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THE CHINA MAIL

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1901.

Now for the leap-frog to the moon!

AND THE AMERICANS

COULD BE FIRST

WITH A MAN THERE

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

A COMPLETE reappraisal of America's flagging rocket pro- gramme has been touched off by Russia's resounding win

in the race into space.

From now on the accent wil! ----

into space.

from orbit far casier than nalleipated, the moon

1 suspect that the hazards of flight, though im- mensely formidable, will prove to have been exaggerated.

be on some moins of leap- German rocket scientist, Is Russians, who found the return frogging over the Russians into

atready far dynced with a venture with walch The

colossil rocket, the Saturn, with Americans can recolip their ro

for Armster power than the putation and morale by securingle which thrust Gain a commanding space "rst.

The next cesnile break- through to catch the imagina- Son of the world will be the flatt

landing on the won, which, nccording to the Russian programme,

will be accomplished by unmanned robot rockets,

For this venture the Russions have releaseri details of their objectives, They plan to salt- land a big rocket out of which will crawl Wellsian "lankettes

caterpillar - Marked POLU

capable of recoltring the

eratered lunar landscape.

Close-ups

The Arst 620-ton mudel La scheduled to be ready to put a lon payload} the m021 Tis three years Ume. The inter grond version, about 700 tons. will need a service gantry al- most as high the. Kromin's

Poff. bell-tower.

coukl out o three-man spier station in the moon iron, which repeated Inndings could be made.

The U.S. authorities decide to cut out any

:

robot

moon flights and air straight

at manned Burling.

Smar British and U.S. selentists UTC claiming that prestige in space does not really count and that technical results fron unmanned satellites are fat more important thinn manned stunts,

1 say they are hopelessly und dangerously wrong.

Hidden...

The U.S. and British

tax-

In suggesting this I have in payers are not inanclng rocket- mind the catastrophie

error work So that refentists can which the British Government have a schnimal jamboree. The made on Alghter research after bursh facts are that the Russlan the war. Though pilots were poliflent leaders are harmeaning clamouring to attack the up space achievements to their ob- known hazards of the sound etive of imposing their way barrier, elairborne advisers of te on the worki ruled that it was to dangerou

their Baulked of achieving

Glory

NEXT to a London bus: America's Saturn rocket

utmost priority.

even at the of the penny-packet

reap

which shots

(London Express Servier).

Goggling TV gres will trap smit to skin close-up details of the moon. Instruments will Felay the first reliable for mation abuin the lunar elimate, From this informationL the that attempts should first benims by military threat, the expense Hugins intend to build up to restricted to robots.

Kreml

leaciers

SC the satellite lauding as manued moon

dazzling exploits of the Soviet negligible prestige. they built up dala from robot

missile men as a way of show- satellites

Glagorin's 1. Yuri

fag the rest of the work that historie fight into orbit.

Their way of life pays dividends. There can be lite doubt that

The teals

the Yuri the Russian have so nich lead

Gagaring hide the grin rigours that they will notch p this

of a dictatorial system which further succuss. Where then

those of us acclimatised to enn the West overtake them?

Result-they sailed through liberty would find intolerable, 1 ggest that the Americans, the exaggerated terrors of Bja

The only chock 10 this perhaps with Britain's help sound Barrier and left British Spectacular propaganda could beat the Russians the fighter designers so far behind Communismy

will te a cosmic *Ient which will count most of they have never caught up, demonstration that the free

al in the annals of space bis-

this lesson the West can do better. In spite of tory-the landing of the first Americans seem to have fallen man on the moon,

in into the same trap with their

To their everlasting glory, tha Americans took the more courageous line and backed the let's-try-it pilots.

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The only foreseeable hope les leap-frogging the Russians

An American team led by ustronauts, They have played on to the moon with the Salumn Werner von Braun, the

the rocket, which must be given the safer than

X-

the venture

}[INSTITUTE,

PSYCHIATRY

JUST

MARR

CLEW

Ruhaid "When did you first think you could Live France, Mrs. Perka?”

"Surely you could have found SOMEBODY ja milk Eintrude wulle we were on our honeymoon!"

""Their Tart bowlar always start his tuh up to the wicket from herà,”'

COMRADE #SPACE

MIES FIRST

V.S ASTRONAUTS ONLY

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"HI FELLAS—WHAT'S NEW?”

