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...time in which a missile can be launched to fulfill its mission) of a second rocket trying to match the orbit of a vehicle already in space is only a very few minutes. Yet the Russians scored a virtual bull's-eye. "The Russians must have multiple launch pads, because you can't refurbish a pad in 24 hours and then check out another rocket for launching in the same place," said one top U.S. space scientist. The extra pads serve Russia well in the event that a rocket malfunctions during countdown...
...beauty, gets work in a garment-factory loft, but the piggish foreman makes her earn her overtime pay with bodily favors. Her "promotion" is to become a call girl for out-of-town buyers. As the shady manufacturer who employs her, Kenny Delmar is uproariously funny with his seduction pad and patter...
...test was the most publicized, most debated and most postponed of the U.S. current test series. It had been called off seven times because of weather. Twice the booster rocket had roared off its pad with a great bomb in its nose, only to be destroyed deliberately because of malfunction. But now the countdown had begun again, and Hawaiian radio stations cut regular programs off the air to broadcast its final minutes. Residents hurried to the beaches, and on Diamond Head cars picked out vantage observation posts. Officials even opened the gates at Punchbowl Cemetery to allow crowds to view...
...such talented first-stringers as Lew Hoad, Ken Rosewall and Ashley Cooper. Even after the varsity turned pro, Laver could not seem to win the big ones: he lost twice in the finals at Wimbledon, twice more at Forest Hills. But this year The Rocket is finally off the pad. He swept the Australian and French singles titles, and on Wimbledon's famed center court last week he needed only 53 min. to crush his unseeded countryman Martin Mulligan, 6-2, 6-2, 6-1, for his third national championship of the year. Only the U.S. championship at Forest...
...loudspeakers: "Strike order received! Clear the silo!" Moments later, the 400-ton steel and concrete doors of an underground Atlas silo yawned, and the missile poked its nose skyward. The countdown continued. At last, an intense yellow light bloomed through the fog as the Atlas rose from its pad like an inverted candle. The voice bawled: "Missile away!" The monster doors swung shut as the Atlas sped through the darkness toward its target 5,000 miles away in the Pacific...