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...challenge of Nikita Khrushchev's Sputnik III, a cone-shaped monster weighing almost 1½ tons and launched by a rocket obviously bigger than any in the U.S. arsenal, brought no sense of panic or dismay. Instead, it was accepted as another stern warning that the U.S. must push hard on its own missile program, turn at least one deaf ear to propaganda talk of easy disarmament...
...good 1,600 miles southeastward from Florida last week, watchers aboard the Navy's salvage ship Escape spotted a white object as it hurtled out of the sky and plunged into the Atlantic. It was the nose cone of a Jupiter IRBM, launched only minutes earlier from a pad at the Cape Canaveral missile test center. Hoisted aboard Escape, the recovered cone proved that the Army had solved both the reentry problem and the accuracy problem. Hitting the target area at a range of 1,600 miles was a feat of marksmanship considerably more remarkable than nicking a dime...
...around it-or make a lunar orbit. But the Air Force will probably be able to try an orbiting moonshot first. Ready for launching within a matter of weeks will be a Thor-Vanguard hybrid similar to the lost missile fired from the Cape last week in a nose-cone configuration test...
...force: $9 billion). A graduate engineer (University of Wisconsin, '22) and amateur gardener (roses), Slichter, brother of Harvard Economist Sumner Slichter, has been a vice president in charge of Northwestern Mutual's investment portfolio since 1949¶Emerson Foote, 51, a founder and onetime president of Foote, Cone & Belding, who once shocked Madison Avenue by voluntarily giving up the $12 million American Tobacco account, again caught fellow admen flat-footed by rejoining McCann-Erickson, from which he resigned as executive vice president 14 months ago. Returning as a director, senior vice president and member of the operations committee...
...nose-cone problem-how to bring a missile's warhead down through the atmosphere without too much heat damage-can be approached in very complicated or in very simple ways. A simple way that looks promising for even the fastest-falling missiles: sheathe the cone with Astrolite, a plastic made by H. I. Thompson Fiber Glass Co. of Los Angeles. Astrolite looks like the familiar brownish material used in workers' hard hats, but the fibers that reinforce the plastic are silica (quartz) instead of glass...