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...planned impact point was 200 miles east of Bermuda, where an array of ships and aircraft waited anxiously. Down curved MA-4, trailing flames, its simulated astronaut stoically suffering 7.8 Gs of deceleration. The tough 6-ft. drogue chute opened first; then the main chute opened and lowered MA4 gently into the Atlantic, 161 miles east of Bermuda and only 39 miles off target. For a vehicle that had been traveling at 17,519 m.p.h., this was good shooting indeed. Aircraft spotted the capsule at once, and the destroyer Decatur raced to pick...
Born. To David Michael Mountbatten, 42, third Marquess of Milford Haven, cousin of Britain's royal couple and best man at their wedding, and Janet Mercedes Bryce, 23, his second wife, a Bermuda socialite and sometime Manhattan mannequin: their first child, a son, who ensures continuation of the Mountbatten name (only other family male: British Defense Staff Chief Earl Mountbatten); in London...
...Widespread overseas travel for top U.S. officials is a recently acquired custom. In 1957, President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles met with Britain's Harold Macmillan in Bermuda while Vice President Nixon was in Africa. President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes went to Potsdam in 1945 at a time when there was no Vice President...
...Harvard has been on the upswing in recent years, but this season faced a rebuilding task in more ways than one. It had to play a spring season without benefit of a vacation training trip, forbidden by the Faculty Committee on Athletics because of alleged misconduct last year in Bermuda...
...impression of faraway places for this week's Modern Living story on travel, and Jones responded by painting places he has never seen (his own faraway travel has been limited to Alaska as a World War II War Department artist, Labrador on a FORTUNE iron-ore assignment, and Bermuda for pleasure). Jones riffled through scads of travel photographs and "picked places that said to me, 'Go, go, I want to go there.' " For the curious, Jones's melange includes a girl from Tahiti, some cliffs near Beirut, a Greek island, and the harbor at Portofino...