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...President then took off for his Los Angeles meeting with Hubert Humphrey. When Johnson landed, Humphrey was ushered aboard the plane for an hour-long briefing. Afterward, faithful "Mother"-Johnson's electronic podium with built-in prompter screens- was trundled into a nearby hangar so that the President could read a statement to newsmen. "The road ahead may be long and difficult," he said, "but we shall fight the battle against aggression in Viet Nam; we shall fight the battle for social construction; and throughout the world, we shall fight the battle for peace. And we shall prevail...
...only pad at Cape Kennedy capable of handling the Gemini-would be so damaged by Gemini 7's blast-off that Gemini 6 could not be emplaced soon enough. But damage to the launch site was "minimal." Crews began moving the Gemini 6 booster from its hangar to the launch pad 45 minutes after Gemini 7 lifted off. This week engineers will give Gemini 6 its final inspection and primping for the big date early next week...
...million manuscripts, books, prints and other material, and faced with an annual increase of a million items, the library has had to stack its hoard in the offices and passages of its two existing buildings and consign the overflow to such makeshift extensions as a former aircraft paint hangar in Middle River, Md., 50 miles from the capital...
...catastrophic failures out of five firings, an accidental explosion on a test stand, a three-year lag in the development schedule, and a $552 million price tag have all earned NASA's liquid-hydrogen-fueled Centaur rocket such derisive nicknames as "the Hangar Queen" and "the Edsel of the Missile Industry." But as it separated from its Atlas booster and ignited in a burst of pale blue flame high above the Atlantic Ocean last week, Centaur took on its proper dignity. The most powerful rocket of its size in the world, built to fire a one-ton Surveyor spacecraft...
...signal from outgoing Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges in Washington, the giant doors of the Douglas assembly hangar in Long Beach, Calif., opened this week and out rolled the first U.S. entry in a rising competition among international planemakers. The competition is a struggle to win the huge potential market for short-to medium-range jets for the world's airlines. The U.S. plane is the DC-9, a trim, red-white-and-blue craft that Douglas has rushed out a month ahead of schedule. And just in time, too: the British twin-jet BAC One-Eleven has been flying...