Early start to hurricane season with tropical storm Abby
The season began with Abby forming in the Gulf of Mexico near the Yucatan, described as a screwball development by Robert H. Simpson. The piece compares this year to last, notes prior U.S. mainland hurricanes and totals, and explains warm Gulf waters fuel storms along with naming conventions and general hurricane science.
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Abby
Gulf of Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
Robert H. Simpson
Hurricane Center
Miami
U.S
Beulah
Texas
New England
Caribbean
Pacific
Central American
U.S. Weather Bureau
Cuba
Florida
United States
Skeleton may be twin of Loch Ness Monster
A 150 million year old plesiosaur skeleton found in a Stamford clay pit in Britain may be a twin of the Loch Ness Monster. The 30 foot reptile with four paddles and a small head drew praise from Adam Ritchie of Leicester Museum Tim Dinsdale hailed the find as marvelous while backing the Nessie legend.
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London
Stamford
Adam Ritchie
Leicester Museum
Jan Evans
Tim Dinsdale
Loch Ness
Bank TV Teller Debuts In Tucson Drive to Replace Windows
Southern Arizona Bank & Trust Co introduces a two station TV Teller in its parking garage at 150 N. Stone Ave. Customers deposit via pneumatic capsule to a teller inside a 14 second trip. TV tellers may replace drive in windows at 45 W. Almda St. with hours 8:30 to 6:30 Monday through Thursday and 8:30 to 6 Friday.
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Southern Arizona Bank & Trust Co
Tucson
Stone Ave
Bank
John W. Kenney
Motor Bank
Alameda St
Eller
Space Stations Seen as Next Big U.S. Space Goal
UPI reports that US space leaders from the military and civilian sectors see orbiting large space stations in the 1970s as the next major objective, costing billions but justifying public indifference with potential national security and scientific gains. Gen. Ferguson and Dr. Gilruth discuss separate civilian and military station plans, their eventual cost recovery, and the aim to launch embryonic stations in 1971.
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San Antonio
Tex
UPI
United States
James Ferguson
Air Force Systems Command
Ferguson
Robert Gilruth
Manned Spacecraft Center
Gilruth
Air Force
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Apollo set for manned orbit this September says space agency
Space Agency officials announced Apollo is ready to carry men into orbit as early as September in the race to land on the moon by 1969. Astronauts Joe Kerwin Vance Brand and Joe Engle tested a replica in a vacuum chamber to prove the craft can fly safely.
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Joe Kotanchik
Manned Spacecraft Center
Houston
Joe Kerwin
Vance Brand
Joe Engle
Wally Schirra
Kerwin
Mail From U S Urges Antiracism Encyclical
Vatican sources report a surge of mail from American Catholics urging Pope Paul VI to issue an encyclical condemning racism. Priests and laypeople sent letters especially after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Officials say a papal document is possible but not certain and premature to decide.
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Vatican City
UPI
Paul VI
Vatican
Martin Luther King Jr
Msgr
Fausto Vallaine
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