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Congratulations on your color spread of the mighty Atlas fizzle at three miles. The Russians also had a scoop at the same time − which beat us by 557 miles. When will the U.S. awaken - or will high-level bickering and indifference, strikes at atomic weapon plants, and official stupidity prevail...
From his own library he resurrected his college texts, Handbook of Engineering Fundamentals and Mathematical Tables from Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, KOL came across with an Encyclopaedia Britannica and a world atlas. Occasionally an adult volunteer would drop in to help with the answers. By last week Bob was getting more than 200 phone calls a night, and KOL was planning to hire an assistant and provide extra telephone lines...
...ATLAS SHRUGGED (1,168 pp.)-Ayn Rand-Random House...
...paper, Atlas is "intercontinental," capable of soaring 5,000 miles. But Atlas I, launched at Cape Canaveral last June, flew erratically, lived only 22 seconds before a safety officer pressed a button to destroy it. Atlas II started off promisingly. In its straight-up flight, lasting 20 seconds or so, it seemed to be, in the missilemen's term, "programing" perfectly, i.e., doing what its makers and tenders expected. But as it arched into its southeastward course, the tail fire glowed too dark, and the bird faltered. The turbine pumps were failing to feed the right mixture of fuel...
...scope (roughly resembling a surveyor's transit), saw the wobbly bird, now three miles up, skitter outside the safety zone. Dutifully, he pressed the fatal button. An enormous blob of flame suddenly enwrapped the bird. A moment later, all that remained of the ingeniously concocted, $6,000,000 Atlas were some shreds of metal and a smudge of smoke in the misty...