Soviet Cosmonauts Set Orbit Record Aboard Soyuz 9
Soviet cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov extended in orbit for over 13 days, 18 hours, and 35 minutes aboard Soyuz 9 surpassing the prior U S Gemini 7 record. The long mission tests effects of extended spaceflight with medical checks and extensive exercise as plans for future space stations unfold.
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Andrian Nikolayev
Vitaly Sevastyanov
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Frank Borman
James A. Lovell
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Sevastyanov
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Seafood Festival Attracts 10 000 in Ocean City
Ocean City Maryland hosted a seafood festival drawing about 10 000 attendees who consumed roughly 500 dozen items. Organizers the Ocean City Lions Club and the Department of Chesapeake Bay Affairs reported brisk sales and services. Lions president Eldridge Cropper praised the event saying it stayed open late, avoiding running out of seafood. The festival featured frying oysters soft shell crabs crab cakes and raw clams with ample oysters clams flounder and beer consumed at outdoor booths.
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Ocean City Lions Club and
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Eldridge Cropper
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Lions
Provincetown Steamship Provincetown Hit By Fire Again
Baltimore AP report on the Provincetown, the last Chesapeake Bay steamer, struck by a three-deck blaze after an early Sunday start on the stern. Deputy Chief Wett calls the burned hull an extreme fire hazard and suspects vandalism. the vessel, a former six-alarm blaze target last June, drew children and derelicts to its wreck.
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Roland F. Wett
Agnew accuses media of one sided war coverage
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew denounces mainline press for slanted Vietnam war reporting and insufficient balance. He warns loss of credibility for neglecting both sides and cites My Lai Hue and Cambodia coverage while noting broader criticism of U S involvement. He adds last year South Africa produced 31,270,000 ounces of gold.
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Spiro T. Agnew
America
Agnew
International Federation of Newspaper Publishers
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Hue
South Africa
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