Mightiest Rocket Booster Passes Its First Ignition
Mississippian launch report details the S-II-I stage of the Saturn V achieving a six minute static test at the NASA Mississippi facility. The static burn produced 21 million horsepower, creating a mile-long earth tremor and a thunderous roar. Observers included Braun and Phillips as data is analyzed to confirm performance ahead of a planned 1967 test flight.
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John S. Lang
Saint Louis
Miss
Werner von Braun
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Sam Phillips
Mississippi Test Facility
Phillips
Cape Kennedy
Rescue in Space Project Planned
Space policy experts urged faster U S action to build a rescue system for distressed astronauts. Dr Eugene B Konecci said studies exist but resources are limited and a defined plan is needed, with a ferry craft potentially enabling a mid 1970s rescue capability amid budget constraints.
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Boston
United States
Eugene B. Konecci
National Aeronautics and Space Council
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Konecci
Earth
Moon
Viet Nam
Kosygin Begins Nine Day State Visit to Paris
Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin arrives in Paris for a nine day state visit aimed at deepening France Soviet ties. President De Gaulle meets him at the airport and talks likely cover German reunification Viet Nam and Western relations with Moscow seeking less American influence in Europe. A joint declaration after De Gaulle's Moscow trip pledged routine consultations.
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Paris
Alexei N. Kosygin
France
Soviet Union
Charles de Gaulle
Kosygin
Moscow
West
de Gaulle
Russia
Europe
Viet Nam
Nikolai V. Podgorny
Communist Party
Leonid Brezhnev
U.S
W Averell Harriman
DePauw Receives NSF Grant for Summer Teachers Institute
Greencastle Ind Special A 42400 grant from the National Science Foundation funds a six week mid summer institute at DePauw University. Forty junior high science and mathematics teachers will earn six semester hours of graduate credit. Dr Donald J Cook chairs the program with DePauw faculty assisting.
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Greencastle
Ind
DePauw University
National Science Foundation
DePauw
NSF
Donald J. Cook
Astronomer Laurance Stoddard Dies in Van Nuys
Laurance G. Stoddard 54 director of Lockheed California Company's astronomical laboratory died Tuesday after a heart attack. Funeral services are set for Friday in Van Nuys, California.
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van Nuys
Calif
UPI
Laurance G. Stoddard
Lockheed-California Company
Astronomical Laboratory
Stoddard
U C Berkeley students vote to strike classes over Navy recruiters
At a mass meeting in Berkeley about 3,500 of the campus 30,000 students voted to strike starting at 8 a m after police were summoned during a sit in protesting Navy recruiting at the Student Union. Mario Savio urged action and led the 1964 Free Speech Movement legacy in demanding on campus political liberty. The decision followed disputes over nonstudents at Navy tables and a campus regulation about off campus organization tables.
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Berkeley
Calif
University of California
Navy
Mario Savio
Savio
Council of Campus Organizations
FSM
Associated Students
ASUC
Earl F. Cheit
Roger Heyns
Powell Plans To Preach By Remote Control
New York, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell faces arrest over contempt orders tied to a defamation judgment. Powell plans to broadcast Sunday sermons from Washington to Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem via closed circuit television. He remains in dispute with state courts while reports place him aboard his yacht off the Bahamas.
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Powell
New York
Adam Clayton Powell
D-N.y
Harlem
Henry R. Williams
Williams
Washington
State Supreme Court
Arthur Markewich
Esther James
Lionel van Deerlin
Dcalif
Congress
Bahamas
First Grade Citizenship Day for Maria Evans
In Tacoma on December 22 Maria Evans, a 6-year-old adopted Korean War orphan, becomes an American citizen. Her St. Frances Cabrini School class discusses what citizenship means, with kids saying kindness, sharing, and responsibility, while Maria reflects personal freedom to speak.
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Tacoma
Wash
Maria Evans
Mary Ellen
St. Frances Cabrini School
Maria
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