G O OV EVENIN EVERYBODY: At ~ape Canaveral, Florida, the Air Force ut A m erica right back in the aissile race with Russia. The Air Force, launching its intercontinental ballistic missile - the Atlas. The test - com p letel7 1ucceaaful. Early thia morning, spectator1 : crowded the beach, nea 1 the p rovin g ground - knowing a missile would be fired - because the familiar red ball had been hoiste4 - a warning to ships, to stay clear. Then the big Gantr7 crane, holding the ■ tsaile in p lace - rolled away. An4 the s p ectators had a good loot at Atlas - a g iant three-stage rocket, gleaming white in the F l orida sun. The count down began, And at twelve t irty-ei g ht - theJ threw the switch. The missile was envelo p ed in a o ense cloud of g r a y smoke. For a moment, t h e 8 ect a tor th o u gh t - Atl s h ad ex 1l oded, just as the V a nguard satellite rocket did two weeks ago. But, instead of blasting apart, the missile slowly rose, trailing a long orange flame. Then Atlas gathered a eed, zooa~d up into the ak7, and disappeared over the South Atlantic. It was p lainly visible for several minutes. The official atate ■ent froa the ~entagon - declares that Atlas landed right on it1 target. The teat was liaited to a range ot ••••ral hundred ail••• - but this Air force missile is capable of cover D& aore thaa live thousand miles - ■ ating it intercontinental. iiACTlQN FQLLO!.A T wA~ Am erica's reaction to Atlas - wa s ex p ressed by S en a tor Lyndon Johnson of Texas. The C h airman of the S enate Armed Forces Committee, declaring - Americana can feel better now, because, in the Senator's words,••• art right in it with the Russians.• The same feeling comes fro ■ W estern Europe. The d elegates at the lato meeting in P aris - ex p ressing relief - because there's less fear that Aaerica ia falling behind. And President Eisenhower is expeciall7 leased - becauae the Atlas te1t giYes hi ■ another card now, to p lay at the •••ting. Euro p ean scientists are im~resaed by tbia scientific ac h ieveaent. The Chairman of the ~ritiah I nter lanetary Society remarking •we have been waiting fort is - for a long ti••·• ilSEN H Q WE I This as a day of reminiscing tor President He g isenhower./w h o WEllt back to •shape,• Nato military h eadquarters, where he w a s t h e first commander. The P resident, escorted by •Shapes• p resent boss, General N orstad. Ur. Eisenhower was dressed in a blue oYercoat - ith a muffler, and a gray hat. S p eaking to th• Allied troops - he adaitted, he etill doesn't feel at ho ■ e 1n oiYies. After all, be spent forty years in the Ar ■y - ao the unifora ••••• ■ ore natural to hi ■• In his brief a d dress, he said: •1 have a s p ecial kind of sickn••• - h o me-sickness.• After hi s visit to Sha p e, the P resident drove back to the A merican E ■bassy in P aris, for l unch •th ' ecretar7 of S t a te Dulles - followed by a qap, before attending this afternoon's session of the Nato Council. This e vening, he s ~ ent s everal h o urs at a state dinner given by r e si d ent Coty, head o f t h e Fr e nch Re ublic, t h en ott t o bed. N6I9 At t h e Jat o sum■ it conference in Paris, today - the members agreed to listen to the latest Soviet ro osals, say in t, they don't want a rejection of the reeld Bulgan in notes - because the American Atlas has chan g ed t h e international atmosphere. The West, now stronger, a nd in a better bargainin g . osition. ! ' oday' a conference voted tor two things - unanimously. first, to keep pressing tor a reunification of Germany, througl free elections. And secondly, to continue su p. orting the · estern disarmament ropoaals - including ins p ection, which would p revent any surpri•• attack. A number of other points still have to be decided. But the me ■bers seea agreed - that so tar the conference is a success. There had been talk of our Allies o bjecting - to American missile bases on their soil. But ecre tary of State ~ulles calls that re p ort •ridiculous.