Engle Tops 50 Miles in X15 Flight Youngest Astronaut
X15 pilot Joe Engle soared to more than 53 miles, reaching 282000 feet to become the nation s youngest astronaut. The 11 minute flight from Delamar Dry Lake Nevada featured an 82 second engine burn and a ski-diver style descent. Air Force officials and ground controllers praised the feat as a major aerospace milestone.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Joe Engle
Engle
Air Force
Milt Thompson
Joe
Robert M. White
Maj
Robert Rushworth
U.S. Space Administration
Joe Walker
Delamar Dry Lake
Nevada
The
Eugene M. Zuckert
United States
Seventh Air Force
San Francisco
Baja California
Mexican
Bear Mauls Two Boys In Camp Tent
Stevensville Mont AP brown bear attacks two boys in a forest campsite tent injuring Richard Lee Good 15 and David Presta 16 both wrestlers and trackmen from Missoula Hellgate High School. They were hospitalized with bites and gashes then fled barefoot about a mile to a ranch after the bear retreated. The bear gripped Presta's leg and dragged him but released him when Good flashed a light.
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Stevensville
Mont
Richard Lee Good
David Presta
Missoula
Hellgate High School
Presta
Good
Survey compares US and Canadian body measures across generations
The piece notes studies indicating shifts over generations, with Americans on average heavier and taller than Canadians. It cites figures: American men about 168 pounds and 5 ft 8.2 in, peaking at 172 pounds for 35–54, and 5 ft 9.1 in for 25–34. American women about 142 pounds and 5 ft 3 in. Canadians lighter by several pounds and an inch or so. The discussion returns to seat breadth findings.
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Harvard College
U.S
Canada
CBS Moonbeam Program Draws Ire From Viewers
Officials defended a CBS late night program funded by government money, saying it reached youths aged 16 to 22 with 16 million viewers while performers donated time. Critics called the show immoral and unfit for the public, but CBS and Office of Economic Opportunity officials backed the project.
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CBS
Holmes Brown
Office of Economic Opportunity
Associated Press
Brown
Stocks Fall and Rise as Market Closes Mixed
Brokers reported heavy activity as wires stayed busy all day with orders from branches nationwide. The Dow Jones average fluctuated, ending up 10.81 at 851.40, while the AP60 up 3.9 to 311.9 and the S&P 500 at 82.41. The AP index rise marked its largest gain since November 26, 1963.
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Associated Press
Standard & Poor
GOP Moves Toward Settlement in Viet Nam Controversy
The GOP signals a shift toward a negotiated Viet Nam settlement viewed as surrender to Communists. Gen Luxius Dol. Clay names C Langhorner Washburn acting finance director after Frank Kovac resigns. Bliss had fired his chief aide William Cody Kelly for prying into Kovac's desk. Bliss then met state chairmen to resolve a dispute over his former state chairmanship.
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Viet Nam
Luxius Dol. Clay
National Finance
C. Langhorner Washburn
Frank Kovac
Bliss
William Cody Kelly
Kovac
National Committee
Calm pilot avoids Hawaii honeymoon crash at Travis
Alvin McCommon Jr., 22, piloted the plane on a Hawaii-bound honeymoon when an engine failure forced an emergency crash near South San Francisco. The $600,000 engine tore through walls and a roof, but passengers and crew remained composed. Pilot Kimes directed a northward approach to Travis Field, where 11,000 feet of runway and crash equipment awaited.
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Alvin McCommon Jr
Hawaii
Wilder
Michael McGrath
San Bruno
Kimes
Martin P. Meyers
Media
Lions’ Club
James F. Krick
Womelsdorf
Larry Guth
Reading
Mary
Kaleo Schroder
Richmond, Calif
Floyd Rittenhouse
Pacific Union College of
California Highway Patrol
Travis
Space probes rely on man over machines, astronauts say
Houston AP six new scientist astronauts stress human judgment over hardware for moon experiments. They emphasize humans can adapt with on the spot decisions, unlike instruments. Officials note unknown space factors will demand increasing human involvement as the program evolves.
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Houston, Tex
U.S
Frank Curtis Michel
Houston
Rice University
Edward G. Gibson
Newport
Calif
Duane E. Graveline
Manned Spacecraft Center
Joseph P. Kerwin
Florida
Cecil Field Naval Air Station
Harrison WA. Schmitt
U.S. Geological Survey
Flagstaff
Ariz
Owen K. Garriott
Stanford University
Palo Alto
The
Space Center
National Academy of Science
Robert R. Gilruth
Harry Hess
Academy
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Gilruth de
Gilruth
Graveline
Canadian Minister Resigns Over Bribery Probe Report
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson announced the resignation of Justice Minister Guy Favreau, 41, after a government inquiry report on a bribery scandal. Favreau, a Montreal lawyer and Liberal leadership contender, resigned following Chief Justice Frederic Dorion's rebuke in the Dorion report.
