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Konga concerns a "botany scientist" named Charles Decker, who returns to London from a safari with a chimp and a secret growth stimulant. He inflates the chimpanzee to gorilla size, and sics him on an annoying dean, a competing professor, and an angry boyfriend of the coed he lusts after. Margaret, his assistant, at first keeps silent because of her love for the professor, but later tries to turn Konga on Decker. She is consumed in flames; the vurvy coed (played by Claire Gordon, shown above) is eaten by a plant; Decker is mangled; and Konga is shot...
...Chimp No. 65 had been trained at Holloman to work a simple system of lights and levers. He had learned that if he pushed one lever at least once every 20 seconds, he would avoid a slight electric shock in the pad of one of his feet. When a blue light flashed, he knew that if he pushed another lever in less than five seconds, he would also avoid a shock. His performance would show how much his psychology was affected by the stresses and strains of space flight...
...while it looked as if Chimp No. 65 might be in trouble. Lacking retrorockets, the capsule had streaked through the atmosphere much faster than was planned, but the parachutes worked fine. Aircraft swooped toward the spot where the capsule was falling. A Navy plane spotted it while it was still drifting down on its parachutes. In about two hours a helicopter picked up the capsule and 46 minutes later lowered it gently on the deck of the recovery ship Donner...
...Talking to Us!" Then came an anxious moment. Had Chimp No. 65 survived? The capsule's heat shield had disappeared, and its landing-shock bag was torn. Air Force Veterinarian Major Richard Benson stood close beside the mechanics as they took off the capsule's hatch. From inside came a whimpering sound. "He's alive!" cried Major Benson. "He's talking to us!" Soon the chimp chamber was on the deck. No. 65 grinned and shook hands with Major Benson. Then he was rushed to the Donner's battle dressing station for a physical exam...
Just two hours after Ham the chimp began his pioneering trip through space, another U.S. missile, bearing an earth satellite, was launched from Point Arguello Naval Missile Facility, 170 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It was an Air Force Samos (from Satellite and Missile Observation System), and it went into an almost perfectly circular polar orbit 300-350 miles above the earth...