Gemini 10 Caps Dual Rendezvous and Space Walks
Gemini 10 linked with an Agena rocket in the first dual rendezvous and Collins conducted two space walks outside the ship. NASA officials praised the mission as a crucial step toward Apollo while doctors reported the astronauts in excellent condition after a 70 hour 47 minute flight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agena
Collins
Cape Kennedy
Young
Mission Control
United States
Moon
Globe
Soviet Union
Burned Buddhist Monk In Saigon Sparks Plot Theories
Saigon Buddhist monk Thich Quang Tuong was critically burned during an apparent self immolation outside a Buddhist youth headquarters. Witnesses doubt he acted alone as police questioned him and monks circulated letters he allegedly wrote detailing a protest against President Johnson's Vietnam policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
VPI
Thich
Tuong
Johnson
FBI Arrests 13 on Gulf Coast Gambling Charges
FBI announced the arrest of 13 people in Mississippi and nearby states on federal gambling violations and conspiracy. Texans Marvin Stark and Charles Archer, Oklahomans Stanley Woodall and Jack Kress named among those charged. three more indicted in Jackson, Mississippi. The arrests spanned Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Houston
Biloxi
Miss
Stanley M. Woodall
Edgewater Park
Las Vegas
Nev
Oklahoma City
Jack E. Kress
Tulsa
Mississippi
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Congress Accepts Space Program Compromise for 1967
House approved a five billion dollar civilian space program for fiscal 1967 aimed at continuing lunar ambitions. The agreement, reached by House and Senate conferees, still requires final Senate approval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
UPI
House
Senate
Gemini 10 mission photo sequence with crew and family
A recovery helicopter shot shows Seaman Roger Bates of New York City fitting a flotation collar on Gemini 10. Barbara Young, wife of Cmdr. John W. Young, greets newsmen at the Young home near Houston's Manned Spacecraft Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seaman Roger Bates
New York City
Barbara Young
Cmdr
John W. Young
Young
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Atlantic
Guadalcanal
Riots and Firebombing Hit Cleveland and New York
Rioting and arson tore through Cleveland's Hough area, with a fire causing 100000 dollar losses and injuries including a 7 month old infant and a National Guard officer. Police blamed arson while the violence spread to nearby Negro sections and prompted canceling of a national track meet. In New York City a sniper killed an 11 year old in East New York as police bolstered patrols and warned of ongoing racial violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Guard
Hough Negro
Hough Avenue
Netro
Diane Towns
Christopher Green
Emmanuel Towns
Ernest Williams
Pletcher
Hough
U.S
Richard Wagner
George E. Seedhouse
New York
Brooklyn
John V. Lindsay
Howard Leary
Illinois police accused of harassing nurse linked to Speck case
A Michigan law firm said four Illinois police officials harassed Judy Laakaniemi, a nurse who dated Richard Speck, while she was hospitalized. The Illinois State's Attorney's Office team said they could not reach her. Hancock police reported a pounding on her door but found no one.
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Hancock, Mich
Illinois
Richard Franklin Speck
Chicago
Wisti, Jaaskelainen
Schreck
Judy Laakaniemi
Hancock
Speck
Miss Laakaniemi
Ilinois
Kenneth Gillis
St. Joseph Hospital
Wisti
Jaaskelainen
Schrock
City of Hancock Police Department
Hancock Police
Joseph Karry
Jail escape reported near Plainview pickup site
Police pursued a man and woman who fled from a pickup in the northeast Plainview area. Tracks were found near the vehicle as officers intensified a late night search with no trace of the couple by midnight. Depot ship Simon Lake arrives at Holy Loch and will sail to the United States on August 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plainview
Glasgow
Scotland
UPS
U. S. Polaris
Simon Lake
Holy Loch
United States
Births Recorded Across Lubbock Area Hospitals
The list notes multiple newborns named to area families with details including weights from 4 pounds 2 ounces to 9 pounds 10 ounces and times between 4:31 a.m. and 1:56 a.m. on various Thursdays and Wednesdays at Methodist, West Texas, Reese AFB, Highland, and Lubbock Osteopathic Hospitals. Fathers' occupations range from truck driver to city policeman, farmer, and base staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leroy I. Madril
Baylor
West Texas Hospital
Gadman Steel Co
Larry Moore
Ave
Methodist Hospital
Lubbock
Mac Alen Houston
Abernathy
Michael I. Ferguson
Mitchell Blvd
Reese Afb Hospital
DeWees Cleavenstine
McGuire
Domingo Sanchez
Mitchell
Reese Afb
Kenneth Ward
Idalou Road
Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital
Ken Ward
Raymond L Townsend
10Th St
Apt. C
Marines Halt Western Column In Hastings Action
North Vietnamese attempting to flee toward Laos clashed with a Marine 1st Regiment battalion on Thursday night. Air strikes and artillery hit the enemy until contact broke about 12:30 a.m. Casualties were reported as light for Marines with Communist losses unknown, while Hastings tallies rose to 436 killed and six captured and 112 individual weapons plus eight crew-served weapons captured. The U.S. Command also noted a weekly drop in overall American casualties.
