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...Fort Eustace, Va. a helmeted engineer from Bell Aerosystems Co. leaped a truck with a "rocket belt." With 100 lbs. of tanks, tubes and nozzles strapped to his back, he began his flight by flexing his knees and turning a valve. With an earsplitting racket, superheated steam from decomposing hydrogen peroxide jetted out of two down-pointed nozzles and slowly lifted him off the ground. In a 15-sec. flight he cleared the Army truck and made a perfect two-foot landing 150 ft. from his takeoff. The Army, which is paying for Bell's Rocket Belt, is still...
...Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing Club; and two small-change L.A. hoods. The convictions meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver's proposal won heavyweight support from a quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case...
...shoot it down with a three-stage Nike Zeus rocket. All this will be automatic, and it will happen too quickly for human hand or brain to follow. To complicate the procedure still further, the Army's scientists expect the various radars to raise such an electronic racket that stand ard communication signals from Kwajalein will be drowned out. Radio messages for the outside world will first pass through a submarine cable, then be put on the air at comparatively quiet Gugeegue island...
...endless, heart-stopping moment, the tall, slim rocket hung motionless -incredibly balanced above its incandescent tail. Slowly it climbed the sky, outracing the racket of its engine as it screamed toward space. In the returning silence, the amplified thump of an electronic timer beat like a pulse across the sands of Florida's Cape Canaveral. The pulse of the nation beat with it. For this was no routine rocket shoot. Riding that long, white missile as it soared aloft last week was Navy Commander Alan B. Shepard Jr., first U.S. astronaut ever fired into space. And riding with...
...many flies would alight on it. In 1944, General Eisenhower bet ?5 that his troops would reach the German border by Christmas-but lost. Al Capone, a madman at gambling, drew the line only at the stock market. Said he: "It's a racket...