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...Reading TIME, I came across the cartoon in which Ham, the chimpanzee who recently made a successful space voyage, was explaining to the three space astronauts about space flight, saying...
...Project Mercury has, so far, no reliability record. Its man-carrying capsules have been lobbed in short arcs, one of them carrying the live chimp, Ham, but none has gone into orbit. Project Mercury apparently intends to send one of its astronauts on a short, Hamlike rocket ride in a month or so. This will be an achievement of sorts, risky for the astronaut, but it will not compare in difficulty with a real descent from an earth orbit...
...Ham-handed Illinois Farm Boy Howard Werkheiser, 21, came to Washington last week with five other 4-H Club members to make a "report to the nation." Howard wasted no time. He cornered Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman and told him succinctly: "The Government is no good for farmers." Said Howard later: "I didn't sass him or nothin'. I told him the Government should try to get out of the farming picture in ten or 15 years-slowly. The hog market has no price supports and they're doing fine, but the corn market...
Though melodrama is accused of exaggerating emotions, he said, it is really the "naturalism of the dream world" "We are all ham actors in our dreams, and melodrama is not an exaggeration of dreams, but an imitation of them...
...initial manned flight is scheduled-perhaps in two months-one of the three will be chosen to ride a Redstone-borne capsule on a relatively short 16-minute trip: about 115 miles up, 300 miles out over the Atlantic (essentially the same voyage made recently by the chimpanzee Ham...