I-15 L.T.-OLOO. TUESDAY, MAY 8, 1962 The flight of the X-15 today -- wae a temperature teot , Air Force Major Bob Rushworth, taking his rocket plane up - fourteen miles. Reaching the "top" of hie flight arc - then hurtling down at more than three thousand miles an hour. Three times - the speed of sound. Outside, the fuselage reached a temperature or - one thousand degrees Fahrenheit. The tail surface - one I thousand, two hundred and fifty degrees. Highest ever - tor the x-15. So hot, the edges , or the plane - began to glow. - The pilot was saved by - hie insulaid cockpit. A"1t - - > r- ;i, { , , t , hie pressurized flight suit. Bob Rushworth, saying he telt ,,A right at home, surrounded by an inferno,- &e he fluhad through the sky over the Mojave. ATO I C Te ~i th a nnounce m ent b t he Ato mic E ner y o i~s on - 1 ~ as lacon ic a s usual. The A. E . C . me el y statin g - that 1 a ve t ouc hed o ff ano t her n uclear device in the Pac if ic. I • u be r ix i n ouP s eres - at Chrietmas Islan d . T h e fi ft h a rdro p - of an int e r m ediate-size atomic bomb. Equal in e p l os i ve fo rce - to about a hundred thousand tone of TNT. UB aid the • ir .. t Lad - 11 I chrL. t e n thee u . S .s .Lafayette • 1 Then Mr ... Kenned y ma .. hed a b ottl e of champa neon the bow - and our ne1e .. t Polari .... ubmarine 1 d into the ~ ater. One more h ist oric 1 unchin at New London, Connecticut. The name o f the the F rench Amba~eador- was on hand. 11 Lafayette 11 - symbolizin g th~rench Marquis who fmqld served under W ashin g ton durin g the American Revolution. The sub, aleo symbolizin, in the words of Ambassador Alphand - "the continuin g alliance of France and America. 11 The "Lafayette" weighs - seven thousand tone. She can stay submerged at sea - for months at a time. And moet important of all, this nuclear sub carries an array of - Polaris missiles. ~e Nav y 's leading deterrent. MARS The ques ti on of · .; : ; e ther life exists on Mars, may soon e an wered by - " Mariner B. ounds nautical rather than astronautical - "Mariner B. 11 But accordin g to Dr. Ed g ar Cortri e ht of the Na ti onal Space Admini~tration, that•s what we are g oin to call - our fi rst space ship t o the nearest planet. Dr. Cortri ht, describin g this planned flight - at a space conference in Seattle. He says that " Mariner B" will ride across the solar system - aboard an Atlas-centaur rocket. The rocket - speedin g on toward the sun. Ejecting a capeule - when it g ets within the g ravitational field of Mars. The capsule will spiral down - with its TV camera relayin pictures of the surface of the planet. "Mariner B 11 tellin g our scientists whether that belt of g reen acra:e Mare - really is vegetation. Whether those lines that show up on a telescopic plate - really are the canals of Mars that we used to hear so much about. BUSI -- The word in Canberra. uetralia - •Anzus.• A contraction of the three word s - ustralia, uew Zealand, United States. On the New Guinea p roblem, with• ich ~uatralia is directly concerned-today Secretary V ean Busk agreed that Hussian aid to lndonesia is somet h ing to worry about. ibrushchev, g iving arms to the lndoneeian1 - for an assault on Dutch New \iuinea. Raising th• threat of a future assault - on Australian "e• Guinea. LAOS T fl news rom Lao ... menti on s a _; eo raphical tri an le bou nd ed b three points - w it h a l m ost unpronounc e able names. M uon , Na - Mu on ai - Nam Tha. Thi s trian le in northern Laos - is here the Red uerrillas are ~ stri in g . S endin their troops t o attack loyalist forces - in defiance of the c e a s e-fire. And some of the i~m•~a a res s ore are said to be - so -called "v olun teers" from Red China. The dan ger , s o reat - that the American secretary of Defense is takin g a first-hand