Re Entry Most Dangerous Minutes Of Space Trip
Houston center reports the risky return phase of a Gemini capsule. The heat shield orientation, retrofire timing, and precise descent control key to a safe landing. A miss by seconds could push the craft miles off course and end in disaster.
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Earth
Mercury
Virgil Grissom
Grissom
America
John H. Glenn, Jr
M. Scott Carpenter
L. Gordon Cooper
John W. Young
Pope Prays For Gemini 4 Twin Astronauts
Pope Paul VI offered public prayers for Gemini 4 astronauts James A. McDivitt and Edward H. White after the noon blessing in St. Peter's Square. The article recalls past spaceflight incidents, cautions about heat shield angles, parachute deployment, and water recovery risks, noting prior Mercury and Gemini perilous moments and rescue outcomes.
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Vatican City
Virginians Learn Money Making Box Was a Con
Two Virginia men Raymond Mazzei and Bernard Blick lost $25,000 after joining four men in New York who pitched a portable money making machine. The device supposedly duplicated money using a chemical process but exploded a fuse and prompted fake Secret Service agents to seize the other con men. The pair returned home empty handed as the suspects vanished with the money.
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New York
UPI
Virginia
Bunko
Raymond Mazzei
Hopewell
Bernard Blick
Collins
Joe
Mazzei
Blick
Brooklyn
Secret Service
Missile Submarines Patrol Off China and Russia
American Polaris submarines have been on firing stations off the Red Chinese and eastern Russian coasts for six months. The four boats Daniel Boone Tecumseh Ulysses S Grant and Stonewall Jackson carry 64 missiles each with vast destructive power. Additional subs Kamehameha and Mariano G Vallejo expected later in 1965 or early 1966 as attack carriers of the 7th Fleet support bombing missions against North Vietnam.
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Polaris
Western Pacific
Guam
U.S. Navy
Sea of Japan
U.S
Russian Siberia
Red China
Daniel Boone
Tecumseh
Ulysses S. Grant
Stonewall Jackson
Kamehameha
Mariano G. Vallejo
7Th Fleet
Living Funeral Service Arranged By Ohio Man
Gerald McKinney of Lucasville Ohio plans a living funeral at Scioto County Fairgrounds with band hearse and a public turnout. The 42 year old will receive flowers and memories from friends while the Eagles lodge conducts the ceremony beside his coffin.
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Ohio
Lucasville
UPI
Gerald McKinney
McKinney
Lorenzo Dow McKinney
Scioto County Fairgrounds
Gemini Flight At A Glance
United Press International reviews the Gemini 4 mission led by Maj. James A. McDivitt and Maj. Edward H. White II. The flight completed 62 earth orbits, performed a space walk of 23 minutes, and set a 1.7 million mile manned spaceflight record while attempting a rendezvous. Return was planned 1:14 p.m. EDT near Bermuda after 97 hours 50 minutes.
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United Press International
James A. McDivitt
Edward H. White II
Earth
U.S
Bermuda
Cape Kennedy
USS
Wasp
Atlantic
White
America
TenYearOld Flees Dentist Office In England
In Grimsby England a 10 year old boy named John Stevenson fled from a dentist after losing his nerve while waiting for a tooth extraction. Police and neighbors found him 28 hours later in his own garage cold hungry and dirty but without a toothache.
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Grimsby
England
UPI
John Stevenson
Job Center To Open This Week In Charleston
The states first Job Corps Center for women will open in Charleston this week with the first recruits arriving Wednesday. Enrollment will reach 300, drawing many from distant states including Texas. Most participants will be away from home for the first time, arriving by plane or train. An open house and staff introductions are planned Monday at the converted hotel.
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Charleston
UPI
Texas
Recovery Fleet Rehearses Role on Gemini Return
The Atlantic recovery fleet on USS Wasp rehearsed the planned splashdown of Gemini 4 astronauts James McDivitt and Edward White. The Wasp led Task Force 140 with banners, personnel, and medical and rescue teams ready for a 400 mile Bermuda area pickup after splashdown.
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UPI
James McDivitt
Edward White
Atlantic Ocean
Bermuda
Castor and
McDivitt
Pollux and
White
Castor
Pollux
John Stonesipher
Gemini
Howard Minners
Ben James
National Aeronautics and Space Agency
U. S. Army
Paul Davis
William M. McCormick
James W. Conger
Atlantic
Task Force 140
Ben William Sarver
Pacific
Air Rescue Service
Globe
Azores
Canaries
Pago Pago
Johannesburg
Mauritius
Singapore
Lima
Rio de Janeiro
Ascension
Izvestia Warns U S on Viet Nam Intervention
Moscow based Izvestia declared the Soviet Union possesses power greater than the United States and warned that aggression against Viet Nam will not go unpunished. It cited nuclear and rocket weapons as a shield for socialist nations and said Russia would continue aid to North Viet Nam. Western observers saw a hint of potential anti aircraft missiles against U S air strikes on Hanoi.
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UPI
Izvestia
Soviet Union
United States
Viet Nam
Russia
Democratic Republic of Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
U.S
Hanoi
Penn State tests return of sewage effluent to ground water
Penn State researchers report early results from a $300,000 study showing purified wastewater diverted to cropland grassland and forests can conserve water while promoting crop growth. The project handles about 0.5 million gallons daily, with winter tests deemed successful and aimed at keeping drinking water safe.
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University Park
Pennsylvania State University
Penn State
Michael A. Farrell
Farrell
U.S. Senate
President Johnson Coin Reform Provokes Humorous Sex Angle
The Johnson administration proposes copper and nickel dimes and quarters with reduced silver and a three layer sandwich design. The piece notes the impracticality yet humorously suggests sexier images for coin engravings and even a Jayne Mansfield dime or Liz Taylor quarter to boost appeal.
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Washington
UPI
Johnson
Congress
Bureau of the Mint
Agriculture Department
Mint
Liz Taylor
Cabell County Doctors Back Birth Control Clinic Plan
A Cabell County poll of doctors lawyers school officials and civic leaders shows strong support for a county birth control clinic. Of 198 responses 193 endorse establishing a clinic for indigent women, noting Kanawha County is the only current clinic in the state.
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Huntington
UPI
Cabell County
Kanawha County
Cabell - Huntington Health
Thomas W. Nale
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