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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1969.
Science And Engineering
RECORD-BREAKING TRAVEL YEAR FOR
EXPECTED
'Inertia Barrier' Is Obstacle AMERICANS
To Space Ship
Hitting Speed Of Light
By WILLARD WILKS
Los Angeles.
By NOEL HUDSON
New York, May 11.
Office
hove
THE travel industry here, in spite of the present "recession," is happily preparing for a record-breaking 1958 season. Nearly # ,million North travel companies believe that for the 1950 Lourdes centennial Americans are expected to go this will simulate even more year in co-operation with the
Catholic this year, and Abroad
Travel abaut foreign travel. 700,000 of them will be United All the main airline com- Washington, They
once nights leaving New York direct two States citizens, almost 100.000 | poules will introduce. more than last year, According government approval has been for Lourdes on April 23 and on to estimates made by Dhe obtained, a new economy class September 27, and the pilgrims European Travel Commission. fight, The fare fpe this light will remain in Lourdes for a
Alrline, steamship and travel on the New York to London i week.
service will be £30 single, and agencies all report brisk bank- Ings for Britala, Europe, and the £12 return. At present the cheapest fure is the tourist flight at 104 single and £180 re- turn. When the economy fare comes into effect, the tour:s rates will be slightly Increased.
a bumper tourist season,
THE major obstacle to a space ship hitting the speed of light For East In what promises to be
is the "inertia barrier." Approaching light speed in space the inertial mass of a mere pebble becomes that of a battleship. Scientists just don't bother to figure what it would be for a space ship.
Dr Robert H. Bodes, physlelst
at North American Aviation's rocketdyne plant, explained that the inertial mass-or resistance in being pushed faster...o!"
object increases progressively the faster it goes.
"At around 80 per cent of the speed of light this inercase be- comes appreciable," Boden said.
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Pickering, whose labotaturg helped develop America's first successful satellite, said selen- lists "don't like to say anything la impossible."
Both Agree
Both agree it will take new gorces of energy unknown to- diny. in today's technology, iry- ng to shbut even a pebble to the spread of light might take lu esigine-fuel component The site of a house sebylously met i feusible proportion for a space vehicle.
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The American Express, for example. has already recorded ten per cent more bankings than at this time last year, and early Pan American fight reserva- tions are r-bout 20 per cent bigher than these for 1957.
Air Fares
Swissair report a smaller in- Some airline companies be- crease, and the Trans-Atlantic leve that the new fare is the Steamship con Jerence's members biggest factor behind
Higher
A British Overseas Airways Corporation spokesman has sald that the company's bookings are "definitely higher than Jast year. particularly for the mulb
Festivals
Telecrit
By JOHN LUFF
N
A incident which
amazed
me Was
shown on TV last week.
It showed Britain's Tommy Steele in action at Stockholm. I am now prepared to belleve any- believe that I am one of thing. I am prepared to
the few sane people left alive.
When I compare Tummy Steele with Elvis Presley, I have. to admit that when it comes to physical contortions, Steele is oke up on Prestcy. Artisticntly, there is not much' to choose be {ween
them except I do not think that Steele has graduate: to the paramount achievement of wearing a gold leaf suit.
However, not being well
in modern url. I am no1 qualified to give an opinion upon the artistle merits of the performance. Neither. I should
man, for he took us round the Budlence and
us Kave
chly glimpses of Steele in netion.
A huge audience, mostly teenagers, awnyed and hooled, and then sobbed and shrieked We had a close up shot of a giri who collapsed in hysterles, Spe was lifted over the unheeding head of her companions and led feinuing from the hall. Another girl was carried oul (201 A strelcher.
Festivals. earnivals and fairs oli over Western Europe have evoked a response in America, and there have been heavy bookings for such places OS London, Copenhagen, Stockholm. Helsinki, Rome and Zurich,
Among events which many the in- Americans wish to see are shipped almost one-third more | creared interest shown by the Shakespeare Festival al passengers lo Europe between | American in going abroad.
Stratford-on-Avon, the Festival January 1 ond. February 15 is BOAC (British Överseas Air of Wales, the Musle Festival ingine was the TV camera year then they did during the ways Corporation) official re- Copenhagen, the Bergen Festival same period in 1957,
marked: "People realise the1 of Music, Diet and Folklore, they can make a corderable Helsinki's Sibelius Festival. the Pablo Casals Festival to be held waving on the economy fare."
in the He added
village of that hundreds of during July bookings for the economy nights Prades in the French Pyreneer, made even and the Women's Exposition in had already been though advertisements make it Zurich.
