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IN THE PACIFIC—– WAITING FOR THE BANG

Wwid Copyright. We arrangement with Dalle Berald.

The clearest explanation ever presented of the baffling BARRIER OF SOUND

Actual photograph or **bow-wave * streaming over the leading edge of a plane wing as it passes the barrier of sound,

*

asterisk on

the air news

EX-QUEEN FARIDA'S FATHER TALKS

'Farouk has finished her life'

Since Farouk divorced Farida back in 1948 scarcely a whisper has been heard of the beautiful ex-queen who mothered his first children-all girls. Now, since Farouk has taken the three girls into exile in Capri, Farida still stays silent in Egypt. But her father speaks. Here he tells the story..

FINE new

By SIDNEY RODIN

Cairo. I came to Egypt to discover But she became a prisoner in

house why, although her husband was the palace. stands empty near the banished nearly two months ago, Formerly the beautiful queen sho still refuses to emerge from made many public' appearances. Pyramids. It is built the nun-like seclusion she has People especially loved seeing her sumptuously to delight imposed upon herself from the in winter in a mink coat, small three little girls who are day of the royal divorce in 1948, white cap on the side of her hepd, and white vell covering used to only the very best. I wanted to be the first writer the lower part of her face.

In its park are three queen. Farida over received. I

This fair- While stories of the court stables, one for each of was disappointed. their ponies. Its open-air skinned woman with vivid black were publicly discussed she was Been, No drdinary swimming pool runs half eyes, raven tresses, and pearly never

teeth of the handsome Circassian Egyptians, in fact, have ever beneath the house, so that race from whom she descended, seen her since to this day. the girls can swim all the will see no one.

Her phoned my request

Yussef Zulflear. Cruellest blow year round.

Almaelf It has a pale blue marble to his daughter in her villa close bathroom, and the sliding to his in Alexandria, But she At last came the divorce for walls of the bedrooms are replied: "Tell him 1 cannot which she longed for so many made of glass, transforming break the rule of silence i have bitter years. Although the king them into a fairy slumber- been keeping. I have no case.

to stato in public. I do not wish rudgingly allowed her £90,000 annual rent from 1,800 acres of land.

to talk

about myself or my valuable farmland in return for There is the solarium, children," children's library, cinema, music room, and bold sweep- ing balconies half encircling -the house to survey the

Mr Zulficar, a former. High

He permitted her to keep the Nile and minarets of Court Judge, and Farouk's am- Cairo.

bassador to Persis, who in op- youngest child only until the age. There is a lesser villa in pearance might pass for an of seven.

Engilsh country gentleman, the grounds with rooms for underlined the meaning of her his home, flied with Persian 20'servants.

words to me with tears starting antiques, Yusef Zulfcar said to in his eyes.

Cost £50,000

'Life finished'.

relinquishing the title deeds of the palace he once bestowed on her, he ordered the handing over of all Farida's principat Jewellery.

As we drank Turkish coffee In

Mr. Zuificar repeated, to me the letter Ferial, the eldest child, sent to her mother from Capri

Dearest mother,

"Farida's life is finished," he me: "The forced return of young Raid. "She IN OFFICES and clubs, homes and buses,

"She dares to do nothing Fadia was perhaps the cruellest to intercede on the children's blow of all," the sudden realisation has come to hundrede

behalf. She does not know what of people reading the news that they do not:

The house cost £50,000. Farouk might do. really understand this business of passing Farida, its owner, required she has never uttered and the barrier of sound.

It to be purposely expen- never will utter in public a single.

three word that might diminish her MÁNY readers have aive so that these

respect for their written telling of their children, accustomed to the daughters'

father," bewilderment and ask. Aladdin's treasures of

Prior to my call at the judge's ing for an explanation. eastern palace, might yet house I learned from the Zulicar family: and English friends the A typical letter:

find novelty there.

The three girls pre-

the truth about the courtship and

marriage of the king and this th WHAT is the signif.

15, telligent girt. cance, apart from Princesses Ferial,

and Fadia, As a youth Farouk was Prince speed, expressed in terms Fawzia, 12.

friend of Farouk divorced Charming to Farida, of miles an hour, of "fly-eight.

his aistera. They married in ing faster than sound"? their mother, Farida, be 1938-she-ai 16, the youngest

"The bow-watts from a plane spread out in the same way as tho

bow-waves pushed up by a speeding vessel on a caliu sca.

IMAGINE A FAST

W travels

the

over-

Then......

Just "sound barrier"?-

cause,

so the world

An

was

queen

My heart la broken having to leave Egypt without; kias ing you goodbye. Forgive me if sometimes ~ 1

ztat obedient, but you know that, I love you with all my heart.

WHAT is the told, she could not give him already a king at vears the social life."

a son

een of modern times, and he

But after only. n few behaviour of

of the king

+

wat

!

1 hope to God never have to go through again the er perience of thece past few days. Mr. ZulBear continued "She consecrated her life to She has no wish her children. to remarry, no desire to resume She has began to "She has been ill. Travellers on the Pyramid

lost weight and the doctors roads do not pass the Poiss the marriage.

Then came a succession of attending her say they can do It ex- women

ittle house unfeelingly.

friends whom Farouk very

unless happiness WILAT are, and what causes, the double "bang cites the pity of all. Its commanded to his suite from the comes,"

emptiness is to the Egypt. cabarets and dance halls and even drinking bars of the capital an nation pathetic as well as the wives of numerous symbol of the wretched- court functionaries.

