a report of these studies: NASA Project Mercury Working Paper No. 111, "Mercury-Redstone Separation Distance ..."; NASA Project Mercury Working Paper No. 141, "Dispersion Study of Separation Distance ...for Mercury-Redstone"; and NASA Working Paper No. 152, "Determination of Mercury Escape Rocket Thrust Eccentricity ...from Mercury-Atlas Booster." Born: Trent Lehman, American child actor known for Nanny and the Professor, and whose death was an impetus for the founding of the child actor support group A Minor Consideration; in Los Angeles (committed suicide, 1982) February 24, 1961 (Friday) Iranian Airways and Pars Airways merged to form a single national airline for the nation, Iran Air. The bodies of former Hungarian Prime Minister Imre Nagy, Colonel Pál Maléter and journalist Miklós Gimes - all of whom had been executed for treason on June 16, 1958, after the failure of the 1956 Hungarian revolution - were exhumed from the courtyard of the prison where they had been hanged, taken from their coffins, rolled up in tar paper, and buried in an unmarked grave in Budapest. Even their names were altered in cemetery records, with Nagy identified as a woman named Piroska Borbiro. After the downfall of Communism in Hungary in 1989, the three bodies were exhumed, and buried with full honors on June 16, 1989, thirty-one years after their executions. Spacecraft No. 9 was delivered to Cape Canaveral for the Mercury-Atlas 5 (MA-5) orbital primate (Enos) mission. February 25, 1961 (Saturday) The last public trams in Sydney, Australia, ceased operation, bringing to an end the Southern Hemisphere's largest tramway network. India's Orissa state was placed under president's rule after Chief Minister Harekrushna Mahatab resigned because of non-cooperation among the state's political parties. Direct rule continued for 14 months until new state legislature elections could be held. McDonnell conducted a successful drop test, using a boilerplate Mercury spacecraft fitted with impact skirt, straps and cables, and a beryllium heat shield. During the tests the stainless steel straps were successfully stretched to design limits. Paul Bikle set a record for altitude for a sailplane, reaching 46,266 feet (14,102 meters) after catching a Sierra Wave in the skies near California's Mount Whitney. The record would remain unbroken more than 50 years later. The syndicated claymation television show Davey and Goliath, a project of the United Lutheran Church in America, was first broadcast in the United States. Born: Davey Allison, American NASCAR driver, in Hollywood, Florida (killed in