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With a shore-shaking roar, an 85-ft. Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile shot from its Cape Canaveral launching pad in Florida one afternoon last week, less than two minutes later ignominiously exploded. The failure of the missile (control-system malfunction, officials explained) was bad enough; worse, this Atlas was the first fully powered U.S.-made ICBM to be flight-tested. It carried for the first time a wedge-shaped tactical nose cone capable of carrying a hydrogen-bomb warhead, and it was powered by three engines that burned simultaneously from the moment of ignition and generated more than...
...club's rolls to anybody a chapter voted to invite, made community service rather than business the organization's avowed goal. Taking the noble lion as his symbol, Jones injected a cubbish mood by teaching the boys to sing such rousing tunes as the official Roar, Lion, Roar at almost any meal. Though many a Rotarian and no few Kiwanians would continue to frown down upon lively Lions, the Jones ideas infected the older clubs (the Kiwanis motto has been changed from "We Trade" to "We Build"), and the Lions thrived first in the U.S., then in Canada...
...victory over paralytic poliomyelitis has been substantially achieved. The plans, said O'Connor, "have been many years in the making." He might have added that ever since the Salk vaccine, developed with N.F.I.P. funds, was recognized as a weapon capable of preventing the worst ravages of polio, the roar of speculation about what the foundation would do next has been almost loud enough to drown out the annual March of Dimes (354 million this year...
Died. Evelyn Varden, 65, character actress whose career began in childhood, ended in January when she left the company of the London hit comedy Roar Like A Dove; first Mrs. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder's Our Town (other stage credits: Russet Mantle, Candle in the Wind), cinemactress (The Bad Seed, Cheaper By The Dozen), radio serialist, familiar player on live dramatic TV; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Cocoa was gone; its right wing dug into the ground as its uplifted left wing snapped into high tension wires strung 70 ft. above the ground. About 45 seconds after the big aircraft had begun rolling, it skittered through fields, bounced across the Massachusetts Turnpike, exploded with a shattering roar. A fireball rose in the night; the overcast trapped the light and held it until it turned a dark orange. The crew, the general, the observers, the newsmen-died instantly. Men on the flight line at Westover froze into a stunned shock for an instant, then sprang to rescue stations...