Federal Plans Credited for Death Rate Fall
Howard A Rusk reports on a National Health Education Committee booklet noting a 3 percent drop in the U S death rate from 1963 to 1967, due to federal programs and Medicare Medicaid. The piece highlights extensive health gains, coverage numbers, and disease declines across programs for Indians mothers and children Head Start and vaccination efforts.
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New York
Johnson
United States
National Health Education Committee
Albert D. Lasker
U.S
Appalachia
Ray Earl Ray defense lawyer calls client optimistic in Memphis
Defense attorney Arthur Hanes described James Earl Ray as optimistic and said authorities handling the case were courteous after a private two hour eight minute interview in the Memphis jail. Hanes met with Sheriff Morris and Tennessee Attorney General Canale to set arraignment ground rules with no date yet set for Ray’s arraignment, likely October or November. A judge had restricted comments to newsmen, and Ray’s transfer from London to U.S. custody was noted as unusual.
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Daley Predicts Phone Strike End By Tuesday
Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley said the telephone strike threatening the Democratic National Convention would be resolved by Monday or Tuesday. No new negotiations were scheduled and he did not outline how a settlement would be arranged.
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James W. Cook
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Tee
Mansfield
Sahara Hotel Fire Destroys Wing In Las Vegas
A 200 room wing of the Sahara Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip suffered a major blaze with 400 guests displaced. Damage surpasses $1 million. Early reports note injuries among guests and firefighters, but no fatalities. Burned feet and smoke inhalation cited as minor injuries.
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UPI
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Kennedy Humphrey unity talks would have followed primaries
Washington UPI report says Lawrence F. O'Brien, a Humphrey strategist, believed Kennedy and Humphrey planned to discuss party unity after the primaries. O'Brien, ex-postmaster general, said Kennedy would have faced an uphill battle for the nomination, while Humphrey was seen as likely to win on the first ballot. Edward Kennedy was noted as a potential vice presidential asset. In London, Britain's first liver transplant patient died two and a half months after surgery, cause unknown.
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UPI
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Robert F. Kennedy
Hubert H. Humphrey
O'Brien
Johnson
Kennedy
Humphrey
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California
O’brien
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Robert Kennedy
Edward Kennedy
D-Mass
Ted Kennedy
London
Britain
Cambridge
Security guards boost protection for Presidential candidates
A New York Times survey finds tightened security for Presidential candidates reduces assassination risk but may limit counterfeiting and forgery enforcement. The plan assigns 21 Secret Service agents per candidate in three eight hour shifts, with local and state forces augmenting protection as needed. Mayor Carl B Stokes urges extensive protection in Cleveland.
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Robert F. Kennedy
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John F. Kennedy
New York Times
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George C. Wallace
Eugene J. McCarthy
Johnson
Congress
Treasury
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Cleveland
Senate approves farm bill amid six day week work plan
The Senate backed a four year extension of farm price supports and production controls as it aims to finish a public works appropriation bill before breaking for the August conventions. House recesses until September and a Fortas Supreme Court vote is not expected before the conventions.
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UPI
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Senate Judiciary Committee
Johnson
House
Mansfield
Weather Satellite to Test Earth's Gravity as Anchor
CAPE KENNEDY APS reports the Federal Space Agency will launch an experimental weather satellite Wednesday. The craft carries a daylight television camera and aims to study Earth's gravity as a stabilizing anchor for forecasting.
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Cape Kennedy
Aps
Federal Space Agency
Equator
Galaxy C5A tops 520000 pound takeoff record
The Lockheed Galaxy C5A, the world's largest aircraft, made its third test flight in Marietta Georgia weighing 550000 pounds at 10 02 am EDT. Earlier second flight weighed 520000 pounds beating a 532000pound B70 record and setting a new gross takeoff weight.
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Galaxy
Edwards Air Force Base
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