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...ever had to demonstrate. While people around the world listened with deep anxiety, Major Cooper seemed cooler than any man on earth. Finally, he piloted his craft into the atmosphere, and his communications blacked out. After four minutes of excruciating silence from space, he was sighted by radar-and moments later, a roar of triumph came from sailors aboard the carrier Kearsarge, 115 miles east-southeast of Midway. Four miles off the port bow, Cooper's orange and white chute floated down through a brilliant blue sky. He was safe-he had done what his equipment could...
...computer experts cursed at the refusal of a simple, 275-h.p. diesel engine to start so that the servicing gantry could be rolled away from the poised missile. Although the diesel finally was repaired, the launch was scrubbed at T-minus-13 because of trouble with a vital tracking radar at Bermuda. Cooper could only have been disappointed by the delay, but as he walked slowly away from the missile, he summoned up a grin. "I was," he said, "just getting to the real fun part...
Today, the U.S. maintains some 4,500 military personnel in Thailand. They help build roads, fly helicopters and operate U.S.-Thai radar stations. One group of Navy Seabees is building a 6000-yard jet airstrip near the frontier with Laos...
...announcer is seeking a home for a clerk who has changed into a spotted dog. "The government is also investigating reports that several people have turned into-quaawk-have turned into . . ." and he trails off into a long rooster cackle. Very popular is a hat with a small rotating radar antenna built into its crown. "It's my four-minute early-warning hat," explains its owner. "Gives me that extra minute...
Oddest structure will be the Meeting Center-looking like a mammoth radar dish from below and half a grapefruit from above-which will contain a 750-seat auditorium, a 300-seat conference room, plus several smaller conference rooms and exhibit space for state government units. At the south end will be a shrine: the Arch of Freedom, in which the original of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation will be on display. In the same area will be a museum, a library, the state archives building, and an outdoor amphitheater. Automobiles will be banished to the nether regions. Vehicles will unload...