But the call of culture la not clear to the public that the new
behind rates have yet to be sauctioned the only driving force by the Government,
the destre of Americans to go Travel agencies give Three Passengers on economy cinas abroad. Advance ale and sea reasons for this sudden boom in lghts will be allowed the same bookings tabrict trafte the Brussels baggage allowance 15 tourist koliday-makers simply want to Work! Fair.
the 100th an-class passengers, 44 pounds, but relax. niversary of the Lourdes shrine, their scoting accommodation High on the list of popular and the experled new. und will be less spacious. They will resorts this year are Corsica, cheppu trans-Atlantic air fures, be served with sundwiches, tea Palermo, Sardinia, and the West
The World Fair, the first to be
and coffee, but will not be able | Indles, held for 18 years, which opened to buy alcoholle drinks,
The Far East is also expected on April 17. has attracted, a
Scores of special trips have to greet a record number of good deal of attention in the
bean arranged this year to United States visitors. Ameriesn United States. Many Americans Lourdes, many of them led by President Line cruises Gre ore anxious to see the United Catholic priests. Two special | hotelly booked, and so, loo, are for the stek have Bighly to Tokyo, Hongkong und States Pavillon, reported to be pilgrimages the largest circular bulking in
been announced by Air France Hawell-Chind Mail Special. the world, and most of them will try to be in Brussels during the first week of July for the United States National Days at
of June.
the Fair.
Cheaper al fares are expect. ed to be in operation soon and
China Mail. Entertainment Guide
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Pickering believes, "We'll be Vee Tourre &-Cle, 11 quai
pretty well to reach 10 L-Col dolg miles secone," or about twice! Baines-(Ardeche)
Tourro, Vols-Les- Franco. the speed of the Explorer satel-
The metal fite,
polyethylena insert rather than the standard insert, and is shaped so that it can be reused as a bottle cork after opening.
That should be adequate for preliminary exploration" of the solar system and keep us busy for a while," he said.
The Future
cork
The plastle insert, ihade frum into Union Carbide polyethylene, is Ibuking'a Ile further the Juture, Bogen said he moulderi to the standard thought a "velocity capability of bottle opening and the open around 80,000 miles on hour 10 space in the metal cap. Unloa gravity-free space is within the | Carbide polyethylene was chosen present realm of reasoning." At | because of excellent resis!- the same lime, he pointed out ance to chemicals and the per- this figure would be slowed "by | manere of form obtainable éven nanoeuvres of the vehicle and under extremes of temperature. gravitational elds."
"But this is just a gleam in our vye, he said. "We are
years
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offers vap Would need,"
some economies over the sun-
As for the inertiu barrier, he dard cork insert by eliminiating said this probably wouldn't be-adhesive materials and heal emme a serious problem until a sealing
poly- processes. The ship Teached around 80 or $0 ethylene Insert is simply snap- per cent of the speed of light. ped into place in the metal "And we have kept our portion of the cap. The main rtudies well below that
feature of the, esp, however, is he added with a smile-United | that it is reusable. Press.
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larger
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the
Golf Clubs
"Naked Earth.”
Richard
Todd and Juliette Greco in an adventure drama. "High Flight." Kay Mil- KING'S & PRINCESS;
Ind as the commandant of an Air Academy. HOOVER & LIBERTY: "I Accuse." Jose Ferrer in
the Dreyfus scandal.
STAR & METROPOLE:
Genn at war.
Accused Objects To Juror
Case Adjourned
show thal
many
Determined
To Buy
A Car!
London, May 11, When an attractive 20-year-
It is all very clifying. When one looks at Sicele, one wonders how it is all dotie. He is no Adonis, he badly nee
hair
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cut; he gives the opinion of one who has graduated by Tapid steps from barrow to gultue. He is the very antithesis of what is held to be a Ane specimen. British manhood. Yet these Irenagers worship him. 121 England they mobbed him. They almost fore him to pieces. Having seen this performance, I understand why.
SO TV has come to Peking. It
has tut evused much sensati ilan yet, in Cact it is stil novelly, and my latest informa- tton is, there is only a two hour show a day. The difficulty with China, no with Japan, is to pro- duce a cheap set within purchasablę
of range people's income,
the the
niere acutely aware of this than No doubt the scientists are old girl pleaded guilty of anyone else. If they are going Marlborough St. to solicit- | to make a success of TV in Asia, ing motorists A robbery case scheduled to
in Hyde hey leave got to bring town thứ cost of the set without lower- Park, the probation officer it the officiency of the recep begin before Mr Justice A. D. Scholes at
said: "Sho is quito deter- tion. the Criminal Sessions
mined to go on doing this morning was—adjourned- until 10 a.m. tomorrow for a fresh jury to be em- panelled, after one of the time
this
sort of thing for the next six months.'