• DULLES Secretary of State Dulles proposes a three-point program, to block Soviet penetration or the free world. The Dulles program, to be published in Lite Magazine on Dec•r Twenty-Third. The contents, made public in advance - by the . ' State Department. The first point is - stepping up our errort intiag to conquer outer apace, - S I t • Dulles out that - . altnough t--he ,<Ruslians started years before we did' iat he's sure we can i ree catch up - by pooling the research of the / nat1ons 1 lliili•-•m: ·· As his second point, Secretary D\.tllea aentions stronger mutual security agreements. High on the 11st of these - the development or backward areas - to prevent Connnunist exploitation of human misery. The third point - closer cooperation of the free stressea nations on every level. Here Secretary Dulle~•lliitfa espa.eial.l:, - g reater trade, with fewer tariff barriers. Our Secretary of state says he 1 s quite sure - MVLLE§ - 2 we can carry out every p oint of his p rograa - without losing our democratic treedo ■• And h•'• juet aa aure p rogram will put a stop to Red ag1reasion. Ths world's moat authoritative aur••1 of international air ower - reports that lus1ia i1 far a hea d of the West in thi1 age of miaailea and apace travel. The warning comes tro ■ •Jane••• All The World'• Aircraft.• lt was : ubliahed too late to take note ot today's auccesatul firing of the Aaerican Atla1.- O therwi••• •Jan•••• ia the airaen•a bible, when it co■•• to aizin1 up the Air lore•• of the world. lt calla the So•i•t •sputnik•, •epoch-aatin1• - e v en though artificial satellites ha•• no ailitarJ significance. The p oint being that th• •sputnik• rocket does ha•• military ia ortance. And th• develop■•Dt of that rocket - > ut the Buasians tar ahead. We'll ha•• to wait for the next edition - to learn what •JaneJ . 1• t h inks of our Atlas. ,11 roacc A Senate Sub-committee heard more testimony toda7- a bout how we atand in the race to control the air. Jaaea Do uglas, Secretary of the Air force, gave the Senator• a time-table for equipping our troo p s witl intermediate ballistic missiles. Mr. Douglas d eclaring that the m issiles will be in o p eration by next Uece ■ber, with Intercontinental rockets, to be added within two year1. Vouglas, referring to the Atlas - as a key to our future a rsenal. He told the Sub-coa■ ittee we'll be able to send a rocket to the aoon - as he p ut it, •in the foreseeable ruture.• Following Secretary ~ouglas to the 1tand was G eneral Curtis Lemay, Air Force Vice-Chief-of-Staff - and he told the S ubcommittee - missile s h a ven't made p lan•• obsolete. G eneral Lemay thinks th• Russians coudn't cri p le our Strategic Air ~ommand even with a surprise attack. So he wants the Air Force to build more long- ran g e bombers - a nd kee p the ■ in the air, until missile• are ertected, •· · ch he doean• t think will be for 10■• ti•• yet.. Until then the Air force, to reaain ou firat line ot defense. nmoNESIA A dispatch rrom Jakarta describes the situation in h~• Indonesia - as tuming into chaos. The latest acene ot here violence - the island of Celebes, / . . . -, • the fanatical Mohalllnedan,"A!'lly or Allah", is in revolt - deunding the establishment or a Moslem state. " e he a r of buildiags beinLburned, V,e .,,,ale• tell...., R6i.,._ . . _ . • • •d hOlles pillaged. Nany taru, ruined. Forty thousand people, ;t,~/LJ. ' ~ . fleeing from ••1• ••••• So tar, the Jakarta authorities " can't even eatillate the nU11ber or casualties. 