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Meet Paul McCartney at 50. Or nearly: he hits the mid-century mark on June 18. It's been a little more than two decades since the Beatles, the biggest pop phenomenon ever, broke up. Yet even now the baby-faced member of the quartet who sent girls into spasms of screaming ecstasy on The Ed Sullivan Show back in 1964 is still "the cute one." His stylishly long hair has gone salt-and-pepper. When he smiles, crinkles arc downward from his hazel eyes. He wears loose vests even though there doesn't seem to be any pudge...
...thinking, what's this article going to be called?" McCartney asks gamely with a grin. "My bet's on 'Paul at Fifty' so that everyone can go, 'What? Jeez-us Curr-hrist! He's fifty! He isn't, is he? Bloody hell! That makes me old!' That's what they want. They want to use me as a gauge." He laughs and winks. "So use me as a gauge, and have a good time, and thank you very much for noticing...
...gauge. Clever of McCartney to pick that theme. The Beatles, after all, personified the 1960s. Their songs reflected a generation's passage from '50s innocence to '70s disillusionment, from teen love to psychedelic drugs and mysticism. The four clean-cut boys in pudding-basin haircuts who sang of love (yeah, yeah, yeah) became the tortured souls of Let It Be. The other half of the Beatles' famous writing team, John Lennon, is dead, struck down by the gun of a crazed fan in 1980; as a result, Lennon's contributions to the Beatles have taken on mythic proportions...
Turning 50, McCartney is a man who has learned to live with the snide , remarks about his brassy American wife Linda, with the accusation that he caused the Beatles breakup in 1970 and with Lennon's hurtful comments that he was a boring prig who wrote only Muzak. "I still get wounded," he says, "but I've come to the point where I tell myself, 'Give yourself a break. No one else will.' I like ballads. I like babies. I like happy endings. They say domesticity is the enemy of art, but I don't think...
...Challenger tragedy six years ago, the space agency put a premium on caution -- but only up to a point. NASA's top ranks are dominated by gung-ho former astronauts who are determined to keep launches on a tight schedule. An apparent victim of that policy is FORREST MCCARTNEY, director of the Kennedy Space Center, who was forced out last month after he twice refused to approve a final "go for launch" because of safety concerns. Both flights went smoothly after the problems were fixed -- in one case a hydrogen-fuel leak and in another a warped hinge and latch...