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Just 119 days after the Russians sent Sputnik I into the skies, tearing a wound in U.S. pride and prestige, the Army's Explorer thundered off the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last week, a symbol of a new kind of U.S. strength. "The U.S.," said President Dwight Eisenhower, "has successfully placed a scientific earth satellite around the earth...
...bright, waxing moon rode through the racing cumulus clouds above Florida's Cape Canaveral. At the floodlit launching pad, a gangling service structure, standing like a jeweled skyscraper, nestled against the U.S. Army's Jupiter-C rocket. A homely creature it was, its streamlined shell topped with a bucketlike piece and a long, thin, cylindrical nose. This was the Explorer, the Promethean gift that the U.S. aimed to fling against the invisible doors of space...
...year ago Jimmie was prowling the back alleys of Los Angeles, collecting Coke bottles to pad out his food budget. A small-town boy from Washington, he picked up a smattering of guitar while he was in the Air Force, and after his discharge he started touring the West Coast's less-than-first-water water holes. His darkest hour came in the Elks Club in Wenatchee, Wash. The three other hillbillies in his four-billy band were delayed in the hills; alone, Rodgers faced some 40 disappointed Elks. "I started strumming so hard it brought deep blisters...
...popped perhaps too many models of globes and satellites, a blinding melange of maps, diagrams and statistics that have already been hammered out by the press. But there were thrilling shots of an Atlas test failure, of the Titan ("the most sophisticated long-range missile") resting ominously on its pad. And CBS gave viewers the kind of peek inside bustling missile plants that newspapers do not provide. In matter-of-fact interviews, U.S. scientists and generals pulled no punches. Warned Air Force Missileman General Bernard Schriever: "It's safe to say the Russians have IRBMs now in operational units...
Hardly was the Atlas' bright orange tail lost from view when officials rushed to telephones in a concrete blockhouse 750 ft. from the launching pad. Out went the news to the White House, where President Eisenhower replied "good" to word of Atlas' second successful launching in less than a month. Another call flashed the news across the continent to the San Diego headquarters of Convair, builder of the Atlas. And in a small office on Manhattan's Park Avenue, yet another call came to Frank Pace Jr., 45, president of General Dynamics Corp., the giant industrial complex...