Word: atlases
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Northland College Floyd B. Odlum, financier, chairman, Atlas Corp., L.H.D...
Moon Orbiters. Preparations for one of those systems are under full steam at the Space Technology Laboratory, which will have two tries next fall at putting a satellite in orbit around the moon. Boosted away from earth by an Atlas missile and two smaller upper-stage rockets, the moon satellite will weigh 350-400 Ibs. It will be spin-stabilized by ten small rockets and will get electric power for its instruments and controls from four paddle-wheels covered with 8,800 solar cells. All this has become standard U.S. practice. What is novel about the moon orbiter...
This blend of animal anguish and animal high spirits sets the tone for the whole story, as seen through the eyes of Paolino di Alba, a precocious 13-year-old. To Paolino, poverty is spelled ATLAS and HERCULES, the words on the cement bags his mother uses for diapers. Mama is patient, pious, and always pregnant. Papa is a bricklayer and a sport who feels a cut above the other paesanos. He flaunts a blonde, green-eyed "American" mistress named Delia with whom he wins dance contests at the local vaudeville palace...
Even after the delay, it made its point: that the Atlas can reach any target in the world from hardened bases in the continental U.S. And it proved that the missile has enough extra boost to indulge in a roundabout, enemy-confusing route...
Masterminding the marriage of TWA and Northeast is Millionaire Howard Hughes, who owns 78% of TWA and 9.2% of Atlas Corp., the holding company that has a 56% controlling interest in Northeast. Under the merger terms, one share of TWA would be exchanged for three shares of Northeast common stock, if the plan meets the approval of TWA's board, the CAB, stockholders and major creditors. Hughes will also lend $9,500,000 to Northeast from his Hughes Tool Co. to get its six, new, leased Convair 880 jets into operation for the Florida tourist season this winter...