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...orbit or soon to soar aloft-beautiful machines with the strange, angular, functional grace of well-designed space craft. North American Aviation, Inc. showed a full-scale model of its giant F-1 rocket engine, which spits out more than 1,500,000 lbs. of thrust and whose tail cone is as large as an Eskimo igloo...
...very popular President. Nor did it hurt when Frondizi showed himself highly human by ducking out of his hotel one evening, taking a taxi over to Broadway and 46th Street. He dropped into a cafeteria, ordered a steak and a beer, then strolled on Broadway, licking an ice-cream cone and rubbernecking like any tourist...
...film production company-with a Brownie camera-to do a mystery called Something Queer in the Warehouse. They also have their own newspaper, called War, in which they report such Fliesville events as a so-ft.-high rocket shot, after which a lizard walked away from the nose cone intact. Brook may not be as lucky as the lizard...
...incoming hardware: a massive trophy established in his name to honor aerospace achievement. Besides delivering a retirement tribute to 41-year Veteran White (his successor: General Curtis E. LeMay), President Kennedy inspected the bronze statue of a mesomorphic figure hurling a rocket with one hand and snagging a nose cone with the other, quipped sadly: "He looks like he has a strong back...
...satellites. Heftiest part of the load (175 lbs.) was Transit IVA, latest of the Navy's navigation satellites, which looked like a bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller drum named Injun, built at Dr. James Van Allen's laboratory at the State University of Iowa. Boosted aloft by a Thor-Able-Star rocket, all three satellites soared into...