! THE CHINA ̃MAIL,”- FRIDAY, AUGUST 29, 1958.
"A_CHINA, MAIL WRITER BACK FROM MOSCOW REPORTS A SIGNIFICANT TREND IN THE STRUGGLE FOR OUTER SPACE
Reporting Life On The Level Where Money Really Doesn't Matter
U.S. Ahead Of The Russians A Wife Thinks
I
-Despite That Failure!
vessel at 1,000 miles high as equivalent to the total dose per-
HAVE just come Although the first U.S. moon rocket blew up the other wook back from a gruel at Cape Canaveral, Florida, ANGELA CROOME, just back mitted to industrial workers for ling 10 days in Moscow. from Moscow, reveals that America has already overtaken Five hundred scientists from all over the world Russia in the exploration of outer
space, Russia, she the propaganda glory......while the U.S.A. has quietly got the scientific facts.
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a whole weelt. Highor, it will be greater than this.
Deep
But may be
few
IF
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PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM WHITE
Paris.
Aly Khan is to the
per-
secure
manent services of the champion Australian jockey, 35-year-old
Much depends on how deep the zone ultimately proves te báj no for only is fringe has been probed. If It is
only were meeting there to says, snatched
thousand miles deep a manned describe what they have
moon-rocket travelling at 25,000 been doing during the
to Moscow, established m.p.h. (the speed needed to The Moscow conference mado cabled This means that though the 13 months of the Inter- Anerkans were not Best at the another space fact abundantly that the radiation ceta steadily qualify) will pass through it in
It is that while the stronger the farther the satellite a few minutes, national Geophysical post, they achieved success in clear.
from the Earthy, and Ketting satellite off the ground Russian Sputniks have been very gets Year, and their plans riler in relation to their own bly and very heavy, they have presumably goes co rising in for the future. Satellites timetable, than did the Russians. made curicusly poor use of the inensity above 1,400 miles up,
room amount of weight and dominated the scientific For the Americans have made available.
attempt to conceal their By comparison
with
what of radiatinu approaches con- thousands of miles deep. As yet talk.
as ulls en space, so the score in their American counterparts siderably closer to the Earth we do not know. Until we do it
have pucked into their tiny towards the Foles.
would be rash indeed for a man tain for all to read.
that to venture so far afield. vehicles
might say the I was to find this out have wasted their Explorer JV was put into an Yot the first rocket voyage
It will be the who decides Iussians
orbit that reaches 15 degrees rcross interplanetary spaco is
whether the Moore family, in- satellite opportunities so far.
farther North und South round imminent.
cluding their three
young the world's waist than previous
One other revelation carne out
children, emigrate to American satellites,
of the Moscow conterence: the The fact that Aly realises this is exact fate of Le Lemon, the evidenced by the
I report that though the Americans have seemed in the eyes of the world to have done badly
pro with their space
furt Kratame thes have in
he
achieved
Hussians.
more
than
i can confidently report that there is a good reason for the different kinds of success of the and American usian racketects.
the two The motive behind pogumnes is diferent, so the
To begin with, take the "first rocket pulley has been different. up" story.
The Russians were out to make a splash; the Americans wished 1o make discoveries.
Onc
Radiation zone
the top of the satellite's orbit.
i also learned that the zone
tens
of
George Moore, he will have to exercise all his charm on Moore's ex- tremely attractive wife.
France.
prominence rst animal to spend a week of she enjoys in Aly's current its life in orbit.
waters
To do this the launching
was fired in a generally The first, indeed only, genuine rocket
direction from Cupe new fact to come
out of the northerly
Canaverat Instead of down the research done frten satellites is
I can now tell you that she social life in Deauville.
The Moores arc constant of South Atlantic before. the location of a deep belt
ended her days a hot dog in What significance The Russians have got what powerful radiation enclosing the
las this fact a very hot dog indeed, Only guests at Aly's villa there and newly discovered zone of radia the
of the Amazen his friend, the ex-model Betlina, they webted 50 have the Earth a hundred miles or so
Bun round the Earth Americans.
now above the atmosphere. (Though it
at the succeeded anally in dousing hers Iris Moore's regular escort to
Faris on clothes buying this edge of space? It would seen tames. seats the
Explerer countries, are
I glimpsed two
tall, Moore, There Laika to make space travel for humans
undert - a peditions. switching
horses and the radiation zone; Explorer 11 con- Americans are seeking fronti- med i, and Explorer IV more hazardous then had come drowned cinder. The first man blonde and with a beautiful cally for a splash while the (launched the week-end before to be expected.
into space will probably meet complexion, is one of the love- liest women at Deauville this The radiation dose received in the same fate. Russians may well pep up their the conference opened) has we
(Condon Express-Servicefy.... scazon. were told in a special message an hour in an unshielded space-
Their second
Though the Sputnik thai rose to astonish the into the sy nations Just October was called Spunk it was the alnih the Russians had fred. The first eight failed. When you know this fact the space-prestige scramblu scicice.) takes on a new look.
