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Died. Charles Von Fremd, 40, CBS newscaster, who reported on Washington from 1953 to 1957 when he shifted his beat to space, covering nearly every mission from the first Navaho rocket firings to last December's Gemini space rendezvous; apparently of a heart attack; in Bethesda...
Nonetheless, the Russians have yet to learn another essential technique that the U.S. developed during the flights of Gemini 6 and 7: rendezvous in space. And the well-managed U.S. Apollo program is making such rapid headway that space officials still hope to land Americans on the moon before 1969. Quite possibly, they will try the trick even before their instrument-carrying Surveyor is able to carry out its mission successfully. Neither contestant is yet an odds-on favorite in the lunar sweepstakes...
...McDonnell Aircraft, which bypassed missiles to concentrate on space (Mercury and Gemini capsules), has stepped up production of its dazzling F-4 Phantom fighters for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, and Marines, and the British. It is also developing an infantry antitank rocket and rebuilding an original Gemini capsule for reuse with a new heat shield in the manned-orbiting-laboratory program...
Born. To Captain James A. Lovell Jr., 37, Gemini 7 astronaut, pilot in last month's rendezvous with Gemini 6, and Marilyn Lovell, 35: their fourth child, second son; in Houston...
...beginning . . . No mountains, no valleys, No bottom, no topless, No symphony, no jive, No Gemini...