Word: atlas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much-harried racing tout who "manages" Gobel, Sam Levene plays Sam Levene-and is a welcome comic relief. His eyes are poached eggs that have seen the rise of a thousand false dawns. And with the underworld on his shoulders, he can give Atlas shrugging lessons. But Sam can't sing either...
LIFE PICTORIAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD (600 pp.)-LIFE and Rand McNally...
...atlas must be a tome, but it need not to be a tombstone. The editors of LIFE and the mapmakers of Rand McNally have produced a popular atlas which is not only larger and glossier than others in its class (it does not compete with such technicians' works as the five-volume, $125 London Times Atlas of the World), but which gives a reader the earth's shape and feel as well as its names and places...
...atlas, which includes a 160-page index, is at its best in its superb relief maps. In addition, each large area of the planet is shown, by means of color photos of a specially built globe, as it would look from a point several hundred miles out in space. The technique gives, for instance, a sense of the almost landless expanse of the Pacific with a vividness that could be duplicated only by taking an ocean voyage or reading Conrad. Throughout the book, geology is used to explain geography. Below the map for Florida, for example, is a diagram demonstrating...
...Atlas liquid-fuel rocket that put the capsule in orbit had been a cause of concern in Project Mercury because of two disastrous earlier failures. But last week's Atlas was beefed up for its job, and it performed perfectly; the MA4 accelerated surely into its planned orbit. Strapped in the capsule instead of a man sat an oblong box that performed most of an astronaut's functions: it consumed oxygen, excreted carbon dioxide and water vapor, and it also talked-feeding the recorded voice of NASA Communications Engineer Howard Kyle into a microphone to test the Mercury...