Missile Combat Competition Set for Vandenberg May 5
SAC will host its Missile Combat Competition at Vandenberg AFB from April 28 to May 5. Six Minuteman wings and three Titan II wings enter two combat crews and a maintenance team each to test procedures in launch center simulators and rigorous maintenance tasks. Awards include the Blanchard Perpetual Trophy for the top wing.
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Strategic Air Command
Bruce K. Holloway
SAC
Vandenberg Afb
Vandenberg
Minuteman
Titan
351St
Strategic Missile Wing
Whiteman Afb
32St
Grand Forks Afb
N. D
Grand Forks
SAC Missile Force
Teague Pushes Bill to Extend Golden Eagle Passport
Rep. Charles M. Teague reports House committee approval of a modified bill to extend the Golden Eagle Passport through December 31, 1971 with a future study to recommend indefinite continuation. The program allows yearly entry to national parks forests and water projects for a nominal fee aiding low and middle income families.
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Teague
Charles M. Teague
R.ojai
House Committee On Interior and Insular Affairs
Ojai
Secretary of Interior
Ten Million Bequest to UC Enlarges Religious Law Library
Beatrice Clayton Robbins left the University of California a 10 million dollar gift, the university's largest ever. The bequest funds expansion of a religious law library. Robbins died at 72 after attending UC and San Francisco Theological Seminary and working as a social worker before her 1953 marriage to Lloyd McCullough Robbins.
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Beatrice Clayton Robbins
Religious Law
Roger W. Heyns
Grapefruit Diet promises rapid weight loss and foods allowed
Hollywood California offers a sensational grapefruit diet claiming ten pounds lost in ten days with no hunger. The ad touts dramatic results, a money back guarantee, and a mail order plan urging immediate purchase for rapid fat loss and fuller meals.
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Hollywood Blvd
Suite 802
Hollywood
Calif
Nimbus-3 Tracks Elk With Joint NASA Smithsonian Effort
The Nimbus-3 weather satellite successfully linked with a specially designed electronic collar on a 500 pound female elk near Jackson Hole Wyoming. The elk was tranquilized fitted with the collar and later rejoined the herd after four contacts in ten minutes. The project aims to reveal body and air temperatures and migratory patterns to aid ecological tracking of endangered species.
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jackson Hole
Wyo
Earth
Nimbus-3
Nimbus
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
Grand Teton
Yellowstone National Park
National Elk Refuge
Smithsonian Institution
Space slowdown hurts Hancock County as MTF to close
The Mississippi Test Facility in Hancock County faces shutdown with six Saturn stages left to test. The loss of 2,000 jobs would end a $30.6 million annual payroll, jeopardizing Bay St. Louis Pearl River Harrison county communities and their bond debts. NASA and GE executives warn a broader economic slump across the Gulf region as Michoud near New Orleans trims staff and Houston's Space Center braces for changes in the space era.
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Bay ST. Louis
Miss
UPI
Camille
Mississippi Gulf Coast
Hancock County
Union
Mississippi
MTF
America
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
General Electric
Pearl River County
Harrison County
NASA
Pearl River
Louisiana
Picayune
Waveland
Pass Christian
Auter
John R. Picard
Picard
Department of Defense
Army
Nixon
National Environmental Center
Michoud Rocket Assembly
New Orleans
Crescent City
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
Boeing Co
Gulf Coast
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Space Center
Bayport
Mission Control
Manned Spacecraft
Free Stamps Promo at Kentucky Fried Chicken in Lompoc
Charles West of the Kentucky Fried Chicken kitchen at 200 E Ocean Avenue in Lompoc says customers get 150 Blue Chip Stamps with each regular dinner box now through next Saturday. An extra coupon offers 150 more stamps per box purchased April 12 18. Nearly 250 Southern California KFC locations join the promotion.
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Col. Sanders
Charles West
Lompoc
E. Ocean Avenue
California
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Fra Mauro
Moon
James A. Lovell Jr
Fred W. Haise Jr
U.S. Air Force
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Leontine A. Gamache
Pemberton St
Cambridge
Mass
Gamache
6595Th Aerospace Test Wing
Air Force Systems Command
Usaf Aerospace Systems
Vietnam
Rindge Technical High School
Mary
Claudia Santiago
Thomas K. Mattingly I
U of C
U.S
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Stockport
England
Phacts
Art Smith
Medical Center Pharmacy
E. Ocean
East Ocean
Henry F. Auter
Michoud
Government Employees Corporation of
Geico of
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GEICO
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North H Street
Government Employees Insurance Company OF
Walnut Plaza
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