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...foot, 24-ton second stage is the largest vehicle known to have been separated and fired on the edge of space.*It plunked into the Atlantic 2,000 miles downrange, might have stretched three times that far had it not been weighed down with so much testing gear. The milestone shot cheered Titan's hard-pressed assembler, Martin Co. (TIME, Jan. 4), and Pentagon missilemen, who have bet heavily ($850 million in the fiscal 1961 budget alone) that highly touted Titan will go on the line next year as a more powerful and flexible ICBM than the 14-stage...
...nicknames began with Supermac, coined by Cartoonist Vicky. Macmillan has since become known in times of budget cutting as Mac the Knife, during the trouble in Cyprus as Macblunder, and during a highway fuss as Macadam. For the great fur cap he wore to Moscow and odd gear he favors on other occasions, he also became Macmilliner...
...oceanographers have also spotted new places to drag for bottom fish such as cod and halibut. To find them, a survey ship cruises in likely places until it is in water of the right depth (no more than 750 ft.). Then its scientists study the bottom with electronic sounding gear, test the currents with meters. If the bottom is rocky or too steep, it will damage the fishermen's dragging apparatus. If a fast current flows near the bottom, fish will be scarce. A fast current at higher levels may make dragging difficult. In the past few years, Japanese...
...Bogota, Colombia, an Avianca Super Constellation had trouble with its No. 3 engine, went back to the line for repairs. Finally, in the air ten hours behind schedule, the Constellation touched down at fashionable Montego Bay, Jamaica at 2:35 a.m., skidded off the runway when its left landing gear collapsed, flipped over and burst into flames. Dead: 37, burned alive hanging upside down in their seat belts or struggling to get out. Safe: four crewmen who scrambled out of the pilots' compartment, four passengers and a stewardess who made it out of the tail...
Marples himself still rides around London on a fancy green eight-speed-gear bicycle. Once, when he flew back from a U.S. trip, his wife met him at London Airport. To make up for the exercise he had missed in America, they tramped the 15 miles home. Their fine Georgian mansion in Belgravia has a two-way frontdoor microphone, three dining rooms, and a $7,000 kitchen where Marples cooks midnight snacks for fellow Ministers ("After all, cooking's no art-merely applying heat to food...