It was to be a real extravaganza. No fewer than 450 newsmen were on hand at Cape Canaveral, along with a tangle of cameras, cables and vans set up for television's first "live" space shot. Marveled the U.S. Marine Corps' onlooking Astronaut Lieut. Colonel John Glenn: "They've got everything here but a camel and an elephant." The occasion: the launching, as an immediate prelude to the U.S.'s first actual man-in-space effort, of a "canned man" in reality, a 40-lb. apparatus billed as being electronically able to "breathe, sweat and speak."
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