Penn Station Dying Slowly to a Madison Square Garden Center
New York columnist notes Penn Station fades as demolition proceeds for a new Madison Square Garden Center. Souvenir seekers rush to preserve eagles, gates, and ticket stubs. moving pieces may cost far more than their weight. Eager bids land eagles in Hicksville, Philadelphia, Cooper Union, and Maryland displays.
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Henrietta Leith
Register
New York
Penn Station
Pennsylvania Station
Madison Square Garden Center
Fourth ‘‘Garden
Seventh Avenue
PRR
Hicksville
Long Island Railroad
LIRR
Fairmount Park Art Association
Philadelphia
Par
Cooper Union College
Manhattan
Rockville
Long Island
Queen Elizabeth Visits Nevis After Royal Delay
European staff correspondent reports Nevis, a small British Caribbean colony, finally hosts Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on February 22 after royal tours bypassed the island for years. Islanders, long complaining of neglect, greet the royals amid a tense pride, with the Queen touring the town and Philip visiting a cotton plantation.
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Tom A. Cullen
London
NEA
Island
Nevis
Caribbean
Queen Elizabeth
Prince Philip
British Colonial Office
Boy Scouts
Girl Guides
Times of London
Leeward Islands
Puerto Rico
Columbus
Admiral Nelson
Nelson
Trafalgar
Fanny Nisbett
Princess Margaret
West Indies
Lumbago
Duke of Edinburgh
Elizabeth
Margaret
St. Kitts
Charlestown
Basseterre
Queen Elizabeth II
the Duke of Edinburgh
Royal
NASA GIVES UP ON DRY LANDINGS
SPACE CENTER Houston UPI A top Gemini official says land landings are canceled due to development time constraints and there is not enough time to match Soviet hard ground landings. Ocean landings will continue for the foreseeable future after more than 30 million dollars spent on a batwing parachute system amid the Gemini Mid-Program Conference.
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Space Agency
Douglas May Build Plane To Carry 550 Passengers
Douglas Aircraft Co plans a commercial jet to carry up to 550 passengers or about 100 tons of cargo. Working with major airlines, the DC10 would target 600 mph and possible designation as the 10th major transport. Design studies draw on CSA military data.
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Long Beach
Calif
UPI
Douglas Aircraft Co
CSA
Transcontinental crash foreseen in coast to coast auto pile ups
Column imagines a future when a 1969 convertibles rear end 1970 station wagons on interstate highways start a chain reaction crash that spans the nation. It envisions a cross country domino effect with cars tumbling toward oceans and officials highlighting safety advances like collapsible steering wheels to protect drivers.
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Washington
UPI
Iowa
California
U.S. Highway 101
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Atlantic City
Nebraska
Wyoming
Idaho
Oregon
Pacific Ocean
Cape Lookout
Brownsville
Tex
International Falls
Minn
Sloan Wills $30 Million To Three Institutions
Alfred P Sloan Jr death at 90 triggers a 10 million gift to MIT in Cambridge Massachusetts Sloan Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases in New York are named beneficiaries. The will filed in Manhattan Surrogate's Court omits his surviving sister and three brothers.
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New York
UPI
Alfred P. Sloan Jr
General Motors Corp
Sloan
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Mass
Sloan- Kettering Institute For Cancer Research
Memorial Hospital For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Manhattan
Scientist Reigns as Explorer Era Ends in Antarctica
In Antarctica today the scientist is king, not the explorer, as geologists physicists and biologists lead missions by helicopter. National Science Foundation grants fund nuclear reactors, seismographs, satellites and undersea labs, turning 6 million square miles into a vast laboratory. Russia maintains bases, but an open Antarctic treaty bars weapons and supports peaceful scientific exchange, shaping a future of cold storage, minerals and all weather air travel.
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Robert Buckhorn
South Pole
Antarctica
UPI
National Science Foundation
Antarctic
Space
Russia
Vostok
Mirny
Molodezhnaya
United States
America
Byrd
Fred E. Bakutis
Mardi Gras 1966 Sets City Trash Record in New Orleans
The New Orleans Sanitation Department reports a record 791 tons of trash collected during the 10 day carnival season and Mardi Gras climax, up from 556 tons the previous year. Crews shoveled swept and bulldozed the debris to clear the streets after the celebration.
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New Orleans
UPI
Ment
Batman Debuts as High Camp Television Trendsetter
Hollywood reports Batman, the revamped comic hero, arrives as a hip adult spoof with Adam West in the title role. West calls Batman a noble, wealthy philanthropist who fights Gotham’s crime using the shadow of a bat and high-tech gadgets. The series, described as do-gooding and straight in tone, airs Wednesdays and Thursdays on ABC with cliff-hanger first halves and wrap-up installments.
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Vernon Scott
UPI
Hollywood Correspondent
Hollywood
Batman
Ap Art
U.N. C.L.E
Adam West
West
Gotham City
Robin
ABC
Superman
Humphrey's Asia trip tests his two front war idea
Vice President Hubert Humphrey promotes a two front approach to the Vietnam war, pairing military action against the Communists with social and economic development. He cites village success stories in Vietnam while acknowledging many programs fail due to terrorism or corruption. The challenge remains turning theory into effective practice.
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Donald H. May
Washington
UPI
Hubert H. Humphrey
Humphrey
Nguyen Cao Ky
Viet Nam
U.S
Saigon
James Stewart flies as observer on Vietnam bombing mission
Actor James Stewart, brigadier general in the Air Force Reserve, flew as an official observer on a Vietnam bombing mission. He piloted a B52 on the return to SAC base at Agana Guam, but did not take active part in the raid. Stewart praised SAC crews and noted his two week active duty tour ends with a move to Washington.
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Agana
Guam
UPI
James Stewart
Viet Nam Mong
Air Force Reserve
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Stewart
Washington
Australia Receives Low Rainfall Average
An area wide average rainfall across Australia registers only about 18 inches per year, highlighting arid conditions in many regions and potential impacts on agriculture and water resources.
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Australia
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