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...meet the June deadline, when the first Mariner of a series of three would have to be ready at Caoe Canaveral, the lab worked furiously. The designers used the basic frame of the ill-starred Ranger, added equipment needed for the longer voyage to Venus, and used the remaining weight allowance for as many observing instruments as could be squeezed in. Tests were run on every part, arguments raged. Pickering presided calmly and quietly over the melee. He commuted back and forth to NASA's Washington headquarters on the night plane, the "Red Eye," carrying reassurance in both directions...
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...space exploration got a setback last week when the $10 million, gold-and chrome-plated Ranger V moon probe ran out of electric power before it neared the moon. The launch was perfect, but the spacecraft's solar-powered electric system did not deliver the necessary juice. After 8 hr. 44 min. of flight, Ranger V went dead. Though it may pass close to its target, it will be able to make no observations. Ten more Rangers are scheduled for the vital duty of exploring the moon by instrument before men try to land there...
...Vietnamese Ranger company landed in the nearest clearing, but three hours later they were only halfway to the crash. First man on the scene was another Navy medic, who shinnied down a rope from a helicopter hovering over the wreckage. Three men were beyond help; four of the five survivors died in their litters as they were slowly and stealthily carried through the Red-infested territory to the hospital in Nhatrang. Only the pilot lived to tell the story, and he could not tell much. Apparently there had been no enemy gunfire; the chopper had entered a cloud bank...
Died. Francis H. (Fran) Striker, 59, author of the saga of the masked rider of the plains. The Lone Ranger, by far the most enduring of all western radio heroes; in a head-on automobile collision near his home in Arcade. N.Y. Striker first conceived of the straight-shooting lawman in 1930, and the first episode was broadcast by Detroit radio station WXYZ in 1933. Until the program went off radio nine years ago (it is now a regular television feature). Striker, who sold the rights to Lone Ranger, continued to write the scripts. He turned out some...