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ASTRONAUTS HAVE BREAKFAST WITH PRIESTS

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla.--Astronauts James A. McDivitt (left center) and

Edward H. White II (right) have breakfast with two Florida priests

and NASA officials at Cape Kennedy on the morning the Gemini 4 space-

craft took off for a four-day orbital flight into space. The priests

are Msgr. Irvine J. Nugent of Daytona Beach (second right), and

Father James Herlihy of St. Augustine. On the same morning, Maj.

McDivitt's wife, Pat, and their three children attended Mass at the

home of Father George Beck near Houston, Texas, where the NASA

Spacecraft Center is located. Both astronauts are avowed Christians

with long service to their churches. Maj. White is a Methodist.

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