Next Space Step Features 4 Pilots and Gemini Orbit
The Apollo era race to the moon unfolds with four astronauts aboard two Gemini crafts in a December test. One crew in underwear tests comfort and atmosphere as Gemini 6 and 7 aim for a 14 to 15 day space endurance. The United States and Soviet Union remain neck and neck in rockets, records, and long term lunar plans.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
U.S
Earth
United States
Soviet Union
Gemini
Gordon’ Cooper Jr
Tune
White House
Charles S Sheldon
Sheldon
Frank Borman
James A. Lovell
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Moon
Lunar
Dawn of a New Day in Rural Housing in Alabama
The first rural housing loan under the new Housing and Urban Development Act, signed Aug 10 1965, goes to Nolan Freeman, a 41 year old heavy equipment operator and farmer in Marshall County Alabama. The $7500 FHA insured loan funds a modern home for his family, with payments around 40 dollars monthly. Rural families needing funds to build or improve homes may apply via the county Farmers Home Administration or the FHA Agriculture Dept Washington DC.
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Shall
Alabama
Nolan Freeman
Freeman
County Farmers Home Administration
FHA
Agriculture Dept
Washington, D.C
Gemini 7 dock and suit tests signal urgent space program
U.S. officials push rapid rendezvous tests with Schirra and Stafford chasing Gemini 7 and joining in formation. Borman Lovell will test spacesuits in Gemini 7 while Lovell's wife near mid December birth is noted not as a program factor. Since Sputnik I the U.S. has launched over 300 satellites versus 150 for the Soviet Union, including weather and communications satellites, plus planned navigational and unmanned labs.
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Lem
U.S
Schirra
Stafford
Borman
Lovell
United States
Soviet Union
Kerensky Evaluates Past and Sees Europe’s Future
Former Russian premier Alexander F. Kerensky speaks in New York on his rule years and the future, arguing Russia should align with the West, face a rising nonwhite world, and push for a new system of international relations. He reflects on Lenin, Trotsky, and the 1917 revolution while outlining a globe spanning shift toward a world order beyond the United Nations. He teaches at Stanford and has finished memoirs Russia and History turning Point.
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New York
Alexander F. Kerensky
Russia
Fifth Avenue
Kerensky
Lenin
Trotsky
England
Arctic
United States
Beieves
Europe
China
Marapens
United Nations
Stanford University
Judge Orders Teens To Write Their Own Obituaries
In Danville Kentucky Police Judge Jack May fines and sentences youths for traffic violations with unique measures. Two students have faced the obituary assignment, which aims to expose teens to the consequences of wrecks and to instill responsibility. May notes teens lack life experience and that traditional fines are unpaid by often unemployed youth.
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Danville
Jack May
May
Aitiuctuure Uist
Michgan State runners Dick Sharkey and Art Link linked in 1962 Bedford High squad
Dick Sharkey and Art Link, cross country runners at Michigan State, were teammates in Detroit's Bedford High squad in 1962.
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Dick Sharkey
Art Link
Michigan State
Detroit
Bedford High
Kentucky coach Bradshaw played under Bryant at Kentucky
Charlie Bradshaw, later Kentucky football coach, starred as a player at the University of Kentucky under Paul Bryant and graduated in 1949, shaping his early football career.
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Kentucky
Charlie Bradshaw
Paul Bryant
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