U S Moves Step Closer to Moon With Apollo Testing
NASA project engineer J Thomas Markley announced successful initial tests of the first full scale Apollo spacecraft model. The mockup, built by North American Aviation, completed sea and wind tunnel tests and has moved to NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston for further evaluation as the nation pursues a 1967 lunar landing plan.
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Los Angeles
Apt
United States
J. Thomas Markley
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
WASA
California
Santa Catalina Island
Markley
NASA
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Tex
America
Earth
Space and Informations Systems Division
North American Aviation Inc
Downey
Johnson Meets Iran Leaders During Tehran Visit
Vice President Lyndon B Johnson held talks with Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi and Premier Alam in Tehran and spoke with ordinary citizens during a city walk. He traveled with Lady Bird and Lynda Bird Johnson, focusing on U S aid to Iran amid budget tensions and regional shifts in Greece and Turkey. Johnson planned stops in Lebanon Cyprus and Rome before returning to the United States.
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Tehran
Iran
Lyndon B. Johnson
Shah Mohammed Reza Pashlevi
Johnson
U. S
Asia
Beirut
Lady Bird
Lynda Bird
Assadullah Alam
Kennedy
Greece
Turkey
United States
Lebanon
Cyprus
Rome
Abbas Aram
Ali Amini
Russia
Japan Agrees On Trade Limit With United States
The State Department reported Japan will suspend exports of blouses shorts and trousers to the United States after August 31 while negotiations continue on allowed textile quotas under the U S Japan cotton agreement. Japan also agreed to curtail exports of ginghams poplins and pillow cases for the rest of 1962.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
Japan
United States
Department
Murder theory grows in death of New Jersey millionaire
Herbert Segal, 67, Orange, New Jersey, a industrial auctioneer and Action Discount Dollar Corp. director, died after plunging from a Midtown Manhattan hotel parapet. Police shift from self harm to possible homicide as investigators note a loose cord near the body, a disheveled room, and an unfinished letter mentioning a door.
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New York
Herbert Segal
New Jersey
Manhattan
Segal
Orange
N. J
Action Discount Dollar Corp
John Kinsella
Kinsella
Rae Wolf
Dorothy Casper
Miami
Fla
Cosmos VIII satellite measures meteor density for space safety
Izvestia reports Cosmos VIII in orbit measuring meteor matter density to assess meteor danger on near earth routes for spaceships. The government paper says the satellite and its instruments are functioning faultlessly to collect data for the Soviet manned space program.
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Moscow
UPT
Izvestia
French police hunt two alleged OAS fugitives after Gaullist shooting
Police traced rented cars across France in a bid to capture Souetre and Carutchet, two ex army deserters linked to the OAS and considered the chief suspects in the attempted assassination of President Charles de Gaulle. Authorities seized four vehicles used in the ambush and getaway and escalated operations against delta commandos believed to be regrouping in the south.
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Paris
UPS
France
Charles de Gaulle
Jean Francois Murat
Murat
Jean Rene Marie Souetre
Secret Army
OAS
Souetre
Jean Carutchet
Carutchet
Pierre Sergent
Nault
Joigny
de Gaulle
Carcassonne
Daniel Brune
Algiers
Oran
Jiume
Piccard Sets Unofficial High Altitude Balloon Record
Piccard, 36, from the Swiss flying family, ascended to 17 500 feet in an unofficial world record for Ind category balloons near Picton Iowa. He landed southeast of Mapleton after about 1 hour 42 minutes aloft with ample oxygen and intends to challenge the 23 288 feet record next year set by Boris Neverov.
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Stoux City
Iowa
Don Piccard
Piccard
U. S Weather Bureau
Here
Mapleton
Audoin Dollfus
France
Jean Piccard
August Piccard
Picoare
Russia
Boris Nevernov
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Barry Goldwater
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Bil Reddie
Orchant
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