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WASHINGTON, April 15--Prime Minister Fidel Castro arrived here tonight to begin a 10-day speaking tour of the United States. A crowd of approximately 200 Dominican exiles and Cuban supporters held aloft flags and cheered his arrival...
While the Italians leaked their firm decision to a semi-official news agency, the missile they will get, the Army-designed Jupiter, was again proving its bright new reputation for reliability. In a summery twilight test-firing, Jupiter blasted aloft on its tenth successful flight (out of 15 tries, only one blowup), its third flight since Chrysler Corp. started supplying birds off its regular assembly line...
Command Pilot Stevenson B. Canyon (Dean Fredericks) climbed aloft in his F-102 to examine the flying derelict, and Canyon's first sight of the frozen, frost-covered pilots, still strapped in their seats, added up to terrifying snapshots of disaster. After that, Canyon's shooting the B-47 down with rocket fire-because a tail wind might possibly push it all the way to Russia-seemed reasonable. For the peacetime Air Force is a weapon in the cold war, and an unarmed plane might easily be mistaken for a belligerent...
...fantastically difficult. To enable the rockets to travel 300 miles up, he had to get them fired in an almost perfectly vertical course, a delicate task in rough seas. The rockets had to go off at precisely the times when the U.S.'s orbiting Explorer IV satellite, sent aloft in July, was in position to monitor radiation from the explosions. Taking the high-wind and rough-sea difficulties into account, Navy experts had estimated Task Force 88's chances of fulfilling Project Argus requirements...
...almost seemed impudence. Man, in cosmological terms an all but invisible presence on the surface of the earth, had flung aloft an apparatus which disturbed the order of the heavens themselves, made auroras flare in the skies, a hemisphere apart. Exploding nuclear bombs 300 miles above the South Atlantic, the men of Project Argus spun a veil of electrons around the earth, boldly using the atmosphere and nearby space as their laboratory...