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Destroyed by Success. In the next five years he toured Europe, juggled his love affairs, experimented with narcotics, pamphleteered against puritanism, fought with his publishers, lived off advances-and agonizingly, determinedly labored to produce Jennie Gerhardt, The Financier, The Titan, and his autobiographical The "Genius." By 1916, Dreiser was the hero of the avant-garde and the pet peeve of the Nice Nellies, who denounced The "Genius" as literary sewage and got it banned by the censor. Crushed, Dreiser fell silent for ten years...
Molly's men began work right after a tall Titan booster had tossed them into an elliptical orbit 139.2 miles at apogee, 100.1 miles at perigee. There was a pair of biological experiments to get out of the way: the fertility and growth of sea-urchin eggs had to be checked for the effects of weightlessness; human blood cells were exposed to the stress of radiation plus weightlessness. Then, as the Molly Brown curved round the bottom of the globe and came up across the Pacific toward the American coast, Gus Grissom got ready for the first orbital change...
...week Cape Kennedy lived with tension as its spacemen worked toward the countdown of Gemini-Titan 3, the long-awaited two-man orbital flight that would take U.S. astronauts John Young and Gus Grissom past a significant milestone in their reach for the moon. Then came the news from Russia-a neatly timed reminder of the Soviets' continuing lead in the race to set man free from the confines of his own world...
Nowadays, on the average of once every three weeks a tractor drags a bright yellow trailer onto the base; on the trailer lies a metallically glistening Atlas-Agena rocket, or a massive, white-painted Air Force Titan III, or a long-necked Thor-Delta...
Varied Thrust. For later missions, the Air Force is rushing to completion its $127 million Titan III complex on a long, skinny sandbar dredged out of the blue-green Banana River. When it goes into production this spring, the first stop on the assembly line will be in what Air Force spacemen call the VIB (for Verdeal Integration Building). There, in four identical 180-ft. bays, technicians will be able to assemble a quartet of the Air Force's versatile new Titan IIIC rockets. When one is finished and checked, a pair of railroad locomotives will pick...