THAT MOON TRIP OF YOURS
Y
-By J. W. Taylor
YORKSHIRE members of the British Interplanetary Society have been told by their chairman, Mr Arthur Clarke, who recently returned from American rocket. ranges, where billions of dollars are being spent on guided missile research, that if progress in research was continue the first manned racket to the moon would probably take off in the last 25 years of this century.
Continued progress would mean that space ships might by 1980 be able to circle the moon without landing and return to carth.
From Lincolnshire cornes support of this likelihood from Mr.J. Lighthown, Lincoln district manager of the East Midlands Electricliy Board,
tri who saisin & recent lecture that within Hfetime It would be possible to send a “shtu” to the moon with two or three men and bring them back with a reasonable chance of survival.
H
LIABLE TO MISS
E estimated that it would take 1,000 tons of Having fuel to make a trip to the 'mbon.
bullt a ship of 1,000 tons with a payload of his tons, the problem was how to get there. They could not just point the rick
at the moon and Ro strught there, as the moon was travelling round the earth at 2008 mph, They were table to misy
moon und stay la spase W. 19 , they made contact or burned but. so that it was a matter of careful
There Śr r{ navigation.
bren
much learned in this direction from the wartime pinpoint bombing.
The earth would nat readily let them go, so that they would have to attain a speed of 72,000 mp i order to break away from the pull of gravity. This would be dons by having a
series of rockets which would take over as the others experti- ed themselves. It was not li cult to control explosions, as in 24- they already dk this cylinder cars, and there was no reason why the ride to the moon should not be as smooth as in a cor.
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THE. CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1953.
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Loudon Express Service
CHANGING
SOVIET
OF
EORGI M. Malenkov.
Seema
THE FACE POLITICS
By LOUIS FISCHER
who spent fourteen years in Russia as a news- paper correspondent. He interviewed Stalin several times, once for six hours. He has recently, written a revealing book, "The Life and Death of Stalin.”
Moreover,
areas in Siberia and and erect new Beria had
atomic
of
constitute only one percent of The Soviet population and also because Stalin was a Georgian and he ruled over the
FACTS ABOUT
FOOD
By PETER LOVEGROVE
CHEESE roll and a cup 09, and four and wheatflakes
milk, 17. Dried
of tea are more nutri- 97. tional than
Fresh beel of good quality a cooked
contains 80 calories per ounce, meal of mutton, cabbage, and mutton 94. Tinned sardines potatoes, apples and custard. and kippers pro richest in In their revised. "Manual of calories among fish. An Nutrition", just published produces 46 calories per ounce, by H. M. Stationery Office, lentils (81) and haricot beans Peas (94), Ministry of Food scientific (71) head the list of vegetables advisers compare the value toituce has only 3, French of these two meals.
beans, tomato and watercresa 4, They say: "Where there is cauliflower and onions, 8. Dales n turnip 5, and spinach, carrots, ignorance of nutrition the cheese (03) and raisins (67) are ího Full and the eup of tea could be fruits richest in entaries. Prunies forgotten or at least not con- have 44, bananas 21, apples 12, sidered to be a meal at ah,” But
But pears 11, and lemons none at all. their calculations show that the meal which might thoughtlessly
Sugar has the highest carbo- be dismissed as a mere "mack" bydrate content of all food with is in many ways of for
Higher
28 grammes per ounce, flour nutritional value than the hot national four (19.9), oatmeal (20.5), syrup (20.2) incal.
"I provides over 30 percent Frying, olive and cottonseed ell (13.0) and jam (17.6) come next. more entories 599 calories have 100 percent
White
fat content, #gainst 429 the hot meal
for almart twice as much protein, nuts 62, almonds 54 and peanuts margarine 85, butter 83, Brazli and four timca as much as 40 percent. eleum and almost as much have 12 percent and milk four Herrings and eggs
vitamin A. The single nutrient percent. Among animal foods. In which the second meat was cheese, and corned beef have 25 markedly superior to the first percent protein, while soya flour was, vitamin C, But if the cheese has 49 percent peanuts 28 among
roll had
had included chopped Cilj vegetable foods.
