Jun 18 1967

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NASA published Earth Photographs from Gemini III, IV, and V, an atlas containing reproductions of 244 high-quality earth photos taken by Gemini astronauts. Pictures, which were taken with hand-held cameras from 100-to 215-mi altitudes as scientific, meteorological, and terrain experiments, showed major. natural features and some man-made ones in 50 countries around the world. (NASA SP-129; NASA Release 67-153)

Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom, an organization with 230 members in 18 states, had started a campaign to stop the construction of a US. SST, New York Times reported. Harvard Univ. physicist Dr. William A. Shurcliff , director of the campaign, said in a Cambridge, Mass., interview that the League would attack the SST program in Congress. "The amount of money provided thus far by Congress is less than one-quarter of what is needed to get a prototype in the air. The government must put about $1.1 billion together, and to date Congress has only supplied $200-million or $299-million. "I think our chances of stopping the program are good." (NYT, 6/18/67, 60)

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