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Things get going in Desert Hole, N. Mex. (elevation 1 ft.), where Jerry is the flag-stop-station attendant and Dean is what barely passes for an M.D. One day Jerry, stranded in the desert, spots a used-car dump and goes helling home in a rod that is hotter than he knows-a car used to test the effects of radiation in an atomic explosion at nearby Los Alamos and still labeled "Radioactive." Actually, the contamination has worn off. but when Jerry sees the label he collapses...
...epic makers-72-year-old Cecil B. DeMille. It is a remake of his first big Biblical movie, made in 1923, though the present Ten Commandments is a straight biography of Moses while the older version paralleled the Bible story with a contemporary drama of lust and greed (starring Rod La Rocque, Richard Dix and Nita Naldi). Although responsible for such other triumphs as The King of Kings (1927) and The Sign of the Cross (1933), DeMille never before has given Scripture such a generous helping hand; the new Ten Commandments will cost an estimated $6,000,000 to make...
Forethought & Combat. Officially, Douglas calls its new A4D the Skyhawk, but within the company, the plane is called the "Heinemann Hot-Rod," after Designer Edward H. Heinemann, 46, boss engineer at Douglas' El Segundo plant and builder of such combat work horses as World War II's twin-engine A26 (now B26) and Korea's single-engine Navy AD Skyraider. For years Heinemann has been arguing that U.S. planes are too heavy, too expensive and too complicated. They are victims of what he calls "tack-hammer engineering-tacking extra things onto airplanes that, with a little forethought...
...putting them in the cockpit to confuse him further." The cockpit of the A4D is as simple and uncluttered as a fledgling pilot's first trainer, though Heinemann shies away from the words "stripped down." The necessary equipment, he says, is all there, but more compact. The Hot-Rod's air-conditioning unit weighs only a third of those on conventional fighters, the ejection seat goes down through the floor instead of using the more complicated explosive mechanism needed to blast it up over the tail. By making the plane smaller all around, Heinemann has been able...
Sloan Safety Awards (Sun. 3:30 p.m., NBC). Bambi Linn and Rod Alexander illustrate how to drive safely...