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...Navy gave the full story on what happened to a Vanguard satellite that got lost in the skies on its way to orbit last May. The Vanguard, the Navy explained, was supposed to have climbed to 300-400 miles, then gone into its orbit. Instead, the second-stage engine failed to cut off, kept the Vanguard going up instead of letting it turn parallel to the earth's surface. When the third stage fired at the wrong angle, the rocket just kept on going-straight up to 2,200 miles. The Navy's reading of Cape Canaveral instruments...
...This Ain't the Blues (Jimmy Rushing & band; Vanguard). The indestructible Mr. Five-by-Five of the old Basie Band shouts some familiar blues and ballads-My Friend Mr. Blues, Pennies from Heaven-with a voice like a curdled trumpet backed by a solid boomp-a-cha beat. Jimmy sometimes wheezes now, but his talent for reading a message of ageless evil into the simplest of lyrics-"Sometimes I think I will/Then again I think I won't" -is as strong as it ever...
...Clyfford Still (TIME, Nov. 25), Franz Kline, Philip Guston. Sam Francis. The qualities most admired: "furious vitality," "unbiased liberty," "a renovating spirit." Cried Critic Eduardo Cirlot: "The most important show that Spain has seen in the last 25 years. There's no doubt that American artists are the vanguard of the world...
...Immediacy. Nearly two hours later, the meeting broke up. Tentatively, the President had made a twofold decision: the U.S. would 1) send an armed vanguard to Lebanon, and 2) lay the problem before an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. The President himself said he would notify Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Britain's Macmillan of the decision by telephone. Dulles agreed to have U.S. embassies pass the word to other NATO and Western powers (with some concern that the sievelike leaks among France's civil servants might somehow telegraph the U.S. punch...
Beating to windward in a black night of rain squalls rolling up from the southeast, the vanguard of the 21st biennial Newport-to-Bermuda yacht race boiled past the finish line off St. David's Head in a swirl of windy confusion. Busy skippers forgot to flash their sail numbers in code to the race committee, and their boats slid by in the gloom, unrecognized and unrecorded. To compound the chaos, a few pessimists figured that they had failed to fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session...