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...flight plan called for a suborbital 5,500-mile flight downrange to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. As it turned out, practically all the bugs were on the ground. The shot was delayed for 75 hours, while the kind of weather that Florida does not advertise locked the cape in clouds and rain. When the skies finally cleared, low pressure readings from a small nitrogen sphere that operates fuel valves delayed the lift-off for 31 hours; at one point, NASA control in Houston decided to scrub the mission, but technicians on the pad convinced Launch Director Kurt Debus...
...Launch Complex 34 of Cape Kennedy stood Saturn IB, the mightiest rocket the U.S. - and most likely the world - has ever known. The 224-ft.tall bird, with a fantastic initial thrust of 1,600,000 lbs. to hurl its 650-ton bulk into space, was ready for its first crucial test. Atop Saturn's nose sat the payload: the 33,800-lb. Apollo three-man command capsule and service module that will transport U.S. astronauts to the moon and back. If the U.S. is to achieve its goal by 1969, now was the time to start ironing out the bugs...
...audience just gets Chet tinted correctly (healthy suntan, hazel-brown eyes) when the producer cuts to David, who comes in as a lurid lavender. By the time Brinkley is attuned (pale pink skin, blue eyes), there is a switch to a remote Frank McGee looking sickly green at Cape Kennedy. Similarly, every break for a commercial or shift to another channel could require a readjustment. Given the errant ways of all flesh, a listener who wants realistic color can hardly afford to take his hands off the controls...
...skin should be olive, her anchor desk light mahogany. The set is still performing 17 hours later if Johnny Carson signs off sunburned behind a light green desk. For fans who tune in late on thin-skinned shows, color Lassie strawberry blond and Batman's tights puce, his cape true blue...
...appear carrying his head; he does, but the head on his shoulders has not been covered up, which makes nonsense of the masked man's greeting "Why aren't you wearing your head. The masked man was played by Arthur Friedman, in white tie, top hat, tails, and cape, as well as mask--he was made up to suggest a master of ceremonies, not a representative of the powerful forces that dominate most of this play and that must, I should think, be in part responsible for Melchior's decision to turn away from the grave...