Word: capes
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...traveled even farther. Researchman William A. Holaday, missiles assistant to Defense Secretary Wilson, remarked in a speech last week that the U.S. had fired a ballistic missile "thousands of miles," and he was apparently talking about Jupiter, which reportedly traveled 3,600 miles on its longest flight from Cape Canaveral...
...Engine Charlie seemed to be saying, would go on working toward an operational ICBM (a test of the Air Force's intercontinental Atlas is scheduled for this week at Cape Canaveral), and leave the intercontinental chest-thumping to the Russians...
Bird watchers around Florida's Cape Canaveral boast each year of spotting more boat-tailed grackles, brown-headed nuthatches, yellow-shafted flickers and other species than any other group taking part in the National Audubon Society's Christmas bird count. Last week they were joined by an eager band of sky gazers bent on observing some of the most awesome birds of passage the world has seen. Lured to the Cape by advance tips that some of the promising missiles in the U.S. arsenal would be test-fired, 14 reporters and photographers stood a weeklong telescope watch over...
Espionage with a Conscience. Cape Canaveral has become one of the world's most important news sources. It is also one of the most frustrating. To pierce a "total security" curtain that is even more tightly drawn than the cloak around the Atomic Energy Commission, missile-beat reporters from California to Canaveral are forced to cultivate what one of that band calls an "espionage system with a conscience." Some reporters estimate that a good 10% of the missile information that is leaked to them would materially aid Soviet missilemen if printed. But the Pentagon's security regulations...
Beneath the Skin. Visiting newsmen at the Cape last week got their basic information on the missile-beat regulars-the half-dozen Florida missile buffs who call themselves bird watchers and profit from their pastime as year-round string correspondents for wire services, magazines, a few dailies and the TV networks. Though Defense Secretary Wilson has long promised to take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches...