Service station
in space ready in 1965 say designers
DETAILED plans for a "space ferry"--part space-ship, part rocket, part acroplane-are being considered by the U.S. Government. The craft could be used to shuttle men and materials from Earth to outer space and back.
The men could then repair ratelites and collect up any uld
thut have become Filter" TA; they could 1st the ty tn hul and min Litt space stations from unidentified objecte M which
watcherl,
prec could
where new propulsion systems cout: tried of.
·
It rounds fantastic-but the ferry has heen designed and put forward by the t-unily re- ponsibin Lockheed and Hughes Aircraft companies,
Thuy ay they could leav ready by 1965.
Only barrier
it
We must remember that the only real barrier to man
ang
into spare now I getting in: back without burning and, tere face it, that is going to be calend any day.
S. back to the serry.
to carv being designed
11 1- 1144
int and up to zis tops of st plies fred by
2 three-top rocket weighing nearly 500 tons.
On arrival in outer sp. en t out into supposed to pe
flybig wing controlled by pitel. I moves in space
Get and gliches 02
to thwh to land.
Looking down
The World
of Science
By Peter Fairley
2 recond teen and
look: 40 minutes f the att.
Spinning
which enure burting.
THE
CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1959.
L
DON IDDON'S DIARY.
•
DATELINE: NEW YORK," TUESDAY
RETURN
of the
MAD
BOMBER
WENT across to Staten Island the other
day
just half-an-hour's ferry ride
Despite its crudeness, Anti-¦ from Manhattan — to tour the place which
can trientists are sathfind with
it.
Toughness test
Signal Trein the next rocke! that hits the moon, if it bothers to, ser unlikely to 'stop suddenly. as did those from Lunik I
Canadian reientists have built ધ ગાંધ transmitter less they two inches long which, in tests, kept on sending signals TIMES impacts FIVE after harder than
a moon-rikr.
The reret lies in the resin in
components
3
10
123
whitera
cit
the
Alter the first picture of back of the mon--the picture of the earth as seen from nuter space.
It was taken with a two-pound
by the US TV-type camera "paddlewheel" satellite fred in Augus, from a height of about 17000 miles.
Normal TV pictures are trans
une-thirtieth
nili
0.< 10-23
of
A
"potted."
"Radio fresh"
Atomie
from isntones rays will
:ill weevils
bus and In rain Now another method in leang trie". -"radio-heat.”
Scientists think that the brai
radio grals o prodaerd by
i
some now call Terror Isle.
A new Mud Bomber is roaming the streets at night throwing grenades and other explosives into houses.
You will remember that the original Mad Bombe, Grot Mutesy dk not kill anyone though he injured several pene and drove the polive depac-men a Irantie. This posent Mad B.- er has already kaleg one wont na and injured others.
murderer and he is insan
■
The Army and the Canstrued and have joined legal pelien G-nen in the hunt for him bu there are few curs.
Harsh voice
NEW YORK'S QUOGENHEIM MUSEUM
..but ART still pulls crowds into the streets
...
enld briore the police could do anything.
Drpats Inster Cart Black of the tomb Squad told me:
ba "Not atteli jogenes has made so far but we are working Teath and day."
All armed
There are police laboratory. technicians, the Bomb Squad at relt, and hundreds of police and guardsmen, all armed, on Staten Esined hunting the Bomber.
A har
lever stronacle
was found onsite the garage of Concelta Giarkita, who Mis
audi war blasted recently
died hours later. in hospital a few And there has been a theft of aring explosives in nearby New
When I 201 心f The ferry there was a squtar of policement questioning the passengers. From New York City nudi suitcases and parcels were inken away for m-
mate in a polic spection. I gut
2 patrol car and we raised
saith See streets. between 60
The driver
In a shop window that sigo." was a nollee, "Clared Until the Bomber's Found" He said, "Nor many shops keep open eft, dark
rtasel Jersey. we've and now night-schools. The guy's muk of course,"
one frequencies and 80 degrees Centigrade-will helst enough to kill the scis without danaging the corn.
-Loudon Express Sorrier),
"I just couldn't accept, MR WIMBLE, until I know you better, CLARENCE, and certainly not without a LITTLE coaxing, SUGAR!”
६६
Jahon
10-20
{'ll tell you more about it later, Ethel-the Bremen
are here now
Police will have to catch the Burnber soon or Staten Island The Bomber, who speaks will become a sort of No Man's with "a harsh, masculine Voire
that's the official descriptitan-- likes to ring up and threaten.
He phuned a garage the other
"Your
підст night and said:
is next. You're gonna be blown up, but good." A small grenade doing exploded minutes later. ittle harm, but the trail was
Lam.
