Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, after enduring near-100° temperatures and a rainstorm that drenched him to the skin, Photographer Wayman's patience was rewarded, and his color film caught the full flight, from start to finish, of the second test flight of the U.S.'s intercontinental ballistics missile, the Atlas. Hours later, the film was on its way to New York for processing, and the following day the pictures were in Chicago being engraved and printed. This week, less than seven days after the event, they appear in TIME, the first color photographs of the Atlas in flight. See NATIONAL...
...Engine Charlie seemed to be saying, would go on working toward an operational ICBM (a test of the Air Force's intercontinental Atlas is scheduled for this week at Cape Canaveral), and leave the intercontinental chest-thumping to the Russians...
...less complex Snark which superseded it, covered the first successful firing of the Air Force's Thor (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). At week's end the newsmen were standing by for the biggest bird of all, the second attempt to launch the 5,000-mile ICBM Atlas...
...launchings from the Pentagon or the test center's headquarters at Patrick Air Force Base. Beyond the standard communiqué, "A missile has been fired," newsmen got not a shred of official information on the tests. As late as last week, not even last June's abortive Atlas launching had been confirmed, though newsmen have long known many hush-hush details of its performance...
...nameless rock he has no bun and no penny. As he slowly goes mad from hunger while a rainstorm unmercifully keeps him from death by thirst, he imagines that he is Atlas and Prometheus. By the time the gulls have become flying lizards to him, he imagines-in the fictional season's most unpleasant metaphor for the condition of man-the last huge master-maggot of a box previously full of smaller maggots which, he has heard, are cultivated by Chinese gourmets...