A big yellow canvas ball rose jerkily up a pole on Cape Canaveral, Fla. one morning last week, a warning to fishermen to stay clear. At the Air Force Missile Test Center the long-awaited Big Shoot was on. A test version of the 100-ft. Atlas, prime Air Force intercontinental ballistic missile, designed for speeds up to 16,000 m.p.h. and 5,500-mile range, lay on its launching pad, set for its first limited flight.
Off the spectator-dotted beach south of Cape Canaveral an Air Force crash boat cut through the Atlantic rollers to wave off small craft. Just before lunch missile buffs...
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