PARIS NEWS LETTER by SAM WHITE

Mme Chanel's favourite

model decides to marry

PHE news as yet un- and the fashion house THE

announced that 28- of Chanel of its most at- year-old Marie-Helene tractive asset. Arnaud is to marry, will rob Paris of a seem- ingly confirmed spinster

The man she is to marry is

remarkably talented 34-

year-old actor and nim director

Robert Hossein, the former hus-

bond of Aim star Marina Vlady.

THE DAY I HAD

MY HEAD

in. the red coat re- moved her spectacles and looked a little nervous

THE little woman

READ...

By

DAVID ASH

cautious; helpful, but firm.

understanding.

as Mr Reddrop put a the type to show it; self-critical tape measure round her and head and probed her She said yes, that was about skull with clinical fin right, actually. There was ap- gers.

She had volunteered for Phrenological Definention. Or. say. to

as the layman might have her head rend,

Mr Reddrop, a Fellow of the Bellish Phrenologieal Society, pointed out: "There are several new faces here tonight, and a public reading is always awk ward. One is handicapped In what. one con sny..."

His reading showed that the lady was very sensitive, but not

plause.

A LECTURE

fitat visit to Society meeting.

It was her Phrenological And mine too.

But there wasn't time for Mr

Marie-Helen Arnoud Dec- In the ples a unique position Paris fashion world. She is both a model and the coolly efficient manager of the Chanel establish- ment.

are

All the Chanel modes first tried on her and the entire Chenel collection is In effect built around her.

AN ORDEAL

only op far been him-and

Three weeks ago the Count approached de Gaulle at a diplo- matle reception-the portunity he has so given to appealed to him to ban a con- ference that was to be held in Paris on the role of Spanish political prisoners.

talk 10

The General's reply was one of his ominous grunts. x

The conference duly trok place but what was interesting was the facilities provided by the French for the secret arrival CHANEL, and the safe

to

ME COCO China 50, Spain of several Spanish law

is devoted to her and her

out will is mode

in hor Whether her mor-

The grey-haired, Anely skall- favour.

ed chairman, Mr J. W. Marshall, riage and tho consequent stood at what looked very like departure from the houso

a pulpit, and the old-world

courtesy of his introductory re- will change that, marks resembled that of to be seen. veteran Baptist minister.

Two other officers who wel-

comed newcomers and took the silver collection looked typleal church sidesmen.

Miss Morgan, middle-aged. with a kind, delicately-boned Sunday school teacher's face, pinned five major sections of a

remains

yers whose evidence was vital to the success of the conference,

In fact the Spanish delegates were met at the frontfer by police cars which took them ou to Paris and which repealed the Journey when it was time for them to return.

bridegroom had to undergo the

In any case the prospective WAITERS TURN somewhat considerable, ordeni +f being presented to Mile Chanel..

This occurred in considerable working houra when the rest of the staff had on a blackboard:-

INTELLECT in the front par-left and he was spirited up to a tion of the brain.

top floor at above the Chanel MORALS in the top middle salons to dine with her.

Her verdict on him unknown. the SELF-REGARD

rear.

Mlle Arnaud is auburn-haired,

skull-cut-out pieces of cloth — secrecy after

Reddrop to study my cranial port.

conformation the dislikes word "bumps”). The two dozen London members in the hall were waiting to hear a lecture by Miss W. M. Morgon, the society's president and skuil class tutor.

JACOBY on BRIDGE

hand that has appeared before. It is my lucldest hand of all time and If anyone knows of n luckler hand I would like to see it.

HERE is another

I sat South and opened a spade in third seat. West might have bi seven hearts right away, but he felt that if he did that he would not be allowed to play it. So he merely doubled and, as you can sec. contented himself with bidding Ave and six hearts at his next two turna to bid.

com.

Iils bidding fooled me pletely. I decided that he was defending and doubled the alx heart bid, but now West could not stand prosperity. He re- doubled! When It got back to me I took out my own double to six spades and West went to seven hearts.

At this point it Bnally ure- came obvious that West Was

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DOMESTIC SENSES

In the top

and SOCIAL

just below that, and allm and the very embodiment

of Parisien chic. PROPENSITIES in the region round the car.

She plays the part of a Paris brat sub-divisions, she explain-career woman to perfection,

cu.

