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...garrison in South Viet Nam even after Vietnamization is complete. CAMBODIA: Protected by U.S. helicopter gunships in the air and by Secret Service men on the ground, Agnew made an unannounced, though scheduled visit to a capital city less than ten miles away from the fighting. His 4-hr. 50-min. stopover in Phnom-Penh was explicity intended to demonstrate, both to the Lon Nol government and the Communists attacking it, that "we are not going to stand idly by in the sense of rendering economic and material assistance when free countries are invaded." Agnew repeated to newsmen what...
...bill is called the Defense Facilities and Industrial Security Bill (HR=14864) and is sponsored in the Senate by the Senate Subcommittee on Internal Security...
...maneuvers in such films as Hell's Angels and Flight at Midnight, was a champion at the hair-raising sport of low-level pylon racing at speeds of up to 300 m.p.h., and in 1929 set a Los Angeles-to-New York passenger-plane flight record of 20 hr...
Last week, as Soyuz 9 completed its 220th swing around the earth, Cosmo nauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastyanov broke the endurance mark for space travel set in 1965 by As tronauts James Lovell and Frank Borman aboard Gemini 7 (13 days, 18 hr...
...fighter, Lovell suffered the greatest disappointment of his career when NASA failed to name him as one of its original Mercury astronauts in 1959. But he was chosen in the second batch in 1962, and he has since logged more hours in space (670, including the 143-hr, flight of Apollo 13) than any other mortal. Lovell was one of the Apollo 8 astronauts who orbited the moon at Christmas in 1968, and he backed up Neil Armstrong for Apollo 11's historic moon landing. "I watched his every step," he recalled after the flight...