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...Phyllis McGuire, 34, youngest of the three singing McGuire Sisters, has been the constant companion of Chicago Mobster Sam Giancana, 56. So it was inevitable that the Chicago federal grand jury investigating Giancana's crime syndicate would ask her to sing a little. Phyllis warbled for 1 hr. 15 min., reportedly telling all about their jaunts to Europe and the Caribbean but denying any knowledge of Sam's gangland affairs. And she kept right on chattering to reporters saying that "my family is heartbroken," and indicating that Sam is still her man. At last Lawyer Edward Bennet Williams...
...Mercy's Sake. "I enjoy seeing the fellows again," beamed Terry, who walked out to the mound, threw 70 pitches and walked off with his fourth victory of the year, a 4-0 shutout. Only three Yankees got to first base, and the game mercifully lasted just 1 hr. 40 min. -shortest of the season. "I wanted to win," explained Terry afterward, "but I wanted to make sure I didn't rub it in." If he didn't, the ninth-place Washington Senators did: they promptly took two out of three from the Yankees. Manager Johnny Keane...
Died. Roger Sommer, 87, pioneer French aviator who in August 1909 kept his Farman biplane aloft for 2 hr. 27 min. to break Wilbur Wright's year-old endurance record, days later packed his young son aboard to make the world's first passenger flight, later retired from aviation to join his family's floor-covering business; of a heart attack; in Ste.-Maxime, near Marseille...
...name by which the Air Force had christened it-Valkyrie. At California's Edwards Air Force Base, North American Aviation Test Pilot Al White took the XB-70A off the runway, weighing 500,000 Ibs., the heaviest at which an aircraft has ever flown. During the 1-hr. 40-min. test, the plane set a new record for continuous supersonic flight: 74 min., at speeds ranging from Mach 1.4 (920 m.p.h.) to Mach 2.1 (1,425-m.p.h.) at a peak altitude...
...Commander John W. Young, 34, could be pardoned for feeling a mite tense. They were on their backs, 100 ft. up, in a sealed Gemini capsule atop a fully fueled Titan II rocket while launching personnel put the spacecraft through a mock countdown. And there they lay for 2 hr. 54 min., while the booster's second stage leaked fuel, a computer went haywire, and enough other foul-ups developed to scrub a real shot. But that's what practices are for, said NASA, holding to its projected launch date of March 22 for the first...