Navy tests Polaris rocket over sea at Cape Canaveral
A Polaris intermed range ballistic missile test at Cape Canaveral featured a corkscrew ascent and rapid breakup after fuel burnout. The rocket rose stiffly, veered left, and splashed debris about five miles from the launch site as ships stood by for recovery and data gathering. The test aimed to advance guidance and control for future operational use by 1960.
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Cape Canaveral
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Florida
Jantic
Navy
Heart repair during live TV surgery stuns viewers
In San Francisco two Stanford doctors repaired a five-year-old Tommy Hunter’s heart during a live televised operation, saying the repair could grant him a normal long life. In Hawaii, city council members cut short vacations to fight a veto on a five-million-dollar employee pay boost. In Vancouver Washington, 15‑month-old Rodney Rose was killed by a backing car as his parents watched from the driveway.
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Gerbode
Audi
Tommy Hunter
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Gerbodé
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Noth
Honolulu
Los Angeles
Norris Poulson
Rosalind Wiener Wyman
Ernest Debs
United States Overseas Airlines
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Debs
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Hunter
Ridgefield
Infant dies after car accident and rare blood loss
A fragment suggests a baby named Gere suffered fatal injuries after a car incident causing excessive blood loss estimated at nearly nine quarts per minute. The survivor was described as smaller than peers, fatigued easily, and expected to live only about half a normal lifespan. A silk thread was used with an overhand stitch to seal a wound, with no patch employed.
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von Deb
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Terry
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