Huge Saturn Begins 2200-Mmile Water Journey to Canaveral
NASA launched the Saturn rocket on a two week waterborne voyage from Huntsville to Cape Canaveral. The 75-ton booster travels via Tennessee, Ohio, Mississippi rivers and the Gulf to Florida. After Wheeler Dam damage, TVA built docks and an access road to load the barge.
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Ala
Civilian Space Agency
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Tennessee
Ohio
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
Florida Straits
Atlantic Ocean
Wheeler Dam
Florence
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Florida
NASA
Cape
United States
Moon
Venus
Mars
Tennessee River
Tennessee Valey Authority
Gulf
Redstone Arsenal
Student Tells Of Fight With Bear
A graduate student from Washington DC, Napier Shelton of Duke University, is hospitalized in Fairbanks after a grizzly attack at Mt. McKinley National Park. He climbed a tree, fell, was bitten on the right thigh, then treated by a park biologist and flown to the hospital.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Washington, D.C
Napier Shelton
Duke University
Mt. McKinley National Park
Shelton
King Mahendra Leads Nepal Delegation to Yugoslavia Summit
Kathmandu AP says King Mahendra will head a five man Nepal delegation to the neutral nations summit opening September 1 in Yugoslavia, according to the foreign ministry on Thursday.
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Katmandu
Nepal
Mahendra
Yugoslavia
Foreign Ministry
Mayenne Honors U S Soldier Widow On Bridge Plaque
Mayenne France welcomed Mae McRacken and her daughter Myrtis as two thousand townspeople watched the widow and the American flag ceremony for James McRacken a private in Gen George S Pattons 3rd Army who died saving a bridge over the Mayenne River. The mayor said the heroism prevented the Germans from turning the town into a battleground. The ceremony featured an American band French infantry and taps from bugler Roger Lon. The widow who came from Charlotte North Carolina will stay with the mayor and then depart for Paris.
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Mayenne
France
U.S
James McRacken
Mae McRacken
Myrtis
McRacken
George S. Patton
3Rd Army
Roger Lon
Lancaster
Calif
Charlotte Observer
Patton
Seine
Spending Cutback Foreseen
Washington reports privately that Kennedy supporters expect a moderate cutback in non military domestic spending to gain passage of his foreign aid loan authority and aid the interim tax program. Berlin tensions and defense requests pressure lawmakers while officials prefer stimulation a business boom.
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Kennedy
House
Ways and Means
Berlin
Congress
Capitol Hill
Kennedy plans reorganization of CIA structure adoption
Washington AP reports Kennedy aides seek to split work from CIA Director Allen Dulles. Basic intelligence reports may move to separate agencies and overall intelligence coordination could be divested from CIA operations. Defense Department opposed moving overseas operations to CIA. paramilitary duties could shift to the Pentagon. Fowler Hamilton is named as possible Dulles successor but has not decided.
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Kennedy
United States
Central Intelligence Agency
Allen Dulles
CIA
Defense Department
Cuba
Pentagon
Dulles
New York
Fowler Hamilton
Hamilton
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Ohaves Syndicate Life Insurance and Annuity Company
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