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Relative Quiet. The man who started the noisy affair is 46-year-old Town Clerk Johan ("I'm the worst municipal employee in Holland") Scholtes. Inspired by local band contests, Scholtes decided in 1948 to organize bandsmen on an international scale. He sat down with an atlas, and over the next three years fired off letters all over the world announcing the first international music concours. Seventy-five bands showed up for the 1951 competition. When the second contest rolled around four years later, the municipality asked everyone in town to paint his house front and set out flowers...
Your article about the first successful Nike-Zeus interception of a special target vehicle borne aloft by an Atlas ICBM [TIME, July 27] stated that "the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird on the target...
...TIME erred. The Atlas device was a "miss distance indicator" to enable ground stations to tell how close the Nike-Zeus came to the target during the intercept...
...last week, the great changeover in U.S. defense plans from aircraft to missiles had boosted San Diego's unemployment to 8.8%. Worse yet, this figure is likely to grow higher, for the single major missile produced in San Diego is Convair's liquid-fueled Atlas, a weapon that the Air Force is gradually phasing out in favor of the solid-fueled Minuteman (major contractor: Boeing, in Seattle...
...part of the Apollo man-on-the-moon project. Developed at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala., its first stage is largely the creation of famed Wernher von Braun, who designed V-2 rockets for the Nazis in World War II. With eight H-1 (Atlas) engines bound together to produce 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, the Saturn C-1 has been test-flown twice from Cape Canaveral, and it worked perfectly each time. The future star of the Apollo Project, the Advanced Saturn (C5) has yet to take final shape, but its most critical...