World's largest building rises at Cape Kennedy VAB
The Vertical Assembly Building rises from swamplands at Cape Kennedy as the massive 710 by 513 foot structure will house the Saturn 5 rockets for Apollo missions. Engineers describe a vast box like interior with multiple moving sections, four 460 foot doors, and a foundation built to resist hurricane force winds as work continues toward 1966 completion.
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Radishes Respond to Beatle Music in Home Experiment
Lynn Boshkov a 15 year old student at White Plains High School played Beatles, Lily Pons and Dvorak for radish plants while a control group received no music. After maturation radishes exposed to Beatle music showed the greatest foliage and root size with Beats surpassing the other tunes. The project notes plant growth percentages compared to the silent group, with Beatle treated radishes showing 322 percent foliage weight and 142.5 percent root weight. The student and father professors commented on the results while the mother assisted with cleanup.
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New York
Lily Pons
Lynn Boshkov
Columbia University
White Plains
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Lynn
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Ee Pons
New World Symphony
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Catholics protest in Danang and Hue over persecution
About 16 000 Catholics staged orderly demonstrations in Danang and Hue to protest religious oppression. Police and gendarmes monitored the events with no violence reported.
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Associated Press
Saigon
South Viet Nam
Viet Nam
Danang
Hue
Thunderstorms spread across eastern half of nation
Storms drenched the eastern half from western Pennsylvania to northern Illinois and from southwest Iowa to the Texas Panhandle. Tornadoes damaged rural areas near Bloomfield Iowa and Sand Springs Oklahoma with no injuries reported. Funnel clouds appeared in Ohio and Nebraska as torrential rains hit Kansas and Missouri.
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Texas Panhandle
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Sand Springs
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Nebraska
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Missouri
Ira Wallace dies former nursing home leader
Ira O. Wallace 65 longtime head of the American Nursing Home Association from 1956 to 1959 died Saturday in New Castle Kentucky AP report notes his leadership in the nursing home field and his death at age 65.
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Ira Wallace
New Castle , Ky
Ira O. Wallace
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American Nursing Home Association
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