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Sweating It Out. As Discoverer XIII roared off Vandenberg's launching pad last week, it looked exactly like its predecessors. But one important modification had been made. Speculating that previous re-entry failures had been caused by malfunction of tiny rockets designed to stabilize the satellite in orbit-by causing it to spin like a bullet-Lockheed Aircraft Corp. engineers had replaced the rockets with gas jets, anxiously prayed they had guessed right. In the console-banked control room at Sunnyvale, Calif., Air Force Colonel Charles G. ("Moose") Mathison paced the floor while monitoring the countdown and alerting...
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was described by a recent visitor as "totally preoccupied" with the possibility that Stevenson might become Democratic Secretary of State and launch a "soft" policy on Berlin. Throbbing with suspicion, Adenauer fortnight ago sent his press chief, Felix von Eckhardt, to the U.S. to sound out Adlai's chances. (Eckhardt's conclusion, after seeing Kennedy, Stevenson, former New York Governor Averell Harriman, and "using my ears, not my mouth": nobody knows right...
...control of the warheads. The keys symbolize and make concrete that joint control. Actually, there are two sets of keys, one held by a U.S. officer, another by an R.A.F. officer. There are three keys in each set, one for each of the three missiles in each squadron. The launching process cannot begin until the R.A.F. officer inserts his key into the slot in the control board marked Launch Sequence (bottom center). The warhead cannot be activated until the U.S. offi cer inserts his key in the War-Peace slot (upper left), thus complying with U.S. law that...
Leaving the frustrated and fuming Belgians behind, Hammarskjold turned down the offer of a Belgian jet to Leopoldville, boarded instead a KLM DC-7 to neutral Brazzaville, across the river in French Congo. Crossing the river in a launch, he soon was confronting the Congolese Cabinet. Prodded by sharp telegrams from Lumumba, the Cabinet insistently demanded that Hammarskjold use force if necessary to clear the Belgian troops out of Katanga...
Died. Richard Leo Simon, 61, co-founder with M. Lincoln Schuster of Simon & Schuster, Inc. publishing house, a former piano and book salesman who in 1924 helped launch the firm with the world's first crossword-puzzle collection (an immediate bestseller now in its 84th edition), concentrated largely on nonfiction and self-improvement works (Wendell Willkie's One World, Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People), pioneered paperback publication with Pocket Books in 1939; of a heart attack; in Stamford, Conn...