L . T. - 0 I hope ou ~ere 1 st enin to w hat went on i n as in ton toda. If so ou heard Qtronaut Shepard sa I thou h t la ... t Fr da wa s thril l n , b u this surpasses it . 11 Alan Shepard referrin first - to his roe et ride into space an d bac ; and then addin that toda topped i t - his welcome n the nationa l capital. First a crowd cheered him at Andrews Air Force base, in Mar land - when he flew in from the Bahamas. Then more of cour .. e we r e on and as he ~no• arrived by helicopter at the White Huse to receive the Distin ished Service Medal - from the President. It wa..: exceedingly informal. Some thought too info rmal. At the White H o use, · · n the to se Garden, there was a flash of the fa milia K enned w t . T he Pre ... ident fumbled the m edal - an d dr o ppe d t . On presentin 1 , h e said t o A ..: tronaut hepar d - ' This me d a l h a.. one from th rou nd up • 11 Whereupon the President made the eo .. -to-ma e er or of hand over the me a l - instead o f pinn n o n Shepard ' .. apel . But, he quic ly recovered wdt 1~ usua l aplomb, ad w i th the words - n , o n ! o u d of c u c le 1 1 11 o d ~~~~(l. 1 1 o f ich d r w a - f o t e cro w • ~ f om - t e two Nav. m en i n v o lved . ~ a . ~ e ~ came .AO.al\ ) I P e ... d ent an d t hep ar d 1 s tr Vv~ ump1al a .; tro na ut . i de - from the h i te House to the Cap to?' ,)fore t an a quarter o a m i llion spectators - 1 nin Penns. lvani a Avenue, cheerin themselves ~lie ff1wyv-~ut ne esw 4ihiRl<:e it wee---too •= rot - i1ae1 lcs•e- ~ As one waehin gt on policeman put it!- "Thie ie the first time we•ve ever had a visitor from outer space." At his W ashington news conference, astronaut S he p ard was b ombarded with questions - from a room-full or newsmen, a n d h a ndled himself su p erby. f or soae of the p oints he aade:- Pirst, he said he and his fellow astronauts Ceel - that we could have beate ■ the Bussians into space. At the saae time, tbe7 are conTinced that our Mercur7 project was •well thought out - reliable.• As for his blast-off from the launching pad - he says it surprised him, because it was so saooth. liow did he feel - at that big moment? Vidn't have ti ■• for p ersonal · reelings! •Too ■ any technical things to think about.• Then the whole night - went juat as a ■ oothly. No discomfort - even when his capsule began to move at eleven ti ■es the force of ~avity. As for wei g htlesaneaa he said he knew he'd be asked th~ question, and was ~ NFERfilig_~ [Q~~Q! A S I!QM!YL - 2 ready for it. That during the five mi nutes ot weight- lessness - t h en and there he fi g ured out his answer. •Quite a pleasant sensation;• that was all. His remark about the beautiful view came - when he first looked thragh his p erisco p e. His view along our coast over the Atlantic for some eight hundred miles; obscured in part - by clouds. The rest - •beautiful.• His gena-al verdict - on his apace flight? A perfect ex p eri ■ ent - p ointing toward the day when American astronauts will fly to the Moon and beyond. e e . a ar : o f ol . i ... re e 0 a 0 . oll e u s 0 lo - tha e n ... ed at ... an m ac s C: a 1 s ucl ear ower . e r e a Ru s oi n OU - t a we have alread~ sen a m an n o sp a ce . intend - too · t 1an around h e earth bef o re the en d o f t y e a r . ,And - h av e pl ans for fli hts across ) the The roc k ets can weakness A when we ne otiate with the boss of the Kremlin . we feel free to u reaffirm our solemn pledge - with re ard to Berlin. Secretary Rush, a g a i n warning Khrushchev that we will o the limit - i n safe uard i our ri g h~ in west Berlin. cu u an ef u e ee i n Miam .. a y t a a .. tro i s ... t e p p · up - h i ..... u m m a y e x ecution • T h e dictator, et t n rt d o f h ... op poner t .. - by qu iet l sendin th e m befor e the f rin squad. These ports i nd ic ate a wave ofter or - acro .. e central Cuba. C ast r o's militiamen, rou nd i ng up suspects - huetlin the m off to j a