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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1960.
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JACKY'S DIARY JACKY Mendelson WAS AT About how Some Body,
YesteRDAY i Went to THE Movies + seen a Murder Mistery; ·
MAD
Then CAME The Heroin of The Pickture, who as
YOU CAN See WAS real Beauty full.
GROAN UA
THAT'S WHY SHE Was A-frayed. ona COUNT of THE STRANKLer Only Strankl ed PEOPLE WHO Were Pretty EsteshULLY
Ladies
Age 32%
NOW PLAY /img:
A Murder Mistery'
all StRankled This Mere LADY ONLY mo BodY KNOWS WHO DONE IT.
PRETTY Soon The Hero Came f fell in Love with THE Heroin, So They Started.
in Kissing
fooey?
Ouch
But Then CAME THE Good Part WheN HE STAPTED into Chase HeR on a Count of HE WAS The StranKLER! all The Time,
(Help)
960 King Features Studicate ing, Word rights reserved.
(The Reason You dipint KNOW is be- cause they Just Showed the Back of
His face.
So then THE POLICE Men
·Could'nt Catch Him & So Every Body was SCARRed TheY WOULD be the Necks Victum.
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BAN3. gam
(only Oliver Sudden the Police Man Came & SHOT him, & SO HE Died from TRigger
MORTIS.
LIKE You can see. it was'nt A Very Good Movie, So i ONLY STAYED TO watch it 2 more Times,
YR. Friend, Jacky
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With this killer on
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worry too much about Skybolt
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By HUGH DUNDAS
second best substitute weapon. of Skybolts by all means let us
Magnificent
BLUE STEEL No means of calculating either
its course or
· its target
Skybolt projret has
clouded Anglo-American air power il the group a formidable pool of and brainpower Blue and when it comes to fruition, experience people's thinkig about Steel-which has come Lo bo It the defence budget will covering every branch of aero- of nautics including missiles and regarded as al the best an In- streich to the expenditure terim and at the worst s *
420 or £30 million on a pile rockers.
Under the vigorous loader- ship of Sir Roy lay in a pilo and be grateful,
Dobson the UNDOUBTEDLY the feature of last week's
But in the meantime the pro- grup must be regarded 08 A Farnborough air display has been as forecast
gramme for developing our belter bet for the production -a behind the scenes controversy about the
own. Avro Blue Steel should be of Britain's most important accelerated. The weapon than the Douglas Co. Douglas Skybolt and the Avro Blue Steel, the new It is to be hoped that Secre still further
newly expanded Hawker Sid- of California, which is at pre- air-launched guided missiles on which Britain's try Sharp's reassurances about delay group, of which Avro is a sent going through difficult
that Defence Minister Walkin part, has the will and the times.
And to prove it, there was son's confidence is Justified. ability to do the job.
Following the recent mergers the Blue Steel, magnificent and For no one should deny that it within the aircraft industry, deadly, on view for all to see
magnificent conception, which will lead great weight to there is now combined within at Farnborough.
nuclear deterrent will depend during the current decade.
But in the case of attack by
stand-of bomb type missile the defence has
DX anss.
Skybolt are well founded and
Secretary of the U.S. a reasonable chance of bring- Is a
ing about an interception. Air Force Dudley Sharp has insisted that there are no delays in the Sky- lutely no means of calculating either its pre-determined bolt programme..
larget Dines Minister Harold course or is eventual
be made tá The bon may
Interval. change direction at on the way to its target.
Waikinson is extremely Lanoy- ed by reporta
that the pro- Ermine is behind schedule.
Independent observers from Washington continuo to insis! there is cruse for alarm.
Meanwhile, as production of the Mark 1 Blue Steel gets
development
Not certain
It may fly past a given
of an extended and improved themselves with any
version of the weapon.
The possibilty of a debacle in the Skybelt programme definitely being taken into ac- count in the plans for develop ing Blue Steel, which could, it necessary, move forward into a third phase.
III founded
In all the
It has rather naturally
been
Lo
ze.
under way work is building up target area, but the defenders on research and
on the ground cannot say
certainly that they have seen the last of for it may turn round and come back at them.
And the best computer in the cannot work out from world
the bomb the flight path of alter it is launched how great a distance it is going to travel
That is the difference. In the case of a ballistic missile the men on the ground at the ceiving and know juat where i speculation and is going and what path it will contering reports which have fly. In the case of r stand-of arisen in connection with Sky- bomb, this vital information is
only hsa a secret shared bolt, one important factor
by the been overlooked, I concerns brain in the weapon itself and the rival merils of the two the ma who whispers ita
orders, types of weapons,
Obviously hero OTC potent dvantages for the attacker in ballatic missile which will rise the stand-off bomb type of to enormous altitudes and европ. There Dre strong travel at several thousand arguments for suggesting that miles an hour is by definition a number of much weapons fly- loss vulnerable than the Blue ing about in all directions Sloot stand-off bomb, which is would disrupt and confuse
ta basically no more than a very enemy's defence system advanced form of pilotless oir greater degree than could craft
achieved by a similar number But this assumption may he of ballistic missiles, ill founded. It is possible for Skybolt is an extremely de- defence syutern to calculate sirable and potentially effective exactly by means of computers Weapon, But I do suggest that the fight path of a ballistic it would not necessarily be so missile, which cannot
bettor than the Blue be much radically altered once the mis- Steel-particularly an advanced silo is on its way,
and developed, form · of Birc In a few years time, perhaps bocas most people have as- by the mid-sixties, it will sumed. probably be possible to send up And I suggest also that anti-mfaele "milien on an fog of conjecture; and runou exactly reciprocal course with which "LAN, BUTYOUnded. the
assumed that Skybolt
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How don't Jump to conclusions, dear. I fell down a spiral stair.
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We ought to hear something soon, Charlin:“,