Space striptease first for U S astronaut Lovell in Gemini 7
AP report from Houston details James Lovell riding in long underwear during Gemini 7, as Frank Borman notes his comfort while space suits are shed for a test. The mission nears its 29th orbit with rendezvous plans for Gemini 6 and longer-term aims for a shirtsleeve environment.
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AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
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Russia
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Asthmatic as Youth Cousin Recalls Borman Wiry Ast astronaut
Earnest J. Postleawate of Tuscon recalls Frank Borman as a wiry athletic boy who battled asthma in Gary and Tucson. The Roswell cousin describes Borman’s early model airplane zeal and notes their families were related through extended kinship. Postleawate, an engineer with Mountain States Telephone, kept in touch and plans to relay well wishes to Borman’s family.
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Roswell
Earnest J. Postleawate
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Borman
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Gary
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Bormans
Arizona
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Roswell Man
Ticket Office Opens Early for Roswell Optimists Event
The box office at Pearson Auditorium opens at 7 15 Tuesday night as the Roswell Optimist Club announces the Norman Luboff chair at 8 15 tomorrow evening. General and student tickets are first come first served, with reserve seats sold at the Chamber of Commerce today and tomorrow. General admission and student tickets also available at the Chamber Roswell Daily Record and local shopping centers or at the door.
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Pearson Auditorium
Roswell
Johnson backs Fed move after talk with Martin at LBJ Ranch
President Johnson called Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin to the LBJ Ranch to urge patience on rate increases. Also present were Henry H. Fowler Charles L. Schultze and Gardner Ackley as experts traveled from Washington.
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William McChesney Martin
Federal Reserve Board
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Acene Martin
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Henry H. Fowler
Charles L. Schultze
Gardner Ackley
Council of Economic Advisers
Fed Raises Rates to 4.5 Percent, Markets Slide
The Federal Reserve boosted rates to 4.5 percent the highest since 1930 triggering a stock market drop with 3.94 million shares traded in the first hour on the New York Exchange. Dow fell 14.98 to 931.12 as banks and savers react to higher borrowing costs while Powell Johnson City remarks from President Johnson frame the move.
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McNamara orders 149 more military base closures or reductions
Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara announced 149 bases to be closed or cut back, plus consolidations, to cut costs by 410 million dollars a year. When added to 703 prior actions since 1961 the savings reach 1.5 billion annually across 39 states, DC, and 10 foreign countries.
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Anderson Expects NM to Be Affected by Base Closings
Sen Clinton P Anderson says New Mexico will likely be affected by the closing and consolidation of military bases but declines to name specific bases. Reports list bases in Idaho Colorado Texas Montana among others. Pentagon notes Austin Waco Houston Wichita Falls Big Spring Fort Worth El Paso facilities, with Biggs AFB El Paso to be inactivated and transfer to the Army.
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Clinton P. Anderson
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Cross Fire Sours Viet Nam Battle for U S Battalion
In 196? Viet Nam action 1st Infantry Division repulsed a heavy cross fire assault by Viet Cong with 50 caliber machine guns. Reports say 200 plus enemy fatalities. U S casualties heavy. Lt Stephen A Douglas of Columbus Ohio survives. The clash occurred near Bau Bang 40 miles northwest of Saigon as air and naval bombardment aided ground troops.
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South Viet Nam
1St Infantry
Viet Nam
Saigon
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Columbus
Ohio
Bau Bang
Stocks Fall Then Turn Upward In Heavy Trading
The market opened with a sharp drop after the Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate but recovered later in very heavy trading. The Dow fell 17.60 points in the first hour, then narrowed losses to 10.36 to 935.74 by noon. NYSE tape ran 13 minutes late as volume reached 6.15 million shares between 10 and noon. Some stocks fell as much as $5 a share.
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Federal Reserve Board
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Roswell Army Nurse Becomes Vietnam War Pioneer
Lt. Placida Ortega, Roswell's first female Viet Nam service member, serves as an army nurse at the 93rd EVAC Hospital near Saigon after about a month there. Her parents Mr. and Mrs. Leandro Ortega and brothers serve abroad with the USS Green Fish and the Marines in the Philippines.
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Green Fish
Philippines
Christmas Train Boxes For Viet Nam In Roswell
Roswell shoppers are urged to donate items for Americas Christmas Train and Trucks. Collection boxes will be in local stores Wednesday through Saturday. Items go to soldiers for aid to Viet Nam and people there.
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Viet Nam
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