SPACE In the Heavens high above -- and on the earth here below -- all syeteme apparently 11 11 go today in the American space program. The moon-bound U.S. Surveyor spacecraft -- successfully completing a delicate mid-course ■aneuver· , that put it right on the target in the area chosen as a potential trite -- for future manned landing on the ■oon. Jubilant space officials ter■1ng the Surveyor -- "flawless." Adding that as tar as the goal ot a aott landing 1e concerned -- "we now have every reason to be opt1111et1c." A similar mood at cape Kennedy -- with all in eeeming readiness for toaorrow•e thrill-packed flight ot the Gemini-Nine. Then -- a sudden problem. '!'rouble in an Atla1 rocket -- the same kind or trouble that wa1hed out tbl spacecraft• e firet scheduled launch -- early thie ■onth. Latest word -- a tentative green light as or tonight. Space observers admitting, however -- "we •re . . . holding Ollr breath." SAFETY A massive Billion-Dollar annual highway sarety , - . .. -i • '-" program -- urged today by President Howard Pyle or the National Safety Council; in the wake or the bloodiest Memorial Day traffic record -- in the nation•• hietory. Pyle contending that about half of thoee killed in weekend traffic -- out of a total death 11st or a0111 five hundred -- were the victims of inadequate safety .F- etandarde. Adding that an effective eatety prograa -- above and beyond that now before Congreee -- could eave ae many as twenty-five thousand lives each year. l VIETNAM Hal !"way round the world -- tn Viet Nam -- Premier Ky held entatlve peace talks today with Buddhist leaders· ' amid increasin g stgn s that the Buddhist drive to topple hls mil1tary government -- ts rast crumbling. That ls everywhere but at the ancient 1rnper1al capital of Hue, where a seventeen-year-old girl -- burned herself to death and rebellious students are still vowing a fight to the r tn1sh. in def lance of Dy's orde . r to surrender -- "or else." Meanwhile, U.S. warplanes today struck their greatest blow or the year against Co•un1st lorth Viet laa. Close to three hundred sbrtles -- 1n all. Taking ru11 advantage -- of the best ~ly 1ng weather ln two weeks. HOOVER - ~ - u: l l,o" growing influx of Chinese Communiete into the ~ t f- t ~ h,\B~- We!tern Hemispherer - f-- charge~today by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. The Chinese agents eaid to be storming the weet __ through their embas■y in Communist Cuba. The objective -- eaid J. Kdgar -- 11 an intensive campaign or treachery and aubvereion -- throughout other part, or the A•ricae." Tbe FBI Director aleo reporting a run on tbl market -- for American technical and ecientitic publications; loaded with valuable buslnees 1ntor■at1on -- that eventually winds up in Red China. Though unclaee1f1ed -- eaid J.Bdgar -- tne materials have saved the Chinese "incalculable t i • and resources -- in their race" to build an effective war •ohine • CUBA - continued repercussions today -- froa the weekend einklng of a so-called "pirate launch" off the coast of Cuba. ,,) A boat bearing a number or Cuban exiles -- who were atteapting to infiltrate the 1r home land. Havana charging that . the entire affair -- was a tbe plot by the U.S. central Intelligence Agency. V1thA1nt1ltrato111 allegedly paid aseaesins -- assigned to kill Pidel ca1tro. U.S. reaction -- in a word -- "r1d1culoue." WARSAW FOLLOW CUBA A related item -- from Wareaw. Cuban students etudying in Poland -- today attacking the u .s. Embaeey thlre. smashing wlndowe and hurling bottlee of red ink -- at tbe big ~ · modern bu11d1ng : ' 6 11owing an 1mpaee1oned speech -- by the Cuban Ambaesador to Poland. Fernando Florez Ibarra aeserting that the United States -- is trying to provoke Cuba at Ouantanuo; the reaeon-- said he -- "to justify later A•r1can aggreeeion agalnat" Cuba. The Ambassador concluding:-- "• need volunteer■ not to cut sugar cane -- but to cut orr the blade or u.s.111r1n11." The riot -- ebortly tbereatter. But quickly quelled -- by a call tor police. CONGO A hurried ninety-minut9 trial tOday __ at 1,eopoldville; for former Conpee Premier Evariete Ki■ba __ and three other ex-Cabinet ministers; accU1ed or high treaeon-• in an alleged plot to overthrow the governaent. After seven minutee ■ore or deliberation -- a three-man military court pronouncing Judplnt. 'l'bt verdict -- guilty as charged. The sentence -- death by banging. Thousands or Congolese -- spectators at tbl open trial -- chanting "11ort, mort" -- deatb, death -- a1 tbl pri1oner1 •r• led away. A Belgian diP.lOMt -- earlier txptlltd troa tbl country; for alleged complicity -- 1n the plot. BLANCHARD General William H. Blanchard -- Number Tito ■an in the U .s. Air Force -- victim today or a fatal heart attack. The General stricken during a starr conference __ at the pentagon. "Butch" Blanchard -- one of the most d1et1ngu1ebld Air Force ofti . cers in World war Two:,/8rv1ng with curtle U,May -- in preparat1one tor delivery or the riret atoalc bomb. In the 'Fifties -- the man directly in charge ot inetalling u .s. missilee in Britain. tater -- lnepector General or the Air Force; berore his tlnal appoint•nt -- as Vice Chief or Starr. H••• t1ttJ. SAPE - From Delmont, Penneylvania -- the 1tory today ot a eate Job -- that wae more trouble than it waa worth. Burglar■ breaking into the local gasoline storage tir■ -- and \lllng dynamite in an attempt to blow open the coapany 1ate. The unexpected result -- a big bang tbat ■battered nineteen windows -- mangled a tiling cabinet -- and 1plint1red two deeka; but lett the 1ate -- etill intact. coapany orr1c1a11 later 11tl•tlng total d ..... -- at about a Thou■and Dollar■• Juet a little bit aore tban tbl total a■ount or money -- ••f• lneld• thl ■ate. CHILDREN In was 1ngton -- a national education group t•y urged 8 drastic reduction 1n the compulsory school age ror children ; from the present six years -- to only rour. The group of scholars observing that four-year-olde -- already have a "considerable part or the intellectual abtlltJ -- they wlll possess as adults." Adding that failure to ., take advantage or thls ability -- "generally li■lta the r1owerlng or their potentials." In short, the youngster lert to hla own dewlcea •· 11ld to be. f'ar too often, a failure at f\ve. And now here•• . Stewart Metz who must have started hla for■al educ.tlon at BUIPIIREY The burden ot· atrluence __ topic or a bard-bitttna 2 peech tonight by Vice Pre11dent Hubert Buaphrey; at Buron college -- in hie h0118 to1m ot Huron, South Dakota. ~Vice Preeident declaring that tbl Unlte4 stat,, 1 ■111t learn to accept abuee -- n•~t gratltucll -- 1n 1t1 ,rr.11 to achieve a better 11orld. in 11t1 1rr-ort1 to bllp poon, nat1one -- in the tielde or rooll, blaltb and t4ucat1an. Hubert HU11phrey a11trt 1ng •tbl ■Olt • can expect -- 11 thll : That tblre IIAJ N no 40llbt tbat • ber1cans -- have the v1eion, tl11 enduranoe an4 tlll cOUl'III -- to 1tand ror llhat • believe." ALTERNATE ENDiNG FO R ,'P A CE S TORY Late~t word: The mission--once again-- temporarily postponerl. Another ,ttts: dieappotnt■enl-­ for astronauts Gernan and S tafford.