been
bage or watercress, or had accompanied by an orange, it would have been in every
nutritionally a better meal
Bones, Teeth
▶ONES and teeth consist moln-
the meat, vegetables and sweet." Bly of calcium phosphate,
The booklet gives a unst vast
amount of useful Information which is itself largely composed about the relative energy
of calcium and phosphorus. Foods and nutritive valuts of certain foods.
ne with the highest calcium Nutrients of which food are milligrammes per oz), cheese a tent are dried skim milic (347 composed crecarbohydrates (230), sardines (113), condensed (sugars, starch and cellulose), milic (82) and watercres: (03). fag, protein (found in meat, fish, Cheese, with 155 mg per oz, con- milk, cheese, eggs, vegetables tains most phosphorus: oatmeal and cereals), mineral substances has 108, liver 60, kidney 74, and (gall, phosphorus, calcium and egg 02.
calculated
units
and the vitamina which Iron, which gives blood its red, Russians regulate the body processes, colour and is necessary for the for twenty-five years and the Energy value is
in transport of oxygen round the Russians would not like another terms of heat
called body, is found most in liver and Georgian dictator.
calories, one grumme carbo- kidney (3.9 mg per sz.), and in This is Beria's wenkness, and hydrate producing four caferien, corned beef (3.1).
one g. fat nine calories, and one The dally amount of salt need- Matenkov will surely seek to g. protein four calories. Inter- ed by an adult is about four exploit [1 with A view to national units (1.U.) have been grammes, but the whole of this This does not suggest an open ultimately making the police his adopted as an agreed measure struggle between Malenkov and trusted weapon. Beria, Malenkoy will be patient and cauny, and Deria will be cautious. Boll of them, and
No Less Cruel
ment for vitamins A and D.
Average Neods
may be lost in sweat during three hours' exercise in the sun. Foods with the highest salt con- tent are bacon (348 mg, per oz.), cornflakes (298), baked kippers
quantities are needed by the (281) and cheddar cheese (174).
the new Soviet Premier, obviously has a mind of his Lown, For Stalin had 10 stopped breathing 800ner than his successor reversed several key decisions taken NOT KILLING
only a few months earlier.
All of Moderkov's known ae's new For instance, at the Nine-
and decisions since e deegme Turke-tan. teenth Communist MR Lightbown said that moon
Party travellers might suffer from
Soviet dictator point to the fact cities,
in charge n vicious type of seasickness, and Congresk, held in Moscow in that he had an astute plan even been although he would not like the October, 1952, under Stalin's while Stalin lived which he is energy expansion,
today.
Malolar, delivered funeral Finally and this the hub of
A just to keep alive la 1,700 VERAGE energy needs per day trip he did not think it would intimate guidance, the Polit shrewdly implementing
Iodine, of which very Thall be killing.
"gathered unto
for men and 1,450 for body, is found in drinking water, Whoever got to the moon first huro, the key organisation Tre central purpose of this plan
to be the conversion of the police-army felation-it is orations before Stalin was luld into a the police, not the army, which ext 10 Lenin,
The two Russians, THE result may be-nt least calories Soviet system would dominate the earth. The in Russia, was expanded The
temporariiv-a slight relaxa- | women-but they rited additional sea fish an oysters and mussels, 2 Malmo and Molotov, sald governments at least were in from ten members and four iussian-nationalist plus military guards the Soviet frontiers, rail- his father."
curbing of way, bridges, and telephone nothing about Russians.
tion of the Soviet terror and energy every time they move, and certain vegetables, notably terested, and he felt ctrlain that alternates to twenty-five regime and the
Ufctatorship, and also less Soviet | Just
Just Billing for
an hour, for watercress and onions. In cer- eleven alter. Lavreati P. Beria, the head and telegraph lives.. The police
consumes 15 calories, fain parts, particularly in Cum- But Beria, the Georgian, pakt pressure abroad. Malenkov has example, mooninembers and
has many fully-armed divisiona Two man in the Kremlin.
