#march 1968

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue March 15, 1968

Balenciaga Haute Couture Collection Spring/Summer 1968. Chartreuse organza petals, float over a bare oval back and elbow-length long sleeves exuding a romantic Goya light above ruched layers of organza - a long, double-skirted evening dress over narrow trousers.

Balenciaga Collection Haute Couture Printemps/Été 1968. Des pétales d'organza chartreuse, flottent sur un dos ovale dénudé et des manches longues jusqu'aux coudes dégageant une lumière romantique de Goya au-dessus de couches froncées d'organza - une longue robe de soirée à double jupe sur un pantalon étroit.

Photo Helmut Newton vogue archive

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Pink Floyd in March 1968 for EMI Records/London Features International. David Gilmour’s first photo-call with Pink Floyd.

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Willy van Rooy

[coolcherrycream]

The Monkees Story (Part 6) from Monkees Monthly (March 1968)

Mike Nesmith has been back to his old school, San Antonio College. A typical old-boy visit, but he'd stayed on to listen to the latest performance by the school choral society--and to exchange a few words with his one-time teacher, Mrs. Analee Huffaker, known to the kids there just as "Huffy".

The performance brought back many memories to him. As we've seen, he was an enthusiastic member of the choir and had got his first taste of entertaining people in shows like "Oklahoma"...

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[theamericanpin-up]

Fritz Willis - March 1968 Artist's Sketch Pad Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co. - American Pin-up Calendar Collection

[lonestarflight]

Apollo 6 Saturn V (CSM-020/LTA-2R/SA-502) on LC-39A, possibly during a Countdown Demonstration Test (CDDT).

Date: March 31, 1968.

Mike Acs's Collection: link

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[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

What 3am does to a mf

[dateinthelife]

1 March 1968

Ringo and Maureen get tired of beans (to eat) and flies (just existing) and leave India after two weeks with the Maharishi.

[chicinsilk]

US Vogue March 15, 1968

Blazing gems on a smooth tan belly: the new, most seductive way to wear a bejeweled belt. The belly here is the pride of the beautiful young Austrian actress Marisa Mell. And the belts are the sensational work of David Webb…Arabesques of 18 carat gold holding emeralds, rubies, a sprinkling of diamonds. Martin Downey hairdressing. (lower) Emerald and coral links sculpted in 18-carat gold.

Des pierres précieuses flamboyantes sur un ventre bronzé lisse : la nouvelle façon la plus séduisante de porter une ceinture ornée de bijoux. Le ventre ici fait la fierté de la belle jeune actrice autrichienne Marisa Mell. Et les ceintures sont l'œuvre sensationnelle de David Webb…Des arabesques d'or 18 carats retenant des émeraudes, des rubis, un saupoudrage de diamants. Martin Downey coiffure. (plus bas) Maillons d'émeraudes et de corail sculpté en or 18 carats.

Photo Bert Stern vogue archive

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Flyer distributed to sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, asking them to join Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in a "March for Justice and Jobs" on March 22, 1968. 

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States

Series: Civil Cases

File Unit: City of Memphis vs Martin Luther King, Jr., et. al., Civil C-68-80

Transcription: 

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

and

Community On the Move for Equality

INVITE YOU

To March for Justice and Jobs

FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1968

9:00 A.M.

From Clayborn Temple A.M.E. Church

280 Hernando

We ask you to stay away from work or school and walk with more than 10,000 people who want Memphis once and for all to learn that it must be a city for all people. A man is a man. God requires that a man be treated like a man.

Memphis must do so in work, play, education, housing, by the police and in all other ways the rights of each man must be upheld. This will be a march of dignity. The only force we will  use is soul-force which is peaceful, loving, courageous, yet militant.

MARCH INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Come to the church from Vance Street ONLY

2. THE ROUTE: Hernando to Beale

                       To Main

                       To Poplar

                       To Second

                       To Beale

                       To Hernando

                       To Clayborn Temple where we will disperse

3. Be ready to follow the instructions of the March Marshalls [sic] who will wear yellow arm bands.

4. We will march in the street.

5. Each organization can prepare a banner, no bigger than 6'x3' attached to at least two poles which can carry the sign up above the heads of the marchers.