WHAT 19 meant by "crashing through the sound barrier"?

so often referred to when going through the sound barrier? HAR OLD P. `WRIGHT.~~

LINER

eare

neas Farouk has brought

upon the young ex-queen, once one of Egypt's bright- est stars.

women

Palace · prisoner

ments

Afraid to act

General Negülb's new decreo restricting land ownership to 200 acres will cut Farida's Income down to little more than £3,000. Farida and her daughters

The

National Egyptian For Farida could hot offer the stayed locked in their own apart- Feminist Party is protesting to children in her home the

to avoid public humilia- Negulb: "In the name of Egyptian pleasures of the fabulous Abdin, Hon.

- women and the nation, we Shortly after the birth of her demand Immediate repatriation and Ras el Tin palaces where, by the terms of the divorce, they third daughter in 1943, Farida of the three little princesses."

were forced to live with their refused to continue the marital But strong-man Neguib, busy father, except between 3 p.m. relationship. There is a pre- planning a new life for 10,000,000 and sunset each Friday when ponderance of boys her own crushed Egyptian sorts, is not in they are permitted to visit their family and relatives believe that the mood, it seems, to burden the mother....

three with it. Farida had wished to bear country

children a boy princesses, however small and the king more might well have been born. harmless.

tinually generate bow-waves. Dr 77HEN plane Chapman Pincher

a

You hear the wave only when at

* EXPLAINS THOSE BANGS it reaches the point where you normal speed-

are standing. say 400 miles an hour-its

sound waves travel

through

Double bangs may be due to wings cause waves of pres- the air?

the bow-wave, and the tail- sure in the air. These waves

Filars have at last been wave

reaching your travel forwards at about obie to Pet through

separately, Triple bangs may 760 miles an hour because "sound barrier and scientist be caused by a succession of that is the only speed at now realise that they

estimated the dangers of faster- bow-waves generated when the which any vibrations can than-sound fight.

plane changes course. slightly faster-than-sound travel through ordinary air,

A plane with thin, swept- during

wings can be forced dive. The waves аге therefore back

through the turbulent air. it moving nearly twice as fast as

meets at speeds of about 700 the plane. So they give the air

miles an hour. Then, as .500 in the path ahead of the air as it exceeds 700 miles ani craft plenty of warning that

hour, the turbulent, ofr is push- the plane is approaching.

ed violently away from the wings just as the bow of a

hip thrusts water aside,

This allows tibe for the air to rearrange itself so that in- stead of being turbulent and churned up like broken water, as it usually is, it flows smooth lines over the wings."

XI' the pilot increases his speed to 800

in

This bow-wave-plus a tail wave which forms at the rear edge of the wings--can be seen In the untouched photograph printed at the top of the page.

(London Express Service.j

She will sell

The house by the Pyramids WDS never entered by the mud children, and now Farida knows it never will be. She is almost certain to sell 1.

ONLY SUPERMEN

NEED

NUPERMEN are wanted by the U.S. Navy to do

a "super job."

ster 700

It is to man ntom-powered. Nautilus.

the new submarine

APPLY

on the operations of the depart miles an hour, To push this bow-wave along then the air in front gets mueli ures up a great deal of fuel,

ments and the way, they spend their funds. less warning than before. This but it sweeps aside the turbu- is because the waves thrown lent air. So it turns out that faster thari

PUGENE GIANNI was a dope forwards by the wings still fight al upeets

peddier, but also a secret miles an sound is smoother and travel, at only 700

than fight iust below

informer to the U.S. anti-drug hour.

squads. Last year, in Rome, ho But the air still has enough miles an hour.

told the U.S. agents that he was timo to. arrange itself for

Fifteen hundred of the navy's, afraid of Charles (Lucky) streamlined flow

over the is the bow-wave, which

causes the sharp crack often best submarine officers are being Luciano, who lives in Italy and wings.

heard when a plane exceeds screened by Commander David 1: suspected of beading an the speed of sound. The crack Bell for a handful of "good, international syndicate with an is not due to any impact of tho plane with a hard barrier of age types" to take charge of important stake in drugs.

the Nautilus.

Glanni asked the agents not air

The crew must be willing to even to tell his own wife that He feared squealer." He stay at sea and under water to indefinitely, he said.

Luciano would set assassins 'on his trail. But he got out of Italy, safely and back to the supposed safely of New York,

At dawn one day Gianni was found in an East Harlem, gutter between two dustbins. He was dead-murdered by a gunmen...

Dangerous

The bow-wave from rocks towel votom a ship

backwards as it travels

and outwards in the shape of-a hugo arrow-head.

TF the pilot accelerates to 700 miles an hour, the wings of his plane are then travelling

secret The Nautilus, with almost as fast as the pressure waves they generate,

range, speed, and armament, Result: The air in front gets In the same way, the bow-being built at a hush-hush ship- po tle warning that the wave streaming from on acru-yard in New England. She is plane hits it while it is turbulent.

still plane's wings will

shake

house in its path. And it will

expected to be ready in 1954,

Air in this state may be shake your eardrums so hard on for York City are

It dangerous because

ministration departments are "offers flint you hear a loud bang.

an' resistance to much morg aircraft, and the pilot's controls

a

not accepting telephone calls NEW cigarette holder puts

may not work properly in Twice... thrice from the president of the city. A out the eignete when the

Scientists, knowing this, re-' garded such ale as a barrier to flight at speeds faster than 700 miles an hour

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council, Rudolph Halley, Mayor smoker's finger relaxenon d Vincent Impellitteri gave the spring as be falls asleep era rute, bangr not. produced order. He is a Democrat, and Just patented, a combined gamma only at the moment of Halley is a Liberal-the only, and vacuum cleaner for the hairy penetrating the sound

bar one on the counell, And Helley, Also new, an unbrella, ju They called it the mound rter

who was an investigator, for the tached to a chest and shoulder barrier because: 760-miles an Planos travelling Ray Benato's crime committee, has braces, No:hands needed, when

hour is also the speed at which speed faster the sound con- cen making persistont quiries raised

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