at the front. In other
people who fought
constitute 50 per- does possess the skill of calorica are used in an hour's Gloucestershire. Devon, Dorset words, it is another army, and cent of the Soviet population and Stain In balancing one group slow walking, 215 for moderately and Somerset, as well as in for America and Switzerland, the the regular army dislikes the to whom Stalin, also a Georgian, against the other mall one person fast walking, and 1,000
soils (and hence upstairs,
the drinking competition.
all the multifarious Soviet dim- In
are defcient in lodine, and Under Stalin the army never
culties which Stalin was able to expended at work: typist
couse goltre among the popula- INDICATIVE of Malenkov's in had any political influence. He
keep from exploding.
absorbs 30 calories an hour, tlon.. tailor The second world war, tentions is the selection of often
spoke publicly
45, shoemaker 90, a that "Bonapartism"
sheer und
For
administrative carpenter 140, a stonemason 300, of gravity pull. From the moon Stalin demoted Marshal Georgi Marshal Klimenti Veroshilov as of the Soviet Union.
why he exterminated
reasons, therefore, Malenkov a coolminer 320, a heavy black. every portion of the earth's sur-Zhukov, saviour of Mesow in President
1041. and Vorashilov is the most popular probably in the 24 December-January,
potential "Bonapartes” like
may relax some controls and try,
smith 350, and a woodcutter, face would be visible
thes enqueror of Berlin in 1945, person in Husta, and very much Marshal Tukhuchesky, shot in internauchuline some be through friendliness rather then who expends most energy, 300. FLUORINE, which is found in hours the day, and would be able to direct atomlente as January 1963, Zhukov, beloved by the army. weapons with great Beruracy, by far the most popular-mility for inany years Commissar of June, 1937. without having to allow for the man in Russia, was still under Defence.
within his lifetime They would see people going to the
and, perbas. a little bit farther, mates. But immediately ful- of the steret police, and Number which, in the second world war, a special tribute to the Russian proved himself very able, but he standing, 20. No less than 113 berland, Yorkshire, Derbyshire,
frip there might well take up jowing Stalin's demise, the
big
to 24 hours, although once at Politburo was changed back again to ten members and five alternates,
of gravity side the pull spertis could be maintai
As for the return journey, it world simply mean jacking up rocket, which would be easy because of the much lower effect
the
earth's curve.
After
if a satelite was a cloud and far from the seat f
It would
Now be a power.
Bizartko\ him the commercial proposi-given
key post assistant Minister of War.
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AND
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respected
He was
Therefore he pushed Voroshilov
and Zhukov, and
and
Timoshenko,
hero, into
Marshal
shindow.
another war
the
not
assigned frst place in the Soviet against the other und Jugglingi walkington, there is the energy water and the native vegetables)
Union,
against Beria's Weakness
1s
THIS departure from Lenin's
an
nd-
int
has pursued 'nationalism
the
The Richest
no Stalin. There are no Stalingther forms of racist friction. man--without ideals of ideologhest calorie value. An ounce the hardness of the teeth, and
Police Puppet
THE day after Stalin died. Thess mon-and the army- Turkey dismissed Andrei
Stalinist
the direction of
obeisance to the Great Russians,
not yet the
to rally more in- Thus punishment,
tal dillybones and teeth, is present in Average 1934; since then, in msam
caloric needs of a clerk is 2,200, varying degrees in drinking But Stalin, who was
mounting crescendo, the Kremlinfluence around him. This whose But, Malenkov,
in to a carpenter 3,189, a blacksmith water different districts of a policy of racist something Stalin never had and admired though
His ruthlessness was un- 4,280 and a woodcutter 5,100, Britain. Consumption of a amali do. leaders ministrative talent need not be
which
naturally disliked
Malenkov is no less is nevertheless bursts out has never loved,
abridged.
Foods rich in fat have the amount is thought to improve as underestimated,
into anti-semtion cruel, and even more of robot of who enjoyed the affection of
and or who were ion the people.