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Laos
Marine 1St Regiment
U.S
French Body Repatriation From Haiphong Port
UPI reports the United States halted bombing of Haiphong for three days to load 350 French soldiers' bodies from the 1945 54 Indochina War onto a French freighter. Minister Alexander Sanguinetti said the Moonie will return these remains to France for reburial among identified among 2000 of 12000 buried in North Vietnam.
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Paris
UPI
United States
Viet Nam
Hailephong
Alexander Sanguinetti
France
Moonie
Israeli Arabs sentenced for spying for Syria
In Haifa a court convicted three Israeli Arabs of spying for Syria and passing information to Syrian intelligence, sentencing them to seven years in prison after pleas of guilty. The report mentions a separate Moscow item about Russians facing death under new laws.
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Haifa
Israel
UPI
Syria
Moscow
Gemini 10 achieves successful docking with Agena satellite
Space officials hailed Gemini 10 for completing its primary rendezvous and docking with the Agena 8 satellite. The mission demonstrated in orbit linkage and propulsion tests, signaling progress toward Apollo and the concept of an orbiting fueling station for longer spaceflights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
United States
Moon
Earth
Robert Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Center
Leighton I. Davis
Air Force
Davis
Miss Yows Wins Ovation in Miss Texas Contest
Miss Yows, 19, Miss Texas contender from Gatesville High, is a Southwest Texas State College drama major and physical education hopeful who thrilled in Will Rogers Memorial Auditorium. Sixty-one contestants compete with Miss Logan and others as preliminary winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ag Tech
Yows
Logan
Irving
Waco
Two Bombs Hit Near U S Consulate in Bogota
Two bombs exploded almost simultaneously in a basement garage near the U S consulate and the Anglo-American Club in Bogota. The blast damaged the buildings housing the consulate offices and news agencies. no injuries were reported though power and communications were knocked out and some workers were trapped in elevators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bogota
Colombia
U.S
Anglo-American Club
Associated Press
Reuters News Agency
Wives Celebrate Gemini 10 Splashdown with Champagne
Seabrook area celebrations mark the safe Gemini 10 splashdown as Pat Collins and John Young are toasted at two homes. Seven astronaut wives attend, sharing pride, relief, and emotional moments after the EVA and liftoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seabrook
UPS
Pat Collins
Barbara Young
Collins
Collins Home
Michael Collins
Ed White
Eugene Cernan
Manned Spacecraft Center
Young
Guadalcanal
Houston
Bernard Golden
Wellesley
Mass
Ellington Air Force Base
Faye Stafford
St. Christopher Episcopal
League City
Speck Plea Rights Highlight Murder Charge in Nurse Killings
A spokesman for the state's attorney's office notes the murder charge ends the last chance to question Richard Speck before trial. Police identify Speck as the gunman who killed eight nurses in a townhouse dormitory after abducting them and executing them one by one. Corazon Amarao, a Philippine exchange student, says she saw Speck and recognized him in hospital. Speck was briefly in custody earlier but escaped when officers did not know he was wanted. Police traced a gun from a Raleigh Hotel encounter to Speck but did not arrest him. Tests show the gun had not been fired recently. Speck, recovering in hospital after an apparent suicide attempt, may appear in court next Thursday. doctors note he is improving but cautious about his condition.
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Speck
Corazon Amarao
Raleigh
Near North Side
Richard Speck
Police Crime Laboratory
Dr. Norcross
Ryan
Norcross
Heatwave Persists North as Texas Sees No Relief
Record temperatures linger with interior regions unchanged while cooler Canadian air remains north. Across the state, highs reach 100s and 105 in Wichita Falls 110 previously at Presidio, Dallas sees a 6 degree swing, and a stationary front along the north and east edges spurs scattered showers in the Panhandle and Red River area.
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Canada
Panhandle
Red River
Wichita Falls
Presidio
Dallas
Abilene
Amarillo
San Angelo
Phildraas
Laredo
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration
George Mueller
NASA
Leighton Davis
Department of Defense
Charles A. Berry
Navy
Charles Conrad Jr
Richard F. Gordon
Gordon
FBI
Cleveland
Enis Ortiz
Dartmouth
Spic and
Span Cleaners
Larry Dane Boykin
14Th St
University Hospital
Shop Rite Foods, Inc
David Ivey
Ave. W
Texas Tech
Phillips 66
Ray Rodriguez, Ralls
Domingo Zamora
Levelland
James Autry Barnes
Seagraves
The
Western Co
Leon Moore
35Th St
Highland Hospital
Pioneer Natural Gas Co
Carl Poppe
Auburn
Round Lake Beach
Round Lake
Haiphong
Mueller
Gilruth
Miss Texas
U.S. Consulate
London
England
Rhodesia
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