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Ottawa
Lester B. Pearson
Guy Favreau
Montreal
Pearson
Liberal Party
House of Commons
Favreau
Dorion
Frederic Dorion
Justice
Lucien Rivard
United States
Rivard
U.S
Quebec
International Crime Syndicate
Raymond Denis
Rene Tremblay
Pierre Lamontagne
Lamontagne
U.S. Justice Department
Texas
Canada
Mexico
UL S
U.S. and Viet Cong Clashes Widen in Vietnam War Operations
In Vietnam near Da Nang and Saigon, Marine Corps Phantom jets and artillery aided a day long sweep, with 14 Viet Cong killed and 43 detained, while a youth was killed by a Viet Cong grenade. Air Force strikes on Thuan Chau and Son La reported, plus crashes and rescues. In Canada and government matters, a Dorion report questioned bribery links to Rivard case, and Favreau named in cabinet context.
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da ‘Nang
Saigon
Marine Corps
Leathernecks
South China Sea
Song Tra Bong River
U S
Bravo Company
U.S. Army
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Viet Nam
U.S. Air Force
Thuan Chau
Hanoi
Red China
Royal Australian Regiment
K73rd
Bien Hoa
da Nang
Senate Rejects Johnsons Bid To Cut Duty Free Allowance
The Senate rejected President Johnsons proposal to lower the duty free limit for American travelers to 50 based on retail value by a 61 to 31 vote. A conference bill would set the limit at 200 based on retail value, with current law at 100 wholesale value. The measure aims to extend the existing exemption before midnight Wednesday to avoid a revert to the former 500 wholesale value limit.
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Washington
Senate
Johnson
House
Congress
White House
Picayune
Europe
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Russell B. Long
Dla
Frank Carlson
R-Kan
Senate Finance Committee
Treasury
Sen
Javits
Teen-Age Girl Lone Survivor Of Boat Trip
A 15 year old girl Denise Winter lone survivor of a family of five after a boat foundered off Baja California. She swam ashore after drifting a day and a half along the coast near El Rosario, aided by fishermen who found her exhausted but alive. Her stepfather Warren Winter 40 of Murrieta Calif owned the 45 foot cruiser rented June 23 for a cruise from Oceanside to La Paz. Denise described the motor trouble and broken steering cable, the attempt to abandon ship, and the boat sinking half a mile from shore. She walked most of Sunday and reached a beach camp Monday morning after signaling fishermen.
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EL Rosario
Mex
Denise Winter
Baja California
Warren Winter
Muririeta
Calif
Daday
Lance
Sheree
Winter
Mary
Beth
Denise
SNCC CORE Leaders Reject Allegations of Communist Tellowed Ties
SNCC public information director Julian Bond denounces Alabama legislators as police state extremists while noting no need for Communist influence in civil rights, as Alabama Negroes face voting barriers. CORE chief James Farmer calls Alabama legislature charges of pro Communist ties ludicrous yet serious and false.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Organization
Alabama
Washington
Communist Party
Julian Bond
SNCC
James Farmer
CORE
Durham
N.C
Special Legislative Committee
Paratrooper Casualties Reported in Viet War Action
The company commander Capt R. E. Marshall of Reading PA describes a deadly assault where death was used to detonate a grenade. A paratrooper read his Bible constantly. A sniper in a tree wounded another paratrooper seriously. At least four additional casualties occurred among the 1st and 2nd Battalions of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. A paratrooper was also wounded in the hand by Viet Cong grenade fragments.
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R. E. Marshall
Reading
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Baptist Leader Hails Election As Breakthrough
The Rev Dr Porter Ruth of the Southern Baptist Convention praises the election as tangible evidence that people should be judged by individual merit. Dr Tolbert remains unmoved by the significance of the event.
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United States
Porter Ruth
Southern Baptist Convention
Tolbert
Kosygin pledges more aid to North Vietnam if war widens
Kosygin vows increased Soviet backing for North Vietnam should the war escalate, without detailing aid types. He demands a peace settlement ending U S raids, respecting the 1954 Geneva Accords, and withdrawal of U S forces and weapons. He also notes political talks by Vietnamese people without foreign interference.
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Kosygin
North Viet Nam
United States
U.S
Kremlin
Moscow
Patrice Lumumba Friendship University
Asia
Africa
Latin America
Viet Nam
Johnson
Tragic Highway Crash Near Bostic Baffles Investigators
A violent crash on a road near Bostic left two survivors and four dead as a car demolished a 12 inch pole after cutting left through the shoulder for 174 feet. The wreck ended with the vehicle on its top 42 feet beyond the second pole. Officers will continue investigations amid reports of highway racing in the area. Dean Dyer, about 22, owned the car and had been taken home moments before the crash.
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Page One
White
Dean Dyer
Highway Patrol
Asheville
Bostic
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Kontum
Tourmorong
Mekong River
William C. Westmoreland
Johnson Jones
Ellis Williamson
du Quoc Dong
173Rd
Lang
Jacob K. Javits
Rn.y
Baptists
Edie
National
Statua
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