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...range. Atlas has 300,000 parts, is so thin-skinned that it must be pressurized to stand upright; its three engines, simultaneously ignited on the ground, can generate a total thrust of between 300,000 and 400,000 lbs., or roughly what it took the Soviets to put up Sputnik II; its snub nose cone is designed to withstand the intense heat of reentry into the earth's atmosphere. Because Atlas got a later start than its Russian opposite number, its single-stage design is more modern, more foolproof than the ponderous three-stage Russian ICBM...
...shot a manned missile into space. For, despite such hedged headlines as the New York Daily News's REDS SAY ROCKET MAN ROSE 186 MI., it was palpably clear from the start that 1) the Reds had said no such thing, and 2) the coming of the Sputnik has infected even seasoned editors with the urge to hitch headlines to almost any misguided missile...
...Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
...signal from some kind of space vehicle." In A.P.'s second story British Broadcasting Corp. engineers pronounced that the signal was probably earthbound. The A.P. finally traced the beep to the "electronic groan" of an idling Russian teleprinter on the 20-megacycle band used by the Sputniks. (The teleprinter was on 20.025 mc.; the Sputnik frequency...
...Sputnik Sighted...