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Even while on its Florida launching pad, the Army's satellite Explorer (official scientific name: 1958 Alpha) insistently broadcast its hoarse radio cry. Ten minutes after takeoff, Antigua in the British West Indies heard it soar triumphantly overhead. Fifteen minutes later it was radio-tracked over Ghana on the west coast of Africa. Around the earth it swept, but not until it passed homebound over California-nearly two hours after it left the ground-were the scientists sure that their bird was in a stable orbit...
...Friday before the Sunday show, the hotel was growing tense. The poolside restaurant, its high glass walls plastered with brown wrapping paper, was now a TV control room, sporting a DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE sign, and sprouting cable everywhere. Fifteen Cuban cops guarded the equipment through the night. Guest Star Mamie Van Doren and Singer Steve Lawrence toiled at synchronizing their lips with songs they had recorded in Manhattan to avoid technical hitches on the Cuban location. Producer Bill Harbach and his staff kept auditioning local talent, came up with bongo beaters, a singing quartet and a dancer named Tybee Afra...
...Fifteen scientists and two laymen who contributed most to the conquest of polio were named by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis to be honored in a hall of fame to be unveiled at Warm Springs, Ga. Leading the list of scientists is Jacob von Heine, first to describe the disease clearly in a book published in Stuttgart in 1840; windup man is inevitably Jonas E. Salk. The laymen: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foundation President Basil O'Connor...
...have been completed this year and are delivering civilian power; the Shippingport plant will be No. 5. One of these plants has been financed entirely by private capital, and seven other full-scale plants likewise are scheduled to be built by private capital without any direct Government financial contribution. Fifteen other atomic power plants, for civilian use, are presently under actual construction, or contracts have been entered into and design work is under way. All this has come about in 4½ years...
Harris, has spent the last six months examining the nation's educational problems. Writing in the United Press story, he predicted a 150 per cent increase in enrollment for public institutions and a 50 per cent increase for private institutions in the next fifteen years. These rises in enrollment, he stated, will increase total expenditures for public education by 200 per cent...