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MUSCLE Builder Charles Atlas might describe the present U.S. business recovery as a 97-lb. weakling -too puny to rout the bullyboy of unemployment. Members of TIME'S Board of Economists use more scholarly analogies, but they make the same point. At a recent all-day meeting, they offered this analysis of the nation's economy...
...also disclosed the results of the intense investigation into why the Atlas-Centaur launch vehicle had sent the U.S. Mars orbiter, Mariner 8, plunging into the Atlantic only minutes after takeoff. The failure occurred, he said, when the rocket's autopilot circuitry was damaged by a surge of voltage. NASA officials believe that a recurrence of the problem can be avoided on Mariner 9, which they hope to launch by mid-June; after that Mars will not be in a favorable position for another two years...
...rise of the libertarians can be traced mainly to the publication of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged in 1958. Buckley had repeatedly vilified the Randist movement for its orthodoxy in his National Review, but it was sufficiently large and committed to be worth courting. Besides, the "Objectivists," as they called themselves, were too independent-and a Buckley-dominated political coalition would tend to bring them into the conservative fold. In 1960, at the Buckley estate in Sharon, Connecticut, the fledgling Young Americans for Freedom adopted planks designed to bring the Objectivists and other libertarians into their organization...
...goal drew nearer, it seemed less important. Gone was the romance of seven heroes and their weapons named Atlas. Mercury, rockets which blew up on the pad or went haywire and threatened to devastate peaceful Florida towns unless destroyed by Mission Control. The space program grew at a tremendous rate, overtaking the Russians and overtaking itself to the point where three men died in a dreadful fire during a ground test. Space became business for corporations and convenience for the housewife. After political interferences, the men in the program had changed as well. They could not manage to get their...
...understand," Bruce said. "If Atlas was big enough to hold up the world, how could he fit on the world when...