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...ground. Astronaut Alan Shepard, the capsule communicator at Cape Canaveral, lost radio contact with Glenn. At the same time, other instruments tracking the capsule stopped registering. The blackout was predictable, caused by ionization from the heat of reentry. It lasted for seven minutes and 15 seconds. Then came John Glenn's exultant voice. "Boy!" he cried. "That was a real fireball...
...again he rode the giant centrifuge that multiplied gravitational pull to simulate the strains of take-off and landing. Despite his years, Glenn showed the least heart fluctuation of any astronaut. (At lift-off last week, Glenn's pulse rate was a relatively placid no beats per minute. Shepard's rate was 139 and Grissom's was 170 during their lift-offs. All three men normally register between 60 and 70 beats a minute.) At Glenn's suggestion, the astronauts received 5½ days of desert-survival instruction, just in case a capsule came down in the wrong place. Still...
...adult may well conclude that the savage world of childhood has been wonderfully pacified and cleaned up since he first heard those Grimm stories or Gulliver made his horrible travels. In The Happy Hunter (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard; $2.75), for example, Roger Duvoisin writes and draws about a Mr. Bobbin, a hunter who never shot any foxes, deer, raccoons, woodchucks, squirrel or quail. Duvoisin has the blessing of the Christian Science Monitor on the book's blurb, but it is going to be a traumatic moment for the Duvoisin reader when he graduates to Gunsmoke and learns that people shoot...
Therefore I nominate as Men of the Year Gagarin and Shepard, Grissom and Titov...
Sale of the House of the Good Shepard, a refuge for the rehabilitation of girls, was announced recently. Destruction of the three-story building will open more than 700 acres of land for University...