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...rolling hills of Santa Clara County, 60 miles southeast of San Francisco, a man-made volcano erupted. A brilliant flame spewed 200 ft. in the air, and a screaming roar rolled across the country, knocking birds to the ground and shaking a helicopter that hovered a mile away. The eruption was over in less than two minutes, but its reverberations would shake more than helicopters. This was the first test of United Aircraft Corp.'s big, new solid-fuel rocket engine, and it was completely successful. Partisans of solid fuel will cite it proudly in claiming for solids...
...disgruntled workers, professional saboteurs and gunmen-may number less than 400, though Venezuelan far left parties claim 60,000 members. Hardly a day goes by without an irritating reminder of the F.A.L.N.'s existence. Last week a main gas pipeline into Caracas went up in a blast of flame; a major bridge on the highway 25 miles east of the capital was destroyed by dynamite; and four soldiers were killed in an F.A.L.N. ambush in the eastern mountains. So it has gone for more than a year-a government freighter hijacked, banks robbed, policemen murdered, hotels bombed...
...countdown went almost perfectly. At 8:04 a.m. (E.S.T.), just four minutes past schedule, the three main engines of Cooper's silvery Atlas thundered to life with lightning-white flame. There was never any doubt about the success of the launching, and as he soared into space, Gordon Cooper, the most reticent of the astronauts, was exultant. "Boy, this is beautiful," he radioed. "Boy oh boy. It looks that pretty. Boy oh boy." On the ground. Cape Communicator Schirra was also elated. "You got a real sweet trajectory, Gordo," he advised. "You're right smack...
...vivacious Princess Christina, 19, airborne 16 times as friends and classmates helped celebrate her graduation from the French School in Stockholm. Proud wit nesses to the traditional toss-up were Grandfather King Gustav, 80, bearing a bouquet and Mother Princess Sibylle, 55. Christina kissed them goodbye, jumped into a flame-red Chevy convertible to tour streets jammed with well-wishers, then whizzed along to a champagne party. The fun-loving princess-bound for Radcliffe next autumn-looked like a girl who would fit right in at Cambridge...
...keeps telling me that I really agree with him; can't help liking that man, a leader of the Senate, Hubert Humphrey. She teaches girls to be women and inspires our sons to deserve such ladies: President of Radcliffe Dr. Mary I. Bunting. He has kept the flame of Christian hope alive for his people under two tyrannies, Naziism and Communism: Bishop Otto Dibelius. Compact car with a 500-horsepower engine, the Governor of Michigan, George Romney. Beauty is her business, and every woman here and every man knows it: Elizabeth Arden. In painting, I know what I like...