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Space pioneer of the week: a male Latin American squirrel monkey. Strapped into a rubber-padded chamber in the nose cone of a Jupiter intermediate-range ballistic missile, the bright-eyed, bushy-tailed beast, Little Old Reliable by name, made space-research history as the first higher mammal to travel hundreds of miles into space, where only a Russian dog and U.S. mice had gone before. Purpose of the test: to gather data on how a human might fare in space flight. Reasons for picking a squirrel monkey: small size-Little Old Reliable weighed less than 1 lb.-and close...
...billion spent on toys. Among Revell's new models for Christmas buying: a three-stage manned rocket to the moon (price: $1.98) and a Jupiter-C intermediate-range missile (price $1.98). To attract girls, there will be $1.98 life-size models of Walt Disney's squirrel Perri, a tiny koala bear and a beagle puppy, each with three bags of fur and a sprayer to apply the coat...
...home folks in dusty Uvalde, a loyal guard of political cronies, including ex-President Harry Truman, House Speaker Sam Rayburn, Senator Lyndon Johnson. In fine gabby fettle, Visitor Truman hailed his host as "the greatest presiding officer the Senate ever had," much better, in fact, than "the squirrel head we have now. I'm talking about Mr. Nixon," he beamed. While newsmen eavesdropped, salty Cactus Jack compared notes with Truman ("I loved Roosevelt," murmured Garner, who broke with the boss over the third-term issue, "but I didn't want any Czars for president"), lamented: "They never gave...
...Lumbees were restless because the Klan had burned two crosses as warnings to Indians to keep their place. (Backward Robeson County has three-way segregation in schools.) Despite the gentle protests of their elders, and of community officials around the county, many of the Lumbees calmly began to polish squirrel rifles and knives. Rumors ran that ammunition and other arms were selling at a fast clip in neighborhood shops. When the Klan sent around handbills announcing a rally in a field near Maxton, the Indians fixed their zero hour...
...rabbit, skunk and black Manchurian dog under such misleading names as Arctic seal, Alaska sable and Belgium lynx. As burned buyers learned to fear the fur, the trend to suburban living-with its more casual dress-trimmed the market more. Women also became choosier. Many passed up muskrat, squirrel, and other less expensive furs for good cloth coats-or waited until they could afford mink. By 1953 fur sales were scraping bottom at $250 million...