18 Oct 1962
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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1962
Page
1
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP A towering rocket launches Ranger 5 to the moon for television pictures and lunar data. If successful it may locate landing areas for astronauts later this decade. The mission follows delays due to technical issues and Hurricane Ella.
The Pentagon quietly shifted a 12 air unit of F4B Phantom II fighters 1 400 mph jets to Key West Florida on Oct 6 about nine miles from Cuba. Defense officials linked the move to reports of increasing MIG strength in Cuba and future Cuban air capabilities. The Phantoms, from Oceana NAS near Norfolk, are the Navy's fastest longest range fighters with radar, pilot and radar observer crew, even with air to air missiles.
The Weather Bureau said Ella's center would stay offshore, reducing landfall risk. Winds along the coast will rise to gale force tonight and Friday from Nags Head to the Outer Banks, with higher tides possible if she nears shore.
Algerian Premier Ahmed Ben Bella and Fidel Castro urged the U S naval base at Guantanamo be evacuated and bases dismantled abroad. They pledged peaceful coexistence while strengthening ties and agreed to embassy level relations with Algeria.
Three biochemists Dr James Watson Dr Francis Crick and Dr Maurice Wilkins shared the 1962 Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries on the molecular structure of nucleic acid and its role in heredity. The laureates included two Britons and a Harvard professor, with the award worth 257 219 Swedish crowns.
President Kennedy meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko at the White House in a session that signals a possible Kennedy Khrushchev face to face on Berlin next month. Khrushchev has shown interest in further Berlin talks and in meeting Kennedy should he visit the United States for the U.N. General Assembly. Khrushchev’s Moscow talks with Fay Kohler, the new U.S. ambassador, were described as easy and without crisis, with Kohler reporting back to Kennedy and advisers. Kennedy will press that Western troops must remain in Berlin and that West Berlin’s defense and supply lines are secure.
In London at the world congress, Commandant Jacques Cousteau foresees a future human variant called homo acquaticus who will live under water within 50 years. He envisions underwater villages with nuclear energy plants and residents born with underwater hospitals and lungs filled by compressible liquid, later able to walk on land and ski. He cites sea mammals as evidence of the sea-adapted form.
Ambassador John Cabot spoke to 400 Poles in Radom about U S stances on Germany Cuba and race relations defending self determination for Cuba and criticizing the Castro regime He told the audience the Cuban people should freely choose their government without interference and noted elections have not occurred under the current regime
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