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...safety officer pressed a button to destroy it. Atlas II started off promisingly. In its straight-up flight, lasting 20 seconds or so, it seemed to be, in the missilemen's term, "programing" perfectly, i.e., doing what its makers and tenders expected. But as it arched into its southeastward course, the tail fire glowed too dark, and the bird faltered. The turbine pumps were failing to feed the right mixture of fuel, and because among those 300,000 delicately tooled parts there could be no human hand to make the needed adjustment, Atlas II was doomed...
...morning last week. At count down's end, fire flashed at its base, and the monster slowly rose into the air, a pencil of orange flame lengthening behind it. Straight up it rocketed, gathering speed. Several miles up in the bright blue sky, it arched gracefully into a southeastward course, dwindled to a speck and then, 2¼ minutes after rising from its pad, disappeared out over the Atlantic, hurtling on toward a faraway watery target...
...whistled southeastward out of Oakland, Calif. in his T-33 jet one day last May, Air Force Lieut. David Steeves, like any pilot, could survey the earth beneath him with something of detached contempt. Traveling at better than 500 m.p.h., he seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow...
...unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny vacation shore the Bird will be fired, minus its warhead, on an 1,800-mile test shot southeastward across tropic islands and into an empty...
...defense position is more impressive. Under the strategic plan pushed by the British ever since their evacuation of Suez, the main Middle East defense line would be established along the rugged Zagros mountain range which runs from eastern Turkey southeastward along the north shore of the Persian Gulf. This line, the British argue, is "the only reasonably defensible terrain," can be supplied readily from Iraq, and they figure they could fly in an armored division from Libya, Jordan or Cyprus in less than three weeks after a Russian attack was launched...