Gemini's Crew Breaks U S Space Record in Orbit
Houston report says astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White II surpassed Gordon Cooper’s 34 hour 20 minute U S record with a 62 orbit mission aiming for 97 hours 50 minutes in space. They planned to return to Earth Monday amid ongoing space activity and Soviet comparisons.
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Houston
Tex
America
Edward H. White II
James A. McDivitt
Gordon Jr
Ivitt
White
Earth
Valery Bykovsky
Hawaii
Stuart Davis
McDivitt
Car Collisions Reported By City Police Friday
Two separate crashes were logged by city police Friday. Dale G Wood, 28 of Florence, was rear ended while turning at 6th Ave SE and 7th St by Clara Cagle, 28 of Eve Tennessee, with Cagle suffering cuts to her lower forehead. A second collision occurred at 4th Ave and 8th St SE involving Clarence Allred, 54, and Holy Ray Singleton, 32 of Hartselle Alabama, after Allred braked as another vehicle approached.
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Dale G. Wood
Florence
6Th Ave
7Th St
Clara Cagle
Eve
Tenn
4Th Ave
8Th St
Clarence Allred
10Th Ave
Holy Ray Singleton
Hartselle
Allred
Marines Battle In Vietnam Sees Heavy Casualties
U S Marines gained an edge near Da Nang and Phu Bai with 22 Viet Cong killed 3 captured and 11 wounded. Two Marines died and 27 were wounded in the skirmish as enemy ambushes and assaults continued across Saigon Lao Thien Kontum and surrounding areas.
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Edwin Q. White
Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
da Nang-Phu Bai
Lao Thien
Kontum
New Political Pact Sought By OAS Team
A three man OAS peace mission arrived in Santo Domingo to push for a political settlement in the Dominican civil war. Ellsworth Bunker IM Pena Marinho Ramon de Clairmont Duenas lead the group which met with papal nuncio Msgr. Clarizio and U.S. Ambassador Bennett. The effort follows six prior failed attempts and includes plans to visit northern cities to probe human rights abuses.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States
OAS
Emanuele E Clarizio
U.S
W. Tapley Bennett Jr
Clarizio
Ellsworth Bunker
Tmar Penna Marinho
Brazil
Ramon de Clairmont Duenas
el Salvador
Dominica
Washington
Santiago
Manuel Bianchi
Chile
San Francisco de Macoris
Puerto Plata
Moca
Governor Gordon Persons a Decade After His Term
A retrospective on Gordon Persons, noting his rise from radio work to the Alabama Public Service Commission and his four years as governor. The piece recalls his conservative governance, reforms like anti fraud measures, and the mixed public regard after leaving office amid health decline.
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Advertiser
Persons
Alabama
Alabama Public Service Commission
Lange
Brother
Supreme Court
Euicome
White House rights conference planned by Johnson
President Johnson announced a White House conference this fall with a goal to help the American Negro fulfill rights after injustice. The event will gather scholars, experts, leaders and officials to move from opportunity to achievement and dissolve racial enmity, aiming to involve all America in the program.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Johnson
White House
Howard University
All America
Three Die in Bank Robbery at Big Springs Neb
Three bank employees were killed and a fourth wounded in a bank robbery at Big Springs Nebraska. The gunman, described as well dressed and crew cut about 35, rifled drawers, took about 1500 dollars and fired on the workers after they lay on the floor. The victims include the bank president cashier and a bookkeeper with an assistant cashier seriously wounded.
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Big Springs
Neb
Nebraska
Robert Richards
Franklin Kjeldgard
Franklin
Andreas Kjeldgaard
Family Bank
Humphrey rebuts Kennedy talk on 1972 bid
Vice president Hubert H. Humphrey rejects hints that Senators Robert Kennedy and Edward Kennedy may seek to lead an anti administration movement. He says he favors Kennedy brothers in Senate leadership and cautions that Vietnam policy requires a ground victory by South Vietnamese forces with U S support.
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Washington
Hubert H. Humphrey
Robert F. Kennedy
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Vipul Auwc
Humphrey
Senate
John F. Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
United States
South Viet Nam
Associated Press
Viet Nam
Miss Ohio Wins Miss USA Crown in Miami Beach
Sue Ann Downey of Columbus Ohio captured the Miss USA title Friday night beating runner up Jane Nelson of Tularosa Arizona in a beauty pageant held in Miami Beach Florida.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Columbus
Ohio
Sue Ann Downey
U.S.A
Arizona
Jane Nelson
Tularosa
Man Without Weight Becomes Tipsy in Space Walk
Houston AP report describes weightlessness as a vivid, intoxicating sensation. Edward White II exceeded the planned 12 minute spacewalk with a 20 minute free float, delaying return as James McDivitt steered Gemini 4. They endured depressurization to allow White to exit, prompting duties by Mission Control’s Kraft.
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Howard Benedict Houston
Tex
Edward H. White II
White
Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Mission Control Center
James A. McDivitt
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Geoffrey Birt
By Bill W. Dean
Kennedy
By Jack Bell
United Fund
Ira C. Lay Jr
Morgan County United Fund
Whit King
Morgan County
Center
Charles H. Brower
Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn, Inc
New York
Brower
United Community Campaigns of America
Dayton
Mercer
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