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Anne BAXTER Richard WIDMARK
YELLOW SKY
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'I BOUGHT THAT LAST YEAR! WHERE'S THE LATEST ?*
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A trip to the moon at
25,000 miles an
It could happen in
by KENNETH W. GATLAND· (Fellow and Member of the Council of the British Interplanetary Society)
THE Arst man-made moon, in the form of a space rocket swinging round the globe 500 miles above the earth's crust, may be built within five years. This is no schoolboy dream. It is a logical estimate based on facts already established by US and British scientists engaged in official rocket research.
Since the war vital information has been gleaned from such experiments as the launching, lust February, of an American designed rocket which soared 250 miles into the upper atmosphere from the nose of a German V2. With the aid of this scientific evidence, it is now possible to describe the revolutionary achievements anticipated for 1954.
16,800 m.p.h.
By then it should be possible for the first global range rocket to be fired 500 miles into space, where it will encircle the earth until recalled by radio control.
A speed of 10,800 miles per hour would be required to drive the missile to a point in space where, with the earth's gravita-
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balance without further need of power.
IN THIS CONDITION IT COULD
REMAIN INDEFI
IN BECOMING, FACT. AN ARTIFICIAL MOOŃ.
NITELY:
A brief calculation tells us that, on its Journeys round the earth,
his man-made Moon would pass over the same spot every 107 minutes.
The military possibilities of such a space-bound object, con- taining and controlled by the latest radio equipment, obvious.
Invaluable
are
data
But rockets, Like atomic energy, promise olso tremendous peaceful advances.
For, in the exploration of space beyond the earth's atmosphere, will robot radio laboratories transmit back invaluable data on conditions existing in a region which is now a closed book,
Direct knowledge will be ob tained of the very short ultra violet radiations which aro thought to influence radio recep- tion and weather changes on the earth.
To astronomers, too, apsce rockets may prove a revolu- Llanary boon. For the earth's atmosphere has always been a great handicap. Shifting strata of air too often distort the images and obscure the details of the planets and
stors.
Design for a space rocket carrying an observer
1
to
It would re- quire only short-wave radio signal from the earth to cause for ward-firing motors
the rocket in burst into life.
The broke on speed would upset the orbital balance and the craft would drop to earth in a graceful curve, steered to base by radio control.
Plans for a man-carrying
discussion stages. Three years have passed since the British
Mars mysteries rocket have long passed the
What wonderful opportunities designers Mr R. A. Smith and spring to the mind at the pros Mr H. E. Ross produced their pect of bridging the atmosphere blue print of such a space-ship. with rocket-borne telescopesi
Based on the German V2, Mars, for instance, would be
with a pressure cabin in place The mystery of the revealed. "canale" and the type of vegeta- of the explosive, it is intended fion would be solved in a day by to carry an observer 180 miles
into the upper atmosphere. automatic.cameras.-
Later, perhaps, we may be able to enjoy sightseeing tours of the planet by rocket-television
On his lightning ten-minute venture into the unknown, tho first space-man would be auto- matically tested for, human re- Returning a "tellite labora- actions to acceleration, the ap- of gravitation, tory" for the study, of instru- parent absence
would boa and the effects of radiations in ments and Alms
зрасс.
simple affair.
·NANCY
I WISH I WASN'T SO.. SHOMELY
Cover Girl
MAYBE A FLOWER|
IN MY HAIR
WILL IMPROVE
MY LOOKS
Trip
hour! 1959
That intriguing fantasy-
the to
moon--may materialis within ten years.
How can we seriously con- night of 240,000 sider a space
best we have miles when the achieved so far is 250 mlies? The answer is speed.
When a rocket can be built to attain 25,000 miles on hour- Ave limes faster than the pre- sent record-It will defeat gra- vity and never return, journey. mag on without power.
With available fuels this one-way moon-rocket might consist of five steps with a Lake-off weight of 370 tons.
The nose, boosted to "escape velocity" by the other four fuel sections which drop off when exhausted, would be guided to its destination.
Fuel
radio"
problem
Merely to strike the moon's surface, however, would have little or no scientifle value. It would be better to guide the rocket so that it assumes a path around the moon.
КР ZHOLST
we've
*I'm afraid unwittingly insulted him In his own language."
London #spress Service
SCHOOL MIKES SPY
ON TEACHERS Check-up starts strike threat
From R. M. MacCOLL în` Paris.
NE HUNDRED " tea- "These microphones are in- Wa feel BOTTIC
chers; 30 of them limidating.
teachers are not trusted, but we British, are in revolt don't know which ones."
at a Paris languages school
because the management la Said Mrs Edna Knight, from putting mircrophones in Eastbourne: "Microphones make- pupils for more nervous than classrooms so that inspec- the teachers. But the job will tors can listen-in to lectures. become tiring and nerve-racking
for all."
Teachers complained to their unions about the "spy system" when work began on wiring the
90 classrooms,
The management told the unions: "It fa an excellent way of checking up on new teachers. It was embarrassing to every- body when Inspectors went into classrooms,"
They sald It has been tried out and proved successful in the
branch. New York
It would probably be extended to other offices including London.
Ono microphone was installed as a test in an Englishman's classroom. A loudspeaker was put in with it.
The teacher paused In his And Icsson for a few moments, the class was startled to hear a voice boom
from
speaker:
"Why
the loud- have
you
stopped Mr?"