The successful American wiel- Ute mched on January 31, Explorer 1, was only the second satellite the Amerienos tried to get into orbit. (It is still up, by
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THE ELECTRONIC
RITISH talent scouts
BRIT
are
into
going churches looking for
candidates for television shows at 17 guineas an appearance.
PULPIT
TELEVISION TALENT SCOUTS IN
The vicar may be looking down on a small congrega- tion. If he is blaming TV for the empty pews, it is not Harry Belafonte on the B.B.C. or Frankie Howerd and Sabrina on commercial Both the
BRITAIN START BIG
GAME OF 'HUNT THE
main religious pro-
ralings"
ure
Religion
Im- comes
PARSON'
Mrs
ex-
TOO MANY She is a woman of admirable poise and great charm. So far, evident however, despite her enjoyment of her life at Desu- villo, her pale blue eyes do not Hight up with joy at the prospect jot making her home here,
The daily ruce meetings (There is a limit to the number to the EO of times you can
น
BARBARA CAILLEUX Sec Eligible
Moore, who in 23 rides here bus ridden eight winners and _haul eight of his mounts placed, catalogues his doubls about-life In France in the following order. The high cost of living (I paid five bob for a beer yesterday"}; the food ("You eat more dere in two days than in a week at home"; and with a doleful Took at the grey-green Channel, the contrast between the beach at Deauville ut his favourile Sydney beaches.
manufacturer of every kind of non-ferrous metal.
He achieved note notoriety earlier this year when, after
being trailed by Mies' Linda and Christian all over North
South Americo, he hired students and taxi drivers to out- chant."Linda Go Home" side her Rio de Janeiro. hotel room.
Pignatari would like to for- pel this incident now because ho is at present involved in a very serious courtship. This is with a willowy, blonde Balmain model, Mile. Barbara Cailleux. He in taking her to London this week- end, where they will be guests of the Brazilian Ambassador, Dr Assis Chateaubriand. Pignatari has been
married. twice-once to an Italian and then to a very beautiful Brazil- lan woman who was apparently 20 possessive that his life became completely domesticated.
"The seven-year itch worked In both cases," said Pignatar), commenting that each marrlags lasted seven years."
A SECRET
Pignatari, who is exception- ally handsome and looks 10
technician. Under his manage- years younger then his age, is a ment, production in his factories has increased 300 times since his father's death 20 years ggd. His income is a secret, safe- guarded by a neat Brazilian law which provides for incomes to be paid in bearer shares which do not have to be declared to the land revenue.
self-
As for Aly's offer to him, all races," she says) bor her after he will say is: "Aly Khan has His Industries are
neetings made me a very attractive offer Ananced, 60 per cent of the pro-
Australia where race
are a weekly event.
and it is very difficult to make a
As for the flattery with which decision. It is bad fuck that Rnets being ploughed back she and her husband are sur Johnstone is In Australia just the businesses every year. rounded, she merely says: "It is now I need his advice badly." true George could be a big namo here, but then he is a big name In Australia already."
ASINO Intelligence. Gloomiest man in Deauvillo Is casino When reminded that another king Francols Andre. Takings at Casino are down 50 Australian jockey Rae John Deauville stone, settled down happily in per cent compared with last France, she said shrewdly: "Yea year and Cannes Casino is down but he married a Frenchwoman. by about 50 per cent. A Folles Bergere girl, wasn't
Andre attributes the she?"
drop
WINDFALL
into
Fashion note: Playboy For- fino Rubirasa's appointment as the Dominican Republic's Am bassador in Cuba has brought windfall to Paris fashion houscs. Madame Rubirosa, the former part-time actress Oxile Robin, (B.B.C.) I talked to two of TV's suc- to portray Chris!?"
has been deluging them with orders ever since the news was cessful parsons.
or one on divine healing (TV) with and preach
Mrs Moore, a sophisticated solely to politicat uncertaluty in
She will take a TV who are his competitors, Brammes clash.
So the
which has kept Said Father Bishop: "When Or shuffle
many announced, but the electronic pulpit portant,
woman, was nevertheless mildly France one thinks of the harm done by Father Peter Blake, Cy Grant,
Americans away and rendered wardrobe of 42 new dresses with Jones through ITV's surprised when she was intro-
cautious in thefr her to Havana. which the TV networks wrapped up in a bright new some of these broadcasts-soine and Dill
wrong Teenagers' Club, which strives duced to Bettina merely by this the French
spending. the Personality of them give quite the package, and have set up as a rival to Marson beermes na much a com- impression-It seems clear that for an uneasy marriage between professional name.
Despite Mrs Moore's coolly
ELIGIBLE Evensong every Sunday.
tho petitive commodity as a chorus the Church should set up a TV the paials and the vestry,
The learn Meanwhile,
Churches appraising approach where we can girl.
centre
to have to decide whether Person- sübject Aly Khan, aided by an- ou what to say and find TV has begun a a big game of Hunt the Parson in prepara
Ma Sald
Hunkin:
can cut congrega- other owner, M. Pierre Wer "The whom we want to say it. But allty Parsons
of tons. whether the competition theimer is going ahead with his for Who
religious the clergy are still jealous autumn pro- official view of our
is healthy, whether the clocko- campaign to persuade Moore to advisory cominitter is that TV."
nie pulpit is aimed more at settle here. here should not be competition
He has been offered a hand- Region by region the B.B.C. for the best parsons. But It
some house in Chantilly and as Gathering in its flocks from certainly tooks as though here Soper: take a lot of trouble good television than at good re-
the matter is being seriously considered by Moore, the money offered must be somewhere in the region of the £30,000 a year which a top jocicey can earn in
grammes.
