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...Downrange in the South Atlantic, the recovery ship Timber Hitch stood by as Cape Canaveral launched an Atlas 700 miles into space. Seventy-six minutes and 5,000 miles after the blastoff, Timber Hitch plucked from the water a cylindrical instrument package ejected by the Atlas nose cone. Later, it was packed off to the States in a trombone case (it just happens to fit snugly within the shaped confines of a sliphorn...
Most pollsters see the Kennedy-Nixon race as about as close as a boy with an ice-cream cone, and most are as undecided on the outcome as that huge group of "undecideds" who confuse the statistics...
Three black mice named Moe, Sally and Amy were installed in a heavily shielded model of the U.S. man-in-space capsule last week, along with liberal rations of oxygen, oatmeal, peanuts and gelatin and a variety of scientific instruments. Then the capsule itself was placed in the nose cone of an Atlas missile at Cape Canaveral, and the missile lofted 650 miles into space and down the Atlantic toward Ascension Island at speeds reaching 18,000 m.p.h. During the ride, the mice rode into the perilous inner Van Allen radiation belt and were also treated to ten minutes...
...occasionally samples Manhattan nightclubs with his fourth wife, but has sold his 60-ft. yacht, no longer collects paintings. "My hobby," he says, "is to talk and eat food." His favorite food is ice cream, which he stoutly (205 Ibs.) maintains "is not fattening." He eats at least a cone a day, keeps ten flavors in the freezers of his seven-room Manhattan penthouse and his $110,000 home in Milton, Mass...
...Good News Came. Gross was also counting on other good news. Last week for example, Lockheed's Agena-Discoverer satellite produced a space "first" when its nose cone was recovered after being placed in orbit (see SCIENCE). Lockheed is the prime contractor for the orbiting Midas satellite, which is equipped with infra-red sensors to detect the heat of ballistic missiles and send a warning back to earth. It is also working on the Samos global surveillance system. Along with the Martin Co., Lockheed was chosen fortnight ago to study the feasibility of a nuclear rocket, a development that...