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...Navy Aerobee-Hi research rocket reached the altitude of 163 miles last week over White Sands Proving Ground, N. Mex. This was Aerobee-Hi's fourth try for the single-stage altitude record; three earlier rockets failed to break the Viking's record of 158 miles...
...mutual suspicion, the Joint Chiefs were careful to specify that all words in their agreement would have the meaning "contained in Webster's New International Dictionary (Unabridged)." *To prove Nike's prowess, the Army last week fired a Nike battery for newsmen at White Sands, N. Mex. The results were-at best-debatable. In one shot at a 500-m.p.h. aerial drone target, Nike registered a direct hit. In six other shots the Army said Nike scored shrapnel hits, claimed "kills" in each case. One Nike suffered an electronic brain storm and blew itself up. * Won after Leviero...
...luck had dogged Beatty's blue-and-orange, 15-car show train from the time it rolled out of winter quarters at Deming, N. Mex. in March. Fighting bad weather and meager crowds, the once-prosperous circus had topped its $5,000 daily break-even point on only six of 43 days it had been on the road. The showdown came when the American Guild of Variety Artists pulled 55 members off the job until Beatty came through with $15,000 in back pay. Instead, black-haired, claw-scarred Beatty, 52, most famed of U.S. animal trainers, filed...
Albuquerque, N. Mex...
...night of March 14 the sky over Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. was vacuum-clear with stars thick beyond it. At 1145 a.m. a slender Aerobee rocket rose from a launching tower, the bright flame of its exhaust dwindling to a spark and disappearing among the crowding stars. Then, when the rocket was 60 miles up, a new star bloomed in the sky, brighter than the planet Venus. Swiftly it grew, spreading in ten minutes to four times the diameter of the moon, and shedding half the full moon's brilliance. At this stage the glowing spot...