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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Sunday, April 29, 1962

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 29, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes sunday april 29, 1962 review Ranger Moon shot led Busy week in space Ftp he United states scored Al a major Advance in its space Prog Raja last week when its Banger # spacecraft crash landed on the far Side of the  tsp Pound package of scientific Ujj to Ruments completed the 231,48&-mile journey in 64 hours. . Scientists said that scoring the direct bit on the Nikon after nearly four years and 11 tries represented a tremendous a tied Aric Success although some of the original goals of the shot were not achieved. Pc malfunction silenced the " spacecraft s radio voice at the in Lett of the flight and prevented communication with controllers at Goldstone tracking station in California trackers had hoped to Atigbi the Craft to take closeup television pictures of the Moon and transmit them to Earth. The , also had hoped to land safely on the Moon instruments to measure Moon quakes and the Impact of meteorites. Despite these failures William Pickering director of the National aeronautics and space administration s Jet propulsion lab steel hit a Federal grand jury inner York last week indicted the . Steel corp., Bethlehem a steel and two other steel com passes on charges of conspiring to fix prices and Rig  indictment said the defend anti conspired to Rig bids on. Sales of steel forcing to the army the Navy electrical com panels and Ether purchasers be tween 1948 and March 1961, the indictment was not connected with the recent Price hike in steel in which Vas. Steel and a Twe hem posted a $6 per to increase then withdrew it under pressure from the Kenney and mine traction. He Mother companies indicted were Erie forge and steel corp., of Erie a and Midvale Heppenstall co., Philadelphia also named were five individuals Anda Trade association the open die Fop Gln Institute inc., of new York  indictment made no Esti mate of the Dollar value of sales involved. The forging included Uch equipment As ship hats old to the Navy and ordnance sold to the army fair opened must world s fair to lie opened in the United r for 22 years threw wide Gates in seat to last week. To Kucab event was the new world s Temir of l�39-4a exhibits prov Las the Fli fat week s crowds so the nighty publicized Jjo " Jerri butt Fleir frs i i i Fri ii and Toije Tai of armies " the display of West Berlin and the common Market -. Tragic note marred open new agonies when an air oratory said that the shot gives us Confidence we can Send instruments to the Moon with the accuracy  said another Ranger will be launched by the end of the. Year James a. Webb head of Nasa said Ranger 4 was much More Complex than anything the Kus sians have  the russians hit the Moon with their Lunik ii on sept. 1,1959, one month later Lunik Iii took photographs of the Moon s far  Moon probe highlighted a Busy week in space. There were these other developments in astronautics and aeronautics the russians launched cos mos i and in into orbit around the Earth. The satellites the third and fourth sent aloft by the soviets in six wet is were to radio Back information on weather and communications. The . Fired its giant eight engine Saturn rocket on its Sec Ond successful test night at Cape canaveral. Tie 1.3 million Pound thrust rocket Tali As a 20-Story building dumped a payload of 95 tons of water g5 Miles up to Complete a Cloud Experiment. Jinpan and the . Fired a joint ionosphere probing rocket into space at Wallops Island is. It was the first in a planned program of  International satellite the product of the . And Britain went into orbit from Cape canaveral to explore the ionosphere and cosmic radiation. The air Force launched two mystery satellites at Point Arguello Calif. No details were Dis closed except that one employed a Blue scout Booster combination and the other an Atlas Agena b  nuclear sub Sam Houston successfully fired a Polaris mis Sile from 90 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantico of Flor Ida. It was the seventh nuclear sub to successfully fire the mis Sile from beneath the sea. There were two failures Inone Day at Cape canaveral when a minuteman and a Pershing missile blew up shortly after  top russian and . Meteorologist completed a Broad plan for a word wide weather net visit to , British minister Harold Mac Milian left was greeted on arriving in new York by Adlai Stevenson us Furi Samador to the United nations. Flem