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...went downstairs and out, out into the fantastic American night. The city was a crazy mesh of iron rectangle buildings and neon gargoyles zipping orange in the black air. The four of us flew on the two big Harleys through the wild night streets up to Marco's pad, all under the unimaginable American...
...MOLE. Eager enthusiasts called by phone. "They wouldn't let us explain what was going on," says Monahan helplessly. "They'd make sure they'd got the right company, -and then go into their sales pitch." One company insisted on being hired to build the launching pad (or sinking site). "One thing it proves," says Monahan, "is that engineers can be awfully gullible. One reason we did this was to lampoon the engineers. I don't think anybody can be more pompous than the engineers who are saving mankind...
...Pad 17A at Cape Canaveral was bathed in a fluffy, gently swirling fog. Cradled in its candy-striped gantry, breathing icy puffs of liquid oxygen, was the Air Force's 88-ft. Pioneer moon-probe missile. In the blockhouse, the countdown droned on for nearly 24 hours, finally ticked through the seconds to zero...
...greet visitors in his underwear, date hash-house waitresses, play the bongo drums. In Beatnik Kerouac's phrase, he seems to want everything at the same time. On the other hand, he has been living in a pleasant split-level Hollywood house instead of a way-out pad in San Francisco's North Beach; he has extensive investments; he has never said a single kind word for dope and has expressed interest-grammatically-in what happens to the world tomorrow...
...launching rocket, which reportedly is poised on its pad at Canaveral, is an 88-foot, three-stage affair. It carries an 85-pound payload, consisting of the satellite with some 25 pounds of instrumentation...