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...windup Leonard Bernstein? Whatever it was, a machine conducted the New York Philharmonic last week in a performance of John Cage's Atlas Elipticalis with Winter Music (Electronic Version). And considering what it was conducting, it probably did every bit as well as any human conductor could...
...ahead of the Russians, is more than mere astronautical muscle-flexing. It was achieved by almost incredible complexity and sophistication. The first-stage booster, built by Chrysler, gets its 1,500,000 Ibs, of thrust from eight H-l engines originally developed by North American for the Atlas and other mis siles. Their tangle of auxiliary plumbing is like a jam session of snakes, and it gives most engineers the shudders...
...Atlas, Titan and Polaris are nearly all paid up. Atlas is already being phased out; 27 of the hard-to-handle liquid-fueled missiles are scheduled to be removed from "soft" surface sites at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base, Wyoming's Warren A.F.B. and Nebraska's Offutt A.F.B. by mid-1965. New-missile procurement is limited to 50 advanced Minuteman II missiles, capable, with their 9,000-mile range, of hitting Red Chinese targets from sites on the West Coast. Another 950 Minutemen will be in hardened under ground emplacements...
Kiddie Cars if Necessary. In early U.S. tests, recalls an Air Force general, liquid-fueled Atlas missiles "were blowing up like tin cans." But later improvements have raised the success average to about 70% . Of 199 Atlas firings, 137 have been successful. For liquid-fueled Titan I, the score reported by the Air Force is 47 successes, ten partial successes, seven failures. For Titan II, just becoming operational: 19 successes, seven partial successes, one failure. For the solid-fueled, Minuteman: 45 successes, eleven partial successes, nine failures...
...ATLAS F: Range 9,000 miles...