:X-FIFTEEN 7- ,.,~, M, , --- 'too ' Durin g today 1 s test ~ flight o f ~ X-Fifteen -- Pilot Scott Crossfield climbed only fifteen miles high, at thirteen hund r ed miles an hour . ~ That s o u n d s ~ impreesive. l Jrut th i. . X-Fifteen has a "space eng1ne 11 - with a thrust of fifty-seven thousand pounds) ..Al'f engine designed to carry the plane a hundred miles up - at four thousand miles an hour. Pilot Crossfield let it use - only half ot its power. He swooshed across the Mojave Desert at incredible speed•- bu~ that•s nothing to what he'll do when they let him open up his X-F i fteen. . J- . 0 . .:. :es o ne ~ a e Gt.. · er _ , !': e re .. a .a o !' a :..o • rt efe e e e y f . o ... - o r ees f o sc e e. r_ • ::. ... c erer _a ell te, w · c It c : rc ed the eart ~ - / t r ~v-d.J- h_rt - o e e_ -- e ~ : ts caps e. ~ came own so ac a tel . t one of o r _ane ca t t n the a1 e he Pa ci fic. Tne second caps e - wa .. carr_ed by an Atla .. mie .. _le. e e, arc ,.. se 1en hundre es nto t e a r, off -:: caps e - e . . . the tar et area ~ 0 sa es away. Th caps e AP p C .. ed p by a a ~ss: e a_ e n · e J.. ant~c. SUBS Tw o of our a t o m i c eub ma ri nes made news today - i n r ath ·r di ff er e n t ways. In Charle s ton, S outh Carol i na - t h e "Geor g e ·as hi n g ton 11 put out to sea. She 1 e armed w i th sixteen Polaris I ~k> mis .: ile::.- azid wlll bw on patrol Gllty ttnOttgR the oceans of · our " planet fo r the ne x t two years. President Eisenhower . 1ailed the "Geor 0 e Washinton" as one of - ou r best deterrent weapone•- J threaten i n g t h e Soviet Un i on w i th immediate retaliation, should Khrushchev attempt a nuclear Pearl Harbor. The other incident too k place - at Quonset Point, Rhode Island. S0me of ou r top brass was on hand - for a ride aboard the "Robert E. Lee." Admiral Arle ig b Burke of the Navy, General Thomas White o f the Air Force, General George Decker o f the Ar my - an d Gene r al Lyman temn i tzer, Chairman of the a kn-+ " ~' , Jo i nt C hi ef s - o f- S taff. ~ br as,_ ~ ~ udd enly, a dumm y m iss i l e we n ' ., o ff - w h en someone i n t e sub p r ee ~ ed the wron · button . I t s hot u p i nto th e a ir - SUB5 - 2 carry i ng a column of w at e r . -Ami-~ ~tron wind wa s blowing - towa r d the doc k . The men w i t h all that bra ss on the i r s h oul d e r s - d i dn't have to be tol d what to do. They sprinted away - at top spee d . Too late. They were all doused - and r ather damp as k hey b oarde d the sub. o e t rn t · onal one mar et - mou t .. to io 0 ·l t e ec onom i::t .. t our tat Dep a r tmen t a o te p etl - the ne\' o c ane at e a nounce t e Kreml n . At f Q t lan ce - i loo .. pretty ·o od f or the ovie ts . T e ruble , to b e \'10 t r a dollar - n .. tead of just about a quar t e r . Whl c mako ... t e ruble st o n er tan the doll r - c la imin . ~Here's the ca tc h . To · g et one of the new rub les - a Ruws an has to turn in ten of the old ones. And since ten of the old ones were worth two-dollarw nd - fifty cents - while one new one i~ worth only a dollar and eleven cents - the wort of the ruble has actually fallen sharply. The Soviet currency devalued. I Pa l a ac a t o n o mc - P e~i ctent - ele c t o n Kenn ed y h a .: e d u p hi ..... c hedul e o f h rh level c onfe rc n c ... . e fo rr e toda y w th Gov no r R bb i c off of C on nec ti c ut - wh o ... ofte n m n t · o n ed a a po~ w b le Atto r ney G en eral i n t he ne x t adm i n strat i o n . A t the ... ame t i me, M r . onna d y ha s 1 ne d up a Fr d ay app o ntme nt - with Allan Dulles of the C.I.A. And o ur n e .t p r e ... i den t ... due t o meet our U.N. dele at on - soon after h l ... return fro m Florida. The mean i n of all this - Kennedy wants to be as fully br i efed a ... possi b le, before shoulder n the ,,,,1,tc probleme th at ~ill descend on hi m when h e enters th e White H o use. Meanwh i le, we are