Johnson starts foster grandparents program to aid elderly and children
President Johnson unveiled a foster grandparent plan as part of a $42 million effort aiming to lift 5.5 million elderly people from poverty. The program would use low income seniors to provide companionship to neglected handicapped children and help at both ends of the age scale.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
LBJ
Office of Economic Opportunity
Washington
Morse Collins Named To Aid In Steel Talks
President Johnson named two special mediators Sen Wayne Morse and LeRoy Collins to help break a deadlock in basic steel contract talks before a nationwide strike. They joined William E Simkin in Pittsburgh where 450000 steel workers could walk out if no agreement is reached by Tuesday midnight.
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Pittsburgh
Johnson
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
LeRoy Collins
Commerce
William E. Simkin
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
Simkin
United Steelworkers Union
Morse
Collins
White House
Senate
Florida
Underwater Lab Experiment Opened by Sealab Team
Carpenter and nine divers begin a 45 day Sealab 2 test off La Jolla to study long term underwater living. They descend to 205 feet in a 12 by 58 foot steel habitat and expect 30 day stays with strict decompression after.
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LA Jolla
Calif
M. Scott Carpenter
Carpenter
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
California
Ous
Navy
Barry L. Cannon
Panama City
Fla
Cyril J. Tuckfield
Wilbur H. Eaton
Ft. Lauderdale
Robert E. Sonnenburg
San Diego
Thomas A. Clarke
Scripps Institution of Oceanog
Raphy
Earl Murray Carpenter
Scripps
Freder
Bermuda
Sevenick J. Johler
Groton
Conn
Jay Dee
Chula Vista
Mer
Billie L. Coff
Weather forces Gemini 5 to lose one orbit
Recovery force shifts 276 miles southwest of Bermuda to catch Gemini 5 as tropical storm Betsy threatens the mission. Flight director Kraft shortens the flight from 121 to 120 orbits while 2,000 sailors aboard the Lake Champlain and 450 on the Weeks prepare gear to recover astronauts Cooper and Conrad.
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Christopher C. Kraft Jr
Betsy
Eugene Krantz
Weather Bureau
Puerto Rico
Lake Champlain
Hawaii
Thompson
Gemini 5 splashdown set for 7 55 CDT after weather delay
Gemini 5 splashdown rescheduled to 7 55 a m CDT about 600 miles east of Jacksonville Florida due to rough Atlantic weather. Astronauts L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Pete Conrad Jr in good health but tired after 7 days 22 hours 55 minutes aloft with fuel cell issues cited. The mission logged 3 338 200 miles and 120 Earth orbits before retro rockets aimed south of Hawaii.
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Earth
Hawaii
Puente Penasco
Mexico
el Paso
Tex
Dallas
Jackson
Miss
Columbus
Savannah
Atlantic
Lake Champlain
Christopher C. Kraft
Egyptians Withdraw From Saudi Arabia
Egyptian troops massed near the Saudi border began withdrawing to central Yemen after a mutual accord between President Nasser and King Faisal to end the civil war. About 50 000 troops were to depart Yemen under the agreement signed last Tuesday.
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Sana Yemen
Yemen
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Faisal
Saudi Arabia
Cuba Brands Fernandez A Traitor
London AP The Cuban embassy called Dr Luis Ricardo Alonso Fernandez a traitor for resigning as Cuba’s ambassador to Britain and abandoning Fidel Castro. The envoy in London since 1963 urged ending dictatorship and neutrality under UN guarantees in his resignation letter. He was an early Castro supporter and former diplomat to Peru Norway and Sweden.
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London
Luis Ricardo Alonso Fernandez
Cuba
Britain
Alonso Fernandez
Fidel Castro
Castro
Alonso Fenandez
Osvaldo Corticos
United Nations
Fulgencio Batista
Peru
Norway
Sweden
Dirksen Vows Fight With Johnson Over Taft Hartley Issue
Senator Everett Dirksen Republican leader says Republicans will mount a spirited sustained fight to block repeal of Taft Hartley provisions allowing states to ban union shop contracts. He notes the issue is pre emptive state power and expects Congress to stay in session past Labor Day with amendments possible.
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Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
R-Ill
Johnson
Dirksen
Senate
Viet Nam
Congress
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Senate Labor Committee
Kennedy Jr. Laceration Requires 100 Stitches After Fall
In Hyannis Massachusetts 11 year old Robert Kennedy Jr son of Senator Robert F Kennedy fell from a garage roof at the Kennedy compound his leg pierces a window and a tendon was cut He was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital in a police cruiser and remained for a few days under care The Kennedy family left for New York after the accident
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Hyannis
Mass
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
New York
Robert F. Kennedy
Cape Cod
Robert
Kennedy Compound
Robert D. Watt
Sen
Kennedy
New
York
All But One Body Recovered From Hong Kong Crash
In Hong Kong Bay search teams found all but one of the 58 American service members killed when a U S Marine transport plane crashed. Thirteen survivors remain, with two in critical condition in a Hong Kong hospital as investigators probe the cause.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong Bay
Tsirimokos Government Defeated in Greek Parliament
In Athens the Greek Parliament voted 159 to 135 no confidence in Premier Elias Tsirimokos ending his six week crisis. Tsirimokos urged support citing a 36 member Center Union bloc and warned the Center Union would fragment further if defeated. Papandreou, opposing Tsirimokos, attended and then left as votes were counted.
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Athens
Elias Tsirimokos
Constantin
George Papandreou
Tsirimakos
Papandreou
Center Union Party
Palace
George Athanasiadis Novas
Center Union
National Radical Union
ERE
Tsirimokos
Betsy Threat Prompts Early Gemini 5 Flight Halt
Tropical storm Betsy neared the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico forcing an early end to Gemini 5 flight prep. Winds up to 45 mph lashed Leeward Islands while gales were warned for Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. Forecasters expected Betsy to pass near Grand Turk and remain east of it by Sunday afternoon.
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Miami
Fla
Betsy
Leeward Islands
Virgin Islands
Puerto Rico
Grand Turk
Weather Bureau
Caribbean Sea
Dominica
Guadaloupe
Grand Turk Island
Gordon Dunn
U.S
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U.S. Hurricane Center
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