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...around the cape on Friday morning, schoolchildren, housewives, servicemen, office workers poured out into streets, yards, roadsides and public beaches not three miles from the launch pad. The red ball signifying test imminent was hoisted. The crash boats plowed out. The observation planes, two old World War II B-17s and a new Cessna, circled above, gaining altitude. At 10:42 the gantry was rolled away from the rocket; at 11:32 it was moved back again, then finally away; at 11:44 the last "umbilical" cable connecting the rocket to the disconnect pole was slipped free. Seconds later...
...Force Captain George H. French of Mount Vernon, N.Y. had two consuming passions-flying and gambling. As a bombardier-navigator, French was skillful and courageous: during World War II, slim, alert Airman French flew 35 missions in B-17s, in Korea he logged five more missions in B-29s. But as a gambler, French was inept and intemperate. Since his assignment in June 1956 to a B-36 crew at the Strategic Air Command's Ramey AFB in Puerto Rico, George French, grown fat and dissipated, had piled up almost $10,000 in losses, gone in debt to banks...
...garage. "There were probably more people in the studio than there were viewers," Stokey recalls, "but even then I felt it was undeniable TV material." After a stint as an NBC announcer and 3½ years' war service in the Air Force (a pilot instructor in B-17s and B-29s), Stokey returned to broadcasting, amazed that no one had yet put The Game...
...takeoff, all of Egypt's bombers had escaped to other Arab lands. In addition, said he, some of his MIG fighters had taken refuge in Syria. Among the fighters that he had packed off to Syria, Nasser revealed, were some of the new twinjet, supersonic MIG 17s. "Nobody knew we had any 17s," he boasted, "until one day early in the fighting, when three of them were surprised near an airfield in the Canal Zone. The MIGs turned, shot down three [French] Mysteres and drove off the others with no losses...
...midweek Israeli intelligence (usually quite good) reported that 24 Russian-manned MIG-17s, accompanied by Soviet transports bringing technicians, radar and ground equipment, had landed in Syria. This report fitted in with the recent visit to Russia of Syrian President Shukri el Kuwatly, whose government and army are more thickly infested with Communists than any other Arab state. His was no casual visit. His wife, his daughter, his Foreign Minister and staff. Minister of Defense. Minister of Agriculture, Minister of Propaganda and the manager of the Central Bank of Syria had flown to the Crimea with an escort of Soviet...