The Barge: Coral Sea’s Far East Carrier Power
Aboard the USS Coral Sea the 7th Fleet flagship patrols off Japan with a 978 foot flight deck and 60,000 pound planes. Flight operations shown include the meatball landing mirror, four arresting cables, catapults, and night landings as Vice Admiral Griffin calls the ship his big punch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin Q. White
Uss Coral Sea
Coral Sea
Japan
U. S. 7Th Fleet
Far East
Adm
Charles D. Griffin
7Th Fleet
Naval Aviation
John J. Lynch
Kennedy Wins Opening Round in Budget Battle With Byrd
Washington AP reports a temporary truce between President Kennedy and Sen. Harry Byrd as Kennedy wins round one on employer contributions funding unemployment benefits. Byrd retreats to the Senate Finance Committee to guard conservative positions amid looming fiscal battles over social programs and tax reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Bell Washington
United States
Sen
Harry Flood Byrd
D-Va
Kennedy
Senate
Potomac River
Claude A. Swanson
Byrd
Senate Finance Committee
Harry Truman
Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
North Pole
South ‘Pole
Virginia
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
National Democratic Party
Nose on a Atlas: tour of Pacific missile range
A travel style feature rides the Atlas missile from Vandenberg through Kwajalein to Kwajalein s target area. Rafael Dighton describes Nike Zeus missiles, radar towers, and tracking stations at Point Mugu and Kaneohe Bay while noting Pacific command centers, satellites and the looming detector radar set to exclude decoys.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Point Mugu
Calif
Kwajalein Island
Pacific
Kwajalein
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Vandenberg
Atlas
Titan
Minuteman
Point Arguello
Samos
Midas
Navy
Discoverer
Hawaii
South Point
Samos Satel
Oahu
Pearl Harbor
U.S
Pacific Missile Range
Kaneohe Bay
Honolulu
Midway
Wake
Eniwetok
Kwajalein Islands
Kaneohe
May Day Flight Turns Point in Cold War Crisis
In Moscow Khrushchev ordered the downing of an American U2 flight and the Powers trial unfolds. Western reporters scramble as Moscow clocks and censorship shape the story from the Lenin mausoleum to the Lubyanka, with Powers sentenced to ten years of deprivation of freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanley Johnson
Moscow
Red Square
Khrushchev
Francis Gary Powers
Pakistan
Bodo
Norway
Eisenhower
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
United States
Soviet Union
Consi
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
Washington
Turkey
Andrei Grechko
Andrei Gromyko
Sverdlovsk
Urals
U.S
Powers
Lubyanka
Barbara
Virginia Bar Association
Skaya
House of Trade Unions
Noblemen's Club
Vladimir
Where Is The Switch For Wiper
Detroit AP reports driving learners face nonstandard windshield wiper controls. Wipers evolved from knobs and levers to electric motors with varied dash placements and washer buttons. Modern wipers average 52–65 passes per minute, with up to 70–80 in bad weather, while electric washers become common on new cars.
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Detroit
Karl H. Jepson
Chevrolet
Jepson
Michigan
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Uncle Sam
Battle OF Budget
South
Thomas Jefferson
Woodrow Wilson
Andrew Jackson
Grover Cleveland
Harry F. Byrd
Ralph Dighton
Kauai
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Cape Canaveral
Fla
America’s Pacific Missile Range
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