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AMONG the reporters who received - the citation (above) at Cape Canaveral Missile-Testing Center last week was William R. Shelton, longtime resident of central Florida. As TIME'S stringer since 1953, Bill Shelton watched missile progress from the beaches and rooftops near the Cape, reported time and again the dramatic story of missilery's growth. Now, as TIME'S Florida correspondent, Shelton was well-primed to provide background and play-by-play action that ended last week with the glow of a new star in the skies. While Shelton covered the Cape launching of Explorer, Washington Correspondents...
Just 119 days after the Russians sent Sputnik I into the skies, tearing a wound in U.S. pride and prestige, the Army's Explorer thundered off the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last week, a symbol of a new kind of U.S. strength. "The U.S.," said President Dwight Eisenhower, "has successfully placed a scientific earth satellite around the earth...
...ever serve again. With new elections scheduled for April, the scramble for National Party power is likely to be between unbendingly racist Dr. Hendrik Verwoerd, the favorite leader of extremist Transvaal, and Dr. Theophilus DÖnges, who draws his support from the slightly more liberal Nationalists of the Cape Town area. As a compromise, party leadership may fall to Minister of Justice Charles Swart, whose most notable recent contributions to jurisprudence have been his anti-Communist laws, his introduction of whipping for criminals, and his recent bill urging the death penalty for armed robbery...
...from the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral last week shot the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile with fiery blast and awesome roar. It climbed majestically into a layer of low-hanging clouds, disappeared to the southeast, and a few minutes later plummeted into the ocean 600 miles away-as planned...
...CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan. 14--The Army launched a Redstone missile--the first stage of its forthcoming satellite-bearing space vehicle--at 8:25 p.m. tonight...