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170 4 3 4 3 1 1 In Shadows, Near Tears Patera burg mi 9 9 LBJ i A V- i 'Alt 'mWv Ayv-Hr i Ttoi I a Marine honor guard found her a seat among the guests. THE ASTRONAUTS' wives were there In the front row, their faces a little wide-eyed, as if they were breathing hard and hiding the excitement, their children bunched in the chairs behind them, hair shining and new clothes stiff. Lady Bird came in with her chirpiest smile, the lights making her pink suit glow, and bouncing rainbows off her diamond earrings. The astronaut's children reached to shake her hand and she wrote a little note to one of them. Dean Rusk arrived and shook hands down the (Mease See SCENE, 6-A) you want to shout, "Look, they did it, and they're ours." THE DAY began at the White House, with the Marine band playing Sousa marches inside the foyer while workmen hammered and sawed and slopped tar on the roof of the huge plywood reviewing stand out front where Richard Nixon will watch his inaugural parade in 10 days.

Congressmen and generals hurried in. Some walking up the drive, others delivered in chauffered limousines. The bright television lights in the East Room made the huge crystal chandeliers seem faded and dim. Luci Johnson Nugent, beautiful in red and long false eyelashes, slipped a friend in a back door and By CLARENCE JOXES Times-Miami Herald Service WASHINGTON When he had finished speaking there in the glitter of the East Room, Lyndon Johnson stepped back to give the grinning astronauts the spotlight and in their shadow he was suddenly close to tears. He seemed to shrink a little physically, paying homage to the moon fliers.

The deep lines in his face when he watched them reflected more clearly than any of the ceremonies here yesterday the emotional impact of their homecoming. There was pomp and grandeur, humor, downright envy, and a chest-swelling pride that made AP Borman Receives His Medal As Anders (Left) And Lovell Applaud BORMAN PROMOTED BY NASA (UHFm) byfe Am ays To erica come from the study ofUFOs in the past 21 years that Juts added to scientific knowledge extensive study ofUFOs probably cannot be justified" "No direct evidence whatever of a convincing nature now exists for the claim that any UFOs represent spacecraft visiting Earth from another civilization 1 i 1 4 i If? if fS 1 nrnn i i Study Rules Our UFOs As Visiting Spacecraft WASHINGTON (ft President Johnson, leading the cap-tial's tribute to the Apollo 8 astronauts, said yesterday they "represented all mankind" in their historic voyage around the moon. The space trio received medals from the President in a White House ceremony and standing ovations from a joint meeting of Congress where Air Force Col. Frank Borman described the Apollo mission as a "triumph of mankind." Later in the day, Borman was named deputy director of flight crew operations at NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, Texas. The increased responsibilities will exclude him from future space flights, NASA sources said.

THE APPOINTMENT makes Borman second in charge of the spacemen under Donald K. Slayton and ahead of Alan B. Shephard who had performed similar functions until now. Shepard will stay on as an administrator. Johnson decorated Borman, Navy Capt.

James A. Lovell, and Air Force Lt. Col. William A. Anders with the Distinguished Service Medal of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

He called them "history's boldest explorers" and said they had "blazed a new trail for mankind out into the vast-n of extraterrestrial space." From the White House, the (Please See APOLLO, 6-A) Neil A. Armstrong So Will lie Edwin A. Aldrin He'll Trod Moons Surface Michael Collins And He'll Pilot Main Sliip by a panel of National Academy of Sciences specialists appointed at Air Force request to review it in a "further independent check." The Colorado group, headed by Dr. Edward U. Condon, made no pretense its reports would kill off the controversy over "flying saucers." It acknowledged there are scientists and others who wish to keep an open mind abou the matter.

HOWEVER, it declared some school children are being "educationally harmed by absorbing unsound and erroneous accounts" about UFOs, and recommended that teachers quit giving credit to students for reading books and articles about the subject. The Air Force released the report without comment. Since 1947, the Air Force's Project Blue Book has been investigating UFO reports, amassing a (Please See ITOs, Page 6-A) WASHINGTON IF) Afler a two-year study that cost $500,000, a group of scientists concludes that "further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified" scientifically. It finds "no direct evidence whatever of a convincing nature now exists for the claim that any UFOs represent spacecraft visiting earth from another civilization." "OUR GENERAL conclusion is that nothing has come from the study of UFOs in the past 21 years that has added to scientific knowledge, the scientists' 1,485 page report said bluntly. The formal report of the study of Unidentified Flying Objects by University of Colorado Scientists, commissioned by Air Force, was released yesterday.

