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Screenplay by Melissa Mathison, Jeanne Rosenberg, William D. Wittliff...
...producing specials on Hughes. The British Broadcasting Corp. and CTV are teaming up to produce a 90-minute dramatized documentary. Seven books are in the works, including a William Morrow edition titled His Weird and Wanton Ways: The Secret of Howard Hughes, by Richard Mathison...
...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 his worldwide tracking network. After launch, Mathison waited tensely for word that Discoverer was in orbit, broke into a grin at the happy news: Discoverer XIII was on a nearperfect circular course, only .003 of a degree off its predicted route...
...COVER) Television monitors glared eerily in the darkened U.S. Air Force command post at Sunnyvale, Calif. At a winking control console sat Lieut. Colonel Charles Glenn Mathison, commander of the 6,$4Qth Test Wing (Satellite), listening through earphones to the crackle of reports from a vast communications network. Mathison made a final check with radar tracking stations scattered around the earth. All were ready. From Cape Canaveral, Fla. came the word: "RF system ready." At T minus 10 seconds, "Moose" Mathison gave Canaveral the go-ahead: "Ready to launch." Canaveral's countdown neared its end: ". . . eight, seven, six, five...
...pilots scoured the bleak, white mountains for eight days (TIME, April 27). The search-in which residents of a local Russian mining community participated on their own-was halted after the arrival of Colonel Theodore Tatum, air-rescue boss for the Air Force in Europe, and Lieut. Colonel Charles Mathison, member of the Discoverer II launching team. The two discussed the hunt with local authorities in Spitzbergen's tiny capital of Longyearbyen, questioned the three men who had seen the chute, took a quick whirlybird look for themselves, and flew on home...