The starS
the rectories, Uttle groups' of k at the moment." ecclesiastica who will study Alms of other parsons in action and have a E themselves be- fore The cold eye of the camera, in the hope of becom- ing national figures.
A.T.V. and A.B.C., the com- nitrcial week-end companice, are scouting the churches for dog-collared talent,
The reason is that very few clerics have made much of an Impact on the small serven. Two
the best come from tha Mirfield, Yorkshire, Community of the Resurrection-the head, Father Trevor Huddlesion, and Thirly ministers at a the Father Hugh Bishop. are pitied and tested in brief
There Epilogues in order that a panel
The has been
quiet, of outstanding on can be built casy-going Archbishop Hoenan for the Roman Catholles; the
up.
Suld Dr
k
over TV. Ik candid friends liglan.
And so tomorrow you may what I really look like
talent scout in this angle or that. I listen to next to my valer. 1 sudy the profes~ church. tional TV performers in action. Unless you're a super genius you soon exhaust yourself."
Complaints
The Churches have not yet reveled. officially to the de- sirability or allerwise of the Personality Parsons or the electronic pulpit's new competi- ve drive for them. But it is certain there is keen feeling in gimlet penetration of Dr Donald the vicarages. competition
Methodists; the B.B.C. and ITV for the latest Soper for the
good-looking charm of Bishop Parsons complained that the TV audience-selling commodity, Anthony Bloom for the Tus- Archbishop of Canterbury's re- the-Controversial Cleric, Brows alan Othodox Church-in- Lon-cent-appearance on ITV. es winter approaches. A faint
"emptied the churches." uricase ruffles the surplices of the nation. No wonder.
The
between
'Ratings"
don.
takes a
But mostly the parsons have The archbishop once described not turned out too well. Some TV as "another way of wasting time they boom as it the time." And only pariour were a cathedral nave. "roller to plug the cricketing Or they turn into over-jocular clerie David Sheppard to pai into duzun- the TV audience up 10 per cent. men-ose clergyman uncles, "plunging
Tomorrow The Personality and two laymen-now have an alens on sex or nuclear fission
more enthusiasm than Person might join an argument average congregation every with
on "Is it proper for an actor
Throw
Sunday of sumelling like 6,000,- imowledge. 000. These men behind the elec ranie pulpit are the Rev. Oliver Hunkin (B.B.C.), Tom Singleton (A.B.C.). and Michael Redington (A.TV). who works under the advice of Princess Margaret's friend, the Rev. Simon Phipps.
Behind them
the men Who
run Ty have on extra sails-
faction. They know that if re-
ROUND-UP
WHISKERS ON PARADE
ligion can produce a good pro-f0 members of the Handlebar Club, a moustache of over five vocative programme at 7 pm. and a half inches could be worth a place in the club's cricket on a Sunday, the audiences it
eleven to meet a team from the Stars Organisation for Spastics at attracta is Hitely to stick to the Shepherds Bush, London. No member with less than the regula zame channel all the evening. tion growth will be allowed to plny. Opposing the Handlebar players will be such celebrities as Harry Secombe, Poter Sellars, Erle Sykes, and Torry Thomas. The man with the biggest moustache in Britain, John Rey, who sports 22 inches of upper lip hair, will also be present.
Sunkist
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STORIES FOR CHILDREN
CHILDREN'S story-tellers are visiting Nottinghamshire villageS during the summer school holidays as part of a scheme ar- ganised by the Nottingham County Library Service, to encourage children to read. Each week two library vans are touring 85 vil- lagos, und at each stop the children's librarian will hold a story hor for the younger children. After the children havo pleited their books they will sit around the van on village greens or school | playing fields listening to stories being read.
James Australia.
By contrast ni top jockey in Franco is unlikely to carn more Thomas than £15,000.-
U.S.
MOBILE BASE
Any morning in the deserted Bola de Boulogne a tall, dark man is to be seen performing aerobatic feats on a fast-travel ling American motorcycle.
ANSWER. POLITICAL NOTE: Critics who complain that General de Gaullo is incapable of firm action bayo Answered by the been partly fact that he has banned parking over a wide area in the Rue do Genelle on either side of hulu
COMEBACK?
:
The may seemingly endon- gering his fe in this careless official residence, mannor is not a professional dare-devit fider keeping in form but one Who is raiec 00 the
Film note: Ballet dancer Serge matrimonial stock exchange as Lifor is consulting with Greta high in the list of eligible Gurbo on the Riviera about the bachelors.
film Hollywood ls to make of He is 40-year-old Count Fran- his life. She may be. persuaded cisco "Baby" Pignator!, the to play a part in it. enormously rich Brazilian
FRONT
PROUT
--(London Express Service).
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