Russia today. Malenkov Berin, knowing that the wind is the
of cooking fat contains 233 recent work indicates that small the meeds reinforcements, and he is blowing in popular. He monopoliscu
butter amounts of fluorine in drinking calories,, margarine 218, limelight; he bullt up the
Russian nationalism, used omnipotent despot and has not 211, peanuts 166, plain chocolate Water decrease the amount of legend that he was the milltary using the army to that end,
Stalin's burial to make his yet been glorified and delfled as 140, sweet biscuits 100, bacon dental disease in children. genius who had won the war..
Stalin was for so many years. 123, saya flour 121, cheddar Halibut liver all is by far the foodstuff richest in His power at home and abroad cheese and plain cake 117, pork animal He knows he cannot be consequently will be less than 115, oatmeal 111, sugar 108, pain vitamin A, which is necessary Number One because Georgians Stalin's.
blacuits 107, cocoanus 100, rice for the growth of children, plays a part in sight, and protects the skin and the lining of the re- spiratory tract, throat and bronchial tubes. It contains 850,000 International Units per ounce, as against 28,400 for cod liver oil, 1,134 for butter, 309 for cheese, and 284 for eggs. Carrots and spinach also rich in vitamin A. viel, before she started rehears
Sunlight and foods such as ing a TV programme for St cod liver oil, sardines, herrings, Patrick's Day. She forgot to do tinned salmon and margarine so, and missed the ring just provide most vitamin D which is before she was going on to sing. vital to infants, children' and
Stagehands and fellow-actors expectant mothers. Lack
Bi produces neuritis, turned the Columbia Broadcast- Ing System playhouse on Upper depreason and Irritability, and, in extreme cares, beri-bert. Broadway upside down in a
Yenat, peanuts, bacon, oatmeal and green peas contain most of this vitamin.
eculd not have been happy over these typically
acts. Vyshinsky as Foreign Minister Malenkov has reversed them, and put Vyacheslav Molotov in has brought Zhukov and his place. This move is also related to the Malenkov-Beria Voroshilov out In front to
strengthen his own position. rivalry. Molotov was Foreign
13
Vyshinsky is regarded
RS
the
Hubby has to cook breakfast
New York.
AMERICA COLUMN
from
-NEWELL ROGERS
vitamiin
of
Minister until April 1949 when Malenkov does not fear # he was replaced by Vyshinsky. revolution, or uprising. This is precluded by the dictatorship.
FROM the prairies of the he does have to content puppet of the secret police. As with
a former Menshevik, Vyshinsky mid-West, where men the power of Beria.
had
an unsafe political status are supposed to be men, every move since Stalin's death. Malenkoy has carefully favoured under Bolshevism and needed there is staggering news.
Morcover, he Berk. His name is mentioned police protection. right
It is this: Out of every 160 in all was prosecuting attorney in the after Malenkov's lists.
He delivered the second famous Moscow trials of
1930's and as such had to col-husbands out beyond the mighty funeral oration
Mississippi River, 48 of them fluential man in Washington, He vain search. over Stalin's
laborate with the secret police have to, get their own breakfast, lunches with President Eisen- bler. But, that does not mean that no tension exists between which staged them. Beria wanted or their own plus breakfast for hower.
control over the Foreign Office the wife, children, in-laws, and Berla and Malenkov.
He predicts the transfer of A BLACK - DRAPED but Molotov
was too strong
Blood on the stage. It was warships from the United States pets. politically to give it to him.
for Stalin, feet to Chiang Kai- a memorial service The fact that American mates reserve
arranged In the Manhattan DLACKCURRANTS, (with 5.7 Maxim Litvinov, Soviet seem to be under petticoat rule shek's Nationalists.
Plaza Hall by pro-Communist mg. per oz.) have the highest Foreign. Commissar between came out in a survey by a firmi
Ukrainians.
content of vitamin C, without 1930 and 1939, once said to me that sells breakfast food,
TRADE union urging lower But along came 300 anti-Red which we should have scurvy. TN a police state it is the police in his Moscow office: "My Reason
most often given by
tariffs to let more Brillish Ukrainians, tearing down the Brussels sprouts (20), cauliflower which holds the greatest neighbours across the street (and husbands: "The wife don't like goods, in to compete with pro- decorations and beating the pro- and cabbage (20), watercress fraction of physical power, In here he shook his head in the to get up early."
