Apollo 16 Launch Trials Resume After Leak Fix
Doctors gave Apollo 16 astronauts a major medical exam before the Sunday launch. The countdown resumed after a leaking nitrogen hose in the service module was replaced and tests showed the leak eliminated. John W. Young Thomas K. Mattingly and Charles M. Duke underwent heart checks as a precaution for the 12 day mission.
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UPI
Walter J. Kapryan
Kapryan
Apollo
John W. Young
Thomas
K. Mattingly
Charles M. Duke
Charles K. Lapinta
Moon
Mattingly
Johnson Seated Up as Health Improves After Heart Attack
Former President Lyndon B. Johnson, age 63, sat up in bed at the University of Virginia hospital and read telegrams from well wishers as his condition, after a second heart attack, shows improvement. He spent time with Lady Bird Johnson and daughter Lynda during a visit to Charlottesville.
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UPI
Lyndon
Johnson
Richard S. Crampton
University of Virginia Hospital
Lady Bird
Lynda
Johnsons
Charles Robb
Blossoms Bloom Across Capital as Spring Arrives
The National Park Service says Cherry Blossom Festival visitors will see full bloom in a week. The National Weather Service forecasts a hot Southwest with temperatures near 100 F, scattered showers from the Ohio River to the Northwest, and light rain elsewhere. Freezing temps linger in high mountains and near the Canadian border while mornings run from 20 F in Houston Maine to 79 F in Yuma Arizona.
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National Park Service
Washington
National Weather Service
Mercury
Ohio River
Middle Pacific Coast
Pacific Northwest
Pentagon denies ground troop buildup for Vietnam
The Pentagon called reports of U.S. ground troops being readied for duty in Vietnam "obviously in error." Defense officials said only troops returning home are moving, while air and naval reinforcements are described as insurance to deter North Vietnamese advances.
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UPI
Pentagon
U.S
Vietnam
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Jerry W. Friedheim
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Southeast Asia
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Indochina
Cambridge
Mass
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South Vietnam
Phu Bai
Nixon
Washington Post
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Midway
California
Saratoga
Florida
Laird
ITT perjury probe urged over memo linked to 1972 convention
Rep. Bob Wilson urged a probe into whether ITT Washington chief W R Merriam lied about seeing a controversial memo by ITT lobbyist Dita Beard. Sen. Edward Kennedy accused the Justice Department of withholding information from the Judiciary Committee amid the ITT memo dispute and related investigations into 1968 GOP contributions.
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Beard
Merriam
Wilson
Henry Peterson
Criminal Division
Justice Department
Obituaries for George F. Smith and James H. Palmer
George F. Smith aged 74 died Monday in Scottsdale Memorial Hospital after moving to the area in 1969 from Chicago. He worked 20 years in Chicago city budget, survived by wife Hazel, son George Jr., daughters Barbara Krajewski and Evelyn Goetz, a brother, and six grandchildren. Services in Green Acres and burial in Chicago. James H. Palmer, 65, died Sunday in Doctors Hospital and was entombed at Green Acres Mausoleum after services at 3:30 p.m. Palmer, a former merchandise manager since eight years and a Scottsdale Shrine Club member, moved from Chicago in 1947. survived by Muriel, two daughters Barbara Johnson and Martha Ann Palmer, a son James, a brother, four sisters and six grandchildren.
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Chicago
Scottsdale Memorial Hospital
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N. 88Rd St
City of
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Barbara Krajewski
Evelyn Goetz
South Holland
Ill
Illinois
Green Acres Mortuary
N. Hayden
Green Acres
James H. Palmer
Doctors Hospital
Green Acres Mausoleum
Mr. Palmer
E. Camelback
Muriel
Barbara Johnson
Tempe
Martha Ann Palmer
Phoenix
James
Services for R Dale Grantham Held in Phoenix Area
R Dale Grantham 40 died in a Sate airplane crash near Chandler. Funeral at 2 p m Wednesday at A L Moore and Sons Mortuary 333 W Adams cremation to follow. He lived at 3053 N 44th St was a mechanical engineer with Grantham Engineering at Falcon Field in Mesa born Flagstaff moved here 24 years ago from Amarillo. He survived by Marilyn his daughter Jill Grantham his mother Mrs Norma Cody of Phoenix and grandfather Dudley Grantham of Amarillo.
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Chandler
A.L. Moore and Sons Mortuary
W. Adams
Grantham
N. 44Th St
Grantham Engineering
Falcon Field
Mesa
Flagstaff
Arillo
Marilyn
Jill Grantham
Norma Cody
Phoenix
Dudley Grantham
Amarillo
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