There were many other cere-

Even wearing horn-rimmed glasses the colour of the righ matches her huir-for what may be described as a de-glamouris-

afectation.

in

Butt, briefly, the shape of the skull Indleated the development or non-development of various parts and faculties of the bænio. Parents whose children and high-crowned

A long sought-after beauty, heads showing

she has never been married be- over-assertiveness should try to correct this

fore or even in its infancy.by

ever given the encouraging Kood manners, slightest Indication of a private gratitude, and understanding of life. other people's feelings

TAKE NOTE

Her icy reserve, broken only occasionally by a fleeting smile to leak for which she bestows on those who

A good paint was a full rounded contour of plenae her, gives her an attrac- the Domestic and Social area atively, enigmatic air.

the

base of the skull, which

BUSINESSMEN

REPORT an increasing tendency on the part

of American Big Business- men to become enamoured and of Paris head waiter hire them to be trained as

Xcutives with their companies.

own

This has now happened to four leading Parls head walters.

These generous gestures of course might spring in part from na Inverted snobbery which considers a--hefte walter's job demeaning. This tendency pro- vokes the pleasing fantasy of a race of future American tycoons who, returning here as tourists, will have a notably improving effect on the standards of ser- vice and food in Paris restaur- ants.

.

THE STARS

showed Philoprogeniliveness. Her marriage to Hossein will RALLY ROUND

This means "love of family" open a new career to her-that and the areu contains the of flm actress. This has long "lullaby centre." which prompts been her secret ambition which a parent to rock a chlid-in-arms 1 understand her flance Is only to sleep, Miss Morgan said: "It too anxious to help her full. Isn't possible to alter the size or

inhape of a brain centre, but you

can learn to activate the under- DE GAULLE used areas and modify the over- duminant ones."

Teachers should take note of AND FRANCO heads, and sd should employers,

For instance, a farm worker needed a good back-hend for

domestic Instincts and eure of ORD HOME'S livestock.

SENSITIVE

forth

AN

interesting dilemma faces the very beauti- ful actress Lise Bourdin,

4

Mille Bourdin recently sued the widow of the famous French Atm producer Henri Tual alleg. ing that she had obtained £800 from her on the promise that she would obtain a part for her in a forthcoming film. coming visit to Spain The court postponed its judg- which had provoked criticism ment after Brigitte Bardot, One of the sidesmen thanked in Dritain provides an op- Jean Morals OF Michele Mor- Miss Morgan for "a phreno

gan rallied round Mme Tusl logical treat She smiled and portunity for examining the and produced the necessary What was so lucky about the distributed Puto

nome pamphlets state of General de Gaulla's amount to reimburse Mic hand? I made my bkd! West About Cruelty to broller calves. I relations with General Bourdin, предей the king of diamonds. Mr Reddrop said the May lee- I ruffed with duinmy's eight; fure would be "The Effect of Franco. led the threo of spades and Diet on Temperament," Bressed my alx spot.

Q-The bidding has been: North Kast South Work

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What do you do? •

A--If you feel mmhlllosu bid söven hearts. If you want to be elenting, bid five na-trakip ta akk for kings.

TODAY'S QUESTION Yote wsk for kings. Your part- nët responda alx'clubs to show no klúgo. What do you do now?

Answer -Tomorrow?

altting there with 13 red cards, BO I went to seven apades which West doubled.

Then I

These

are frigidly formal. The secretary, Mias Hedderley, rafted a second diamond with told me: "I'm nuro

you won't General Franco has tried hard the Jock of insumps. Finessed write nasty things about us.

to break the ice but so far with-

my nine of spadeń, Ruffed my "Your brund forehead and out any success. lust dinmund with dunny's wide Perceptive Area shows you queen of trumps. Came back Bro too sensitive to do tant." Last year he moved his top to my hand with the, aco of I blushed pensively, wonder- ambassador Count de Motrico Drew. Enel's last two ed 11 stme just meant I had a big i from Washington to Paris in the trumpa and discarded my los head, and made an appointment | hope that this exceptionally ing hearts on dummy's long for a Phrenological, iniinention. smooth operator might effect a

London Express Service). thow.

clubs

clubs.

Can Mile Bourdin accept this virtual donation from her fellow stars? At the moment sha la unletted.

"DANDY” KİM Waterfield, in prison for his part in the Warner tiviera jewel therk, will be re- lessed at the end of this year, after having astved unly beli his term.

(London Raprese Burvice).