Spacemen Begin Final Medical Checks Ahead of Apollo Soyuz Link
Spacemen at Johnson Space Center and Baikonur complete routine medicals before the joint Apollo Soyuz flight. Thomas Stafford Vance Brand and Deke Slayton due to launch from Cape Canaveral, while Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov prepare at Baikonur. Weather risk looms with possible lightning delaying Tuesday launch.
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Johnson Space Center
Houston
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Valeri Kubasov
Baikonur Cosmodrome
Central Asia
Tass
Valeri Bykovsky
Desert
Earth
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Kubasov
Baikonur
Stafford
Brand
Rockefeller backs Ford campaign strategy at 1976 convention
Vice President Nelson Rockefeller said it was his idea that Ford should run an in house campaign and not name a running mate until after securing the Republican nomination. He insisted the goal is to have Ford nominated unanimously and then choose a running mate following the historic pattern.
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UPI
Nelson Rockefeller
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Rockefeller
California DMV extends Thursday hours in six month pilot
The California Department of Motor Vehicles will keep all 147 offices open until 6 30 p m each Thursday for six months starting July 17. Director Herman Sillas said the extended hours aim to aid motorists who cannot visit offices during standard hours 8 a m to 5 p m. Larger offices already stay open until 6 p m on Thursdays for driver license services.
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Sacramento
UPI
State Department of Motor Vehicles
Herman Sillas
DMV
Sillas
Brezhnev Health Reports Mixed From Senate Delegation
A 15 member U S Senate delegation in Moscow described Brezhnev as vigorous and in full control though some officials doubt his health. They noted his interest in a Helsinki summit and a fall meeting with Ford for a new arms control accord. They also cited belief monitoring will miss only a small fraction of weapons systems.
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Washington
UPI
Leonid Brezhnev
Ford
U.S
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Humphrey
Bezhnev
Moscow
Russia
Senate
Hugh Scott
Brezhnev
State Department
Abraham Ribicoff
Dconn
United States
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Finland
Europe
Wallace campaign raises 1.6 million this year
Alabama Governor George Wallace's presidential bid reports 1.6 million in receipts so far this year with 1.3 million raised between March 1 and June 30 and 858,892 spent. The total since Jan 1, 1973 reaches 4.3 million, with 726,522 on hand.
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Montgomery
Ala
UPI
Alabama
George Wallace
Alton Dauphin
NBC eyes epic Godfather film after massive deal
NBC plans a four part epic airing The Godfather I II and unused footage from the two films as early as fall 1976. The total runtime could reach nine to eleven hours as executives weigh how to assemble the library for TV.
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New York
UPI
NBC
Nbc-Tv
Robert Howard
Howard
Mayors head for thanks and defend revenue sharing
UPI reports mayors at the annual meeting sent a delegation to the White House to thank the President after not changing the revenue sharing formula. Ford opposed any shift favoring bigger cities, warning it could threaten a 5 billion yearly program. Detroit Mayor Coleman Young called the split between greed and need. In Sacramento, Gov Brown signed a 43.5 million bill to rebuild the West Wing of the Capitol after Earthquake hazard findings, moving the treasurer’s office nearby.
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UPI
White House
Detroit
Coleman Young
Sacramento
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Leon Ralph
Dsouth
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