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...Force range at Cape Canaveral, Fla., where rockets bigger than the satellite get routine tests. A special launching pad has been built, and a special concrete blockhouse will shelter observers and testing crew. A greenish-colored gantry has been brought from White Sands Proving Ground to support the pencil-thin vehicle before it roars off toward space. Scientists gathering for the tests claim to be more worried about the sky-high cost of Florida living than about the performance of their hardware. In spite of many objections, the tests will be as secret as if the peaceful satellite were...
...Washington, D.C. . . . And what were the results? For one, Uncle Sam himself took up farming. Synthetic farmers behind Washington desks started telling farmers all over again what crops to plant, how much to grow ... the prices to charge. You know, farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the cornfield . . . The value of the Government stockpile of farm surpluses climbed to $9 billion. The cost of storage alone has been $1,000,000 a day-none of it going to the farmers and with farmers helping to pay the bill...
...many an arithmetical doodler snapped his pencil point with the news that President Eisenhower, on his first campaign swing through the country, had drawn crowds in Iowa-and particularly in Des Moines-that had never been equaled either in numbers or enthusiasm. Obviously the pundits had to find room for a special Eisenhower symbol. The 1956 election was not just an equation involving Republicans and Democrats. It was more a case of Ike on one side and all the Democrats on the other-with Ike, a very well-known quantity, ready to campaign to the nth power...
...Sons Take Over. Gunman López Pérez was a slight, short, pencil-mustachioed Nicaraguan who had worked until lately as a salesman of phonograph records in neighboring El Salvador. He could never reveal his motive: witnesses counted 20 bullet holes in his body. But as an occasional contributor to local newspapers, he had left at least one clue that hinted at an obsession for martyrdom. In a piece of literary criticism written ten days before for the León Cronista, López Pérez said: "Immortality is the aim of life and of glorious...
Though pad-and-pencil newsmen competed briskly with the electronic press at the scene of the news, each getting constantly in the other's way, there was actually no competition between the TV screen and the printed word. They supplemented each other. When it came to speed and high fidelity to the news at the instant it was breaking, TV was in a class of its own. By the same token, for those who could not spend hours before a TV screen or who wanted the story rounded up and interpreted, readable at their own pace and convenience...