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#44
(Studio) Apollo VII orbits earth smoothly. 11 days orbiting to pave way for December flight to moon.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Cape Kennedy, Florida) Launch perfect. Countdown, liftoff and separation shown. Live television photos begin Saturday Model of spacecraft shown. Ea. of crew, Captain Walter Schirra, Major Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham described.
REPORTER: Jules Bergman
(Studio) Wives of astronauts wait mission out. Mrs. Schirra likens mission wait to having tooth pulled; you dread it but grow used to it. 1st TV photos expected at 11:03 a.m. EST. ABC to carry them.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#46
(Studio) Senate decides against action this session on nuclear non-proliferation treaty.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) [President JOHNSON - hopes Senator will act now with United States interests in mind. Will consider special session if treaty not acted on.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) Senator Mike Mansfield tells Senator that treaty too important to risk injecting election year pols.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(DC) [MANSFIELD - approves of what President said. Have to face facts of life. Key fact is matter of votes and bodies.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
#47
(Studio) House Democrats threaten to prevent House adjournment by not being there for quorum. Want to force Senator to resurrect and pass television debates' bill.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#49
(Studio) Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey offers to guarantee cost of television debates which would include George Wallace. Richard Nixon spokesperson, Ronald Ziegler, says debate issue closed.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#50
(Studio) President Johnson flies to Independence, Missouri, to visit ex-President Harry S. Truman. Report of impact President speech had on each candidate.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Dallas, Texas) Richard Nixon campaign not upset with President speech for Hubert Humphrey.
REPORTER: Ted Koppel
(Duluth, Minnesota) George Wallace likes to be criticized in speeches. If establishment criticizes him, it reaffirms his supporters' faith in him.
REPORTER: Tom Jarriel
(NYC) Humphrey prefers not being tied too closely to President whose popularity is at all time low. Johnson wanted to emphasize Humphrey the candidate and man in his speech and Humphrey preferred attack on other 2 candidates.
REPORTER: Lou Cioffi
#51
(Studio) Report on Arkansas Senate race.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Arkansas) Senator J. William Fulbright very well known. Campaigns among farmers at cattle auction. His opponent is Republican Charles Bernard, 41, farmer and busman. [BERNARD - campaigns with bystander.] Speaks at meeting [BERNARD - says Fulbright forgotten Arkansas people.] Fulbright stresses getting fed. money for Arkansas River development project. He speaks at dedication ceremony. [FULBRIGHT - says someday men will agree modern warfare not point of God's plan. Cost of this project would only run Vietnam war 2 weeks] Arkansas hawkish, but doveish Fulbright admired.
REPORTER: Bob Clark
#53
(Studio) 2 Marine copters collide near Da Nang, South Vietnam. 12 killed. N.W. of Saigon, 400 United States infantrymen flown to battle by helicopter to intercept Communist battalion 26 enemy killed; 6 Americans killed and 16 wounded.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
#54
(Studio) Comment on North Vietnam bombing and stalemate at Paris Peace Talks.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Studio) Why do Communists insist on halt before they talk in Paris? By their logic, we should stop doing to their country what they're not doing to ours. Bombing appears to be racial issue to North Vietnam. Gamble worth taking if halt needed to start talks.
REPORTER: Bill Moyers
#57
(Studio) Report on old Olympians.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
(Culver City, California) School teacher Harold Connolly's hobby is "hammer throwing". He's repd. United States in Olympics since 1956. His wife, Olga, is best female discus thrower in US. She and husband are oldest on Olympic teams. They met at 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, Australia; she repd. Czechoslovakia. She quit medical studies and turned to writing and being housewife and mother. Hal enjoys being Mississippi English teacher. This is last yr. for Hal in Olympic competition.
REPORTER: John Davenport
(Studio) ABC to cover summer Olympics starting at 1 p.m. EST Saturday Daily coverage to come.
REPORTER: Frank Reynolds
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