Globetrotter
20,000-
WDS
fore starting his mile journey to 11 countries in three continents. It is an extraordinary trip for a man who not long ago called a semi-invalid, who
chronie admits to
bron- chitis, who constantly tells friends, "Lean't wait to be enlied ex-President.”
Mr Eisenhower currently
Some works he unpredictable. will rul his schedule to the top Cabinet bone, see unly hist Ministers and his gulfing and card-playing cronies, He will announce yet another vacation. And then ha suddenly surges into action.
is
13
This latest journey of "an eld man in a hurry" (ike is 69) Elsenhower's big zero-hour effort to secure his place in history as a statesman, a peacemaker,
GEORGE METESKY
He was Mad Bumber No. 1
ing about the glose. Now the tune is: "Where is Our Wan- dering ke Tonight?"
MY
life is being made miserable by the new
Solomon Guggenheim
one
Museum,
of Frank Lloyd Wright's legacies.
10 on it has a peculiar harsh beauty.
One good result of Mr Frank Lloyd Wright's work is that the building has enhanced the value of property on and arounkt Up- per Fifth Avenue.
*
* *
THE big quiz swindler,
Mr Charles Van Doren, has started his new
editor
Study the building. Half a journalist, as
tributing the critics say: "Monstrous magazine, Leizure.
An appalling
farcer
I con.
to
a
Grotesque. eyesore." The other half this, reviewing Vance Packer's
say: "A
work of
And he has the gall to write genius. book, The Status SeekCTS!
An historic monument to
our times,"
"Mut we all be status scek- ers? Surely not at our leisure ...that is why this book is s
of The museum happens to have appalling. It is the anatomy
lald America: It is our hearts been buili on Upper FHOL
bare, i escaped from the bleak- Avenue, just near where I live.
ness with a line or two Every day the queues form Wordsworth whispering in my
down right
Fifth Avenue,
eur "Gelting and spending we lay waste our powers.'
Charlie, have you returned Have your $120,000 winnings? you returned the bright Mercedes car? Happy motoring. Charlie
His place is secure as Supreme Commander of the Allies despite Alanbrooke, Montgomery, and others, but he has yet to prove RESIDENT
himself more than
President has left it too late. morly young people, and over and mag- Eisenhower thinks not. ordinarily charming HOWER. the
netic political personality, The Not long ago it was consider globetrotter, is resting in sceptics say: "The journey should ed unthinkable for a President the Georgia sunshine be- have been made long ago. The of the United States to go wing-
PRES
EISEN- new
* PARIS NEWS, LETTER
extra
General's
The outsell
Paris.
by SAM WHITE
the weekends uaffic is choked
The museum for hours. sembles a cake-mixer, a circu- far fortress, concrete gaso- meter. But when the
lights
7
memoirs
Francoise Sagan
-AND LOOK LIKE MAKING HIM being a "nocturnal nuisance by result she looks younger
MORE THAN HALF-A-MILLION
To the book-embattled Field Marshals of Britain, I bring news of a mere Brigadier- General who selling the lot of them. It is
is
This is not so.
Footnote.While I was talk- ing to a director of Plon. U telephone call come through from M. Pompidou,
Profils from the book sales yo out-to de Gaulle's private necount at
the Rothschild Bank in Paris,
the profits only
He wanted to know when the I refer, of course, in General
from syndication. which last cheque had been dispatch- Charles de Gaulle, who na! incidentally da Gaulle has cd to the General. volume of memoirs is selbag struck a very hard bargain of He was told thai a cheque for here at a rate which puts him taking 35 per cent on the £10,000 had been sufit two well ahead of Francoise Sagan profts, which go to this parti- days before.
4x the biggest money-spinner cular charily.
in French publishing history.
This latest volume, published
at 30s. twice the price of a
Sugen is selling at the rate of 5,000 copies a day.
on
The foundation is dedicated
As a
thon
a little wine at meals. special French legal offence of creating a disturbance after she has done for many years. midnight.
oix
On the subject of the TV quiz scandal, and particularly the revelation' that some leading American columnists received $1,000 fees for making personal appearances, i have received a couple of blunt letters.
"Why
did you accept the loan of that brand new Silver Cloud Rolls- Royce in England last year?" The answer is that the Rolls was lent to me do test. Just as cars are put at the disposal of Daily Mail Motoring Corre- spondent Courtenay Edwards. I liked the Rolls very much but I made some suggestions broader brake pedal; a cluster-
instruments, a ing of
wrap- around windshield. No $1,000 fres for me, chums.
