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KARL STERNBERG Belen, N. Mex...
...world's longest straightedge is the 6½-mile track at the Air Force Missile Development Center, N. Mex., which has started to flight-test missiles while they are still on the ground. The virtues of this system are many. Instead of destroying itself in a single flight, a missile shot along the track can be recovered undamaged and tested many more times. It can be timed accurately and photographed at close range...
Cover Girl. In Aztec, N. Mex., Sheriff Dan Sullivan missed two prisoners, peeked behind a big pinup picture in their cell, found a 10-by-14-in. hole cut into the quarter-inch steel wall...
Rush Decision. In Jal, N. Mex., Floy Wynn, editor and publisher of the weekly Record, suddenly decided to move the newspaper offices out of her home when she discovered that she was allergic to printer...
...conducted against the earth below. A relatively minor experiment that the Air Force told about last week showed that satellite-based aggression may not be so easy as it sounds. On the night of Oct. 16 a standard Aerobee research rocket was fired at Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. At 35 miles altitude the nose separated from the rest of the rocket and coasted up to 55 miles. Then the nose exploded, but in no ordinary way. Inside its aluminum skin it carried three 2-to 5-lb. "shaped charges" of explosive designed and fitted by Astronomer Fritz Zwicky...