Space Center Names 11 New Astronauts in Civilian Class
NASA named 11 new astronauts from diverse scientific fields aged 25 to 40. The class includes the first two foreign born American spacemen, the youngest and oldest selected, and raises the corps to 57 with one Mercury veteran leaving. Each member holds at least a doctoral degree and is married.
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Space Center
Houston
UPD
U.S
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space ‘Administration
NASA
Navy
M. Scott Carpenter
National Academy of Sciences
Anthony W. England
MIT
Cambridge
Karl G. Heinze
Northwestern University
Evanston
Ill
Donal L. Holmquest
Houston Methodist Hospital
Baylor University College of Medicine
Three Sought In Pigeon Drop And Pedestrian Beating
Lubbock police pursued three Negro men who allegedly swindled a city resident of 185 dollars in a pigeon drop scheme. Separately a youth on a bicycle, 12 to 14, wearing blue shirt and dark pants, struck a woman on Ave Q. Additional thefts included a lawn mower, a skill saw, four hub caps, and household items totaling about 185 dollars. NASA named ten new astronauts including Dr. Joseph P. Allen and Dr. Karl G. Heinze with duty at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston.
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Lubbock
Sybil Barber
50Th St
L. E. Chastain
Tulane
7Th St
Chastain
J. N. Sikes
Main St
Everett Boyd
40Th St
Syble Hames
3St St
Ave K
Ave. L
William B. Senior
MIT
Cambridge
John A. Llewellyn
Cardiff
Wales
Florida State University
Tallahassee
Fla
Franklin S. Musgrave
University of Kentucky
Lexington
Columbia University
Brian T. O'Leary
NASA
Space Science Laboratory
University of California
Department of Astronomy
Berkeley
Calif
Robert A. Parker
University of Wisconsin
Delmar Engineering Co
Los Angeles
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Space Agency
Holmquest
The
Space Center
Mexico Lifts Sinatra Entry Ban
Mexico City associated reports say the Interior Ministry has removed the entry ban on Frank Sinatra granted in 1966. The move came at the request of the directorate of motion pictures to foster good US Mexico film industry relations after objections over a scene in Marriage on the Rocks that depicted a Mexican border town and quick marriages and divorces.
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Mexico City
Frank Sinatra
Mexico
Interior Ministry
Directorate of
Motion Pictures
United States
Sinatra
Jiing
Mets in Movie Hollywood
The New York Mets will perform a triple play in The Odd Couple with Ken Boyer Bud Harrelson Jerry Buchek and Ed Kranepool turning the notable fielding gem.
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METS
Hollywood
UPI
New York Mets
Ken Boyer
Bud Harrelson
Jerry Buchek
Ed Kranepool
UT Graduate Lands Leader Post With Texas Colleges Group
Dr. Stewart Allen, former vice president at Marshall College Huntington West Virginia, is named executive director of the Association of Texas Colleges and Universities. UT alumnus, he earned a PhD at Vanderbilt and served on the Texas Commission of Higher Education staff from 1963 to 1965.
Texas Sues Major Drug Firms Over Price Fixing
Texas Attorney General Crawford Martin filed a federal antitrust suit in Dallas seeking up to 12 million dollars in damages from Pfizer American Cyanamid Bristol-Myers Olin Mathieson Squibb and Upjohn. He claims these firms conspired to control tetracycline and broad spectrum antibiotic prices from 1953 to 1966, affecting state hospitals schools prisons and other buyers.
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Lee Jones
Martin
Pfizer
Cyanamid
Bristol-Myers
Bristol- Myers
Upjohn and
Squibb
United States
Texas
Portland
Ore
Rangers Seek Dismissal of Farm Workers Rights Suit
Five Texas Rangers asked U S District Judge Reynaldo Garza to dismiss a civil rights suit filed by six United Farm Workers Organizing Committee members over arrests during a melon harvest in Starr County. The Rangers denied rights violations and said plaintiffs failed to show grounds for unlawful harassment or mass arrests.
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Brownsville
Texas Rangers
U.S. Dist
Reynaldo Garza
United Farm Workers Organizing Committee
Afl‘cio
Rangers
Starr County
Eetcoanee Rangers
Texas Ranger
A. Y. Allee
Jack van Cleve
Jerome Preiss
T. H. Dawson
S. H. Denson
New Mexico Arts and Crafts Exhibition Opens In Old Town
The Sixth Annual New Mexico Arts and Crafts Exhibition opened in Old Town Albuquerque with Governor Cargo presiding. About 140 artists display works around the plaza over three days each highlighting Spanish Indian and American cultures. A Lyndon Johnson portrait by Peter Hurd draws attention alongside Taos painters and other regional art.
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Albuquerque
New Mexico
Old Town
Old Town Plaza
Lyndon Johnson
Peter Hurd
Lubbock
Baker Collector
Taos of Group Founders
Collapse of New Bridge Under Construction Injures 18
A Kansas City bridge on Interstate 435 collapsed during construction, sending 35 workers into concrete. Eighteen were hospitalized, nine released, nine admitted, and observers noted the span fell without warning. Foreman Mike Wilkinson reported four men were underneath at failure.
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Kansas City
Mike Wilkinson
Ted Wilkinson Inc
Kan
Aldrich buys rights to The Tsar's Brides for film
Robert Aldrich has purchased the film rights to The Tsar's Brides and plans to shoot the project in 1969. The deal highlights a Hollywood investment in the historical drama with Aldrich as producer.
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Buys Rights
Hollywood
UPD
Robert Aldrich
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