told a little more - about yesterday's Kennedy- x on meetin. T h e man piece of fl i nformat on - they d s cussed the po ...... b lo appo ntment of two Repub li can s t ote K ennedy ca bi ne t . B ut no names - were - m en t ·one d o d ay. _ w r::on'" Or ean o y - \ . o cp t Sr er · f . n n on 1 r· acc u .. o f r , 1 e po ic e , a nd a rr C: - . He •a ._ r t o f t h e cro wd that ot o t f ha - a _ fo e~ ro lt et r e t o cla .. e_ n cDono h nd Fran tz Sc ool • e er 1 a r .. . l e a a _ a co pan l e the c , 1 ren - n d .. aw t e safe y nto th e r cl a _e_ . f ter sc h ool - the ars a ls e_corted t he rl .. ome . I t too a hu ndred pat o en and f ve mo nted po - to ,~ eep the demo nstrat o r .. ac . • .. th e co ore p · 1~ ate de ~c ocl o day - h te p p ' l - b e an to dro 0 • cDono h r ally a .. an a tt en d ance of fou undre ' a d .. · · ; .ty - .. e e n . oday - 4- twenty . ~ und !e ·- d Se enty-s X -- · - t y - ··-' e . - . e O ea - , : e c r · :: .:. :: - o ·, e r e .:.c .. c or : • e 1 1 Com o r or l • r · 10 1 c • - t t e . , Y o r l· an d L ve t o m a l d o w L o n e Ma o r Le a g ue t e a m . t l ea t - n N n et e e n ix ty -O ne . O h , ye c - e x p ansi on as be n v o t d b y ot ·. Le a u e .. . B ut t i ere m h t b e a r o a d b loc - b eca u .. e unani o us app ro v al by all t h e e x st i n g teams h as t o b e o tai. ne d . And t ma y no t b e po .. s ble . For e x a m ple - w i l l 1 al te r 0 1 Mal l ey v o te to p ut an A merican Lea g ue r iva l to h .. Dod e r s n L . A ? O r , w 111 t h e Yan k ee owner:: beam at t h e dea - of a N at o n al Lea g ue team competi n g in N ew Yo r Comm i .. s i one r F r i c k points ou t - th a t the questions a r e bein Uc 11:a as k ed . / ~ ad d s.A he d oesn' t k now t h e answers . n t c hol, , i orv · . n r ... on en io t. c; , u <.ur of on o Fr c ! Mp t e 4- a ll ·C • a t I ,. or " - , ._ • "' . or • t C l>CTC ot ·co d t t .. n ... o m - a ome n .,,ell 0 :.no 00 . i • e ar lo er - qu c,e C h ,.. pac ... • 0 cl t m . 1 .... C ove hi~ ... 0 lder r ... po tcd protru i f om a poc, : e t . 'hero upon - he .. ta t d to u . e dared up the cta i .. , raced alon the main ·a e y - a the bac .. ta·re , f ve at a time. The tvo m n - n · ot pur .. u · • Spectato ~ - mp·n ou t of the way. u~eum ua ds - t .: n up the ctne¥ . real hue and c y - thro e mu .. eum . s~ ·done observer - 1 It ,as 1 ea .. cene fro . a r ~ · rothe ... • I ov ... e . . nall 0 An dercon arr· ed at the an door "U he a · · .... opped b the oor likF e plained - that ·O n ... e characte s \'lere after h-' • d then - up they C I e:: lt - a o. ,..t C fer nee .i.n t ' a.:. .,.. e tor ' off ce . • ·0 1 t .:.o n - ur .. uers ,e e , j st spe c tat or ... . T e 11 · un orvik h s L ed - urne d ou t to b e n th i n but b u 1 ky no t b o o k • W l y d i u. t h ey c e i m · t i o ne of t h e a i r - " \' e r en't f oll o in g im , but wen he s t rted t o run, w e we nt lon ~ on erin w a t a ll th e e xcitement a s about.• Uic k , you look a ll keyed u what's exciting? .,, T b i g u st 1 n in R o m e 1 u to b - "Who t h rew the p e pp er"/" 11ut w l o c. ot hit - there's no doubt O U t t t. ·ci a Barr ended u , int e ho >i t al - re am in · le r , an thr · L e in to s ue. lt - 11 started when licia alked into a Home r es taur a nt - a nds otted her estran ged husband, Actor Edaund urdom, with Actress Linda ~h i s ti a n. Alicia delivered herself - of a few le a antries. Londa - ans 1 e red back. So did - the man in the midule. A heated argument - eru • ting in a Rome rest urant where eated arguments are not uncommon. Then - it ha . ene • Ah ndful of pepper, hitting hlicia - squarely between the eyes. ho threw it? Actor Purdom denies he had anythin g to do with it. Actress Linda Christian insists - s e doesn't Know who d id it. Alici a Barr thinks it wa s .1..1inda - and says she' 11 ue. LTP.1960.11.15i.pdf LTP.1960.11.15ii.pdf