Second graders’ drawings travel to Viet Nam aboard USS Hancock
Oak Ridge School second graders in Sacramento sent 24 crayon drawings and 19 letters to the USS Hancock for its Viet Nam air war mission. Chaplain Plank shared the artworks with crew, who judged a prize contest. An additional 29 drawings were mailed after the first batch reached the ship.
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Sacramento
Calif
Mary K. Burns
Viet Nam
Miss Burns
Boston
Hancock
Bill
Odyssey Ends For Mother And Two Children After Global Year
Jacquelyn Carr a 43 year old teacher from San Mateo Calif and her daughter Linda 10 and son Michael 8 are nearing the end of a round the world voyage begun last June 1. They traveled through Europe into the Soviet Union Asia and the Pacific visiting schools and educational sites. They expect to return home by the end of May and Carr says the trip has been a marvelous memorable year with lessons to take back to her students.
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Tokyo
Jacquelyn Carr
San Mateo
Calif
Hawaii
Linda
Michael
Carr
Hillsdale High School
San Mateo Junior College
England
Netherlands
Belgium
West Germany
Scandinavia
Spain
Pastore vows fight to restore $12 million rent subsidy
Senate plans to vote on a $12 million rent subsidy appropriation cut from a $30 million request. Pastore pledges a fight to restore the funds to cover the gap between 25 percent of a family’s income and rent. The measure was pared in a House cut and returns on the Senate floor next.
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Washington (Ap
John O. Pastore
DRL
Senate Appropriations Committee
Johnson
House
Senate
Washington
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Colleges to spend 2.5 billion on research in 1966
American colleges and universities will spend about 2.5 billion dollars on research and development in 1966. About 80 percent of this funding will come from the federal government, according to Industrial Research magazine in its April issue.
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Milton O. Thompson
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Thompson
Beverly Shores
Ind
Industrial Research Magazine
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Barcelona
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Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Associated Press
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Ohio
Dean Rusk
Karl Sax
University of Georgia
Beetle Bailey
Julius
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Stu
Stuart
Blondie
Jackson Twins
Pfanuts
the Red Baron
Hunter
Little Red Ridge Hood
Fidel Castro
NEA, Inc
Snuffy Smith
Paw
Nancy
Ernie Bushmil
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