GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY I irtA- l( J& -tt::. ~ '!!his hes b&9R~t~,~tcfte d--.cll>yA for_those who were ~ele ~ listen to the radio, or ~k• • look~ ~ a y ~ : ~ 1 , f~i~;~~ llbe.J\""•uollllall ame in he N a ~ L e ~ de~1de - 'tF the pe~ant, andf: tlai ,..- fiSTRON~ ~ ~ ~ 1 ~ 5 ~ ~spacesuit b e c a m e ~ too warm - but that was all. Everythin else, working ao w~that even the cruc1al decision of the flight took only a moment. To ~ try for six orbits - or not?AThe control tower at Cape Canaveral - gave Schirra the green ligh'l J'he astronaut, respond~ with one word - "hallelujah!" A ¥fR~~ And so,{ around and around ta and around. +te,.wena. Making observations, performing experiments - adding to our knowledge of how space flight effects human beings. One key part of the progra~' free flight" drifting through space without ,.a power. "Free flight" important - because it conserves fuel. You may recall that during Scott Carpenter's flight - too much fuel was used up - too soor. Schirra took care - not to have that happen to him . . Result - Sigma Seven had ninety percent of its fuel left, after more than half of the flight -~~~. was over. A good thirty-five percent, still left - when Schi.ttra /"- fired the retrorockets, to begin h1s descent into the Pacific. ASTRONAUT - ~aP/111.JI '"e:.OMJ~JW:::~~A agree that Cornman er Walter ch1rra of the US Navy: earned ~ls 'hazar dous duty pay' for today. ~w~~ ~ ; ; t - " 1 ~ ~ ~ ~ . " Every naval commander, on a dangerous mission - draws an extra seven dollars and forty two cents. That's what Astronaut Sch1rra 1s going to get - for riding his S tgma Seven lnt . o ~~ space. ~ J - . . eight bucks - for orbiting the earth six times. I Sch1rra 1 s rocket ride - the smoothest of the three ~ tMI? ~ ~ ~ f o l l o w e d th7iia~~ A know how the booster rocket rose 1n a perfect arc. Tra . il1ng an inferno of flame - as it headed for space. The booster rocket, falling away - ~ on schedule. The space capsule, hurtling - on into orbit. ~ Walter Schirra or San Diego - circling the ~ - - - 1 r • \ ~ globe at seventeen thousand miles an hour. A ASTRONAUT ~~ S i g ma Seven plumme~wn until 1ts parachute /...._ Sj)aCe opened> followud by the big splash, as the/capsule landed in the Pacific, less than a mile from the But carrier Kearsarge. Within minutes - the space capsule was aboard ship. Walter Shirra ~ -- a-okay. The :~~,-=.i~.~endlngta perfect space flight. EXPLOSION That explosion in New York was shattering - in every sense of the word. Exploding g as, hurling a one-ton boiler - like a titanic artillery shell. Driving it through the celling of the basement into a cafeteria - where hundreds o,f girls were having Ill lunch. Trainees of - the Telephone Company: The boiler scattered ~ .ie girls - ~ W arched up through the ceiling - then fell down into the basement. ~-a fantasy of horror. Dead bodies - - - in the debris. -... JiiJured - _. crying for help. Ambulances and fire engines - racing to the scene. t11slo11 - more than twenty dead, more than one hundred injured. The interior of the building - a shamb(s; In the words of the A New York building commissioner - beyond comprehension.'' MISSISSIPPI At the University of Mississippi, one question tonight - concerns the football g ame on Saturday. It's always .. a big occasion in Oxford, Mississippi - on home coming weekend . ',r r- The first Saturday that the rebel team - plays in Oxford. The rebel yell - echoing acroE the stadium. Echoing triumphantly, more often than not - because Ole Miss has one ' of the best pt•t• gridiron records in the country. President Kennedy remarked on that fact - during his address to the nation about the Mis31ssippi crisis. w.f~ . the football game may be - a casualty of the - ' ~ / crisis. Th~ . -~~ll7C~M1• concerned about the old grads arriving on campus - with something more potent than corn whiskey and Ole Miss banners. Weapons are still- being confiscated - at the University. And no one knows what m . 1ght happen - should violence break out at the football game. SHIPS All American ships - including those flying foreign flags - will be barred from the ports of Castro's Cuba. So stated by undersecretary of State, George Ball - 1n testimony on Capitol Hlll. This, a referen~e to - a story we had last ~ nigh~ American owners, breaking the American boycott- by registering their rm vessels a . broad. 'Phe tthPee moat pop11:laa N~ist; I i i :blbex ta, fh eeee •nd J..1b•""'". 83 flags of ll!Uts &i■ GIMIB!Oii at tho State 8era fl&Atu ADD SHIPS Ang the State Department 1a go1oi ta do eowething elle1.1t • ferotga trade tu 1'he-4i&Pl.eb~ Dean R u ~ the conference of Latin American Foreign Ministers 1n Washington - that we will black list all ships that carry military cargoes to Castro's domain. Me ■111 d10JJing ••eh LONDON They say that London looks tonight - as it did during the blitz. No, bombs are not falling - on the British capital. Nor are combat plan~s - roaring over head. But the comparison ls apt, in this sense• that not slnctt world War Two have so many Londoners stAyed home. The cause, this time - the . railway strike. The moat paralyzing - since Nineteen Twenty Six. Railwaymen all over Britain, walking off their jobs - bringing every train 1n the country to a halt. The au strategy of the strikers - to \ create massive traffic jams 1n tne heart of London. Instead, the streets . are prac , tlcally deserted. Commuters, remaining at home - as they haven't, since the days of the blitz. I ,.. YEMEN paperl comes from Saudi Arabia) by way of Egypt. Tt• 1w11 ... - ~ .. King S r ud ~ flying arms to t~e Yemeni borde~j.,,Krms for Prince Seif Al Islam al Hasan - wt,o e)1t•• to•• the new Imam of Yemen. !oaree or the 1 eport> -three--'• newt Saudi off leers.-:- , . , ; : : : ~ , their orders were · to fly • ~ • machine guns - to s rendezvous with the · Imam. Bu).• th as ~ f ~ to Cairo instead/ 411Uli •JIIIPllthy •••1. llhe , . . lisfftfrftl . ilanta """ tn cont,11 of' ¥e 1 : TELSTAR No public event has ever been witnessed by so many people - as was Walter Schirra 1 s blast off at Cape Canaveral. The scene at the launching pad - relayed to Europe by Telstar. ~ 41W communication satellite, pickin g up the pictures - far out ,-< in space.~d sending them down k■ on the other side of the J ~ . Atlantic - to receivers in seventee 1 ~ ~ o m London - to Belgrade. 7~ 'l'he biggest audience - but 1 not necessarily the most excited. As u one Parisian explained it - "ever since the Glenn flight we've kn~•• ~ ~ 1 c a n 1 s could fly through space." A c ~ ~ the Europeans now take our space achievements as a matter of course.