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...heaviest, Atlas is probably the biggest object that has orbited. Overall, it is 85 ft. long, 10 ft. in diameter. It is a delicate beast. Its main body is a fuel tank of bubble-thin metal. This bulk makes it easy to see, but it also creates atmospheric drag. For this reason, its estimated life is only 20 days...
Space pioneer of the week: a male Latin American squirrel monkey. Strapped into a rubber-padded chamber in the nose cone of a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile, the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed beast, Little Old Reliable by name, made space-research history as the first higher mammal to travel hundreds of miles into space, where only a Russian dog and U.S. mice had gone before. Purpose of the test: to gather data on how a human might fare in space flight. Reasons for picking a squirrel monkey: small size-Little Old Reliable weighed less than 1 lb.-and close...
Into the heavens over the Atlantic Ocean one night last week thundered a 100-ton symbol of U.S. scientific skill and diligence: the Air Force's Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile. Fully powered with close to 370,000 lbs. of thrust, the 80-ft. beast leaped from its Cape Canaveral pad, rocketed off the Florida coast into the starry night and arched serenely over the moon. The Cape's missile watchers held their breath as, in shucking its booster motors, the ICBM blazed like a meteor 200 miles from earth; then it faded and seemed to hang...
...Castillo costumes to the sound showmanship-hers all energy, his all ease -of Elaine Stritch and Don Ameche. Dancer Pat Stanley is piquant, and the best of Agnes de Mille's dances and ballets are stylish. No One'll Ever Love You is a sassy duet, The Beast in You an amusing ditty. Walter Kerrs staging is lively and firm, and here a quip and there a crack bears Jean (Please Don't Eat the Daisies) Kerr's dewy, screwy touch...
Unfortunately, there are a few squares loitering in the tall grass. Actor Granger strides up answering to the name of Harry Black, a famed hunter hired by the government to dispatch the tiger. He quickly corners the beast and is squeezing his finger on the trigger when a Land Rover roars by and scares it away. Drat! To make matters worse, behind the wheel of the Rover is an old war buddy (Anthony Steel), whom Harry Black treats with untropical coolness. After a couple of flashbacks, the viewer learns why: not only did Steel's cowardice...