The Next Space Walk Will Be Necessary
The article recalls early space walks from Alexei Leonov in 1964 to Edwin White on Gemini 4 in 1965, noting their limits. It explains that a truly useful space walk emerged after six years, leading to Apollo 15's planned August 5 EVA by Alfred Worden to retrieve film from the service module before reentry.
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Paul Recer
AP Aerospace
Space Center
Houston
Alexi Leonov
Edwin H. White
Alfred G. Worden
Earth
Today in History July 29 highlights from 1940 to 1970s
Today recalls the 1940 Luftwaffe blitz beginning against Britain, Mussolini’s birth in 1883, 1914 transcontinental phone debut, 1920 airmail linking New York and San Francisco, 1945 Attlee at Potsdam, and other notable events including a Paris peace conference opening in 196 a. The piece notes various long-ago milestones and political shifts.
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Associated Press
Alout
Britain
Italy
Mussolini
Dovia
New York
San Francisco
Clement Attlee
Winston Churchill
Paris
U.S
Taxpayer pays taxes with concrete check in protest
Buckingham England AP City Councilman John Benham 49 used a concrete slab as a check for a tax bill of about 84 dollars to protest bad sidewalks. He left the broken slab at the town hall after presenting the writing on it and faced bank rejection pending a decision.
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Buckingham. England
John Benham
Buckingham
Benham
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Ted
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Washington
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Kremlin
Germany
Berlin
South America
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Orthmore, Schapfpner
Mark
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Marx
Hart, Schaffner & Marx
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