Twenty-six-year-old
Mrs
Stella Fuller, #1 teacher trom
Pork, Finsbury
sakd today:
of a
There has been talk teachers' strike, but no action. has been taken yet.
TEACHER STELLA FÜLLER *Intimidating," she said
-(London Express Service)
Five British films offend a religious group
Is Shakespeare's language too strong for America?
{
From FREDERICK COOK in New York.
week seeing pictures, away when we do and some-
thing objectionable,
conceded that Father Little
reliable way of there was no estimating how many Church members did stay away from
IVE major British film hours a
exports to the U.S.A. Ret no pay for their work.
Since the Legion was founded Quartet, The Master in 1934 as an official agency of is of Bankdam. Good Time the
they hierarchy
have Red Shoes and managed between them to see
run into some 7,000 films. objections from the National Legion of Decency.
The great problem dominat- plans for human re- ing all
the moon connaissance of fuel for the return trip to earth. Girl,
This leads us to the convic-Saraband-have tion that future development of space-flight will be bound up with atomic energy.
ot
enor-
banned films.
But he pointed out that all Four classifications
on the Catholles at church After the views of different Sunday within the Octave of
groups have
for
all"
not only the prospect standards. Even Sir Laurence ever earned a total ban.
been
On the
of flight far beyond Olivier's masterly Hamlet, now condemned List we are far out-
the earth, but an in its second year here, has not numbered by the French.
exciting new ag won a completely clean bill of
This is the powerful anony- reviewing
the Feast of the Immaculate A new type of engine is fore-
analysed every Conception (the Sunday follow- "atomle
mous behind-the-scenes group compared and seen which utilises
intended for public heat" to flash chemical fluid of women who determine what picture
in one or ing December 8 each year) took a pledge containing these words, --perhaps ammonia-into a pictures members of the Roman showing is placed
of four classifications: "I condemn Indecent and im- other propelling jet with more Catholic Church ought to see.
for general moral pictures and those which than double the
power
They have been classified an "unobjectionable
" "morally sate for glorify crime or criminals. any conventional rocket "morally objectionable in part
Patronage."____"ne But all are showing only" "morally objection. 810 for all
acknowledge my obligation to we can visualise.
in part able
and form a right conscience about With atomle drive the and no alterations are planned.
pictures dangerous to my moral possibilities ure
The Legion of Decency are a "condemned."
Few British pictures have life. mous, for it embraces hard group to please, with high
myself to remain pledge away from them.""
"That," he said, "is a pretty to take if you Black Narcissus, two years serious pledge ago, was one British production don't intend to keep it."
Changea Eliza- which wab barred.
What about Hamlet? Because of a certain
some of bethan frankness
were made and it was then ac-
Explaining the policy of the Shakespeare's phrasing, it has cepted. The Korda picture.
only for Girl From Maxim's has been on Leglun, he said, "One of your
English the condemned list for years on
is immoral Newman it the ground that Are these suggestive?
treatment" and "You in theme and Here are the Legion's objec- that it portrays vice attractively literature about ▷ sinful tions to the five recent imports: while ridiculing virtue.
"Suggestive There has been no ruling yet for Miss Orchids Blandish, to be known here at The Snatch.
The Tocket is the design of British Inven tors R.A.Smith and H. E. Ross,
of planetary health.
exploration.
-(London Express Service)
NO---MAYBE
I NEED
TWO
TWO DOESN'T HELP EITHER
NEITHER DOES
THREE
been held suitable
adults.
Quartet: sequences."
The Master of Bankdam: "Suggestive sequence."
Good Time Girl: "Suggestive situations and dialogue."
Red Shoeo: "Suicide in plot solution."
Saraband: wrong-doing. sequences."
The
A picture's appearance on the condemned Hist may not, tho Legion admit, result in every member of the Church refusing
cardinals Cardinal I think, cannot have, a
once said. Binless people. That we know. But there must be no glamorizing of evil. It
must be shown for what it i worth. Our policy is based on the Ten Commandments."
was
"There aro
I asked Father Little what
with Hamlet. wrong wa
things in it," ho said, "which adults can under stand and evaluate properly, Fear of offence
but which can be badly: mistin- almost always terpreted by But it has
children. You
"Condones to see it. Suggestive
Two hard-hitting young resulted in exhibitors declining know the passages. I mean. priests, Father Patrick J. Master- to book it, for fear of offending That's nil"
non
•Little cerned with the private lives or Hollywood stars and their high foes
divorco ryto.
When I put this question to Father Little he replied, "The
The Legion are not interested Thomas F. Roman Catholic patrons. There and Father
and between 26,000,000 are the are
in the artistic merits of a film, Little, neither yet 40, spearhead of the ceaseless war 27,000,000 Roman Catholics in or whether it will be popular. fare wage by the Legion. Their the USA. the largest single Nor are they in the least con- shock troops are a reviewing religious group.
I naked Father corps of some 60 women-house-
widows, wives,
professional whether as the Legion's women, office workers all of have charged, they were in fact whom have graduated from an exercising censorship over film and He chuckled accepted Roman Catholic school producers
said: "We have no power to do Bergman Roselini business? or college.
the films people Each has undergone a rigid so, even if we wished. The in- No, no views We are concerned
Instruction lasting dustry dictates its own morals, only
make, and whether: Hollywood pro morally acceptable"
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course
of
the so that through generally six months they may know just what to duction code. All we can do look for. They spend many persuade our people
By Ernie Bushmiller
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I GUESS. THIS
SOAP THAT SPELLS. BEAUTY
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