Easier said than done.
The magistrate: "Why the NOTHING startling this week, accused had objected to wants to buy a car."
Mr
limit?""She suys
but tonight brings an nho interesting documentary. "Trophy Iolani," which is of Wilson asked the girls | cause, the Isle of Man. For the "Why not get some houest unnillated, the famous motor- The accused ore Siu Sze. 33. work?" She replied: "I will-cycle races which more or less
Fun, 34, in six months' time."
juror.
"Steel Bayonet." Leo
| Luk Slu-on, 22, Lau
Chan-slu,, 28, all unemployed.
LEE & ASTOR: "Men And Women." A German
film.
QUEEN'S: "Grent Expectations." John Mills.
ORIENTAL: "Bataan." Robert Taylor in a
picture.
war
MAJESTIC: "Our Sister Hedy." A Chinese pic-
ture.
CAPITOL: "Gun For A Coward," Fred MacMurray
in a western,
RITZ: "The Crimson Pirate." Burt Lancaster.
Audio
Enterta
RADIO HONGKONG
Visual
by
Tang Kwok-ching, 31, and Tang
The
Alm
Mol
set the pace for the world, have The girl appeared in the dock eng had the famous and hazar- wearing a tight pink sweater dous track around Man as their The first, second and third and narrow
purple skirt. Her ordeal on wheels. accused DTC charged with fair. hale was in a pony tail. sets out to show How rubbing a Chinese woman, Hang She was discharged absolute- developed as a tourist spot, with Sau-kau, on February as 302A by the magistrate telling her: this and other visitor attractions. Nation Road, first floor.
You It is your Brst offence. US$30, $1,000,
three wrist
serious considera- ahould give watches, four gold chains, eight on to what you are doing" gold Anger rings, two founigun
As the girl left the dock, the pens, two gold pendants and
probation ofBeer told him: "She feur gold bracelets,
The fourth and fifth accused has saved 2009 in two months,"
-China Mull Special charged
being with Accesories before the robbery. All accused pleaded not guilty. Crown Mr D. F. O. Mayne, Counsel, is prosecuting.
Mr
G. A. de Basio, Instricted by Mr F. H. B. Wong, of C. Y. Kwan and Co. Is represcriting the nth accused. The other accused are not represented by Counsel.
rone. The
Fish Eating Triplets
London, May 11. Joyce, Jacqueline and Joan, No Objection 15 months old triplets, celeb- rated their mother's momentary After the Jury of four men inattention by eating all the and three wotnen had been familly goldfish alive yesterday.
Court Clerk empanelled, ie
Their parents were seriously ILSKU the accused whether alarmed about the results. But they had any objection to the only the goldfish suffered. The Jury. Accused indicated that Iftie girls continued to flourish they hiki
other on their unorthodox diet.
structed to leave the Court. jurors in waiting were then The goldfish bowl has been
replaced by a parakeet in After the empanelled jurors coge on
the grounds that the had bene sworn
in and the bird can look after himself-ar case was about to begin, the at least yell for help.--Franca- fourth accused stood
up Preste. the dock and raised an. ob- jection to one of the jurore on the ground that he had a con- versation with a certain moti with whom to accused, had previous business dealings
The juror denied the state-
ment.
Thai Envoy En Route
To Japan
TUESDAY brings on Interest-
Ing selence item, "This is Salt." The film records the pro- this (esses which have made vital commodity an easy used domestic product, and coinpares the varicus processes employed ly different countries in bring ing to the household.
5 Ori
OOKING at the Children's programmes for a monient. A young Indian boy, at present on holiday in the Colony, 1s going to give number of programmes
TV during Children's Hour. He is 10-year- old Ashok Mahbudani from St He Kavier's School, Calcutta, in young expert of Indian Dancing, and has many trophie he has earned as a practitioner of that art.
pỷ has almost completed ta first year in Hongkong, and doubtless there will soon be a statement from them as to their plans for the second year, What- ever they are, they will doubt- lees take into consideration the peculiar difficulty of running a TV Service within so limited a place 15 Hongkong where nothing of interest is so fat
that Away
It
cannot Icached by every luhabitant.
