Gemini two man flight faces weather test at Cape Kennedy
At Cape Kennedy Florida the Gemini 2 mission team weighed improving conditions for a Tuesday launch. Astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young prepared to steer the Molly Brown capsule on a three orbit test to refine space docking and maneuvering.
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John Woeleft
Virgil I. Grissom
Pad
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Cape
Bermuda
John W. Young
Grissom
Young
Molly Brown
Air Force
Navy
Charles Berry
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
BFRC Formed At Cape Kennedy For Space Launch Rescue
Air Force Lt. Col. Garth Dettinger heads a new Bioastronautics Forces Recovery Crew formed to provide immediate medical aid to astronauts during a manned launch. Twelve members wear red caps and operate four helicopters ready to reach the ocean landing area within 30 feet. Dettinger, hospital commander at Walker AFB, recalls the first test jump and explains team duties and ejection-seat safety considerations.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Air Force
Garth B. Dettinger
Atlantic Ocean
BFRC
Bioastronautics
Dettinger
Walker Air Force Base
N. M
Air Force Hospital
Hurt Club
Walker Afb
Harvard
Syracuse
N. Y
Pittsfield
Mass
Nonlethal disabling gas used in Viet Nam fighting
A US military spokesman said South Vietnam’s armed forces now use nonlethal gases in selective actions against the Viet Cong to temporarily disable the enemy and stop fighting. Washington and Saigon issued statements after Saigon sources reported experimentation with this warfare.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Pentagon
Washington
U.S
Viet Nam
U S Planes Hit Cong Base in South Viet Nam Raid
American and South Vietnamese aircraft attacked Vu Con base inside North Vietnamese territory 15 miles from the border dropping 52 tons of bombs and rockets. The operation targeted a battalion base and depot with gas experiments reported in central Viet Nam.
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DA Nang
South Viet Nam
U.S
Vu Con
Quang Tri
Woman Suffers Serious Injuries In Car Roll Over
Ernestina E. Torkildson, 21, of 805 BE Third, listed in fair condition at Walker Air Force Base Hospital after an automobile crash Sunday night. She suffered multiple rib fractures and a pelvic fracture when speeding on state road 48 near U S 285 lost control, car skidded 311 feet into a fence, rolled several times, and she was thrown out then pinned. Turned over to Walker hospital by Turner ambulance.
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Ernestina E. Torkildson
Walker Air Force Base Hospital
Miss Torkildson
U.S. 285
Walker Hospital
Turner
Boy Scout Survives 85 Foot Fall into Crater
An 11 year old Roswell Boy Scout fell 85 feet into a crater at Bottomless Lakes State Park. David M Morris son of Senior M Sgt and Mrs George Morris was on a troop outing when he slipped near a crater ledge and landed on his feet. He spent an hour in the crater before responders lowered a wire stretcher and transported him to Walker AFB Hospital in fair condition with a broken right leg fractured left arm leg bone injuries and head injuries.
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Roswell
Bottomless Lakes State Park
David M. Morris
George Morris
van Leuven
Walker Air Force Base
David
Chaves County
Walker Afb Hospital
Sixth Homemade Bomb Found in Birmingham Site
A sixth homemade dynamite device was found under a panel truck near Poole Funeral Chapel in Birmingham Alabama. Army demolition experts disarmed the bombs and police formed a 20 man task force to investigate.
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Birmingham
Ala
Steel City
Poole Funeral Chapel
G. M. Smith
James Taylor
Jamie Moore
Street Baptist
A. D. King
Martin Luther King Jr
Robert M. Presley
Oneonta
Marvin M. Bryan
Aaron Rosenfeld
Bryan
Rosenfeld
Employee Fired After Lodge Protest in New Mexico
Mrs. Ruby Keller, a cook at Pecos Valley Lodge special hospital for alcoholics, was fired by the New Mexico Commission on Alcoholism for disobedience and for deroga tory statements about staff, supervisors, and lodge policy. She plans an appeal to the state personnel board in Santa Fe.
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Ruby Keller
Pecos Valley Lodge
Special Hospital For
New Mexico Commission On Alcoholism
Fred M. Toler
Commission
Keller
Riors
State Personnel Board
Santa Fe
George Durand
Jim Edwards
Chaves County
Edwards
Johnson Flies Back to Capital From His Ranch
President Johnson returns to Washington from the LBJ Ranch after a long weekend. He will attend a White House dinner with governors for briefings on world and domestic issues. He prepared by contacting officials on Friday about the Alabama situation and held a news conference Saturday.
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Johnson City
Tex
Johnson
Washington
LBJ
White House
Alabama
Bureau of Customs
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Sharon Memming
Chicago
Percy McGee
Montgomery
Selma
United Nations
UPI
Cong Base
A'a
King
U.S. 80
White Citizens Action, Inc
Tuscaoosa
Confederate Air Force
National Guardsmen
Crater
Bie
Moore
Fred Calhoun
Our Lady Queen of the Universe Catholic Church
Center Street
Dynamite Hill
Edward L. Foster
Lodge
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