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...celluloid-muffled Howl. Financed (for $20,000) by a couple of Manhattan brokers, it features a few well-known beat bards (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky) in a "free improvisation" on a scene from an unproduced play by Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. The beatniks stumble around a pad on Manhattan's Lower East Side, giggle hysterically, wrestle, and mumble "poetry." Even so, Daisy is funnier than most sick jokes, and, considering the subject, it is going over big, particularly in college towns...
Playing Square. In Denver, police jailed two beatniks after they jeopardized their social standing by furnishing their "pad" with eight $50 cushions, two birch doors (for coffee tables) and two vacuum cleaners-all stolen...
Last fall Navy Lieut. Commander John E. Draim of the Naval Missile Center at Point Mugu, Calif, wondered why the ocean, which the Navy naturally loves and appreciates, could not be used as a launching pad. A water pad would be costless, he figured, as well as self-cooling and self-healing...
Missiles and satellite-launching rockets are plenty complicated in themselves, but the pads from which they take off are even more complex. They are tangles of cranes, wires, dugouts and flame-deflectors, and as they increase in size they soar in cost. Besides being expensive, the launching pads are vulnerable; if a present-day rocket explodes on its pad, it may do millions of dollars of damage. The pad for the upcoming Saturn rocket, for example, will cost something like $30 million, and if a Saturn explodes on takeoff, it will destroy most of this investment and spread devastation...
...about 60 ft. and plopped down again. It all looked too easy to be true. Nothing but water was needed to hold the rocket upright, and only water was affected by its blast. Even if the rocket had carried 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel and had exploded, its pad would have returned to normal in a few seconds...