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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1960.

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JACKY'S DIARY JACKY Mendelson WAS AT About how Some Body,

YesteRDAY i Went to THE Movies + seen a Murder Mistery; ·

MAD

Then CAME The Heroin of The Pickture, who as

YOU CAN See WAS real Beauty full.

GROAN UA

THAT'S WHY SHE Was A-frayed. ona COUNT of THE STRANKLer Only Strankl ed PEOPLE WHO Were Pretty EsteshULLY

Ladies

Age 32%

NOW PLAY /img:

A Murder Mistery'

all StRankled This Mere LADY ONLY mo BodY KNOWS WHO DONE IT.

PRETTY Soon The Hero Came f fell in Love with THE Heroin, So They Started.

in Kissing

fooey?

Ouch

But Then CAME THE Good Part WheN HE STAPTED into Chase HeR on a Count of HE WAS The StranKLER! all The Time,

(Help)

960 King Features Studicate ing, Word rights reserved.

(The Reason You dipint KNOW is be- cause they Just Showed the Back of

His face.

So then THE POLICE Men

·Could'nt Catch Him & So Every Body was SCARRed TheY WOULD be the Necks Victum.

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BAN3. gam

(only Oliver Sudden the Police Man Came & SHOT him, & SO HE Died from TRigger

MORTIS.

LIKE You can see. it was'nt A Very Good Movie, So i ONLY STAYED TO watch it 2 more Times,

YR. Friend, Jacky

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-MONTAIGNE.

Riches serve wise men,

but command a fool

-PIERRE CHARRON.

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Better n dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality i

Jand indigestion.

makes

H. A. OVERSTREET.

With this killer on

the way, I wouldn't

worry too much about Skybolt

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By HUGH DUNDAS

second best substitute weapon. of Skybolts by all means let us

Magnificent

BLUE STEEL No means of calculating either

its course or

· its target

Skybolt projret has

clouded Anglo-American air power il the group a formidable pool of and brainpower Blue and when it comes to fruition, experience people's thinkig about Steel-which has come Lo bo It the defence budget will covering every branch of aero- of nautics including missiles and regarded as al the best an In- streich to the expenditure terim and at the worst s *

420 or £30 million on a pile rockers.

Under the vigorous loader- ship of Sir Roy lay in a pilo and be grateful,

Dobson the UNDOUBTEDLY the feature of last week's

But in the meantime the pro- grup must be regarded 08 A Farnborough air display has been as forecast

gramme for developing our belter bet for the production -a behind the scenes controversy about the

own. Avro Blue Steel should be of Britain's most important accelerated. The weapon than the Douglas Co. Douglas Skybolt and the Avro Blue Steel, the new It is to be hoped that Secre still further

newly expanded Hawker Sid- of California, which is at pre- air-launched guided missiles on which Britain's try Sharp's reassurances about delay group, of which Avro is a sent going through difficult

that Defence Minister Walkin part, has the will and the times.

And to prove it, there was son's confidence is Justified. ability to do the job.

Following the recent mergers the Blue Steel, magnificent and For no one should deny that it within the aircraft industry, deadly, on view for all to see

magnificent conception, which will lead great weight to there is now combined within at Farnborough.

nuclear deterrent will depend during the current decade.

But in the case of attack by

stand-of bomb type missile the defence has

DX anss.

Skybolt are well founded and

Secretary of the U.S. a reasonable chance of bring- Is a

ing about an interception. Air Force Dudley Sharp has insisted that there are no delays in the Sky- lutely no means of calculating either its pre-determined bolt programme..

larget Dines Minister Harold course or is eventual

be made tá The bon may

Interval. change direction at on the way to its target.

Waikinson is extremely Lanoy- ed by reporta

that the pro- Ermine is behind schedule.

Independent observers from Washington continuo to insis! there is cruse for alarm.

Meanwhile, as production of the Mark 1 Blue Steel gets

development

Not certain

It may fly past a given

of an extended and improved themselves with any

version of the weapon.

The possibilty of a debacle in the Skybelt programme definitely being taken into ac- count in the plans for develop ing Blue Steel, which could, it necessary, move forward into a third phase.

III founded

In all the

It has rather naturally

been

Lo

ze.

under way work is building up target area, but the defenders on research and

on the ground cannot say

certainly that they have seen the last of for it may turn round and come back at them.

And the best computer in the cannot work out from world

the bomb the flight path of alter it is launched how great a distance it is going to travel

That is the difference. In the case of a ballistic missile the men on the ground at the ceiving and know juat where i speculation and is going and what path it will contering reports which have fly. In the case of r stand-of arisen in connection with Sky- bomb, this vital information is

only hsa a secret shared bolt, one important factor

by the been overlooked, I concerns brain in the weapon itself and the rival merils of the two the ma who whispers ita

orders, types of weapons,

Obviously hero OTC potent dvantages for the attacker in ballatic missile which will rise the stand-off bomb type of to enormous altitudes and европ. There Dre strong travel at several thousand arguments for suggesting that miles an hour is by definition a number of much weapons fly- loss vulnerable than the Blue ing about in all directions Sloot stand-off bomb, which is would disrupt and confuse

ta basically no more than a very enemy's defence system advanced form of pilotless oir greater degree than could craft

achieved by a similar number But this assumption may he of ballistic missiles, ill founded. It is possible for Skybolt is an extremely de- defence syutern to calculate sirable and potentially effective exactly by means of computers Weapon, But I do suggest that the fight path of a ballistic it would not necessarily be so missile, which cannot

bettor than the Blue be much radically altered once the mis- Steel-particularly an advanced silo is on its way,

and developed, form · of Birc In a few years time, perhaps bocas most people have as- by the mid-sixties, it will sumed. probably be possible to send up And I suggest also that anti-mfaele "milien on an fog of conjecture; and runou exactly reciprocal course with which "LAN, BUTYOUnded. the

assumed that Skybolt

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How don't Jump to conclusions, dear. I fell down a spiral stair.

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We ought to hear something soon, Charlin:“,