Americans Are First To Shift Space Course
The Molly Brown completed a historic three orbit space flight with Virgil Grissom and John Young. After a second orbit maneuver over Texas Grissom adjusted the capsule to a new path while Young guided the craft into a nearly circular 97 to 105 mile high orbit. The ship splashed down off Cape Kennedy and Coast Guard vessels stood by to recover the astronauts.
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Virgil J. Grissom
John W
Young
Cape Kennedy
Fila
Mission Control
Atlantic
Intrepid
Mission Control Center
Coast Guard
Cutter Diligence
Control
Virgil Grissom
John Young
Grissom
Pacific
Hawaii
Earth
California
John W. Young
Molly Brown
Texas
Air Force
Gedoh
Sical
Georgia
Brezhnev promises more help to North Vietnam
Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev promised increased aid to strengthen North Vietnam's defense. Speaking at Red Square during a ceremony for new cosmonauts, he said the USSR would fulfill its international duty to socialist comrades and warned against American actions in Vietnam.
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Henry S. Bradsher
Moscow
Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet Union
Viet Nam
Brezhnev
Soviet Communist Party
Red Square
Fig Meng
Rain dampens marchers on third day of Selma journey
About 300 civil rights marchers continued the 50 mile right to vote pilgrimage from a rural Lowndes County pasture near Selma amid rain. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was absent and a memorial program for him was planned in Ohio.
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Ross Hagen
Selma
Ala
Lowndes County
Martin Luther King Jr
Ohio
Montgomery
Betty Jean Sullivan
Son
King
John Lewianne G
Albert Turner
Marion
Use Of Gas Is Attacked In Europe
AP report notes mixed reactions to a U S tactic described as propaganda by some, while others warn of legality and humanity concerns. British figures Philip Noel-Baker and Arthur Blenkinsop are mentioned amid cross border responses in Paris Le Monde and Moscow Radio coverage.
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Europe
Philip Noel Baker
Arthur Blenkinsop
Labor Party
House of 4
U.S
Liberal Guardian
Paris
le Monde
Ranger 9 to broadcast live lunar closeups before impact
Pasadena report says Ranger 9 will provide history’s first live television closeups of the lunar surface just before impact at 9 08 a m EST. Previous Rangers sent pictures but were not released in real time to the public.
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Pasadena
Calif
Lunar
Ceteantay
Ranger 7
Ranger 8
Gas Used In South Viet Nam Employed By Army
Government officials say the tear gas used by South Vietnamese forces is a long-standing non lethal chemical agent, CN and DM, not a nerve agent. The Pentagon notes the gas was used in the Mekong Delta area and that effects are temporary with no lasting damage.
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South Viet Nam
Fred S. Hoffman
Washington
United States
State Department
Pentagon
Robert J. McCloskey
McCloskey
Viet Nam
South
IDM
Adams
Capital Punishment Considered in North Carolina House
RALEIGH AP The House began consideration of a bill sponsored by Rep Earnest Messer of Haywood who urged passage saying North Carolinians question the death penalty and its Christian basis. He argued enforcement is uneven and urged reform. A House committee approved a resolution to strip the Supreme Court of some powers pending public hearing. Only Rep J H O Hanlon spoke against.
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U.S. Supreme Court
J. H. O'Hanlon
Second Mortgage Charges Draw North Carolina Lawmakers
Mortgage brokers across North Carolina urged action on a bill to regulate charges on second mortgage loans calling the practice rife with fraud. Raleigh attorney Dave Crockman described a case of 6 percent interest on 2162 with papers signed in blank and an out of state holder. The bill would cap top charges at 15 percent for loans up to 1500 dollars and 10 percent for amounts over 3000 dollars.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Ace
Rep
T. D. Bunn
Wake
Dave Crockman
North Carolina M Association
John
Families Watch Gemini Launch In Houston Home
In Houston families of astronauts Grissom and Young watched the Gemini launch with children counting down. Mrs. Grissom and Mrs. Young praised the speed of the Molly Brown craft as it neared 15,000 miles per hour after liftoff.
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Houston
Tex
Virgil I. Grissom
John W. Young
John W. Young Jr
el Lago
Sandra
Barbara Young
John Jr
Scott
A.J. Foyt Jr
Paul Haney
Cape Kennedy Control Center
Mark
Sam
Hickey
Molly Brown
Cooper
Grissom
Bermuda
Speed
Sandra Young
Lenore
Mrs. Young
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Listoll Pegan
Charles Rangle
New York
Mengeneal Houston
Geles
National Associaeae Coed Ae Aecates
Nell Washburn
Colin Frost
London
Ranger
Gemini
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