Word Picture of the 3 Astronauts
Space Center Houston profiles Apollo 6 crew Frank Borman James Lovell and William Anders. The piece covers their backgrounds Navy Air Force and Gemini history plus personal details and family life amid Apollo mission expectations. It also reports a separate San Antonio citizenship event for Vietnam veteran Jesus Guevara who lost vision and limbs in combat.
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Space Center
Houston
Sxad
Frank Borman
Walter M. Schirra
Apollo Spaces
James A. Lovell Jr
Lovell
Michael Collins
Naval Academy
Cleveland
Milwaukee
Bor
Marilyn Gerlach
Lovells
Barbara
James
Susan
Jeffrey
Johnson
Council On Physical Fitness
William A. Anders
Air Force
Anders
Air Force Institute of Technology
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Ohio
Jack Riley
NASA
Man
Hong Kong
Panay
Ching
Valerie
Lemon Grove
Calif
Alan
Glen
Gayle
Gregory
Erle
San Antonio
Tex
Jesus H. Guevara
Vietnam
U.S
Mexico
America
Guevara
Brookery Medical Center
Federal Building
Citizenship
Judep Adrign
Welcome Home Party For Apollo Eight Wives
Near Houston space center guests at a home hen party brought gifts while the three Apollo 8 astronauts prepared for reentry. Wives Mrs Borman, Mrs Lovell, and Mrs Anders described the tense, prayerful days before the moon mission's critical engine firing.
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Harry F. Rosenthal
Associated Press
Space Center
Houston
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell Jr
Whitlam A. Anders
Fred Wallace Halse Jr
Jim Lovell
Mrs. Borman
Moon
Marilyn Lovell
Apollo 8 Returns Safely After Moon Orbit
Apollo 8 crew Borman Lovell and Anders crash through Earth's atmosphere at 24 700 mph after a 20 hour three orbit moon mission. They expect splashdown 1450 miles southwest of Hawaii at 10 51 a. m. local time aboard Yorktown with recovery ships and helicopters ready. The crew plans medical checks and a belated Christmas with families on Ellington Air Force Base before debriefings on the mission.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Pacific Ocean
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
William A. Anders
Hawaii
Moon
Earth
Borman
Lovell
Anders
Mission Control
Apollo
Yorktown
Ellington Air Force Base
The
Space Center
Ellingston
Udall challenges McCormack for House speaker post
Rep. Mort Udall launches a bid to unseat Speaker John W. McCormack, drawing cautious support from liberal moderates while facing a tough fight. A Jan. 2 caucus vote will test his strength, with full House action Jan. 3. Udall insists the bid is for change, not personal ambition.
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William F. Arbogast
Associated Press
Washington (Ap
Mortis K. Udall
House
John W. McCormack
Udall
McCormack
Liberals Moderate Democratic Study Group
Arizona
DSG
Massachusetts
Congress
Stewart Udall
Joe Cannon
Ilinois
Colon Leagues
Obituaries for Larry Yates and Elmer DeVore
Funeral services are set for Larry Yates at 2 p m Saturday at Herndon Chapel with Rev C C Truitt officiating. Burial follows at Memory Gardens in Hope under Herndon Funeral Home. Survivors include his parents Curtis and Mrs Yates and sister Mrs Henry Marcet, with grandparents listed from Hope and Clarksdale. Elmer DeVore, 56, died after a train-car accident in Emmet and had been a Hope resident eight years. He worked at Memorial Hospital and was Methodist. Surviving family includes wife Wynette, brother William, and four sisters in Pennsylvania and New York. Funeral at Oakcrest Chapel at 2 p m Saturday with Rev Everett Vinson. body will be returned to Florence, Texas for internment. Oakcrest Funeral Home of Hope arranging.
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Larry Yates
Hernedon Chapel
C. C. Truitt
Memory Gardens
Herndon Funeral Home of
Hope
Curtis Yates
Henry Marcet
DeRidder
J. M. Evans
A. D. Yates
Clarksville
Elmer DeVore
Emmet
Memorial Hospital
Wynette DeVore
William
Warren
Bertha Eckman
Jamestown
N.Y
Nora Bedwell
Ella Gower
Christ Byer
Pennsylvania
Oakcrest Chapel
Everett Vinson
Florence
Texas
Oakcrest Funeral
Pueblo Crew May Be Judged By Navy Court
Navy and government leaders prepare a court of inquiry on the Pueblo incident as Admiral Moorer defends the crew and avoids prejudging their actions. The investigation will review conduct under POW code and consider whether the ship violated territorial waters during North Korean captivity. Apollo 8 returns toward Earth as space plans target a 1969 moon landing, while Vietnam peace talks seek new momentum in Paris.
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Paris
Moon
NASA
Fred S. Hoffman
Washington (Ap
Thomas H. Moorer
Naval Operations
U.S
Pueblo
North Korea
Cmdr
Lloyd ME. Bucher
Moorer
Navy
Bucher
San Diego
H.G. Bowen
Pacific Fleet
Adm
John G. Hyland
Edwin M. Rosenberg
Pacific Ocean
Break-Through Hope Grows as Vance Returns to Paris Talks
U S negotiator Cyrus Vance arrives in Paris amid expectations of new proposals to end the Vietnam peace talks deadlock. Diplomats warn substantial progress hinges on Nixon’s inauguration and further U S and Vietnamese delegations assessments, with North Vietnam and Viet Cong pressing for recognition and round-table talks.
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Lewis Gulick
Associated Press
Paris
Cyrus R. Vance
U.S
Vance
Johnson
Nixon
Saigon
Front
North Vietnam
Daughter of College Head Killed in Pine Bluff Crash
Sharon L. Davis 19, daughter of Arkansas AM&N president Dr. Lawrence A. Davis, died in a one car crash in Pine Bluff. Passenger Ethel Collins 20 was hospitalized. Geral Davis 21 of Chicago was the driver.
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Pine Bluff
Ark
Sharon L. Davis
Lawrence A. Davis
Arkansas Am&n College
Geral Davis
Chicago
Davis
Ethel Collins
Lewis
Am&n
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Guevara Lved
United States
Smokey
Lea
Starr
Larry Wayne Yates
AP News Digest
John C. Higgins
Cyrus Vance
U. S. Command
Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
White House
Norris K. Udall
Post Office
New York City
National Communicable Diseases Center
Pamela Powers
Martin Luther King Jr
Mark Twain
Asizeaaul
Bruce McCandless
Marlly Murletia
Grinnell
Iowa
Pamela
Merlin Powers
Urbandale
Des Moines
Mark
Kansas City
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Willams
Maple Street
Weather Experiment Station
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Ptund
Ore
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