Quiz Entrants In U.K. Briefed, Inquiry Shows
London, Feb. 17.
A private Inquiry by Sir Lionel Herald, a former British Attorney-General, has revealed that contestants in the British television quiz show "Twenty-one" were briefed beforehand.
In a report pubilsted here, Sir Lione aid he rejected a submission by Canadian pro- Jucer R.be
Kesten
The Inquiry failed to extab-
Ir the truth of Mir Arm- strong's allegation that be was given #pccife answers,
Citanacia, the commercial tele- vision company which Bereoned i the quiz, know of the briefings, i Agal#1
Mr Kesten har produced the show Les Earthrish and n
as an employee ot
vision company.
-
on this
It was a queation of his word
Mr Kusten's pelni,
Armstrong, a
Chesham,
Hertfordshire, waiter, appeared twice on the show but won only
a C3 consolation prize-China
Granada asked for the in- Mall Speelal.
quiry after a
furmer
Cul-
testani. MI Stanley Arm- mirong. alleged the producer some answera ba-
Eave him
fore the show,
Sit Lionel found that competi tors were given an indication before the programme at how subjects were too limited and that it went considerably beyand the mere description of subjeel headings
The repest said that this had been virtually admitted" by Mr Kosten.
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1959, 1
VANGUARD II
MAY STAY
UP FOREVER
Washington, Feb. 17.
Dr T. Keith Glennan, administrator of the
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, said today: "As far as our scientists can tell now Vanguard H may remain in orbit forever."
1 said the mxdraun dis- tence of the new anteliite from | cath 2.000 miles and Its minimum distance 340 miles.
Dr Glennan told a Yale Culb lunch that the cloud reporting
satellite devices In the
Were working. He said they were passed tested as the satellite near San Diego, California.
NASA selenfisis sald these Instruments are sufliciently sensitive to report the dif- ference between land and res, as well as the extent of cloudy and clear skies,
This will be a new kind of information for mankind. Wea- ther forevasters have never been able to obtain cloud reports for more than a third of the earth.
Darkness
.
The satellite's reports, how- ever, will be limited to the area between the equator and about 40 degrees north latitude.
it will criss-cross the equator ke other satellites, but selen- tisty sald the Southern Hemis phere will be in darkness for this satellite much of the time.
by the
The satellite, launched the Navy's Vanguard, is size and shape of a medicine ball.
smell
The sphere has two windows on opposite tiles from which instruinents Fcan the eltids, sea and earth below. It represents the Brst step toward continuous mapping obtaining
of the earth': weather.
"Perfect"
It was, developed-during the past 40 months by the Noval Research Laboratories directed by Dr John 1. Hugen, in co-
the Army with -operation
Signals Laboratory in Forl Monmouth, New Jersey, where the Research Department is directed by Dr Harold Zahl.
American experla consider The Vanguard II to be one of the most perfect space machines new in existence.
Revolutionary
progress in the sphere of weather forecast- Ing is expected of it, according to Dr Francis Reicheldurfer, Director of the US. Meteorolo- gical Omer.-U.P.L..
Informal Visit
Washington, Feb. 17.
King Flussein of Jorden is expected here toward the end of next month for his informal visit, diplomatic sources said to- day-U.P.I.
"Bantam" Car
London, Feb. 17, Indio Morcow announced 10- right that the Russians are going to produce a new Soviet "bantam" car-U.P.J.
Murrow
Takes Year's Holiday
com-
New York, Feb. 17. Ed Murrow, leading tele
vision and radio mentator in the United
leaving States, is
his the Columbia network, Broadcasting System, forį
a year. Murrow, whose
"See It Now"
and "Person to Person" pro-
Ed Murrow
To read, to think.
have
gratzmes
won praise and stirred controversy on both sides of the Atlante, asked the network for a leave of absence for a year so that le could travel about the world.
Ife wants to be free from the stress of imminent deadlines. lo read And contemplate world problems.
SINGING
SISTER TO BE MOTHER
Joy, the eldest of the Bever- ley Sistern, Britain's famouse singing trio, last year married the dayen of Britain's inter- national footballers, Billy Wright.
Now thr's expecting a baby at Enster; and for at least six months sisters Babs and Ted- dle are going into retirement with mother-to-be Joy, rather ihan try to carry on '09 double act.
com-
But their recording pany is able to put on pres- sure beraise their latest re- cord' "Little Drummer Boy" is kely to make a lot of money only if it's suitably backed by personal appearances of al least two of the sisters.
