Fifty Years Ago Today, November 30, 1965

Prospects "Fine"

For Gemini Shot

With prospects "looking fine" for a Saturday launch, Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and James Lovell today reviewed the flight plan that would make them the world's most traveled spacemen.

Religion

Southern Baptists are being pressed for more money to operate their colleges and universities and they are differing widely on whether to accept the available federal aid. "Our position is not clear," says the Rev. Wayne Dehoney of Jackson, Tenn. Dehoney explains the church is in a dilemma because of the question of church-state separation.

Education

A federal grant of $231,520 has been approved for Auburn University, to be applied toward construction costs of the new $1,414,195 Edmund C. Leach Nuclear Science Center.

This story was originally published November 30, 2015 at 12:00 AM with the headline "Fifty Years Ago Today, November 30, 1965 ."