Gemini 7 Professionals Reach Sixth Day In Space Race
Gemini 7 continues a 14 day mission as it passes the six day mark. Gemini 6 prepares for a Sunday chase from Cape Kennedy with pilots Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford aiming to close a 1 200 mile gap over a 103 000 mile course. The two ships are to fly formation for hours to practice rendezvous techniques essential to lunar missions.
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Houston
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APY
James A. Lovell Jr
Lovell
Frank Borman
United States
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Walter M. Schirra Jr
Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
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Barbara
Daddy
Mommy
Santa Claus
Earth
Cape Kennedy
Teachers Witness Pay Bill Signing
Gov. Scranton signed into law a bill giving two additional $300 raises for elementary and secondary teachers retroactive to July 1. The measure loans $34 million to school districts for the first two years of increased pay, funded by a $105 million surplus. About 40,000 teachers will benefit. the law also raises salaries for supervisors principals and vocational teachers.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania State Education Association
Gov. Scranton
PSEA
Scranton
Reading man charged with offering police a bribe
Henry Kotzen of Reading, 51, a former inmate with a 1963 gambling term, was charged Thursday with offering two state policemen a bribe of 794 dollars after their arrest. He is free on 2,000 dollars bail on a separate gambling charge and is held for a preliminary hearing.
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Reading
Henry Kotzen
Kotzen
Donald W. Holloway
Arthur W. McAnally
Shakeup Bolsters Brezhnev's Power
The Soviet leadership shakeup strengthens Leonid Brezhnev's control as Mikoyan resigns and Podgorny is named Mikoyan's successor. Shelepin's status remains unclear with unconfirmed talks he could become Brezhnev's top aide, while U.S.-Soviet relations are noted as hitting a low.
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Washington
Communist Party
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Supreme Soviet
Moscow
Anastas T. Mikoyan
Brezhnev
Nikoli V. Podgorny
Mikoyan
Central Committee
Podgorny
Dramier Khrushchev
Podgerny
Alexander N. Shelepin
Shelepin
Depuuty
Defense Witnesses Tie One Suspect to Phone Call in Reed Killing
In Selma, defense witnesses including a juror’s brother testified that one of three white defendants, Elmer L. Cook, William Stanley Hoggle, and Namon O Neal Hoggle, was making a telephone call when Rev. James J. Reed was killed on a Selma street last March. The defense aims to place two defendants away from the scene as prosecutors rested in the first degree murder trial.
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Selma
Ala
Boston
James J. Reed
Elmer L. Cook
William Stanley Hoggle
Namon O’neal Hoggle
Reed
Reeb
Edgar B. Vardaman
Harry C. Vardaman
Poisonous West German Toy Animals Banned in Pennsylvania
Harrisburg AP reports four specific West German toy animals are banned in Pennsylvania for arsenic traces. Inspectors will destroy or confiscate them or return them to the supplier. The toys include beige ions black panthers black and white spotted dogs and leopards about three and a half inches by two inches with labels stating West Germany manufacture.
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Harrisburg
West Germany
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Labor and Industry Department
William P. Young
Secretary of
Labor and Industry
Plaster of Paris
Fate of Crew in Doubt After Greek Freighter Sighting
London AP reports Queen Mary and Royal Navy ships searching the North Atlantic for the crew of a stricken Greek freighter Constantinos. Radio from Captain John Smith indicated men overboard and others clinging to rails as waves battered the 7200 ton vessel. Most of the 30 crew and 1,000 New York bound passengers aboard Queen Mary were nearby as they altered course to assist.
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John Smith
Imary
Royal Air Force
North Atlantic
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Constantines
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Iluj
Ireland
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