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When a second unannounced launching on Nov. 2 virtually duplicated the performance of the first, the U.S. officially logged the shot and published its orbital data. Their hand tipped, the Russians have since announced that five similar shots, which were sent aloft between Jan." 25 and Aug. 8 of this year and apparently made successful re-entries, are part of their Cosmos scientific program. But they would say no more. The rest is a mixture of speculation and scientific guesswork...
...chutes for a landing. Ordinarily, such high-altitude jumps are made only after meticulous planning, on clear, calm days, from perfectly positioned aircraft, to targets safely distant from such hazards as rivers and lakes. On this day, though, the sky was mostly overcast at 4,500 ft., the winds aloft ranged up to 60 m.p.h., the air craft was a World War II B-25 bomber with rudimentary navigation equipment, and the pilot was Robert Karns, 29, who had never bothered to get a "type rating" for the plane. The jumpers' tar get: Ortner Field itself, only ten miles...
...would take him so literally. There was intrepid Tony, 37, hanging onto a 15-ft. by 12-ft. yellow kite and soaring 70 ft. over the surface of Bedfont Lake in Middlesex. Already an expert water skier, Lord Snowdon managed the tricky take-off on his first try, stayed aloft for ten gusty minutes. There was no word on when Princess Margaret would attempt a flyin, but Tony had their five-year-old son on water skis the next day, recommended the added kicks of kiting "to anyone who likes to live a little...
...factories. How refreshing! Besides dollars and engineering brains, Americans have heart, foolishness, creative hands. The apple corer dreamed up by some ingenious Yankee, the hand sewing machine, the wooden-paddle washing machine were all forerunners of today's American technology. Should anyone doubt it, the space capsules swinging aloft will remind him. Yes, there are many movie stars, perhaps too many, but when I was a European teenager, I knew more about Clark Gable than about Massachusetts, now my home...
...Piqued by what it considered excessive panoply surrounding the Adenauer funeral, the magazine noted that his body had been borne on an army truck and navy boat. In a neat reductio ad absurdum, it wondered in cartoons why the casket was not also carried under water by frogmen, helicoptered aloft, then parachuted back to earth, where it could have been loaded into a rocket launcher and aimed heavenward...