Army Plans Moon Shot From Cape Canaveral
Huntsville reports the Army aims to launch a satellite carrying missile from Cape Canaveral between Dec. 7 and Dec. 14 to skim the moon and possibly miss it. The goal is a near miss or distant orbit to learn tracking limits and orbital dynamics.
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Huntsville
Ala
US. Army
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Army
Air Force
Rudolf R. Hoelker
Aeroballistic Laboratory
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Hoelker
Germany
U.S
United States
Earth
Moon
Vermont Democrat Wins Second Try
William H Meyer 43 forester and political amateur won Vermonts statewide office as the first Democrat elected to Congress from the state in 106 years. His second bid followed a losses in Rupert and in the 1956 local races amid a Republican stronghold.
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Bill Meyer
Rupert
Congress
Vermont
William Henry Meyer
Eisenhower
Nixon
Democratic Town Committee
Stevenson
Meyer
Brooks Hays to Speak at Wake Forest College
Rep. Brooks Hays the Arkansas Democrat who lost his House seat to a segregationist will speak at Wake Forest College on December 4 at the 10 a.m. chapel session. Hays, longtime civil rights advocate and former chairman of the Christian Life Commission, has a noted career in Congress and the Baptist Convention leadership.
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Winston-Salem
Brooks Hays
House of Representatives
Wake Forest College
J. Allen Easley
Department of Religion
Hays
Little Rock
Dale Alford
Southern Baptist Convition
Baptist State Convention of
North Carolina
South
U. S
United Nations
Ministers of Washington
Christian Life Commission
Southern Baptist Convention
Russellville, Ark
University of Arkansas
George Washington University
Iceland Wins Independence From Denmark in 1944
Iceland, once a Danish province like Greenland, achieved full independence in 1944 marking a pivotal national transition. The move ended union links and established Iceland as a sovereign republic.
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Iceland
Greenland
Denmark
Latch on to a star space navigation techniques studied
In Annapolis veteran navigator Captain Philip Van Horn Weems explains space travel will rely on automatic star trackers and a three plane positioning system. He notes celestial tools must adapt beyond Earth two dimensional methods as the Moon and stars move. Researchers have developed astro compass and star tracker devices showcased at a navigation institute meeting.
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Annapolis
Philip van Horn Weems
U.S. Navy
Weems
Charles A. Lindbergh
Lincoln Ellsworth
Space
Earth
Capt
Capt. Weems
Outer Space
Killsman Instrument Corp
New York
U.S. Institute For Navigation
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North State Telephone CO
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Naval Academy
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