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(Studio) Apollo VII crew corrects malfunction and recs. orders to continue for another 24 hrs. Brief power failure occurs due to overload. Crew shown through television transmission from space. Crew and mission control chat back and forth. 2 placards held up by crew. Camera shows Florida coast line. Over wkend., Commander Schirra refused to allow television transmission. He fixed camera.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Congress adjourns. 90th Congress conservative and voted little new legislature
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Vice Presidential candidate, General Curtis LeMay, speaks to women's national press club.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) [LEMAY - says political opponents tried to create image of LeMay, the big bomber general Real war mongers are those who needlessly prolong Vietnam war. Don't need nuclear weapons for Vietnam victory. Bombing isn't successful because we've hit wrong targets.]
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) LeMay feels Vietnam bombing should be expanded. Leaves for Vietnam to get report for George Wallace.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Richard Nixon says Johnson administration unwilling and unable to help Latin American; calls for reevaluation of Alliance for Progress.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Vice Presidential candidate, Governor Spiro Agnew, spent day in New York and New Jersey taping TV spots and talking to party leaders
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Raleigh, North Carolina) Greets crowd. [AGNEW - says you need 2 party government Richard Nixon won nomination by going to people. Hubert Humphrey won nomination by keeping ashtrays empty and glasses full at White House] Agnew for establishment.
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
(Salem, Virginia) [AGNEW - says establishment runs all things that Yippies want. Colleges for learning; can't learn while talking.] Spk. at Roanoke College where no Yippies exist.
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
(Nashville, Tennessee) [AGNEW - says not wholly pleased with image in media. Press projects 2 views.]
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
(No location given) Agnew sensitive about criticism. He can hurt ticket if he makes mistakes.
REPORTER: Jack Perkins
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(No Location Given) Vice Presidential candidate, Senator Edmund Muskie has rapport with audiences. [MUSKIE - cites United States problems. Can't get rid of them by ignoring them, wishing them away or turning to alien philosophy. Can't ignore demands for equal opportunity as Richard Nixon would or build wall between "haves" and "have-nots" as George Wallace would.] Polls show Edmund Muskie helps Hubert Humphrey.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley Narrates
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(Studio) Supreme Court decides whether to give opinion on haircuts, military discipline and members of labor union who worked too hard. UAW (United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America) in Milwaukee punished and fined 4 machine operators for producing more than union quotas. Court to hear case; Court to decide if military services had power to punish men for crimes committed off-duty and off-base. Court refuses to hear case of 3 Dallas Mississippi youths with long hair who play in rock band. Justice William O. Douglas wanted to hear them.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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(Studio) Things normal in Panama City, Panama, after overthrow of President Arnulfo Arias and most of government in Canal Zone.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(Panama City, Panama) Arias took office October 1. Group officers unhappy when he made changes in National Guards. Mil. overthrows him; says he was trying to undercut military power. Colonel Jose Pinilla led insurgents; now is provisional President Arias asks his supporters to fight for him in sts. US doesn't approve of his action. Some sniping reported.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley Narrates
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(Studio) Communists bombard Quangngai city and nearby South Vietnam military post. 8 killed; 23 hurt. Nearby, Viet Cong set fire to church and pagoda in refugee camp. 4 civilians killed.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) Prosecution says Sirhan Sirhan only suspect in murder of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. No evidence of conspiracy, December 9 set for trial.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) New York City teachers strike for 3rd time. Experimental school district in Brooklyn is issue.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
(NYC) Supt. of schools closed junior Mississippi Thursday because union teachers didn't get along with locally hired teachers. 7 of district principals who refused to take orders from him suspended. Teachers' union president threatens strike when superintendent said he'd reopen schools and reinstate local principals. [Union President Albert SHANKER - says Ocean Hills-Brownsville test must be deemed failure. Won't reopen schools until answer found.] Black and Puerto Rican children went to school; locally hired teachers there. [District Admin. Rhody MCCOY - says project not failure. More solid now than before.] Area residents hold rally at City Hall. Shanker says he'll hold lger. rally there Thursday
REPORTER: Lem Tucker
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(Studio) At Arkansas Cummins Prison Farm, guards fire shots at convicts who refuse to work. 24 hurt.
REPORTER: Chet Huntley
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(Studio) True that ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower had no enemies, as General Doug. MacArthur pointed out critically. Celebrates 78th birthday at Walter Reed Army Hospital.
REPORTER: David Brinkley
(DC) Army Band plays and sings for Eisenhower in hospital window. "Happy Birthday" played. Wife, Mamie, with him.
REPORTER: No reporter given
(Studio) He's survived 2 wars, 2 White House terms, surgery, 1 stroke, 7 heart attacks and 78 years
REPORTER: David Brinkley
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