Apollo 11 crew find comfort in weightless home
Houston AP reports astronauts Neil Armstrong Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins describe life aboard the Apollo 11 cabin as a comfortable home in zero gravity. They tour the pressurized space, show sleeping under a couch, and comment on food, TV tours, and mission control quips.
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Space. Center
Houston
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Collins
Mission Control
Neil
Today in History July 18 highlights through the years
On this date many events shaped history from Rome’s great fire and Nero’s legend to John Paul Jones’s death in Paris. The U S Army aviation section forms, St Lawrence Seaway pact, Corrigan’s Ireland flight, Roosevelt’s 1940 nomination, Syria revolt crackdown, Castro’s coup attempt, and Eisenhower’s Nixon endorsement are noted.
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Rome
Nero
John Paul Jones
Paris
U.S. Army
Signal Corps
United States
Canada
St. Lawrence River
Douglas Corrigan
Corrigan
Ireland
New York
California
Chicago
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Syria
Fidel Castro
Manuel Urrutia Lleo
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Honduran and Salvadorian Share College Room in Florida
In Gainesville Florida two graduate students Karl Fick from Honduras and Jaime Salazar from El Salvador share a room at the University of Florida amid their countries’ war. They say they are good friends and seek peaceful solutions while unfamiliar with all facts.
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Gainsville
Fla
Karl Fick
Honduras
Jaime Salazar
el Salvador
University of Florida
College of Agriculture
Met
Prisoner Freedom Might Be Delayed
An American peace worker said three American prisoners of war slated for release by North Vietnam may not depart Hanoi for another two weeks. Bernard C. Davis, 28, leader of a four man peace group, noted formalities could take time though the plan was announced July 4. Davis and the delegation arrived from Phnom Penh to visit Hanoi before their flight tonight.
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Vientiane, Laos
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Bernard C. Davis
Davis
Vietnam
International Control Commission
Phnom Penh
Cambodia
Highway Worker Killed In County Accident
Leavenworth Kansas James A Starling 28 county highway employee died when a high loader overturned on him while working on Pleasant Ridge Road north of Kansas 92 Thursday afternoon.
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Leavenworth
Kan
James A. Starling
Starling
Pleasant Ridge Road
Kansas 92
Nixon Plans Free Birth Pills Within Five Years
President Nixon told Congress he wants to provide free birth control advice to American women of child bearing age with low incomes within five years. He estimated about 5 million women lack adequate access to planning help and urged expansion of federal services without specifying costs.
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Washington
Nixon
Congress
U.S
Johnson to Speak on Drugs at Round Table Church
Federal agent Tom Johnson will address the threat of drug and narcotics usage at 9 a.m. Sunday to a combined senior high and adult group at the Round Table Class of the First Presbyterian Church. The public is invited, according to Rev. Harold Malett.
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Tom Johnson
First Presbyterian Church
Johnson
Harold Malett
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Toby's Amusement Co
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Pacific
Robert Richards
Charles Olmstead
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