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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Battle of the Embassy. Back in Japan, Porter got in a row with able U.S. Ambassador MacArthur at a private meeting. Calling in the press later, Porter charged, among other things, that MacArthur had attacked his position on Red China and had promised "to debate the issue back in the U.S." Not so, retorted MacArthur; he had never suggested a debate. "Porter said I was being unfriendly and uncooperative," said MacArthur. "He said, I will take care of you.' " Retorted Porter as he prepared to fly home: "I still say MacArthur challenged me to a public debate...
SPACE Lost & Unfound As a step toward the goal of sending a man into space with a high probability of getting him back alive, the Defense Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) set out early this year on a new venture: the Discoverer Program, to send satellites into orbit and then try to recover the payload capsules after they had made several trips around the earth. The Discoverer Program's score up to last week: launchings, seven; satellites put into orbit, five; recovery attempts, four; recoveries, none...
Blips & Survival. At .0615, Kittinger climbed onto a flat-bed truck and squeezed into a small gondola that was strung from a huge plastic balloon. Harnessed on his back was an elaborate instrument kit (14-channel tape recorder for voice, heartbeat and respiration rates, time blips, temperature, etc.). On his left wrist were a rear-view mirror, a small box with built-in altimeter and stopwatch, and a survival knife and scabbard. To one leg was strapped a tiny receiver-transmitter radio, and on his back were two parachutes and an alternate oxygen system...
Through the thin, -104°F. air he fell freely, first face down, then atumble, then on his back-1,000, 5,000, 10,000 ft.-reaching a flashing terminal velocity of about 450 m.p.h. As he plummeted, he took readings on his instruments, and with cool self-possession, tape-recorded his "subjective reactions and observations of this interesting experiment." On he dropped, like a stone into a void-until at an altitude of 12,000 ft., 2 min. 58 sec. and twelve miles after he had bailed out, a barometric device on his pack blew open his parachute...
...they could think of seemed comically out of character: the normally early-rising Clutters had overslept. Finding the door open, the two girls went inside, ambled upstairs to wake Nancy. At the top of the stairs, they froze: Nancy was lying on her bed, her hands tied behind her back, her face mangled and bloody. Screaming, the girls turned...