Nixon Plans World Tour With Apollo 11 Splashdown
President Nixon announces a round the world trip leaving July 23 to Aug 3 featuring the Apollo 11 splashdown in the Pacific. He will visit Romania behind the Iron Curtain and five Southeast Asian nations, with Rogers and Mrs. Nixon accompanying him on the Asian leg.
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Nixon
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Romania
U.S
White House
Ronald L. Ziegler
Washington
St. Lawrence Seaway
Montreal
Canada
Ziegler
John F. Kennedy Space Center
Florida
Neil Armstrong
Michael Collins
Edwin Aldrin
Hornet
Johnston Island
Asia
Manila
Philippines
Jakarta
Indonesia
Bangkok
Thailand
New Delhi
India
Lahore
Pakistan
William P. Rogers
Rogers
Japan
Korea
Taiwan
Australia
New Zealand
Nikolai Ceausescu
Romanian State Council
China
United States
Derailment Kills 1 Hurts 150 Near Washington
Ten cars of a Seaboard Coast Line train carrying 600 passengers derailed 12 miles east of Washington on Saturday. About 150 were injured, 110 admitted to hospitals, six seriously. One man, a priest, died of a heart attack after escaping a car as five cars toppled. Passengers were briefly trapped in wreckage.
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New York Times
Glenndale
Seaboard Coast Line
Washington, D. C
Washington
Monkey Begins 30 Day Earth Orbit Project
A pigtail monkey named Benny launched from Cape Kennedy on a Delta rocket for a 30 day earth orbit. The three year old from Thailand will be wired with implanted probes to study effects for future long duration manned missions. The mission aimed to establish medical guidelines for astronauts on extended spaceflights.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Benny
Thailand
Space
Astronaut Mike Collins Practicing Hatch Opening
Astronaut Mike Collins rehearses opening the hatch between the command module and lunar module in the tunnel. He plans the maneuver next month en route to the moon with Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin aboard the mission craft.
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Edwin Aldrin
Alabama officer wins Chicken Cantonese cooking contest
Lt. Col. Robert J. Noll of Ft. McClellan captured top honors at the Alabama Chicken Cooking Contest in Birmingham. His exotic Chicken Cantonese dish, flavored with soy sauce and mushrooms, wowed judges and earned a two person Bahamas trip. The contest was sponsored by the Alabama Poultry Industry Association.
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Birmingham
Ala
Robert J. Noll
Noll
Ft. McClellan
Bahamas
The
Alabama Poultry Industry Association
Sloppy Drunk Hijacks Jets Third Time This Week
A poorly dressed man aboard an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 hijacked the Miami bound flight with 104 aboard. He sipped whiskey, brandished a six inch knife, and forced a Havana route before landing in Miami after five and a half hours. The hijacker remained in Cuba.
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Eastern Airlines
Cuba
Daytona Beach
Fla
Laura Ann Compton
Baltimore
Havana
John R. Brunning
Miss Compton
Brunning
Tom Luesco
High Bridge
N.J
Ray Anthony
Record high set as Southeast swelters at 102 degrees
A blistering pattern pushes heat to 102 in Huntsville Decatur Jetport as June records fall. The Southeast endures a high pressure ridge with Jackson Mississippi logging a seventh day at or above 100 degrees. Previous June record stood at 98 in 1959.
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Huntsville — Decatur
Jackson Miss
Reader asks about prosecuting kitten-killer and hunting safety
Mrs. Bruce Flake of the Morgan County Humane Society says the person who killed the stray kitten could be prosecuted and fined up to 50 dollars. She advises contacting her to pursue the matter. For hunting safety information, The State Conservation Department in Montgomery, Alabama provides guidance.
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Decatur
Bruce Flake
Morgan County Humane Society
C. E. Davis
Athens
City Plans To Add 3 To 10 Policemen
City plans to hire eight to ten more officers and double its detective staff to four. Dukes says personnel will shift from 48 to 40 hour weeks once hires are made. Mayor Gunthorp favors enlargement but warns quality matters.
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Winford Turner
Bill Dukes
Dukes
Charles Gunthorp
Pack Self
Decatur
Duke
Path Cleared To Besieged Camp Ben Het In Saigon Fighting
Government infantry cleared a vital Route 579 toward the besieged Special Forces camp at Ben Het as 58 days of battle persisted in the central highlands. South Vietnamese troops relieved Dak To and faced North Vietnamese gunners with allied airpower and B52 strikes delivering 900 tons of explosives.
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Saigon
Ben Het
Ban Me Thuot
Dak To
Highlands
Fiday
U.S
Viet Copig
Ben Tet
United’ States
Tennessee Search Ends for Dennis Martin
The final organized search for Dennis Martin, the 7 year old Knoxville boy missing in the Great Smoky Mountains since June 14, ended with 159 check ins by noon out of an expected 400. Volunteers were few as Marine reserve units and park personnel led the effort. If not found, a skeleton search would continue for 60 days.
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Gatlinburg, Tenn
Dennis Martin
Knoxville
Great Smoky Mountains
Marine Reserve
Great Smoky . Mountains National Park
William C. Martin
Smokes
Clyde
Douglas
National Park
Dennis
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