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Farrell could talk to the outside. Every now and then he pressed a microphone button, began: "Space cabin to ground. I am now transmitting." His reports of the temperature in the cabin and how he felt were tape recorded. Everything he did and said was timed. Continuous recordings of his pulse and breathing could be matched against the kinescope showing his activities and other recordings of temperature, humidity...
Died. Lew Brown (real name: Louis Brownstein), 64, Russian-born songwriter (with Buddy De Sylva and Ray Henderson) of top hits (Button Up Your Overcoat, The Best Things in Life Are Free)', of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Stuhlinger, German-born rocket expert, was waiting for a complicated instrumental setup to tell him the exact time to ignite the second stage and "inject" the satellite into its orbit. When the shortened assembly reached about 200 miles altitude and was pointing in the right direction, he pressed a button...
...Gazing through his tinted picture windows at his fertile land, he recalls: "Back home we used to sit on the front porch and wait for rain. We'd go to camp meetings and pray for it. Well, out here all you have to do is push a button and you get all the rain [i.e., from deepwell systems] you want. Why, with all this land and all this water, nothing can hold us back...
...living room of Harry Holt's 13-room farm home perched on a hill near Creswell, Ore. There sat Holt, 52, a thickset man with a ragged mustache and shaggy eyebrows, and his wife Bertha, 53, her unrouged face a picture of contentment. Around the couple cuddled eight button-eyed children, aged 3 to 5. Their thin voices mingled with the Holts' as they sang...