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Younger Generation. Word appeared in the columns that Sinatra was about to buy a Palm Beach pad and a nightclub, too, so he could wage war with an established nightclub owner who had refused to offer Frankie $5,000 for a one-shot appearance. Meanwhile, the Royal Poinciana Playhouse had begun its fourth season with The Skin of Our Teeth, which will soon leave on a State Department tour of Europe, with Helen Hayes, Leif Erickson, June Havoc and Helen Menken. With Artist-Showman Salvador Dali. Bandleader Sammy Kaye, Mime Marcel Marceau, Actor-Singer Russell Nype. Hollywood Profile George Hamilton...
...booster on the pad at Cape Canaveral was a Redstone, a militarily obsolete but reliable Army rocket. Perched on its nose was a Mercury space capsule, designed to carry a man into orbit and bring him back alive. The capsule was standard size, but its interior had been tailored for a chimp and supplied with special gear and fittings for its non-human passenger...
...Diamond Pattern. U.S. experts, the story went, were still unsure whether the Soviet astronauts had perished on the launching pad or while the rocket was soaring into space-and meanwhile a new mystery was in the making. Four Russian missile tracking ships were spotted on picket duty in the Pacific, deployed in a vast diamond pattern that has been observed only once before-when Khrushchev was on his way to the U.N. But in Moscow, the scientific secretary of the Academy of Sciences, Yevgeny Fedorov, solemnly warned last week: "Much time is still needed to ensure complete safety...
...quick trip to the capital. As the plane turned northward, Kennedy removed his coat, slouched down in his seat behind a desk, drank a glass of milk and sawed away at a medium-rare filet of beef. Lunch done, he squinted out the window, picked up a ruled pad of yellow paper and a ballpoint pen. Over the first three pages, he scribbled a new opening for his inaugural speech-even while, just a few feet away, Secretary Evelyn Lincoln was hammering out an older version...
...John, now everyone is glad Your home will be that big white pad. Mr. J.F.K., you're the leader of the U.S.A...