Interesting News Stories
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1957.
From: MI Paris OF The World
Moon-Ships In The Sky
Madrid. Glimpses of a strange new world in which huge freight-carrying rocket - ships with human pilots will
A STRANGE NEW WORLD
OPENS UP AT SPACE
hurtle through the sky and reach a speed of 7,000 skics from Melbourne miles per hour before the first component detached self. The to Manchester or from two-rocket group, weighing 10 Berlin to Buenos tons, would shoot up to 41 miles before the small eix-lon Aires, in which moonrocket detached itself from ships with crews will hind partner and went on inte
space as the real moon-ship. take off for outer space with
s
would each have crews and would "e-
el
CONFERENCE
atmosphere without burning up the vehicle by unduly high velocity causing the ship's sur face to become heated with the friction of the air, is another headache for space-men.
The first two rockets a high probability of reLium Lo earth. The six-ion 209900 turning unharmed, moon-ship with its crew and in which are could be used for a trip
the
to the moon or for exploration "terminal satellites" of space or it could fly to a
"terminal satellite" in space. will float out into.
Selentisw Barcelona row space to provide a laboratory for scien- cinul satellites performing such functions an transmitting tists and a jumping-television programmes to
whole of the carth's surface, off place for visiting The believed that by provid
"wheel" to the universe, were ing given by speakers at artificial condition of the pull of gravity, selenlists and techni- the recent space con- clans would be able to spend
some time
satellites in such gress in Barcelona.
without ill effects.
Observers, tempted to smile
A
at this pleture of the world essTS
in
the yours
immediately
ahend, were mostly restrained
frets <toing so as they con-
sidered the ***putnik"
Soviet satellite
which
whirling readily round earth
the
WILH
the
its the 230 distinguished Felt tints from 24 nations dis elised
problems space
Barcelona.
Losses
CONTROVERSIAL
600001
in
wear
create sh
SATELLITES
Naturally, either the scellite to be pressurised would have or the personnel would have to pressurised sults for otherwise the blood of a human being would boll under space 1800007 zonditions. Unless he was 10.
wheel creating in artificial Inhabilant of u gravity, the
or u
a satellite would spare-ship 00000% | have to accustom himself to such strange editions as find- The must contuling that he could le down" paper of the congress was that two or three feet off the noor red by an American engineer.without touching anything. Mr Darrell Romlek, of the Goodyear Alterati Corporation, considered that manned who flights to the moun in space- craft would be possible in from right to ten years.
use
Air Rundels thought that the mood could be reached by the of a three-stage-rocket", and that the trip out and back again, after clreling the moon and finding out what is other side looks like, would take about ten days,
EXPENDITURE
But tho
and the
engineers scientists see no problems ahead which cannot be solved by the expenditure of large sums of money and by intense scientific investigation. They think that tran will first y crows in rockets between points on the
earth. Ja
the meantime, guided 'space-ships will go out towards the universe and wil report back valuable data with their instrumenta.
The Headline
Is Hanging Down
London.
THERE is dismay down on a farm at Oxford. Somebody has neatly snipped the talls from Fariner Edward Howie's 40 prize Guernsey cows and
nine Shire horses,
How was it done? "A
Seacourt Farm. "It's a fantastle mystery sald Mr Howse, of attack on defenceless animals. And they look so peculiar." EACH cow bad the hair of its tat enipped in the same way Finally, will come the great-15 Inches of bushy elegance. avent--the manned moon-ship | And the horses, 3t cach of golag forth explore the magnißcent brown tall.
universe.
to
.
But, according to Dr A. E. Slater of Britain, these space- the future mey explorers of well And a universe cmply of human beings other than our- selves. Dr Sister explained
tion
STRANGE
of the TIME
snip-ond-run attack? Said Farmer Howse: "Always after dark when the animals are resting in my meadow."
tall goes nimost that his studies of the evolu- A FRESH
"'s upsetting of the thinking
every week. being through
thousands
the animals, sald Mr HowED. the
of
Vels in the arca milions of years of the earth's LEADING
have been
in to called exlitence have led him to the conclusion that a repetition of examine the cows and harnes. such a series of conditions as EACH has said the same thing: "Whoever has done this must those which have led to our
wonderful way with present condition of human have a
animals. Mest bezsly rear up in beings with Intelligence would
aların if a stranger Interferes be almost impossible.
with their tails,”
He, or she, would have to get used to the fact that beer could (@ITSE not be poured out of a boltia but would have to be squeezed flexible container.
nut
of a
INTELLIGENT
Life would probably be simpler mosses for human beings in the arüß- A rotating ctal gravity within "wheel" where conditions would be more normal.
There are, of course, many problems, still to be solved bo- fore rocket-ships with head up into space,
Crews
This incon-ship would weigh 500 tons laden. It would be The possible harmful effects composed of three reckels of the cosmic rays in space on beings have to bc "nested" together for the take-human oil. After being launched, it studied. The problem of "re-
into 24 miles
the into the entry" would soar
carth's
SOOOOS
CASE
with
ONE theory: 'small boys
scissors and knives are re- sponsible.
FOR animui Hair is fetching
high prices-about fe. 64. ä from people who use it to
OF SNIP
"We should all like to meet intelligent beings from other stuff cushions and chairs, planets," he said, "and, more, to find that they have discovered the sterets of a por- fect civilization. If anyone can provo convincingly that the reasoning of the present paper would be wrong no one better, pleased than its author"
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A CLUE to the tail-snipping: small boys were spotted rês near a horse. cently playing Shorily afterwards another tail missing--and pieces of the was horse's mane and forclock had vanished.
Аге
AND RUN THE latest horse victlens
the brothers -Prince and Turpin, both show champions. ALL they have left for tails are stumus."I cannot possibly enter them in shows like that,' said Mr Howse.
IN time the snipped tails will grow again--but it will take two years for the horses, about 15 months for the cows, LATEST: Police are investigat- ing. "And," said Mr Howse "we've laid a secret trop. I am determined to catch culprits."
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THIS is the Gin
Beggar Is
The Russian
WAY HOME|| A Rich Man
Stockport.
When Joey the budgeri- gar gets tout, he just asics the way home.
Joey disappeared two weeks ago. Last wook he decided he wka getting homesick. Bo he walked nice looking woman and told her “1. aṁ Joey
Arnold of 26 Canal Street, Blockport."
to
The woman phoned Joey's owner, who рго mptly came to reclaim the prodigal budgie..
Now they're wondering why Joey didn't zak his way home econer--United Press.
It Costs Money
London.
A man who called at a house in Halesowen for some water ran dry after bis car radiator was told:
"I can't let you have 11. Water here costs half a crown for 2.000 gallons."-United Press.
London.
One of the highest paid vocations in the Soviet Union is that of a pro- fessional beggar,
They make on
average 200. roubles (HK$300 at the legal rate) a day,
Its
Moscow Radio told listeners the other riight that giving alms to bertam had no Justification in "our society and country,"
Komsomol
lecturer Lrinia
Bogdanova kald she had been told after one of her lectures. by "a not over young woman worker" that this woman gave to the poor.
'I shall not become poor by glving 10 kopecks to a beggar who may not have enough to lecturer buy, some bread', the quoted the woman as saying.
Why, added the Komsomol lencher, "A beggar collects, on the average up to 250 roubles and sometimes more a day."am Untled. Press.
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