look at Laos. And - at the rest of southeast Asia. Secr etary McNamara, in Ban g kok - with General Lyman Lemnitzer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff. McNamara and Lemnitzer, sounding out the leaders of Thailand - . ways and about,Autatng,(means of savin g the sm aller nations from Red China. The administration a ye it intends to go right ~ hea with negotiations over est Berlin. The State Lep a rtment, giving an answer to Chancellor Adenauer - w o h a s been sniping at our talks with the Bussians. Adenauer, insisting - they've achieved nothing and why continue thea? W a shington replies that America has made a tremendous effort - to save ~est Berlin fro ■ the ieda; and our people have a right to expect - that everything will be done to reach an accowmodation. hence we intend to keep talking - to the ~oviets. uowever tta State ~epartaent emphasizes - no American retreat from West Berlin! Our rights - are still basic. We just hope for - an easing of the tens ion. KE DY President · en e , ae you o~ - has been i nsie ti n tat n st r u~t old t e 1 neon p r ice ~. T o day , the Pre ... dent went to Atlan l e Ci ty - to x pound the other half of hie cono m i c equation . As kin th3 United Auto / orkers - to •I I old the line on wa e~ . In short, Mr- . K enned y ante responsible ba r ain i n g - between labor and m ana e ent. Reepon ... ible to - t e na t on. Unions and industriee, to do their bit - to curb inflation. And help - stren g t he n the dollar. , I/ l t • ive states are i nvolve d - in t o da 1 t primaries. And so ar e 2ome familiar i ure~ - of Am e rican political life . The most fa mou ~ na me - T a ft. You could uess that the sta e is - O hi o. Robert Ta ft , Jr. - attemptin to follow his V la te fath er int o C on ress . Biddin g f or the Republican nomination - to the House. Also in the bucke y e state - a fi U ht for the g overnorship. Mike DiSalle, opposed b y Mar k McElroy - who entered the race when D1Salle sai~ he wouldn't run again. McElroy, staying in - when the Governor chan g ed his mind. In Fl orida, the Democratic voters former Senator Claude Pepper - is to return him to wash1 n gton .1;ew asking Mexico is a state - that could easily et mixed up. The Democratic nomination to the House, disputed between Joseph M. Montoya - - 4' Indiana and Joseph E Montoya .\\The other two states - llallXNaxha and .-- - ------,..-- - - - - - - West Vir inia . The key man, a Hoosier - former Con g ressman Rendall Harm on, of Indiana, who is tryin a come-back. Gener a l dotors is picking up ~here it left off - a qu a rter of a century ago. Back in, ineteen Thirty- iine, G.M. had a spectacular - extremely popular exhibit - at the New York World's Fair. Futurama - remember? Today, the Chairman of the ~oard presided over ground-breaking ceremonies - for the coming Be• i I York Worlds Fair. Frederic Donner, p romising something ' - futuristic - way beyond - Futurama. A super-Futuram An exhibit of technical a vances - that m a ke hineteen Thirty-Hine see ■ p rehistoric. Last time, General otors in New iork - drew thirty-five thousand spectators a day. This ti•• - Lick - they hope to double the. t figure. BIRTHD A In Hazoo Coun · , ~ .. si .. ppi - Mar uess is preparin to c lebrate her b ir thday . T h e polnt bei n u t at Mary ha s already celebrated - a hundr ed nd f our o f them . She was b orn in Ei G hteen ifty - Se ven - - 1hich make .. here actl y a hundred and five. Her e arl i e st ye ars \ ere spen - in a ... lave s t ate. Now she I s l ivi n in a st ate - feeli n · the pres ... ure of i nte ration. Mar admi ts that sh e 1 s always been f ond of - to b acco and •1his e y . Her recipe f o r lon evity -"never worry, be thankful, take our time. " That• s what she's been doin - for more than a century.