6. Walk gently, do not crowd those in front, when those stop you stop.

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[coolcherrycream]

Peter Talking on the Transatlantic Phone from Monkees Monthly (March 1968)

It was one of those evenings. Nothin' to do, nobody to see. Time dragging slowly. Look at the phone, wondering who to talk to. Suddenly remember--a phone call coming through from Peter Tork. Phew, a talk with Tork really IS something. Why was it partially forgotten? Only because it SHOULD have been a couple of days earlier but was put off because he was working so hard in the film studios.

That's MADE the evening. Sure enough, dead on time the operator rings through...

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Fritz Willis - March 1968 Artist's Sketch Pad Calendar Illustration - Brown & Bigelow Calendar Co.

[lonestarflight]

Cancelled missions: AS-206 (repeat of Apollo 5)

"On March 15, 1968, NASA announced that the planned second unmanned test flight of the Lunar Module (LM) was not needed given the success of the LM-1 flight during Apollo 5 in January. The decision to not fly LM-2 resulted in a significant cost and schedule savings to achieve the goal of landing a man on the Moon before the end of the decade. And while LM-2 never got to fly in space, it’s use as an important ground test vehicle helped clear the way for the first Moon landing. Because LM-2 was configured for an unmanned flight, it would have been too costly to reconfigure it for a manned flight, primarily to fireproof the cabin. As a result, the first manned test would utilize LM-3, then planned to be launched aboard a Saturn V in late 1968.

The Lunar Module (LM-2) Ascent Stage during vibration tests.

The decision at first put LM-2 and its Saturn IB rocket into storage, but NASA managers decided to use LM-2 as a high-fidelity ground-test vehicle since it contained flight-like systems. After a short time in storage, LM-2 was shipped to the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, where engineers used it for dynamic testing in the Vibration and Acoustic Test Facility (VATF) to better understand the effects of the Saturn V pogo oscillations seen during the Apollo 6 mission in April 1968. The results of those tests contributed to NASA engineers clearing the next Saturn 5 to carry a crew. After the attachment of landing gear, between March and May 1969 engineers in the VATF used LM-2 to conduct drop tests to verify the structural integrity of the vehicle and its subsystems. Because LM-2 contained flight-like vehicle systems, the results of these high-fidelity tests helped clear the Apollo 11 LM-5 to land on the Moon just two months later.

LM-2 ascent stage on display at the 1970 World’s Fair in Osaka, Japan.

After its ground testing days were over, LM-2 continued to be useful. In 1970, its ascent stage spent several months on display at the US Pavillion at 'Expo ’70' in Osaka, Japan, mated to the descent stage of Lunar Test Article-8. When it returned to the United States, it was reunited with its descent stage, modified to appear like the Apollo 11 Lunar Module 'Eagle,' and transferred to the Smithsonian in 1971 for display. In 2016, curators restored and relocated it to the new Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall in the National Air and Space Museum. The Saturn IB rocket that was planned to launch LM-2 came out of storage in May 1973, when it launched the first crew to the Skylab space station."

LM-2 modified to appear like the Apollo 11 Lunar Module "Eagle," on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

NASA ID: link, LM-NOID-09

NASM Smithsonian Institute Archives: link

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Guy Gardner was introduced in Green Lantern vol 2 59# with a cover date of March, 1968. Hal Jordan was shown an alternate history where Guy Gardner was chosen to be the Green Lantern instead of him. It turned out the only reason Jordan was chosen over Gardner, was Jordan was closer at the time. After witnessing what could have been, Hal Jordan saught out the man who could have been the Green Lantern. Hal Jordan was created by John Broome and Gil Kane. The idea was Garnder would become a back up for Jordan, but when the opportunity finally came (Green Lantern vol 2 87), Gardner was not eligible because he was recovering from being hit by a bus. Gardner finally did become a Green Lantern some time later. (Green Lantern vol 2 116) ("Earth's Other Green Lantern", Green Lantern vol 2 59#, DC Comic Event)