Hold On Astronauts Must Be Getting Secret Training
Charles McDowell Jr. humorously details the so called Washington phase of space reentry. He argues NASA keeps a secret training program for astronauts preparing for Project Gemini and Mercury veterans. He likens rose garden parade and Congress phases to simulators on site at Houston and satirical Kennedys, plus the social tests with Congress.
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Rose Garden
Congress
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NASA
Shepard
Glenn
Cooper
Space Flight Center
Houston
Tex
White House
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Kennedy
Jacqueline Kennedy
Ethel Kennedy
Joan Kennedy
Caroline
Johnson
Capitol
Gordon Cooper
John Glenn
Mountain apartment project aims for Camelback despite protests
A plan to terrace three five story apartment buildings with 44 units on Camelback Mountain drew objections from nearby residents. The Phoenix board of adjustments approved the project as a non conforming use, with city council having denied earlier site plan approval. The dispute centers on jurisdiction and potential impact on the mountain’s natural view.
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Gladys Lighthall
Scottsdale
C. H. Alberding
Chicago
Paradise
Paradise Inn
Phoenix Board of Adjustments
Alberding
Phoenix
Board of Adjustments
John Frank
C. R. Peabody
Paradise Lane
Sam Marcian
Frank
John Beatty
City of
Board of Adjustment
Superior Court
Lighthall
Elizabeth Ardens
Two Cowboys In Red Truck Held In Holdup
Two men dressed in cowboy clothing were arrested an hour after a 1500 dollar bank holdup in Phoenix. Boyd Barnhart of Nogales and Wayne Kropf of Casa Grande were identified by the FBI. Kropf admitted staging the holdup. Barnhart waited in the getaway vehicle. They were captured at a road block nine miles east of Wickenburg.
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UPI
Federal Bureau of Tinvestigation
Boyd Roger Barnhart
Nogales
Wayne McClellan Kropf
Casa Grande
Arizona Fbl
Edward Boyle
Kropf
Barnhart
Arizona
Jone Hamlet
Sandra Boehm
Poehm
Truman To See Kennedy On Civil Rights Talk
Former President Harry S. Truman said the civil rights problem will grow more serious until settled and planned to visit President Kennedy to discuss civil rights. He criticized Republicans for not acting, commented on the 1964 South vote, and remarked on Medgar Evers’s killer likely being caught and hanged while expressing sorrow over the crime.
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UPS
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Kennedy
Medgar Evers
Space Budget Cuts Expected
The House Space Committee plans cuts of about 488 to 498 million from NASA's 5.7 billion civilian space program request for next year. Major reductions hit the 3.7 billion manned space flight budget including Apollo and the M-1 engine, with the weather satellite program largely spared.
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UPI
House Space Committee
Federal Space Agency
Space Committee
Appropriations Committee
House
Senate
NASA
Ken Hechler
D-W.va
Hechler
Actress Dolores Hart to Become Catholic Nun
Hollywood confirms actress Dolores Hart, 24, has entered a convent in New England as a postulant for one year. Hart rose from college freshman to star in Elvis Presley film Loving You and has appeared in Wild is the Wind and Come Fly With Me. Born in Chicago as Dolores Hicks, she converted to Catholicism at 12 and often spoke of religious vocation.
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UPD
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Miss Hart
New England
Elvis Presley
Grace Kelly
Ingrid Bergman
Marymount College
Chicago
Hicks
Escalante Scouting Tragedy Claims 13th Victim
Marvin Porchatis, 29, of Salt Lake City, died in Panguitch Utah hospital as the death toll reached seven Scouts and six adults from the Escalante expedition disaster. Brake failure blamed for the open bed truck crash that killed 13 and injured 33 on a steep hill.
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UPI
Panguitch
Utah
Marvin Porchatis
Salt Lake City
Here
Buxton Completes Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Ord
Army Pvt. Gary K. Buxton, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald W. Buxton of Scottsdale, completes advanced infantry training at Fort Ord California.
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Reginald W. Buxton
N. Mockingbird Lane
Scottsdale
Barry Leads Nixon Goldwater Emerges as GOP Nominee Hope
Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon says Barry Goldwater has eclipsed Nelson Rockefeller as the likely 1964 Republican nominee. Nixon, leaving Idlewild Airport for a six week Europe vacation, added that Goldwater has gained on Rockefeller in the last two months. He cited professional GOP politicians who share this view. Rockefeller wed Margaretta Murphy on May 18.
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UPI
Richard M. Nixon
Barry M. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Iviewild Airport
Europe
Lisbon
Rockefeller
Goldwater
Margaretta Murphy
GOP
Quake Shakes Baja California Area Twice This Week
A series of quakes struck Baja California, Mexico, and adjacent parts of California including San Diego and Imperial counties. Seismologist Fred Robinson logged the events, with Caltech placing the magnitude at 5 and noting the second tremor in two days.
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UPI
Mexico
Imperial Counties
Fred Robinson
Pasadena
California Institute of Technology Seismographic Laboratory
Charles Richter
Caltech
Baja California
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