Free time
by
day
the
for
even
Her social Ilfe is restricted to In fact, Collins, the British Yet, miraculously, Pesquet very small dinner parties in her book publishers, went to the remains free
*
man, thus new fat.
other extreme. The other continuing a survival record This, I am told by a guest they asked me to review from police prosecution which who was there recently, "looks 626-page book, Advise and Con- has lacloded
previous like a cross between a nauseum sent,
Allen Drury, ranging accusations
from or a dream."
nothing! They
didn't The walls
with send me a copy of the book. fraud to indecent assault.
are covered genuine Louis XV boiseries, and
mammoth I was to read the an Immensely valuable Titan volume, write 500 words and decorales the dining room.
Collins would use my review in advertisements in Great Britain. "Nice publicity for you," the Collins representative said. blew up and turned the entire project down fat.
Skipped bail
Other Right-wing political gangsters have got away with much more than that, including
COMEDIAN ROBERT Imurder.
so the care of retarded children. HOCCA: "A friend is some- For example, Irtai
Do Caulie's keen sense of the dignity of his present office has
ono
1
who
成功 organised
assassination
General Solan and successfed in
you can invariably attempt in Algiers against The first volume of General led him to make an interesting count on to count on you.' change in the syndication policy de Gaulle's memoirs sold 116,000, and the second 70,000 for France.
in France alone, and both are still selling briskly in cheaper
editions.
Print order
Because
the increased of Interest in de Gaulle since he returned to power, the first print order for the present volume was 143,000, and the sale will almost certainly touch the 200,000 mark.
or
IMMUNITY
It is now nearly three weeks
him extradited. the
ha reached
It
AUTHOR
AN OUTING FOR EWA
I FULFILLED # long-
Ewa
star of
Dim
which
1
won
rv
Thank you :
ac-
killing a member of his staff is Blanding ambillon by interview. Ing a film star with whom no now in Spain after having
verbal communication was T'VE received a charming Open pany Paris paper skipped bah in Purls, and no
letter from Bucking- No sogle пенорарег these days and there you will attempt has been made to have Fossible.
She is
Krzyzanowska periodical has been sold the
remarkable ham Palace-that is from exclusive rights for the pub find a picture of some grinning
point the
a Esmond Butler, who lication of extracts from the ape whose apparent, immurity present volume, as was the from the ordinary processes of where cllizens as eminent as M. Polish
the high award at the recent Venice companied the Queen and the law make it possible to Mendes-France fall to see case with its predeceRSOTS.
In advantages of telling the police Film Festival. This is her first the Duke of Edinburgh on Imagine that one is living
She is in about information
trip outatile Foland. roaching
never-to-be-forgotten Instead all are free lo mablish Cubs instead of France.
thean of planned attempts Parts for the gala premiere of that ft-on payment of a stiff fee.
the film-Ashes and Dlamends Canadian trek which
She is 20. with glorious red duced my life span by De Goulie's publishers, the since sub-machine-gua bullets against their lives.
And kair,
IB of. ourse, several years. House of Plon merit u close
riddled the car of the Left-wing senator M. Mitterand.
PIERRE brimming over with excltement look.
most Esmond, wrlies, "I am It is one of the oldest in How much money then can
Polish and my grateful for your kind remarka person in modern speak only
to Polish in Imited Operation Memor be expected Paris and was once he cffcial organised the shooting at DANINOS: "The most dan- at finding herself here.
Bayly about my services during the to net the general?
publishing house of Napoleon. Pesquet, has come forward with gerous
the man who vodka with
the requisite soft royal tout. 1 must adhall I was From the Brures available III.
the unlikely story that it was a society is
In some doubt after what I saw Today that de
# control
shared fake assassination attempt goes to cocktail parties not Polish "V." it is almost certain
to in print, but I am delighted to pt M.
Nevertheless, I took her the great
Mitterand's to drink but to listen." Cautto will make from sales between
newspaper organised
Junch and I can testify to how hear that, in retrospect, things NEW FLAT
wore not so bad." can get on Quito apart from who in tefli-
rplendidly people and various Rothschild Interests.
Mr Butler, handsome, tal- have news of heiress once at insuperable. languwrS It hus been commonly
ented, just engaged, will do well Gaulle's financial affairs ing the truth in that peculiarly assumed in the past that all are controlled by Cirurges sordid story the fact remains Barbara Hutton, who has now barrier exists between them.
I gathered one thing from her as secretary to the Governor- the prolls from his books go to Pompidou, the director of the that Pesquet was guilty by his returned to Paris to take up confession of the illegal residence in her new fat here.
sho donalders' Russian | General in Canada. In fact, he a private charity supported by Rothschild Bank, who served on own
a weapon, of. She is dieting and has given vodka pastir inferior to Pellsh, would do well anywhere. the General and Madame do de Gaille's personal staff after possession of
******* (London Rzymon Bursize)." Galle
contempt of court and of that up spirita. She now takes only his retam to power.
Since then the man whb
and sylication rights well distributing m of Hachette request. over half-a-mlilion pounds.
De
in that
She