World-Wide Wire
Spacemen Prepare For Splashdown
SPACE CENTER, Houston —(UPI)— Astronauts Walter Schirra Jr. and Tom Stafford cleared the decks today for a splashdown in the Atlantic in their Gemini 6 spacecraft that flew to a triumphant space rendezvous Wednesday, 6 feet from Gemini 7.
Schirra and Stafford were in a chipper mood after being up intermittently all night talking with ground stations and with Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell.
Borman and Lovell orbited on toward a planned Saturday landing which will give them two full weeks in space and all the all-time space endurance records.
McNamara Warns Hanoi
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara warned North Viet Nam today that it will suffer more bombing attacks like the one that knocked out a key electric power plant near Haiphong Wednesday.
He blandly refrained, however, from characterizing the air strike near North Viet Nam's industrial heart as the start of significant escalation of the war.
Bombers Boast Viet Strike
SAIGON—(UPI)—U.S. Air Force jet bombers which struck the industrial lifeline of Communist North Viet Nam Wednesday knocked out 23 per cent of the power to the capital of Hanoi and 33 per cent of the electricity for the port of Haiphong, a U.S. military spokesman said today.
"We think it's a better strike now than we reported Wednesday night," the spokesman said of the attack on the Uong Bi Thermal Power Plant 14 miles north-northeast of Haiphong.
Yule Train Heads to Viet Nam
LINCOLN, Neb.—(UPI)—A gift-laden Christmas train bore the best wishes and presents of Americans westward to the people of Viet Nam today. A massive drive to send gifts to U.S. servicemen in Viet Nam appeared nearly completed.
"Tonight America speaks with what is happening here," Sen. Carl Curtis told a shivering, cheering crowd of 200 persons who gathered in the Nebraska night to watch the rain pull out Wednesday.
Somerset Maugham Dies
NICE, France—(UPI)—W. Somerset Maugham, one of the great storytellers of English literature, is dead at the age of 91. He leaves a rich legacy of novels, plays and short stories, including the classic "Of Human Bondage."
The end came in the early morning hours today at Maugham's beloved villa on the French riviera shortly after the unconscious author was moved from the British-American hospital where he had lingered in coma since last Saturday.
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Rusk Visits in Paris
MADRID—(UPI)—Secretary of State Dean Rusk, fresh from a NATO conference in Paris, scheduled a stopover in Madrid today to discuss Spanish-American relations with Generalissimo Francisco Franco.
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