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Cheap Bird. Known in the Air Force as the "poor man's missile." the Minuteman is a bird of a different feather from the familiar Titan and Atlas intercontinental missiles. As "first generation" weapons, both the Titan and Atlas burn highly volatile liquid fuels that require a trouble-plagued network of pumps and pipes. Fueling and firing the Titan and Atlas is an intricate business-many experts doubt that they would ever get off the pad with just 15 minutes' warning. In contrast, the Minuteman burns a solid, rubberlike fuel developed by Thiokol Chemical Corp. Once the Minuteman...
...York convention last week (see THE NATION), the National Association of Manufacturers chose as its new president an embodiment of the great American success story-reserved, stern-featured Donald J. Hardenbrook, 65. A non-college man, Hardenbrook started out as a $6-a-week office boy with Atlas Portland Cement, inexorably worked his way up to board chairman of American Creosoting Corp. Though he is descended from Manhattan's original Dutch settlers and claims a great-great-great-great-grandfather who helped found the New York Stock Exchange in 1792, strapping Donald Hardenbrook owes his business eminence...
...contour couch that looked like a cradle trimmed with electronics. After two hours of fussing, Enos. the 5½-year-old chimponaut, was ready to ride the first passenger-carrying orbital flight of U.S. Project Mercury. His cradle was fitted into a Mercury capsule on the nose of an Atlas rocket...
...held up for a while because of minor troubles with the capsule's telemetry system. Enos, who is called by his trainers "a meditative chimp," did not seem to mind. Snug in his air-conditioned nest, he waited patiently. At 10:07, the Atlas roared off its pad, climbed above Cape Canaveral and arced toward the northeast. It curved into orbit about 100 miles...
LIFE PICTORIAL ATLAS OF THE WORLD, by the editors of LIFE and Rand McNally; 600 pp.; illustrated...