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...White Sands Missile Range, N. Mex., where swarms of smaller missiles are tested over solid land, recovery teams are kept consistently busy. Nearly every fragment of returning missiles is searched for and found. The wreckage dug out of alkali flats or mesquite thickets often tells more about a flight than any amount of telemetry could radio back to base. For this reason White Sands testing is preferred for correcting tough cases of missile misbehavior...
...Army and Air Force bases of New Mexico believe that the Tularosa Basin is ideal for a major spaceport. In its northern sector is a vast, bare alkali flat with 100 sq. mi. of almost perfectly level surface, made chiefly of gypsum (natural plaster of Paris), which is firm enough to support the world's heaviest aircraft. Most of the basin's few inhabitants are already connected with military space activities and are eager to see the region regain the importance that Canaveral took away from it. Even the small cities beyond the basin...
Looming up out of the verdant, time-resisting fields of rural France like a grotesque invader from outer space, the great factory hums mechanically about its business. Indifferent to the handful of humans who keep watch, a complex of electronic controls selects silica, alkali and lime from giant bins, mixes them together and feeds them into a white-hot furnace. From the furnace pours forth a river of glass 10 ft. wide, 1.7 in. thick and nearly half a mile long...
American Steel Foundries hit a $1.05-a-share pace, nearly triple its 1958 performance. Beech Aircraft profits soared 63% ($1.41 a share v. 88?) on a 49% rise in sales, and Diamond Alkali Co. chalked up earnings of $1.03 v. 88? for last year. In Manhattan, Chairman George Romney led off the auto parade by announcing that American Motors pre-tax quarterly earnings were "considerably higher" than the $21 million earned a year ago, although the net may be less, because last year American Motors still had a loss carryover to offset taxes...
Early one morning last week, when the other valley towns were canopied with lights and tinsel, a big trailer truck lumbered past the great farms, turned into the chuckholed sandy roads of the drab alkali flat, and deposited its cargo on an empty lot. Ragged children and rheumy old men and women with babies shuffled over, and some men pushed forward and gently laid their hands on the new thing. The Rev. Mr. Daniels took off his hat, bowed his head and said: "Father, thank thee for this wonderful blessing...