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...pictures of U.S. officeworkers wearing gas masks and rubber gloves while pecking away at typewriters during a chemical-warfare exercise to a shot of a live American MIRV (three nuclear warheads mounted on the nose cone of a Minuteman III missile). Understated ironies abounded. A fresh-faced American missileman exclaimed with Boy Scout enthusiasm that his task of getting ready to launch a Minuteman at a Soviet target gave him "more responsibility than I could obtain in a civilian world." Commenting on film showing a C-5A cargo plane losing a wheel during a landing, a Lockheed official remarked. "With...
...delight of photographers, Lady Bird donned a missileman's hard hat at a jaunty angle while Center Director Wernher von Braun clapped on his own head a Texas-style hat the President had given him on a recent visit to the L.B.J. ranch. At a cafeteria-style luncheon, she picked up the check for 59 of her visiting Alabama "kissin' cousins." She could hardly keep them straight, and small wonder. After all, her Alabama grandmother on her father's side had been married four times and had 13 children. She asked "Uncle John" Patillo, of Billingsley...
Engineer G. Corry McDonald of Sandia Corp., Albuquerque, is sure that an old-fashioned approach will solve the problem of the modern missileman. McDonald's advice to his colleagues: Go back to the launching method used by Jules Verne in his From the Earth to the Moon. Verne's fictional spaceship of 1865 was fired out of a giant cannon-and the shot would have failed, for several reasons. For one thing, air resistance would have slowed the moon-bound vehicle. But McDonald argues for a sophisticated, factual approach to the Verne fiction...
...Countdown for Decision (Putnam; $5), Missileman Medaris (who quit the Army for a while to try his hand at business before World War II) shoots from the hip at targets all along the Potomac. Among them...
...Stars(Charles H.Schneer; Columbia), which opened in Washington at a benefit attended by the First Lady and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, aims to tell the life story of Wernher von Braun, the German-born rocket expert who has become the best-known U.S. missileman. The picture starts with some noisy experimentation conducted by a teen-aged Von Braun (somewhat less than convincingly portrayed by a middle-aged Curt Jurgens), then cuts to Peenemunde, a remote marsh in western Prussia where the Wehrmacht in 1937 established a Raketenentwicklungszentrale for the German rocket buffs. Von Braun, then only...