111 • know 11 that the anti-Dutch 110vement ae•• to be getting out ot hand - with Indonesian Noalns tigl'lting other Indonea1ana. Ranking officers in the Soviet araed forces have been ordered - back to school. The Arrq newspa p er •Bed Star,• re ~ orting - g enerals and admirals will be required to study special courses - tor fifty hours every year, given their choice of three field• - either the history of the Coaauniat P art1, or dialectical ■ aterialiaa, or the general theor, ot Marxiaa. The rea 3 on for today'• order - the case ot Marahal Zhukov, tho foraer hero of the Soviet Onion who waa disgraced - becaua• he opposed letting the Co ■auniat P art, run the armed fore••· lhruahchev doesn't want any more of that. So he orders all to~ coaaandera - back to the Communist school, so they'll be convinced Reda - and e a sier for hia to handle. BURRS The Commander of the United Nations Bllergency Force i n the Middle East - gets a promotion. General Buma - now a Lieutenant-General. So announced by Canadian Detenae Jl1n1ater 0 George Pearkes, 1n Ottawa. The Defense Minister adda,;t/:;i- Oeneral Bums is being transferred from the canad1.an Army to the Department of Extemal Affairs. That 1 a 10 he can atay on more easily - aa head of the U.N. organization.in Palestine. The reason for the promotion - DX the fine job Qeneral llama has done since he took over aa representative of the U.N. - in one of the world's most dangerous trouble spota - the Middle East. SUBWAY In New York City, the aubwaya are running on adhedule - for the first time since that walkout began on December Ninth. Last night, the motormen . voted to end the · strike. Today they were back on the job. And the citJ baa r promised not to p~ish them - even though they tied hp New York traffic during the buaieat tille or the Chr11tau ruah. DENVER That e l ection in Denver - has an odd twist. A key issue - whether to impose a city n•w income tax. The twiat being, that i f the answer is yes - the suburbs will be included / in the tax, even though suburbanites are not eligible to vote in this election. So the suburbanites are raising that old cry of the Revolution - "taxation without representation iii tyranny." The City Pathera are acting like tyrants. 'ftley aay - they 1 11 collect the tax from the suburbs - if the election · ia in favor of the tax. So it seeu as it the suburbanites might be left in the position or those Colonial Allericana - who reached for their rifles, and fought for the right to a voice in their own taxation. ROCKET Connecticut seems to be against - rockets. At leut, Police COD1Dissioner John Kelly - doesn•t want any amateur rocketeers firing their mis~ile over the state. The Conan!ssioner has Just outlawed the testing of home-made rockets. .Aw .(c, It all began with four high school students 1 Aaas , . built a rocket of their OWl13 C'";ia C~t would ZOOII a thousand teet into the air - when they touched it orr. All the atudents needed - waa per111ss1on from the Police Coan1aa1oner. But they aren•t going to get it. Coaniasioner Kelly, forbidding the experillent - u too -<,..._..,, dangerous. So."fhe citizens ot Connecticut are going to mill J ' t~~-. J,) some spectacular 4o I~- hune-made rockets - roaring o _ ver I their houses. 1 @\1111 • le$ uf t••• wtti -• juai •~ ._,,, ~ END Announcer: L.T.Jr.: And now Lowell Thomas, Jr. with a :1!;:-dd1ty. This story isn't really an oddity)-~it•s an interesting footnote to the headlines. Today marks the Fifty-Fourth Anniversary of man•a conquest of the a1r. It was on December Seventeenth, Nineteen Three - that the WR1.ght brothers flew the first heavier-than-air uch1ne 1 •••l••••- k-'ruous stretch of beach a~ Kitty Hawk, Horth Carolina. • ~r· ~~~ . . _,.,,.. ~ well today, •st cr ~;;cs a11111atf'1 a - at Kitty Hawk. The museum - to hold relics or that tirat flight. Off1c1ala of the Air Poree were on hand - to watch the first apadetul e rt11 of earth being tumed. Jeta thundered overhead. A crowd cheered. All in honor of two brothers from Indiana, who opened the air age Just fifty-four years ago today - Orville and