Stunt man dies in John Wayne film, December 6, 1958

File this under quaint notions of the 1950s: Highway officials taking control of speeding cars and forcing them to slow down.

U.S. moon launch fails. THE HORSE SOLDIERS TRAILER At left, stuntman Fred Kennedy is killed when he takes a fall from a horse in the final scene of the John Wayne film "The Horse Soldiers." Kennedy was in many of Wayne's films, including "The Searchers," "The Quiet Man" and "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon."  Isaac Stern plays the Bruch Violin Concerto with the L.A. Philharmonic under Georg Solti. Don Jordan wins the world welterweight title at the Olympic.

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[David Middlecamp]

My first solid memory of wanting to get my hands on a newspaper was to read about the Space Race. I read the stories, studied the diagrams went out an looked at the night sky. It was a national obsession. I drank Tang (hot or cold), ate Spacefood Sticks and built model of the Lunar Lander, reusing the newspaper to keep the glue and paint off the kitchen table.