US to Launch Mice into Orbit in Groundbreaking Test
The Air Force plans to send four specially bred black mice into space aboard the Discoverer HI satellite from Vandenberg AFB. Aerial snatch recovery over the Pacific near Hawaii is planned to retrieve the capsule, with implications for manned spaceflight. Previous Discoverer missions tested instrument return from orbit, culminating in mixed results.
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U.S
Vandenberg Air Force Base
Here
Western Aviation
Air Force
Vandenberg Afb
Holloman Air Force Base
N. M
Pacific Ocean
Hawaii
Laika
Earth
Two Marines Die in Santa Ana Helicopter Crash
A Marine Corps helicopter crashed during a routine training at Santa Ana Marine Air Corps facility killing pilot 1st Lt Edwin A Matus 26 of Garden Grove and Cpl William T Gorman Jr both from Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 36. The craft hovered about 300 feet then plunged to the ground.
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Santa Ana
Marine Corps
Santa Ana Marine Air Corps
Edwin A. Matus
Timmy Lane
Garden Grove
William T. Gorman Jr
Headquarters and
Ace Ars
Bett
Tara Lynn
Gociante
Matapan
Mass
Pantaleoni
Pasadenan Plot to Hire Killer Said to Be Underway
An attorney's investigator recounts a plan to hire a killer. The day after an ad appeared, Smith visited Johnston's Pasadena home and offered $2,000 to arrange a fatal accident for a man in New Mexico connected to a dispute with a woman friend.
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Smith
Johnston
Pasadena
New Mexico
Democrats oppose housing bill and arrest incident details
An article outlines House Democrats opposing a housing bill while reporting a murder-for-hire case. The victim is identified as Joseph D. Reed, with Elaine Worthington and other figures connected to the Santa Fe area. Police report a staged payment scheme and a planned meeting as investigators uncover a suggested method of killing.
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Joseph D. Reed
Santa Fe
Elaine Worthington
Johnston
Donald Roberts
Smith
Reed
Fort Jtune
John Ston
Two Boys Die in Basement Refrigerator Tragedy
In Albany New York two boys Paul Kelly and Ed Ward 11 and 13 or 14 were found dead in an unused basement refrigerator after failing to join dinner. Their sister Pauline found them two hours later while the family searched the neighborhood.
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Albany
N. Y
Paul Kelly
Pauline
Paul
Kellys
Infant suffocated by plastic bag in California home
Duane Shelton, eight months old, was found dead with his face pressed against a plastic wrapper on his mattress in San Francisco. Coroner said static electricity caused the bag to cling and suffocate the infant, the fourth such California death this year and 22nd nationwide.
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San Francisco
UPI
Duane Shelton
California
Duane
Thomas Shelton
Henry W. Turkel
Peter Gunn Theme Delights WM
Panic fills the room as Mrs Weatherman asks what is wrong. Weatherman says nothing, he was playing a Peter Gunn recording, sighing at the familiar tune.
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Peter Gunn
Weatherman
Six men injured as steel cables snap during Seal Beach work
At Seal Beach on Wednesday afternoon a 19 1 quarter inch steel cable under 17 tons of tension snapped, sending a 300 pound abutment block and debris raining down on workers. Foreman Floyd R Williams and five others were treated at Community Hospital for leg and arm injuries, lacerations and shoulder pain. Firemen were later hurt in a separate Paris Texas blaze.
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Oceanside
Seal Beach
Ter
Foundaon
Community Hospital
Floyd R. Williams
Studebaker
Andrew Moreno
W. Cubbon St
Santa Ana
Arther E Clawitter
Los Angeles
Frederick P. Tracy
E. St. St
R. V. Patterson
van Ness
Gardena
Joseph Sphar
Pico-Rivera
Jack Mabery
Magnolia Ave
Pacific Bridge Construction Co
Jong Channel
Ocean Ave
Mabery
Williams
Gromyko Signals Flexibility At Geneva Peace Talks
At the Geneva conference Andrei Gromyko hinted Russia could compromise on the Moscow peace plan for a divided Germany. He urged behind the scenes talks as Herter blasted the plan calling for permanent division and warned against blocking Geneva negotiations. The exchange followed Herter's sharp critique and McElroy’s arrival as senior adviser to the talks.
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Geneva
UPI
Nered Herter
Gromyko
West
Berlin
NATO
Russia
West Germany
Mikhail Kharmalov
Herter
Washington
U. S
Neil McElroy
U S Forgives Nisei for WWII Evacuations
Washington reports the U S government publicly seeks forgiveness from Japanese ancestry Americans displaced to relocation centers after Pearl Harbor. Attorney General Rogers says 72 000 were forced from the West Coast and 4 978 regained U S citizenship while 5 766 renounced it and 5 409 requested restoration.
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Washington
UPI
U. S
Pearl Harbor
Justice Department
Rogers
Doub
United States
Kibei
Japan
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Miss
Mack Charles Parker
Fei
Yakima. Wash
Sheriff's
Henry Sherwood
Letterman's Club
Moxee High School
Rose Abate
Philadelphia
Conden
Tracy
Patterson
Paris, Tex
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William P. Rogers
Asst
George C. Doub
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