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#197916
(Studio) Tentative approval of manned orbital flight around moon given for December 2nd live telecast from Apollo VII. Crew gives tour of spaceship and holds up placards with regard to ribald joke. Next transmission due at 10 a.m. Weds. Crew has colds but no fevers.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197917
(Studio) Tropical storm Gladys forms around Cuba and threatens to move North as hurricane. Storm near area where Apollo VII to splashdown.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#197919
(Studio) Supreme Court orders Ohio to put George Wallace's name on ballot by 6-3 vote. Based on 14th amendment. Ohio polls give him 20% vote. In Montgomery, Alabama, federal judge, Frank Johnson, Junior, dismisses suit charging Wallace with using state money, property and personnel in campaign. Judge says case involves political ethics, but if true, they're questions for state not federal courts Wallace campaigns in California.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(San Diego, California) Hecklers put on show of support for George Wallace. [WALLACE - says group is students who're trying to have fun. Says if for him, let him speak They're University California students who ought to be in 1st grade. Why don't you young punks get out?] Hecklers cheer him. He throws kisses at them. [WALLACE - says after November 5, you boys (hecklers) are through.] Put-on rattled Wallace and confused everybody.
REPORTER: David Dick
#197921
(Studio) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey restates bombing halt position.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Kansas City, Missouri) Large and exuberant crowds greet Vice President Visits Rockhurst College. [HUMPHREY - says would stop bombing as acceptable risk for peace. Also said he'd look for evidence that North Vietnam restoring DMZ. Whoever is next President must come to grips with war. Know what George Wallace and Curtis LeMay "the Bombsey Twins" are thinking of.] Significantly less anti-war protest directed at him.
REPORTER: Morton Dean
(Studio) Humphrey says his bombing halt position unchanged.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197922
(Studio) Richard Nixon accuses Hubert Humphrey of fear and smear tactics.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Key Biscayne, Florida) Nixon shown with Jackie Gleason on golf course. [NIXON - says we've played golf 3 times.] [GLEASON - says we had steak and refreshments.] Cameras and microphones forbidden at news conference Says private survey indicates he's ahead in all major states. In Florida, North Carolina and Tennessee, he's even with George Wallace. Predicts Wallace to get 15% votes and Senator to gain 9 Republican seats and 30 Republican House seats. [NIXON - cites campaign plans.] Nixon feels he'll win.
REPORTER: John Hart
#197923
(Studio) Diplomatic sources report chance of breakthrough in peace talks due to low enemy action and Le Duc Tho urging Ho Chi Minh to be more flexible at talks. Tho stops in at Moscow. USSR rptdly. urging conciliation in talks. Battleship "New Jersey" rptdly. blasts point of enemy island into Gulf of Tonkin. 50,000 labor troops from North Vietnam. Could mean North Vietnam transport system getting back to normal.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197924
(Studio) Peking reports President Liu Shao-chi stripped of all government and Communist Party jobs. "China's Khrushchev" recently living under house arrest.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197926
(Studio) United Nations Secretary General U Thant proposes Big 4 discuss ways to make UN effective, peacekeeping organization Replies encouraging.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197927
(Studio) Premier Oldrich Cernik and Soviet leaders agree on treaty. To keep some troops there indefinitely.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197928
(Studio) NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to set up new command to improve air surveillance of growing Soviet fleet in Mediterranean.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197929
(Studio) United States consults with other ntns. on whether to recognize Panama military regime. United States disapproves of call to arms by deposed President Arnulfo Arias, exiled in Canal Zone.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(Panama City, Panama) Students swear to fight new military regime. Try to turn truck over. Troops come after them; they flee. Later, students dump garbage in sts. Troops fire blanks to disperse them. Real bullets fired at them and they switch to real bullets. Troops told to be killed. Prisoners taken; no 1 shot.
REPORTER: Bert Quint
#197930
(Studio) President Johnson signs bill for $575 million health programs.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
#197931
(Studio) Rhode Island Governor John Chafee's 14 year old daughter, dies 3 days after horse kicks her in head. Family has 5 other children.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
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#197934
(Studio) Analysis of whether polls create opinion or sample it.
REPORTER: Walter Cronkite
(DC) 200 outfits taking polls on 1968 President election. Responsible pollsters are honest. Polls not meant to show what voters will do on election day. Candidates obsessed with figures. Polls do affect campaigns.
REPORTER: Eric Sevareid
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