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Mighty Missiles. To the teeming pantheon of guided missiles-which already has Falcons, Navajos, Snarks, Matadors and Side Winders-Air Force Secretary Donald A. Quarles last week added some powerful names: for the Air Force's two versions of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile: Atlas and Titan; for the new Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile: Thor...
...First called the Atlas, from Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., which then owned Convair. The name was changed later to IBM, then to ICBM, to avoid confusion with International Business Machines Corp...
...those who sit in their rooms fingering the pages of Hemingway and looking wistfully at the blank spaces in the Atlas, The African Lion will be sheer delight. In about an hour of colored photographs, Walt Disney's newest live animal film presents a truly remarkable sequence of scenes involving the wildlife of the African plains. The achievement of the film is not only one of photographic excellence, but of sheer persistence...
...Dallas' All-American Home Lloyds, in the red by some $235,000, was thrown into receivership by the Texas Attorney General. Three other companies-American Atlas Life Insurance Co., Dallas Fire & Casualty Co. and U.S. Life Insurance Co.-had their licenses suspended because their officers were "unworthy." One of the three, U.S. Life Insurance, was controlled by Shoemake...
COSMOPOLITAN WORLD ATLAS [Rand McNally; $13.95) is a fine new atlas chockful of up-to-the-minute information about every quarter of the globe...