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BASEBALL FINAL LATE HACKS' CLOSING STOCKS CLOSING STOCKS (9 1969, Globe Newspaper Co. 288-8000 WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1969 56 rAGES-10 CENTS Id ill! Moon Quote: Liftoff Perfect Lunar Thrust From Orbit Flawless; Astronauts Say Little as They Soar From Earth And With Burst From Rocket Set Moon Course 'This very bold enterprise obliges us to look on high, beyond the earthly field, to remember the immense and mysterious reality in which our little life enfolds." POPE PAUL TO PILGRIMS I fh' 1 fcllb- iff -A i X' i 1 iU i 4 i i Mi LiViawnirti.inim.i-1 in it- 1 lTrrimiiM iiiiim hiWii iiiriwMiBiitMIMin wrninninM.A liiiKUt I I -AV, ft 11 5 ARMSTRONG, COLLINS AND ALDRIN GIVE THUMBS UP AS THEY LEAVE OPERATIONS SITE. (AP) i 'JL: Loud Roar and High Emotion Shake Spaceport Crowds By VICTOR McELHENY Staff Writer KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. Three American astronauts are on their way to the Moon. At 12:16 p.m., Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin added 7000 miles an hour to their Earth orbital speed of 17,400 to begin a three-day coast towards the Moon.

If all goes well, Armstrong and Aldrin will land on the Moon Sunday. The Apollo 11 spaceship lifted off perfectly here at 9:32 a.m., exactly on schedule. The blast-off for the Moon occured above the Gilbert Islands, near the Equator in the Pacific. The third stage of the giant Saturn 5 rocket that had borne the astronauts into orbit turned on for a second time and fired for 5 minutes and 47 seconds. There was no turning back now.

Apollo 11 had become a lunar mission. The flawless launch followed a flawless countdown. Some 60 seconds before the five mighty engines of the Saturn rocket's first stage ignited, Armstrong said in his matter-of-fact voice, "It's been a real smooth countdown." Some 35 seconds later, the word from the air-cooled space cabin was, "It feels good." For thousands of press photographers, reporters, television technicians, and both noted and unsung visitors looking at the gleaming white rocket, it did not feel good. The temperature was only 85 degrees and the skies were almost clear, but the humidity was high. An American flag just in front of the press viewing stand hung limp.

All onlookers were dripping with perspiration. As the world waited for the historic takeoff, the noted British science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke remarked, "It's the last day of the old world." waving the flag, or thanking God to be alive in this wonderous age. My television view of former space shots had left me totally unprepared for what I witnessed today. Old Cape Kennedy hands, long-time bird watchers had told me, "There is nothing like seeing a real live bird heave off its launch pad." They were right.

To see it so close is spectacular enough, but to experience its sound and to feel its vibrations is something else. If the moments of watching the countdown on television are tense, living through the countdown with the huge white bird quivering before you just across a canal is almost unbearable. "Thirty seconds, and still counting. It's still go, the voice from Mission Control informs you. Newsmen in the grandstand nervously fidget with their paper sunhats.

Their clothes are stuck to them with the 85-degree heat and the 85 percent humidity." NEGRI Page 3 By GLORIA NEGRI Staff Writer CAPE KENNEDY The Italian standing next to me in the press section this morning, three and one-half miles from where Apollo 11 had just lifted off its pad, leaped four feet in the air and hugged his female companion. "Hai visto? Bello?" (Did you see it? It's beautiful, is it not," he asked her, tears streaming down his cheeks. The Italian wasn't ashamed to be seen crying. A lot of other newsmen were reacting the same way, even though many had witnessed a launch before. But, to see the launch of the space craft live for the first time as I was doing, along with hundreds of thousands of spectators, many of whom had camped out on the beaches last night, is a feeling almost impossible to describe in words.

It requires a physical reaction like crying, hugging a stranger, CROWDS WATCH AS APOLLO 11 LEAPS FOR MOON. (UPI). Tax O.K. Dazes the Hill wage hike advanced for the second time by the Legislature. The governor implied he would veto the raise when it reaches his desk, but he came just short of saying so flatly.

LEGISLATURE Page 8 Page 3 APOLLO Nixon Declares 'Holiday' Monday By S. J. MTCCICHE Staff Writer Beacon Hill remained dazed today from the stunning and swift approval of a $100 million tax program by the Legislature Tuesday night. The Democrats caught Republican Gov. Sargent, the lobbyists and everyone completely by surprise by putting together a tax plan oriented to the liberal philosophy and winging it through both branches in a speedy nine hours.

This earthly drama on the eve of the lunar landing blastoff hits the special interests groups and spares the state's average taxpayer. Simultaneously in the single sitting, the House and Senate reaffirmed their approval of a $92.5 million pay raise package for the state's 55,000 employees, thus trouncing Sargent's call for a smaller wage increase. The Legislature's pay raise plan, expected to be routinely re-enacted and sent to Sargent today, gives the state employees a boost of 12 percent with a minimum of $20 a week retroactive to Jan. 1. Sargent noticeably disturbed by the events on the pay raise and the tax program, told a hastily 1 arranged press conference Tuesday night that the Commonwealth cannot afford the mm mwjupt lau'www nrrommi iji rn TiTirnngnrrrrnrn ur nnrn n.

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William Salton-stall for late Rep. Bates' seat. Page 6 LAIRD OUT ON chief's end of war forecast could prove disastrous if enemy launches offensive. Page 17 TED ANSWERS "OUTRAGED State senator offers tax reform as surtax supplement. Page 18 QUINN MARSHALS CRIME WAR FORCES Attorney general completes preparations for all-out drive.

Page 19 INDEX TO TONIGHT'S GLOBE Astro-Guide ..55 Crossword 55 Sports Book 37 Deaths 43 Steincrohn ...44 Bridge 54 Editorials ....23 TV-Radio ....54 Calendar 44 Financial Theaters ..36,37 Classified Senior Set ...21 Twistagram ..55 Comics .55 Shain 54 Women THE WEATHER Tonight Fair and warm Thursday Hot and humid High Tide at 1:30 p.m. Full Report on Page 27 private employers to close their facilities "so that as many of our citizens as possible will be able to share in the significant events of the day." The President also asked the nation to join in prayer for the successful conclusion of the moonflight. Globe Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Nixon announced today Federal departments will be closed Monday as a part of a "national day of proclaimed in honor of Apollo 11. He urged governors, mayors, school ofiicials and Stocks Up 8.21 the The stock market scored sharp gains in active trading early today and held the advance throughout the session. Brokers said it was basically a technical rally which started late yesterday.

The Dow Jones industrial average closed at 849.34 for a gain of 8.21. See Page 26. PRAYERS FOR SUCCESS Relatives of astronaut Michael Collins at Mass this morning in St. Ann's Church, Dorchester. Front pew, Mrs.

John Finnegan and Thomas Finnegan second pew, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Finnegan, Mr. and Mrs. David Finnegan and David Finnegan Jr.

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