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Dark Coasting. For two nights Pioneer IV was held on its pad, once because of low clouds, and once because a radio instrument failed to function. On the third night the bird lifted off only 4 seconds late. The Jupiter fired for 182 seconds. As it passed through a high veil of cloud, a bluish ring formed around its orange tail flame like a ring around the moon. After 55 seconds of dark coasting, a faint light bloomed in the sky as the second-stage rockets fired. Then Pioneer IV disappeared...
...balding man in crepe-soled shoes and a dark blue suit strolled quietly into the blockhouse opposite Pad No. 5 at Cape Canaveral, where Juno II stood tall and white with the gold-plated cone-Pioneer IV-hidden in its nose. Carrying his 72-page countdown book, he ambled around the blockhouse. The countdown had begun at 12:06 p.m. and was going well. He looked up at the rocket. "Very dignified," he observed approvingly. Later, as is his custom, he patted it affectionately before taking his position behind the three sheets of thick tempered glass that protect blast...
...late now to change the rocket's instructions, which would control its course inexorably once it had left the pad. Each second of delay, Debus remarked, would cost an error of 17 miles at the distance of the moon. He studied the jeweled panels of lights. They had been green, red and amber. Now all were green...
Banging the Pad. During World War II, Gleason landed in Lisbon with the Office of War Information, used to delight in driving German generals from nightclubs by playing fumble-thumbed jazz on a piano backed up by a Vichy French clarinetist, an English bass man, and a West African drummer. He caught on with the Chronicle in 1950, now lives with his wife and three children in a red-shingled house beset by his 3,000-album record collection, which grows and coils from room to room. As he listens and listens, he hammers out the beat on a pad...
...could find breathing room in a sealed bank vault. Tough as Mike Hammer, suave as Peter Gunn, canny as the D.A.'s Man, Bold Venture's hero digs gems out of camellia buds, teeth out of the other guy's mouth and dames out of the pad. Before the show had its first airing last month, its sunny, sexy sadism had attracted more than too TV stations. Yet Bold Venture has no network and will never know the mingled joy of a national Nielsen rating. Like many of TV's adventure series, e.g., Highway Patrol...