It runs 1,485 pages, in three volumes. THE REPORT WAS approved unanimously WASHINGTON (UPI) The Space Agency said yesterday that the first U.S. astronauts to try to land on the moon will be Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and Erwin "Buz" Aldrin. Armstrong, a former X15 rocket plane pilot, will command the landing flight, called Apollo 11.

It is expected in July when there is a launch "window" for shooting for the moon between July 11 and 22. Armstrong and Aldrin will be the two astronauts who explore the chalk-gray lunar surface, while Collins remains in lunar orbit 69 miles above them inside landing site on the eastern edge of the moon's face and proved the moonship's navigation and communications systems equal to their task. Apollo 11 will be the fifth manned Apollo flight and the third flight to the moon. In April or May, Apollo 10 will carry astronauts Thomas Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan to the moon. Stafford mi Cernan will fly within 10 miles of the lunar surface in the Apollo moon landing craft, but will not actually touch (Please See LANDING, 6-A) an Apollo spaceship similar to the one used last month by the Apollo 8 crew.

Their backup crew on the moon-landing venture, set as a national goal by former president Kennedy in May of 1961, will be two members of the Apollo 8 crew that orbited the moon Christmas week and one rookie space flier. Apollo 8 veteran James Lovell, who has spent more time in space than any other man, commands the backup crew. William Anders, systems engineer of Apollo 8, and rookie Fred Haise are the other two members of the backup team. Apollo 8 scouted out the most likely si." IATIfRl PIPFIINF I I V.V Guantanam i Marint Bartotb By CILVRLES STAFFORD Times Bureau WASHINGTON Rep. Robert L.

F. Sikes, dean of Florida's House Democrats said yesterday he personally will nominate Rep. Sam Gibbons of Tampa for the vacancy on the important House Ways and Means Committee. He added he was confident Gibbons would win the seat for Florida. Barring any last-minute candidates, Gibbons will be selected formally by a caucus now scheduled for Tuesday of all Democratic congressmen.

Florida's Don Fuqua withdrew from the race Wednesday. His action triggered an announcement by Rep. Lenor Sullivan, D-Missouri, that she would not enter the competition, thus leaving the field to Gibbons. Gibbons claims he now has over 150 vote pledges, enough to win the contest. Questioned about the possibility of Gibbons seeking Spessard L.

Holland's Senate seat in '70, Sikes said: "Sam tells me he is going to stay CUBA 'Jj f-r Bast Heodquartera i Carter Airfield HEIMER RANCH McCalla Airfield here and work as a congressman. If he had been planning to leave in two years, we would have been reluctant to back him for the Ways and Means Committee vacancy. Gibbons later said he hadn't decided yet whether to run for the Senate and "he (Sikes) knows I haven't made that decision." "I did point to the substantial vote (Republican Ed) Gurney got over (Democrat LeRoy) Collins," Gibbons said. "We discussed the realism of my running the next time." SAM GIBBONS confident of victory. '0 GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE I I 8 More Survivors Due From Cuba After Escape -rVi 1 -WW-WW) f.

II S1 i-f Ann Landers Best Of The Columnist Bridge Business Classified Comics Crossword Editorial Entertainment Family Today Financial Garden Horoscope Jumble Meetings Today Obituaries Outdoors Sylvia Poi tor Radio-TV Sketches Sports Weather What's Doing By BETTE ORSINI Of The Times Staff MIAMI Eight more survivors of the bold, precision-timed mass escape from Fidel Castro's Cuba are still to be flown out of the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo, it was disclosed yesterday. Officials say a total S3 persons of the 140 to ISO participants in the bloody freedom try reached the base in the daring daylight defection. EIGHTY OTHER weary survivors of the flight waited at Freedom House here to be re ugees would be ferried into Opa-Locka Airport immediately. Late in the day revised reports put the arrival time several days away.

It was first believed the handful of remaining refugees were too badly injured to be flown out with the others Wednesday. Later reports say only there was not sufficient room for all the survivors on the two Navy C-54s which flew them into Miami. U.S. IMMIGRATION officials declined to comment on the group still to be transported out of Cuba. The stolen tractor-trailer used by the refu- (Please See CUBANS, 4-A) AP The Wind, The Sun, The Sea And A Fine Ship Sailing l.S.

Navy, sails under the Deleware Memorial Bridge. One year ago the Saratoga sailed up the Delaware River to Philadelphia for complete overhaul. She is now on a series of test. A bridge framing a ship setting out to sea contrasts the works of man with the beauty and mystery of nature as the VSS Saratoga, one of the mightiest attack carriers of the united with their fellow escapees. It was anticipated earlier yesterday the ref ,7.

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