il . Then - the f ixed trial, follow i quic ly by t he death penalty . oppos i t on to the Cuban d i ctator is increast be what was in President Kennedy's mind when he i nformed the National Association of Broadcasters - that the story of Cuba "is not yet finally Te an -rece~~ i on bills· ne d b . Pres· ent Kenned t o a. - nvolve~ two h ndre m'll i on o Ji a rs . Tat much - for . o le ~ e fam 1 ~ w th c h · ldren . Te mon e y , to be made a va la b le o t es t ates - and passed on in the form of rants over the ne ·t fo rteen month~ . The num er aff cted - two hundred ousand parents, and hal f a million ch ldren . r 1 " • .. t or f o c a l a I a... , I .. ame t · e - ... a f a o .. o • - a a m u .. n . a i . T to , , tne boo Actual t ere are a number of mo unta ne - wit h that name. ARU x •llJla Annapurna One - Annapurna Two, and so on . Today's Nepal dispat c h concerns - Annapurna Three. It announces tat the mountain has been climbed - for the first tine. An Indian expedition, a k ln g t er ed a~cent - of almost twenty-fl.v thousand feet. The report that from t e summ t - the could loo · out over mo~t of Nepal . A.~moment for t h ~ -- seea\:tee 1!Jhe; h ee eloeee iihe booke ~ e foal ali~ee -eaffle& l oDSer a ~Peele~. final conques - of al l t e Annapurnas . In L ondon, the case of the reluctant eer - took a dramatic ~rn today. i s you know, Anthony W edgew o od B enn - is really Viscount St ans g ate, but doesn't want .. to be. Friday ni g ht 1 mentioned how .d enn entered a Bristol elction - and won; that is won a seat in the House of Commons. So he thought. But under British law - p era are required to sit in the ilous e of Lords - if they sit anywhere, Bence, this dramatic episode - today. icture successful candidate Anthony edgewood Benn - walking up to the door of the Bouse of Commons. Bunning smack into the doorkeeper - blaz ng in official livery and the ••ld chain of his office. ~enn, saying - •1 have a certificate which return• me as a ■ ember tor ~ristol ~outheast.• The doorkeeper, answering - •1•a terribly sorry, M'lord, but l've been ordered to kee p you out.• ~enn asking - •Have you been f~ll - 2 instructed to use p hysical force?" The doorkee p er - •1 have, M'lord. 1 ~enn: - •till you use force?• The door keeper - "l wil l , M'lord. 1 In London no one argues with the minion who guards the · ortal - of the House of ~omaons. lt all ended with Tony Benn, - l mean ~ord Standsgate withdrawing to the gallery of the Commons, where even a Viscount - ■ ay sit, and ponder over whether he must remain a lord. WHISKiY ------- If you~re the ty e who enjoys jokes about the revenooers - you can shed a tear over this item. Whiskey is now legal - in Knox County, 1ennessee. P rohibition, ended - by a popular referendum. ' !'hey say this is creating panic - among the bootleg g ers in those · Tennessee hills. lhey have onl got a few weeks to get rid of thllr liquor until the legal bar s will put them out of business. Of course you could always get a drink in Inoz Gounty. ln fact, many 1 ennesseans, who like their liquor - wanted to keep prohibition. lhy? Well, that•• eaplained by a sign on the ca■pua of the UniY ersit7 of • Tennessee - •Vote dry! le want twenty-four hour serYic~ Understand that seeming paradox, Vick? ~nox County, fennessee, home of the still and the revenooer. 1 n Hartford, Connecticut, they claim that there are no salesmen to match - the ladies of St. George's Armenian A ostolic ~hurch. Here's what hap p ened at the c urch today:- fbe ladies had a rumm ag e sale. Luring citizens of Hartford into snap ing up - everything from hats to carrot seeds. The whole rummage sale - clean•• out in a few hours. But then one of the ladies - couldn't find her A coat. A quick check showed - it had been sold. Also another woman's coat! And - a third! ~oats they had lett on a bench. Now they've vanished. ~old the able salesl a dies of St. ~eorge's Apostolic ~hurch.