Space Center Runs Out of Time
The AP reports Houston space center layoffs as astronauts face dwindling chances to fly. Of 73 selected, 43 remain ready, 12 to Apollo 17 or Skylab, 20 never flown or unselected, 11 flown but not assigned. Slayton urges officers to seek other work as retirements and mixed fortunes unfold amid Soviet mission talks.
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Paul Recer
Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Astronaut Corps
America
Donald K. Slayton
Moon Walkers
Edgar D. Mitchell
James B. Irwin
Irwin
Mitchell
Slayton
Dr Roscoe C Lewis former Hope physician dies at 68
Dr Roscoe Conklin Lewis Sr., 68, of Camden, formerly of Hope, died Friday May 26 after a 40 year medical career in Hope and Camden. He led in church and professional societies, was a Mason and Elks member, and survived by his wife Eva, a son Roscoe C Lewis Jr., and brother Bertram A Lewis PhD. Funeral at St James AME Camden May 31 with burial at Scotts Memorial Gardens Hope.
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Roscoe Conklin Lewis, Sr
Camden
Hope
St. James A.M.E. Church of
Lewis
Masonic Lodge, Elks
Omega Psi Phi Fraternity
Eva Lewis
Roscoe C. Lewis, Jr
Bertram A. Lewis
St. James A.M.E
Scotts Memorial Gardens
Hicks Funeral Home
R.C. Lewis
Lea of Flowers
Ouachita County Hospital
Sharp clashes mark McGovern Humphrey TV duel in Los Angeles
AP reports a heated joint appearance by Sens. George McGovern and Hubert H. Humphrey as they clash on Vietnam, defense spending, and welfare reform. The debate features tit-for-tat charges over cost, tax impacts, and the candidates' proposed plans with upcoming meet the press and issues and answers broadcasts teased.
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Carl P. Leubsdorf
LOS Angeles
George McGovern
Hubert H. Humphrey
California
Vietnam
Humphrey
McGovern
Columbia Broadcasting System
National Broadcasting Co
American Broadcasting Co
South Dakota
San Francisco
Minnesota
Sen. McGovern
Outspoken Doctor Faces Discipline
The ethics and discipline committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society rebuked Dr. John Knowles for stating that 30 to 40 percent of American doctors kill in medicine. The Boston Herald Traveler reported bids for censure of the former Massachusetts General Hospital director and for Knowles' resignation. Knowles, president elect of the Rockefeller Foundation, has offered no immediate comment while continuing to claim large amounts of unnecessary surgery occur.
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Boston
Ethics and Discipline Committee
Massachusetts Medical Society
John Knowles
Boston Herald Traveler
Massachusetts General Hospital
Knowles
Rockefeller Foundation
Harold Brown lauds SALT as balance of terror stabilizer
Pasadena AP Harold Brown president of California Institute of Technology says the US Soviet SALT treaty stabilizes the balance of terror by allowing mutual destruction but discouraging offensives. He notes the agreement likely would have been reached without Nixon's Moscow trip and urges focus on qualitative limits beyond numbers. Brown calls for include bombers ABM radars and warheads and reductions in system numbers.
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Pasadena
Calif
United States
Russia
Harold Brown
California Tech
Brown
Nixon
Moscow
Cultural Performances at St Mark's Church
St Marks Episcopal Church to present the second cultural series event titled A Thunder Carnival performed by seven Arkansas Arts Center staff members. The medley features The Night the Bed Fell The Little Girl and the Wolf If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox Mr Preble Gets Rid of His Wife and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty. Rev William Risinger Jr will announce a late August date for the free community performance.
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St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Arkansas Arts Center
Grant
Appomattox
Mr. Preble
Walter Mitty
William Risinger, Jr
St. Mark's Church
Boswell Endorsed by Pine Bluff Paper in Senate Bid
Pine Bluff Arkansas based Pine Bluff Commercial endorsed Ted Boswell in his bid for the Democratic nomination for U S Senate. The paper called his campaign a welcomed break with old broker politics and praised his approach.
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Pine Bluff, Ark
Ted Boswell
Pine Bluff
U.S. Senate
Dead on Arkansas Highways Over Memorial Day Weekend
The Associated Press reports nine traffic fatalities in Arkansas since Friday 6 p.m. through Memorial Day weekend. Sunday accidents claimed Derrick Sullins 4 of Melbourne, Lizzie Kennedy 66 of Ozark, and Larry Robinson 20 of Heber Springs in separate crashes on Arkansas 69, at AR 103 and AR 215, and west of Heber Springs respectively.
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Associated Press
Arkansas
Derrick Sullins
Melbourne
Ace Stewart
Batesville
Ozark
Lizzie Kennedy
W. E. Kennedy
Arkansas 215
Clarksville
Larry C. Robinson
Heber Springs
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Walter M. Schirra Jr
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University of Cincinnati
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Peace Corps
Thailand
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Space Agency
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James A. Lovell Jr
Richard Arnold
Sma
Ids Sea
Kes
Suet Vt
U.S. Congress
District
Hope (Ark
Southside Baptist Church
Kings Servants
el Dorado
D.C
Vi Jensen
Grand Prarie
Jensen
8Th Street Baptist Church
Shreveport
Rev. Jensen
Baptist Missionary Association of American National
Texas
Carroll Byers
Mrs. Jensen
Boswell
Pine Bluff Paper
U.K
John, Sara
Dave, Jerry
Mack
Jerry Garrett
Hempstead County
Damon Young
Man
University of Arkansas School of Law
United States Supreme Court
Federal District
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Texarkana
Ashdown
Foreman
Civil Service Commission
University of Arkansas Alumni Association
South
Community Leaders of America
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le Hubbell Law Directory
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