A curi
Lures Of Power
purged
obedient instrument,
But Malenitov is 'a power
man
he knows the rules and Jures of power. He wishes to that Berlu have a guarantee will serve him as he served
Stalin. He will take steps to achieve this security, but mean- while he tas formed an alliance
Cautious Move
THE
are in the same fix.
working
The service Reds. om
coffin
Digestion
American of
was called (17), oranges (18), lemons (14) the 1930's, Stalin repeatedly direction of the big secret police curious sidelight on this new ducia
and grapefruit (11) come next. it and finally, in 1930, building on the Lubyanka Street breakfast trend is that sing out men!
Yes, the Congress of industrial Police just shooed the anti-This vitamin is found only in put his fellow-Georgian Berto in which we could see from the of ten of the husbands who cookt Organisations"
fruit with membership of Beds out
admonitory
and vegetables (and, excep control. The MVD was Stalin's window) have been giving me do not believe other husbands 5,000,000 is urging it on the US. remarks like, "You're no better tionally in ilver and mitic), and
plenty of trouble."
Congress. But there is a sting than they when you act like its amount is highest in green vogelables in the spring and in the tall. The C.LO. say this."
carly
sumence "trade
when plants aro (ROVER WHALEN, New York Europe also must drop U official grecter, stepped for- restrictions." This means Im-
making rapid I progress T'S tough in the taverns. Busi-
Potatoes are the principal ward at the City Hall to intro- perial preferences.
ness is lock. Bartenders source of vitamin C in the diet. duce Ernst Reuter, Mayor of
are being sacked.
Although new potatoes contain secret police wished to Western Berlin, to Vincent Im-
Price of a typical pub has only nine mg. per oz, and the have its agents in the Foreign pelifters, Mayor of New York. A WOMAN'S signature fallen from £8,200 in 1950 to content decreaser during storage, Commissariat and Sovict And at that moment Professor appear on 1,500,000 dolar £6,300 today. They say arm-large amounts of them are eaten embastics and legallons abroad, Reuter's name trembled on the bills this year: that of Mrs Ivy chair drinking in front of the every day. Before potatoes were and it also liked to Litvinov
the up of the Whalen tongue and Baker Priest, now Treasurer of ry set at home is the reason, introduced Into Europe, A lively and active rivalry Soviet diplomatic mall.
the US. She said: "IF I had
The owner of Chiengo's Square was a common disease at the has always existed between the resisted this
He was lost, time, pressure for
There were
those dreadful known better when I was at Dances Tavern said: . "I used to end of ever
winter. Soviet army and secret police, and so did his successor Molotov, momente cf embarrassment, school maybe my signature would be customers to leave at 2 am. The Manual also includes a The Soviet palice is not merely Hence Beria's desire to out while poor Whalen er-er-ed, not be the scrawl it is.”,
Now I am lucky if they tay chapter on the digestion of food counter-espionage agency. Molotov and substitute: his own Then Mayar Impellitter leaned
after midnight,"
and the absorption of nutrients, which sples, arrests, exiles, and supine instrument, Vyshinsky.
Milk, for instance, fakes an hour, (RACIE FIELDS says she feels axecutes. In addition
to pass through the stoniach into to that He could only have talon that over and whispered: "Reuter" Berla's organisation is a mighty important step with Stalin's
Ulike the biggest aspidistra FIRST new medical school in the intestine, frull, sugar, and economie. force for under help. The moment Stalin wm CENATOR STYLES BRIDGES in the world, because she bar New York in 54 years is to events take two hours, bread and its management the millions in gone. Malenkov reversed the is Republican chairman of lost a, £2,000 diamond solitaire, be named after Albert Einstein. og 30 minutes more, meat, fah concentration camps build rail- deed, and put Molotov back in the Senate Appropriations Corne It was a ring the momt to It will be part of Yeshiva|drid vegetables three hours, and [rowds, dig canals, develop whole the Foreign Office,
mittee, and consequently, an in- give her husband, Boris Alpen University'.
pork three and a half hour.
with the Soviet army,
Bourvy