Heart Pump Patient Resting Well After Surgery
Esperanza Del Valle Vasquez, 37, Mexico City beauty operator, rests comfortably at Methodist Hospital as doctors reduce a left ventricular bypass pump from 75 percent to 20 percent. Her condition is stable with good appetite and clear lungs, following four hours of surgery August 8 to repair rheumatic heart damage.
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Esperanza del Valle Vasquez
Debakey
Michael ’. DeBakey
Vasquez
Methodist Hospital
Marcel L. de Rudder
Westville
Walter L. McCans
Woodinville
Wash
Maimonides’ Hospital
Brooklyn
Pioneer 7 launches on sun orbit to study interplanetary space
CAPE KENNEDY UPH United States launches a 140 pound Pioneer satellite into an orbit around the sun to map interplanetary space and hazard paths for future astronauts. The craft will loop between Earth's and Mars' orbits, completing a circuit about every 404 days. In six months it should be 60 million miles away and by mid 1968 about 130 million miles distant.
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Pioneer Physics Lab
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Secret satellite and two Minuteman missiles launched country
At Vandenberg Air Force Base a secret Atlas Agena satellite and two Minuteman ICBMs were launched in seven hours. The first ICBM malfunctioned and was destroyed by range safety, with details undisclosed. The second ICBM flew about 5,000 miles toward a Pacific target, while the satellite entered a polar orbit.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Upi
Air Force
Pacific
Defense Department
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