gilruth hailed the Manned Spacecraft Center complex growth as Gemini 5 inches toward October launch. Berry reported no cardio vascular trouble. tilt tests began as White and McDivitt underwent heart and blood pressure measurements. Kraft noted no anxious moments despite a computer failure being investigated.
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Robert RR. Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Center
Charles Mathews
Gemini
Berry
Uss Wasp
White
McDivitt
Kraft
Mathews
Wives share hopes as Gemini 4 returns to Earth
Mrs White and Mrs McDivitt speak of soup and dessert plans and a possible vacation while awaiting the return of their husbands from Gemini 4. The wives recall the space walk, express relief at hatch closing, and cling to optimism for future missions as May 23 marked their last meeting with the crews. Bonnie Lynn, White’s daughter, asks what she will say upon his return.
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McDivitt
White
Eddie White
Cape Kennedy
James McDivitt
Jackscon, Mich
McDvitt
Bonnie Lynn
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Paul Hf. Nitze
Maxwell D. Taylor
Johnson
Marine Corps
Tes American Distilling Company, & Poti
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Archer
High Tribunal
Judy Holliday
Viet Nam
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York
Newport News
Norfolk
Washington
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