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Wild Blue Yonder. Last week Starbird's team was rebuilding Christmas Island from the coral up. Shallow-draft lighters ferried in materials from ships anchored in deep water. Huge water-distilling plants arrived piecemeal in great crates. Engineers got ready to lay down an entirely new airstrip. A forest of long-range communications masts and antennas began to rise. Back in the U.S., task force ships docked on both the East and West coasts prepared to sail for the Pacific...
...acts as if it were Newton." Or perhaps just N*E*W*M*A*N. At any rate, he is brilliant, engaging, confident, commanding, twice the size of life, and certainly the most revved-up psychiatrist who ever helped a patient recover from the terrors of the wild blue yonder...
...Laid in Ceylon, it has to do with a colony of Indian pearl fishermen, two of whom are in love with a mysterious local priestess. After three talky acts, one of the suitors is stabbed by four priests, and the surviving principals make off to where "happiness awaits us yonder." Most productions follow the original Paris staging, in which the fishing village became as elaborate as a movie set, and the fishermen went about like oriental chieftains in turbans and silk robes. In last week's production, Chinese-born Set Designer Ming Cho Lee wisely changed all that...
TIME'S cover story this week is another fast switch and another example of Cover Artist Boris Chaliapin's quick brushwork. Shepard's weightless passage through the wild blue yonder, is, of course, strictly symbolic...
When the blue-yonder airmen first learned that they were to be grounded into train duty, the inevitable cry was, "It's a helluva way to run an air force...