Gorillas and Chimps Studied in Unusual Nursery
At the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center near Emory University a nursery houses nine gorillas and four chimpanzees. Infants wear diapers drink bottle formula and cling to blankets while researchers study behavior to compare animal and human development and challenge the idea that environment alone dictates behavior.
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Atlanta, Ga
Emory University
Yerkes Region
al Primate Research Center
Atlanta
Second Sentry Satellite Reaches Station Over Earth
CAPE KENNEDY Fla AP the second Sentry satellite maneuvered into station 69000 miles above the earth Thursday night completing a space triple plan to develop foolproof detection of secret nuclear explosions out to 200 million miles. A radio signal fired a small motor and placed the 524 pound craft in a near circular orbit about 69000 miles up. A twin satellite joined in a similar orbit on the opposite side of the globe earlier this week. A third satellite launched from Cape Kennedy continued in an elliptic path measuring radiation in the Van Allen belt.
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Cape. Kennedy
Fla
Globe
Finney Forms Memorial Enterprises to Produce New Script
Albert Finney has launched Memorial Enterprises Ltd a London based independent production company for films plays and television He will star in and direct a new Shelagh Delaney script through the company marking its first project and distribution plans with this collaboration.
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London
Albert Finney
Memorial Enterprises Ltd
Shelagh Delaney
Finney
Space Flight Rehearsal Snafus Delay Gemini 5 Prep
Technical problems halted a key rehearsal at Cape Kennedy delaying astronauts L Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr atop a Titan 2 rocket. A faulty electrical switch and a non folding gantry caused a 76 minute countdown delay and forced use of a cherry picker to lower the crew.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
L. Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Spaces
Cooper
Conrad
King Plans Chicago Campaign to Oust School Chief
Dr Martin Luther King Jr arrives in Chicago to lead a Northern push for school desegregation. The Coordinating Council of Community Organizations seeks funds and support to remove School Superintendent Benjamin J C Willis over de facto segregation concerns. The campaign follows daily marches on City Hall and tensions with Mayor Daley and the Board of Education.
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Chicago
Martin Luther King Jr
South
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
King
Coordinating Council of Community Organizations
Alvin Pitcher
University of Chicago Divinity
Benjamin JC. Willis
Board of Education
Willis
Richard J. Daley
Seattle Man Collects 200 Signatures for Namu Petition
A Seattle man reports he gathered 200 signatures in about three and a half hours for a petition calling for the freedom of Namu the captive killer whale. W L Olson asked 250 passersby on street corners to sign directing the petition to the American Humane Society in Denver. The whale, captured after swimming into nets of two Canadian shippers near Namu BC, was sold for 8000 dollars to Ted Griffin in Seattle and towed by a tug toward the city in a pen.
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Seattle
W.L. Olson
American Humane Society
Denver
NQMN
B.C
Sttle Aquarium
Ted Griffin
Island Goes Wet Unst as Isle Votes Alcohol
The Shetland Islands off Scotland ended 44 years of prohibition by popular vote and allowed liquor sales again. The Springfield hotel barmen said crowds packed the first night with orderly behavior and drinks on the house for patrons.
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Shetland Islands
Scotland
Britain
Springfield Hotel
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