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"Personae," the word with which Ezra Pound titled his first book of poems, originally meant masks. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound, who is 75 this week, has worn many. There is Pound the poet, critic, scholar and esthetic perfectionist. There is Pound the economic crank, anti-Semite and Fascist apologist. There...
Can vehicles be returned to earth? Russia's recovery of its massive, animal-carrying satellite and the U.S.'s twin successes with Discoverer capsules proved that present re-entry systems work-sometimes. But manned space flight requires complete re-entry reliability, something neither Russia nor the U.S. can...
For its first six passes around the earth, Discoverer XIV looked sick. At the Air Force Ballistic Missile Division in Inglewood, Calif., the project officer, Colonel C. Lee Battle, listened gloomily as tracking reports filtered in. The news was bad: on only its second pass, Discoverer XIV started to pitch...
Dead Ahead. Four minutes after Discoverer's capsule dropped back toward earth at an electronic command. Captain Mitchell picked up radio signals and spotted its brightly colored parachute, dead ahead at 16,000 ft. Under his fuselage, in an inverted V, hung twin 38-ft. booms; between them, trapeze...
For his "feat of great national significance," Mitchell was promptly awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. And General Electric Co. hinted that a Discoverer capable of carrying a small primate-probably a chimpanzee-would be ready for firing into space within a month.