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Hardly was the Atlas' bright orange tail lost from view when officials rushed to telephones in a concrete blockhouse 750 ft. from the launching pad. Out went the news to the White House, where President Eisenhower replied "good" to word of Atlas' second successful launching in less than a month. Another call flashed the news across the continent to the San Diego headquarters of Convair, builder of the Atlas. And in a small office on Manhattan's Park Avenue, yet another call came to Frank Pace Jr., 45, president of General Dynamics Corp., the giant industrial complex...
...Malenkov, Stalin's designated successor?all were shipped off to obscure posts in remote areas. The dictator jounced off to visit the Czechs. In Slovakia, he airily dismissed the anti-party group: "As they say, a scabby sheep got into a good flock. We took the sheep by the tail and chucked...
...views, though the expression of that satisfaction varied from spiteful to appreciative. Gloated the pro-government Frankfurter Neue Presse: "The conference turned into an uprising of the continental Europeans against ... the U.S." In more balanced appraisal, London's News Chronicle reported with quiet satisfaction that "the European tail has wagged the American dog to a new and unprecedented degree...
...rocket-We do not see the rocket that is carrying our satellite-The rocket may not have gotten off-There is a very large black smoke cloud-a very large black area around the location that the explosion occurred." By then the Vanguard had dropped dismally back on its tail, its nose section askew; it had burst into varicolored fire and flame...
...acknowledge her evil. She has killed her baby in front of her lover and he blew his brains out afterwards. The third and most intelligible character is a "fearless" journalist who helped himself to all the indulgences due a hard-boiled hero. But when danger approached, he turned tail...