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TIME cover stories have been concerned with the comic-strip world twice before; in 1947, we presented Milton Caniff, who was then about to launch Steve Canyon, and in 1950 we ventured into Dogpatch with Al Capp. Since those days, the comics have gone through a slump as well as a renaissance. For some time now, the editors have been considering the comics' new style. More and more the strips are offering political satire, psychology, and comments of varying subtlety on the rages and outrages of everyday life...
...blistering statement: "Outrages like this will only reinforce the determination of the American people and Government to continue and to strengthen their assistance and support for the people and government of Viet Nam." Johnson, Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy decided not to launch any massive attack against North Viet Nam in specific retaliation for the bombing. After a long session with the President, Ambassador Taylor said: "We are simply going to stay on our program of doing what we did before. We've just got to do what we have been doing more...
...which own 50%, to little investors all over the U.S. It has been watched with proprietary sternness by legislators and the White House, poked and prodded by Wall Street and followed with intense interest by millions of Americans. This week all eyes are on Comsat as it attempts to launch its first communications satellite, called Early Bird, from Cape Kennedy. If the shot is successful, Early Bird will soon provide the world's first regular commercial communications via earth satellite; if anything goes wrong, the shot will be repeated within three months...
...either case, the 85-lb. Early Bird is destined for a high orbit (22,300 miles above the Atlantic at the equator), will eventually transmit TV broadcasts and telephone messages between Europe and North America. Within 40 hours after launch, it is scheduled to be in position, orbiting at the same speed as the earth's rotation and thus, in effect, providing a stationary relay station in space. After several days of testing, it will beam a series of international telecasts. Then its 240 two-way voice channels will be switched on for telephone calls-Comsat's first...
Comsat has a lot riding on the Early Bird launch-a $3,000,000 investment in the satellite, $3,300,000 paid to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to make the shot. The corporation also hopes to determine before the year is out which of three satellite systems-Early Bird or two medium-altitude systems-to use in the eventual global network. Even if successful, Early Bird will not mean any quick profits for the corporation. Last week, in an annual report to 190,000 stockholders, the company's officials cautioned that "no assumptions as to the amount...