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Three days after the Associated Press's manned missile landed in oblivion, the United Press staged its own excursion into the wild blue yonder. Panted a U.P. bulletin from Helsinki: "The state radio here picked up signals early today which indicate Russia may have launched a moon rocket." European radio stations, said U.P., had picked up a "mysterious beep-beep-beep" which lasted three times as long as the signal from an orbiting Sputnik and "suggested the Doppler effect* that would be produced by a transmitter speeding away from the earth...
Among the airmen stationed at Ardmore Air Force Base in southern Oklahoma, an increasing number no longer walked with brisk military step or the traditional wild-blue-yonder look. First by ones and twos, then at the rate of ten a day, they shuffled with short, gingerly steps to the base hospital. Heads sunk to their chests, their breathing fast and shallow, they complained that it hurt if they breathed deeply. Any jarring motion, even from a few brisk steps, was painful. Some kept their arms folded to serve as a sort of splint for the chest...
...Washington last week: the IRBMs would be under the control of the Supreme Allied Commander for Europe (currently, the U.S.'s Norstad). Since only SACEUR could order the weapons into war, no individual nation, bent on some strictly nationalistic adventure, could toss them off into the wild blue yonder. NATO's IRBM launchers would be manned by European troops-but they would be under NATO's exclusive command...
Admitting he could not hit the 1960 target date, G.A.F. Chief Josef Kammhuber, 60, a wartime night-fighter pilot, predicted, with a confident look into the wild blue yonder: "They will certainly be ready by 1962." That depended, however, on the war-thinned younger generation, about whom a former Luftwaffe ace complains: "When we were young, we were speed-crazy. Now the boys tell me, 'Jets are too fast. We don't want one foot in the grave.' " Old Luftwaffe pilots, now in their late 30s or early 40s, prove slower to train than their opposite...
...Knowland's vacant seat in the Senate. Even in a state that already has a Knowland and a Nixon, Goodie thinks about 1960, and that potent weapon, the 70-man state delegation to the G.O.P. Convention. And beyond that, maybe even the big white ranch house down yonder in Washington. But just as he is faced on the one side by Knowland's smoking guns, so is Knight hemmed in on the other by the long-range rifles of Nixon, who might take part of the delegation away from the governor. To sit tight in his saddle, then...