Llam made speech to a publishers meeting in new York and later went to Washington for a sweeping review of world problems with president Kennedy. He will aim visit Canada. United press International photo Ortiz wort lightweight Crown a world of sports two Seattle Home wiling persons tip put bailed out Carlos Ortiz of the Bron reigned As the new world lightweight Champion last week after winning a unanimous 15 round decision from Joe Brown in Las vegas. Brown lost the  tothe 25-year-old Ortiz in his defense in almost six years. Pad of 5,881 saw underdog Ortte take charge Early in the Foht and maintain pressure throughout with Hooks and jabs. If fire were no knockdowns. In jockey the Toronto Maple Jesi Defeated the Chicago Black hits Titi a playoff some a r �filcag6 to win their first Staisey cup championship Sinco a,. Record tying performances Wos Iti the Young baseball " Sandy Koufax of the Angeles dodgers tied the modern major league strikeout record by fanning 18 batters As the Dod Gers Defeated the Chicago cubs the second time in his that Koufax struck out is in a game. He fanned p so giants last August the the Mark set by Bob Lanfus Tex won $9,000 lop Money in the $50.000 Houston classic. Nichols won a three Way playoff with Don Sikes of Jacksonville fin., and Jack Nick Laus the 1961 Amateur champion., work based on the use of sate Lites. The plan is an outgrowth of a United nations Resolution last december calling for peace Ful cooperation in space. Jacqueline Cochran flew 5.12o Miles from new Orleans to Han Nover Germany at an average Speed of 489 Miles an hour an claimed 49 new flight records she flew a Lockheed Jet Star it Small four engine Jet aircraft. The Federal aviation Agency act ordered increased commit inca tons Between air traffic control left and pilots As to flying altitudes. The action is the result of a March 21 incident in which two airliners circled for More than 4p minutes in Cloud,1 at the same 7,000-foot Altitude Over Washington National Airport racial fires stirred up integration skirmishing Al took a new turn last we i with a proposal to Send a  train up North carrying 1,000 negroes on a free one Wayside Awa from segregation to the South. The plan Drew cries of outrage and defense. Northern political leaders the National association for the advancement of coloured people Ami the Congress of racial Equality Core denounced the idea Otto Ina Ted by the citizens Council a greater new Orleans. Rep. F. Edward Hebert a left defended the proposal. He said1 it was merely Freedom riders Jet reverse. George Singelmann. Director of the citizens Cound 3made the idea Public announcing unnamed donors had agreed in underwrite the train. The program to pay for on Way tickets for negroes Wihib to go North already had of taker. An unemployed Man his wife and eight ?4rwent to new York by bus Frew new Orleans or. One Way ticket paid by the citizens Council. Is immedi Turly found a Sloo a we Job in Jersey City meanwhile the second it frights Battle of the legislate in season was formally joined in Ftp Senate and democratic be aft Mike Mansfield Cornecl that it might delay  a tournament. Of in offering a measure off it state literacy tests As a vote qualification Mansfield warned that if the debate Long enough he will invoke rarely used clot ure Rule Effort to bring the Issue head. A to Clarke honoured by troop the i Pittsburgh pirates not heir major league record by Winn psf their first 10 games of the season. At the same time the Ner York mets lost their first nine games equating still another Mark. Pittsburgh tied the record seat the Start of the 1955 season by the Brooklyn dodgers. The National league record for successive losses at the outset was. Set in 1918, also by the dodgers. In Golf Bobby Nichols of old More than 1,800 troops Rotthe United states West Germany and France joined forces last week to pay tribute to Gen Bruce c. Clarke retiring Usa eur and Central army up commander in chief and maj Gen Ito Hert l. Howze 7th army chief of  by a 17-gun Salute the troops and top North Atlantic treaty organization military leaders honoured Forke and Howe in a review at Neckar stadium in Stuttgart during the ceremonies Clarke. Received a second Oak Leaf Ter to the distinguished medal and Howze dam from Gen Layman i Nitzer chairman of the chiefs of staff. Retirement becomes monday for the two Clarke. 61. Will Mark thei of a 44-year army career eluded service Ashe five to a. Major Howlet 59, will years service to the Artsy included command of units in world War hand3  
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