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...happened to meet a courteous and high-domed gentleman, and the gentleman was from the planet Venus. One thing led to another, and some time later a man from Mars and another from Saturn asked him in a hotel lobby if he would like to take a spin in space. The trip aloft included refreshments ("a small glass of colorless liquid") with an "incredibly lovely" blonde named Kalna and an equally lovely brunette named Ilmuth. It ended with a reassuring lecture up there from a great teacher ("No, my son, your world is not the lowest in development...
...young (31) George Ludwig, a graduate student who has proved himself a mechanical genius in the painstaking new art of space instrumentation. Each ounce counts, because it costs many thousands of dollars to put each ounce into orbit. The tiny, buglike components must stand enormous g forces, vibration and spin, survive violent changes of temperature...
...respect. It contained a miniature tape recorder to record the cosmic-ray data during a trip around the earth and then transmit it quickly when triggered by a coded signal sent up from the ground. Designed for Vanguard, this elegant apparatus would not work in Explorer I, which would spin too fast. So it was removed, requiring Explorer I to broadcast continuously...
Redhead. A faltering musical whodunit kept on the spin through the matchless body-English of Musicomedienne Gwen Verdon...
...Vernon Wolfe, onetime University of Southern California pole vaulter. Wolfe put him to work lifting weights, had him study movies of O'Brien ("You might say he was a sort of hero of mine then." says Dallas). Slowly he mastered O'Brien's 180° body-spin delivery. Despite the fact that he was picked as an all-state tackle, Long gave up football his senior year to concentrate on the shot. Says Wolfe: "It was quite a decision to make. It was a question of being just a good shotputter or a great...