Above the Bevèrity Sisters, with Joy in the dentre, kail
together to make
sure the
new baby won't cohort. Express Servicc.
Macmillan
To Stay In Malenkov's
Old House
Moscow, Feb. 17.
'Ghastly Taste,' Say British
IKE'S VISIT UPSETS ROYAL TOUR
From TOM STACEY
Mexico City, Feb. 18.
A decision by "President Eisenhower to fly to Mexico on a goodwill visit while the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra are here has shattered the friendly atmosphere which ought to have surrounded the royal Latin- American tour.
I have never seen na embassy so angry as is the British
over the President's move.
Frozen
Man Planned
For Space Travel
Los Angeles, Feb. 17. Scientists here are planning to pack mice in dry-ice- and-alcohol baths
One senior official described It to me, as: "Really ghastly | taste:""
Feeling is lust an hot in the
Foreign Mexdean
Ministry, which has hnd the appalling task of organising two security postes, two reception groups, two teams of transistors, and other officials to operate simul- taneously.
The Present's decision came to lights than irse werks The Kents visit Wha ago. announced three months ago.
Overshadowed
in Mexico
The Americans City insist that there has been no Intention to rival Britain's one of good-will effort with their own.
Preskient Eisenhowas, is can- ning: birself to the Mexican 'Paciile side play-town of Acapulco. He arrives today.
On Friday the Duchess and Princess and their Mexican tour
ad fly to Lima, Peru.
Mr Eisenhower
Angers Britis
Sunburned Duke
Goes Shooting
Karachi, Feb. 17.
Driving through fields of wild narcissi and violets the Duke of Edinburgh went shooting today with the ruler of Swat State beneath the snow-capped peaks of the Hindukush
Mountains. and
freeze them at tempera- tures as low as 100 de- grees below zero.
The agony is, however, that the
already President has succeeded in hopelessly over- The experiments, under the
shadowing the royal parly. dircetlen of Dr John Lyman of the University of California, Los Against this there have been Angoles, will start within twe
enough Press culungs about the weeks, and are aimed at findKent eight-day tour to fill a ing out whether man can be powder compact. frozen soild for long trips to
Whitc In Washington, the other planets,
Secretary. Mir House Press "The big problem is not zei-Hagerty, said: "The President ting man Into space," Dr of the United States accepted ani Lyman said here in an inter-invitation from the President of Mexico to pay a visit. That is vldw.
only comment."-Express "That will be done within a my
Service. very few years. The problem is keep him from becoming psychotic going insane
to
Mr Macmillan is to stay at under the unnatural conditions Statement On
No. 6, Pomerania Street,
in Moscow, when he visits Russia on February 21.
and confinement of space flight."
Lifetimes
One answer, he sald,
was
IL Was Malenkov's house froxeri ateep. The space travel- when he was Prime Ministerler would not peed food,,oxygen before he was disgraced and sent or companionship.
into the political wilderness,
And I belongs to a school of architecture which can only be described 09 early Edgware Road Underground, Almost every inch of its out- side walls is faced with while tiles.
It should delight the Prime Minister's sense of the bizarre,
Jovo of despite his
classical architecture,
The while tiles are set off by a broad band of blue tiles right around the top of the rambling
wo-storey house,
Murrow, who is 50 att has 10.
High Wall
It is all very far cry from Downing Street, and
been with CBS since 1835. Chequers. But then this is has in recent months CX- Moscow, where the authorities Dresscl deep concern with admit there
is still a housing
the fallure of television to
મ
rive adequate coverage work Special
problems.-Cblas Mali
Officers Shot
shortage.
The Prime Mulster will share his "House of White Tlies" with Foreign Master Mir Selwyn Lloyd. And the Junior members of their party will be quartered in Govtelskaya Hotel.
the
No. has a big garden by Moscow standards, and privacy is ensured for Mr Macmillan wall by thick, 20ft-high
# which supports two vast iron gates tapped by fron spikes.
It is set in the heart of the
distrlet about their diplomatie
the Kremlin, being mile from
Havona, Feb. 17. Two of the fivo furmer officers of deposed Cuban President General Fulgencio Batista were shot dead Today, and a third
after recaptured
експре while
Onc daring
B
Its
taken by plano yesterday in nearmi diplomatic neighbour is
u wat crimes tribunal at the canbassy of China-Express Beyano-France-Preum.
Service.
