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Arrogant Tirade. As if all this were not enough, Castro picked last week to launch an arrogant tirade against the U.S. In a defiant letter to Acting U.N. Secretary-General U Thant, he rashly threatened to shoot down U.S. reconnaissance planes that have been keeping a daily watch on Cuba, fiercely attacked the U.S. for "typically Hitlerite methods." and restated his refusal to allow any "national or international" group to inspect Cuban territory...
Precisely as planned, the 550-ton, eight-engine rocket rose ponderously from its launch pad and thundered into the sky. Last week's flight from Cape Canaveral was the third faultless test of the mammoth, 162-ft. Saturn, prototype of the giant rockets that the U.S. hopes will carry an American to the moon by 1967 or 1968. But even as Saturn was moving toward success in the sky, the U.S. man-to-the-moon program was in earthly trouble. It stemmed from the clashing personalities and ideas of the project's two top officials...
...Louis, at McDonnell Aircraft Corp., makers of the Mercury and Gemini space capsules, strict limits have been set against overtime work. » In Maryland the Martin Marietta Corp. has laid off 225 men who were working on the Titan II booster, the rocket that will launch Gemini. » In Houston, home of the Manned Spacecraft Center, one official declared: "I thought we were in a race. My God, we've got guys going out of their minds down here trying to get things going." » At the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., Saturn Boss Wernher von Braun...
...what looks like a vain effort to convince the National Aeronautics and Space Agency that she should be the first woman in a space capsule, Aviatrix Jerrie Cobb, 31, told a Washington women's club that she was being given the runaround. The Russians, she said, may soon launch a Mongolian woman into orbit ("They are a small, hardy race used to high altitudes"), while the first space-bound U.S. female may be a chimpanzee. "There's a $1,000,000 budget for a place called Chimp College, New Mexico," said the angry Jerrie, "where at least...
...school tie is 24-year-old David Benedictus. Brought out in England last June to coincide with the date of the school's fanciest annual party (from which it takes its title), the book caused a small but predictable stir. Liberal reviewers used it to launch an impassioned appeal for school reform. Conservative critics, many of them older Etonians than the author, shrilly denounced him for sensationalism. They were offended by an incident in which a student sells his handsome younger brother to the rowing eight, and objected to Benedictus' portrayal of the bishop as a voyeur...