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...news quickly flashed across the world: the Air Force's 85-ft. 8,600-lb. ICBM Atlas had been fired, not in a trajectory whose end was a watery South Atlantic target but into the skies. Its tape recording of President Eisenhower's greetings heralded the beginning of worldwide communications through outer space. Earlier U.S. satellites were fired in stages, dropped sections after burnout, and finally flung small instrumented payloads into orbit around the earth. But somehow there was greater impact in the fact that the body of the Atlas went up in one piece, was circling...
MISSILES: Asked about the report from Minnesota's Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey that the Russians have developed an 8,700-mile missile (see Democrats), the President replied: "I would know no reason whatsoever why this could not be done. We have also tested successfully an ICBM of sufficient range...
Khrushchev's other highly touted "secret," relayed via Humphrey, was that Russia has built an ICBM with a 14,000-km. (8,700 miles) range, but has yet to test it. Ike was not surprised at the range, since such a distance is within theoretical reach of the rocket engines that powered Sputnik. The President was more interested in Humphrey's report on Khrushchev's general manner, physical appearance, tone of voice. Democrat Humphrey left the President's office to savor the experience of occupying the center of the world's biggest Republican news stage...
Achievement of such a range would surpass the best ICBM effort so far--the Atlas which the Air Force hurled 6,325 miles on Nov. 28. It also would put almost all the United States within reach of Soviet weapons...
...lands major new defense orders. Navy cut orders of Martin Sea Master jet seaplanes from 24 to 14 (saving: $60 million to $70 million). Also, Martin is prime contractor for Vanguard and Titan missiles, which may be scrubbed. Vanguard has performed below expectations; Titan was intended to backstop Atlas ICBM, which is doing splendidly...