Word: capes
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Imperturbably at midweek the President flew to Florida for a tour of the Cape Canaveral missile-test center. For 3¼ hours he was led through a forest of gantries for the liquid-fueled Atlas and Titan, the solid-fueled Polaris and Pershing. He praised the base's "minimum of extravagance and maximum of efficiency," said, "I came back with a much better feeling than I had before I went down there...
...Navy's solid-fuel Polaris missile, slated for submarine duty late this year, scored its fifth straight success in a prototype surface firing from Cape Canaveral, soared goo miles downrange into the Atlantic...
More important than the rumbling of the defense debate last week was the roar of a 110-ton Titan intercontinental ballistic missile lifting cleanly into space with 300,000 pounds of thrust. After nine months of frustrating failure at its Cape Canaveral pads (which crews had dubbed "the inferiority complex"), Titan No. B7A got off to its first two-stage flight. Two minutes and 50 miles downrange, its second stage kicked in with 80.000 pounds of thrust, a roar heard round the world because Titan's 41-foot, 24-ton second stage is the largest vehicle known to have...
Next day, speaking to reporters in Cape Town, Harold Macmillan remarked: "Twenty years ago one spoke of guaranteeing rights of natives. Now it appears to be a question of guaranteeing the rights of Europeans." In London, Macmillan's Colonial Secretary Iain Macleod grappled with the problem as it affects Kenya colony. Meeting privately with European, African, Asian and Arab delegates from Kenya, he laid down two elements of British policy: 1) the system "I hope to see flourish in Kenya" is the "Westminster model" of parliamentary institutions, rather than a strong executive; 2) "as . time goes on, Africans...
Ashton's new Fille is an unabashedly lyrical, bravura showcase for pixyish (5 ft. 4 in., 105 Ibs.) Nadia Nerina (born Nadine Judd in Cape Town), long acknowledged the company's most polished virtuoso. Around the 32-year-old ballerina Ashton draped a ballet rich in invention, defiant of technical limitations, blending high jinks, low comedy and pathos. Brilliantly supported by Yorkshire-born David Blair (he managed a singlehanded portage not rivaled at Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness...