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...clock in the afternoon, a small cloud of sand puffed over Rainier Mesa, Nev. From a tunnel deep below the mesa's sandy surface, a muffled thud rose to shake the desert silence. Minutes later in Washington, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. had "reluctantly" completed its first nuclear-weapons test in nearly three years...
...promoted a good ten years ahead of your time," and vows to "make a soldier out of you or break you," Who put that hornet in the old man's hat? While the lieutenant is wondering, he takes a long slow look at garrison life: at the startled shake-out in the rosegrey chill of dawn, at the daily dull routine of stores and stables, at the still, interminable afternoons of stunning sun, at the choking reek of dung and 'dobe and unwashed Indian, at the scrawny, decent, infrequent girls and the better-than-nothing flirtations...
...witness a foregone conclusion? On the other hand, the Phillies' losing trail has been strewn with heartfelt messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last week through a pile of such pep-talk mail. Manager Mauch shook his head in wonder. "I once thought everybody loved a winner," he said. "But I guess they love a loser more...
...Shake, shake...
...they struggle to shake off the financial burdens of the subsonic jet, the airframe makers are haunted by another specter: the projected supersonic jet transport. To build a plane tough enough to withstand Mach 2 speeds would pose such immense problems that Boeing estimates development costs at $800 million. The most optimistic guess of the potential market for Mach 2s is only 450 planes by 1975; one longtime airline operator puts it as low as 50 ("a national prestige item"). There is every indication that the airframe manufacturers do not need two burnings by jet to learn their economic lesson...