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...Pink Centaur. Some coffeehouses are far out in a sense no beatnik could ever have imagined. The tony Florian on Boston's Newbury Street serves ten different kinds of coffee, caters to little old ladies nibbling anchovy canapes. Many establishments have specific dedications that would defy the nihilist beatnik code: New Orleans' House of the Fencing Masters, a coffeehouse gallery that displays the serious work of local artists, and the folk-song parlors, such as the Laughing Buddha in St. Louis and Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., where the Harvard boys listen reverently to the excellent voice...
...still more or less beat, and suffer for it. The famed Gas House in Los Angeles' Venice West grows ever longer on sideburns and shorter on talent. Denver's Green Spider hides behind an exterior mural of a fat blonde nude dancing with a shocking-pink centaur, and has no entertainment except spontaneous poetry readings by bearded bards who specialize in dirty dactyls...
...failure put an ignominious end to the $40 million hurried-up Atlas-Able lunar probe program. Rather than try again with Atlas-Able, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration last week called off future moon shots until next summer, when more powerful rockets are due to be available: the Centaur and Agena B which, atop the Atlas booster, will provide more efficient thrust in the upper stages, should be able to carry payloads of up to 700 lbs. to the moon. But with the U.S. out of the running now for at least six months, the Russians may well...
...Project Mercury man-in-space flight. First landing of a U.S. payload on the moon. Launching of the Atlas-Centaur vehicle, potentially capable of landing 700 Ibs. on the moon...
...Space Administration have already been assigned to other urgent space programs, and NASA has no spare funds to order additional Atlases. The bigger space vehicles that NASA has under development will not be ready for launching for more than a year: Vega (Atlas plus upper stages) in 1961, Centaur (Atlas plus more powerful upper stages) in 1962, Saturn (eight Jupiters clustered together) in 1963, Nova (giant single-chamber rocket) in the mid-1960s...