New Guinea
Canberra, Feb. 17. The External Affairs Minister, Mr Richard Casey, will make * statement
tomorrow to
The Duke, got the best bug of the day with 30 chikor or hill partridges cul of a total of 58 taken by a perly of five mung The party went by car to the edge of the game estate, képt for the ruler's exclusively father, and there moved up the steep mountainside bentors.
witht
200
Tie In Pocket
Among the party following the guns was the heir-apparent, Faizal-Khaliq Mlangul Young Aurangzeb.
The
Duke returned Late for a lunch at the ruler's pained with his tle In Nis pocket and a sunburned face.
He had a hurried lunch and then left by car. once more for Peshawar, where a Comet 4 airliner was waiting to take him
at dawn tomorrow to Rangoon on the next stage of his three- Parliament month tour of the For East, Aus- the Pacle, the Bahainas and
clarity
traila's policy on Dutch West Bermuda-Reuter. by
Inriead, as his space ship droned
(operated on electronic braina) he would sleep, and be revived by an
18 automatio warmer neared his destination,
New Guinea.
on
This follows crificlsm both hein and out of Parliament
the joint communique issued the In- Mr Casey and by Dr Lynan maintains that if donesian Foreign Minister, Dr the life processes can be stopped Subandrio, after Dr Subandrio's
this way, manoflein visit last week. completely in
It in thought that Mr Caesy could undertake Journeys to
try 10 tomorrow distant stars which might take will
that him several normal Bfetimes to widespread fears
complete.-Reuter.
Fatal Liquor
Party
Irmallia, Feb. 17. Survivors of a methyl alcohol aboard the drinking party Norwegian Linker Briftam described from hospital beds tonight how they drank poisonous "highball."
Bep
and 14
Seven soltors led
Including the ste- others, wardess, Ruth Oddrar, were in hospilai here.
to
A crow mamber sald the chiot engineer, Hans Dyblie Hansen, who died yesterday, bought five
alcohol bottles of methyl clean the ship's refrigerators and Inter got the idea of "mix- ing highballs with a dash of sugar, and the alcohol."
ile said 21 of the crew Bam- pled It early Sunday morning, and all were stricken--U.P.I.
Police Assault Claim For Study?
London, Feb. 17.
The House of Commons, without a vote, today agreed to a motion to set up a tribunal to Inquire into allegations
that a 16-year-old Scote errand boy, John Waters, was assaulted by police in December, 1957.
The Prime Minister, Mr Mack millan, told the Commons yoslerday the Government de- cided to set up a tribunal be- Six David Robertson at onco cause of the "considerable dis-
put down a motion for debate quie!" both inside and outside | calling for an inquiry, Parliament and the pubile con- It was quickly signed by ndence which had been dis- nearly
180 inscobert's of all turbed by the caso.
'parties.
and
Hament, Sir David Robertson,, some talk between the boys and, have taken him into an alley.
Waters said ho remembered independent Member fer the constables and one of the Calimes.
constables took Walers under nothing after the "first savage his control. The other policænan blow which knocked him on his they took back." Not long afterwande, joined him
Waters Was reported to have Waters outside.
They were understood, to been found in the alley bruled have warned him to watch and bleeding. bis behaviour or he would gel into frvable. Wasara kader found had cost Waters' was in a codo st❘ was tor and ran after the mands for an inquiry"bỳ' the Touren, Callinule, when two poliermen to protest. The con bay's Jabal Member of Par+ 1 gorditabing interred." · "There: was stables", the then Ss alleged to | motion totworrow~-~~Reuter.
Xt followed a-atorns in the "Bie · David's story of Camarome lust work when the } inefc9`ke this! GoYeppen · "resisted-do»
tho
The inquiry la expected to be held in Scolland.
If ndeds the approval of both The of Parlament. Houses. House of Lords will considor.the.
¿
allay Aus tralian policy on West New inen has been weakened. Reuter.
Seat Tax
а
Columbus, Ohio, Feb. 17. State Rep. Rhoderie G. Mills
yesterday that reported taxpayer sent in this suggestion to boost state revenue-a tax on bicycle seats "to make children pedel standing up, saving wear and tear on their pants and cor- recting curved spines."--U.P.I.
SHETLANDS GO NORDIC
In Shetland, where the annual "Up-Holly'-A® fondival wan celebrated inės modšli, mere tlak 5,000 people detebesied its enturies-old Nordio ouston af Viking chiefs marking the end of the winter bolatios, - Vorinnalely for them, the may that and blanketed Bholland a few dare ourlier was almost elaar. The onesteeny began sherlly after 7 pan. was marked be singing, dancing and drinking throughout the night Picture shows the "Vikings" and shoir: "skip." --- Exprom' Photo.
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