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...really, as it turns out. The Khyber Pass becomes old West Injun country, British regimentals become U.S. cavalrymen, and Gunga Din's tame elephant becomes Sammy Davis' big white mule. But Sinatra is no Grant, Dean Martin no McLaglen, and Peter Lawford, a man who looks undressed when not surrounded by a drawing room, is assuredly no Fairbanks. The Clansmen loaf kiddingly through their parts, acquiring suntans. No one, of course, bothers to look bothered as the hostiles approach. Such expressions as are evident reflect the sudsy affability of a pipe fitters' picnic (Hey, get a load...
...bass drum spangled with bright solar cells and patches of white paint. Perched on top of it like the gobs of a three-scoop ice cream cone were a polished aluminum sphere, the Naval Research Laboratory's Greb III solar radiation satellite, and a smaller drum named Injun, built at Dr. James Van Allen's laboratory at the State University of Iowa. Boosted aloft by a Thor-Able-Star rocket, all three satellites soared into space together. Though the launch was successful, the strong springs, meant to shove the satellites apart to follow separate orbits around the earth...
...Injun is one of those miracles of miniaturization for which Van Allen's lab (TIME cover, May 4, 1959) is famous. It weighs only 40 lbs., but packed inside are instruments to measure particles circulating around the earth in the two Van Allen radiation belts, to count fresh particles arriving from the sun or distant space, and to observe several kinds of light from airglow and auroras. Greb III (155 lbs.) is simpler; it is part of the Navy's long-term effort to study solar radiation that ionizes the atmosphere and effects radio transmission...
Tears for Injun...
Your story on Caryl Chessman [Feb. 29] brought to mind Mark Twain's comments in Tom Sawyer: "The petition [for Injun Joe's pardon] had been largely signed; many tearful and eloquent meetings had been held, and a committee of sappy women been appointed to go in deep mourning and wail around the Governor, and implore him to be a merciful ass and trample his duty under foot. Injun Joe was believed to have killed five citizens of the village, but what of that? If he had been Satan himself, there would have been plenty of weaklings ready...