be
According to its manufac
Children's Camer-Presented turer, the new bottle cap it suit-
Auntie Boys 4.30, Monday Requesta- able for use in packaging beer;
5.30, The Adventures of Bali Presented by Nick Kendall; 558, Naba-How the Persiana Went to Birthday Mailbag: 8. La Musique soda, and other carbonated and] War; 3,45, Joseph Strauss Polk Francaise Presented by Jeannette non-carbonated beverages. Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra: Piry; 6.30, A Moment For Melody
Fire
Ite in the Groove; With Feux King: 7, Personality 9.30, Cuckiall
Time-Dolf von Parade Stanley
2.15. Linden and Orchestra: J. Talking furniture suggest that
Henry
730, Guy Jeuume Showway about Music compiled and int now lissom line. In upholstery
duced by Irene Tusa; 7.50 Patti Lombardo and his Royal Canadiana: 7.43, Story Of Jone Armitage: Page inźroducer The Big Record": Owes a lot to the use of
7.08., Wealer Report 8. Time Time Signal and the News: 8.00, | Bignal, Nows;
Weather Forecast, Armcancements 3.10. Cominentary: foom, rubber..
B.15. Frank Chackatsid and his and Interlude: 8.18 Tops In Fopular Music Presented by Nick Kendall; Orchestra Writing In Rubber DevelopOLF, a game frequently, Monday Recital: Mainho Kivoko 5.30, Show Case-Selections from
-"Take you to the Orient" ments, Dennis
Young, one
GF Nambo Kivakas-Selections Britain's top ten designers,
Arlene Weather" and "The Vagabond King": 0, Time Signal. "Jamaica" comments on the high glandaring of irritated nerves, often fierbung Selections from the 1. Monday Calvert--Spanish Midna of the latest designs
midral. play Starring Lena Horse Rhapsodia Sinfonica" by Turina, and thehas the opposito effect and Ricardo Montalben: 0.30, Com Folk Songs by Victoria de los
tinental way that "atex foam and rub-when the goffer arrives on
The fourth accused, however, Rendezvous with Denise | Angeles, Gecond Bymationy
by ber webbing have been used in the putting green.
trabant: 0,60, Weather Report; 20. | Aurinach: 9.45, One Night Stand: insisted that he had, He added achieving this result".
Time Signal. News ak! Home News 10.30. Secrets Of Scotland Yard No. that he could not see the juror's from Britain, 10,10, Robert Stote 15, 11 Date. With Dreamland: 11,30, This was particularly notice
conducting the Tonhalle Orchestra Prelude To Midnight; 19 Midnight, fnce properly In an attempt to eliminate the able In this year's British frustration of missed pults, the
Zurich) 10,30, Secrets of Scotland | God Save The Quien; Close Down. Malaya, Indonesia, Ceylon, India, } Furniture Manufacturers' Ex-Oley Crisman
Yord No. 18-llarke and Hare (Bo- Putter Co of peat of last Saturday broodca); Minwall, tak, 2.
hibition, for the first time inter-Selmo, Alo, USA, has produced 1955, Weather Repai: 11. Tline Signal national in scope, and including a hand-crafted aluminium club
India Newrceel; fjs Common
5 p.m. Children's tour-Cartoons; Crown Counsel whether or not morning by exhibits, from Haly, Finland and which Denmark.
wealth Antarcile expedition A des 3.13. Puppet Theale: 10 Steve it was proper to proceed with Taipei to assure his post. reputedly
an eription by Taymond Baxter of Dyan Westem Marshal": 4. Close the care with only six jurors helps
Defenco in the st Waterloo Down 720, Monday Band Bev to put like a pro-Station, his welcome by the Seco 200 ombella Quartet 18 after one had been discharged. General Staff
power of Thailand, the
plant tary of State for Commonwealth-Prophy Island The Fule Of Man In reply, Mr Mayne sald that Admiral said that he would do time. the newspaper
relations: 11.00, "Close Ikzwa,"
and Its Motorcycle Racing; 4:15. | it was not.
his utmost to promote better People claimed today: Your Biar Theatre Prasanta Charles
Crown. Counsel and Me Basto relationship and trade, between
plant The report said the Boyer in "The Executionse"; 1.45, Calling Card Cotroduced by Jack zold they had no objection to Thailand and Taiwán,
would begin to generate elec- p.m
Matinee; Blaan: R. Nawwood; 9.45, Cantonces – an ádjournment. The jurors The visitor will remains hero tricity from sea water "prod-
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Australia, New Zealand. 1 pm, Philipines. 1 p.m.
Chiarn, Hawaii, pan.
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cushions,
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