Jun 10 1967
From The Space Library
LaRC selected Lockheed California Co. for negotiation of a $750,000 contract for a 19-mo R&D program leading to design of a hypersonic aircraft wing structure. Lockheed would "assess the validity of several wing structural concepts . . . and provide the technology required for NASA to determine which combination of concepts is best. . . ." (NASA Release 67-152)
President Johnson announced that he had accepted "with deepest reluctance and regret" the resignation of Cyrus R. Vance as Deputy Secretary of Defense, effective June 30. Vance would be succeeded by Secretary of the Navy Paul H. Nitze. (PD, 6/19/67,860)
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