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1 Fillet, perhaps.

3 Retards.

9 Strain.

11 My Fair Lady!

30 Material.

12 Imitate,

13 Is hard to gruspl

14 Vchlele.

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18 Bulda.

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20 Herdanan.

29 For each.

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32 Itodient.

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1 He's a card!

5 Inclination.

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7 Digits.

8 Remain.

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22 1 frozen siifl

24 Gat there.

25 Of liny feet?

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28 Underclothes.

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37 He's intolerant.

30 Clown.

38 Compete.

33 Italian song.

39 Foreigner eaten hören,

35 Twisted,

40 Promise.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1961.

MOON-BOUND

"I BELIEVE this nation should commit itself to achieving the,

goal before the decade is out of landing a

the moon and returning him to earth”

date. NASA amelala have now sal down, thought--and brought

forward to 1987. They con fess The date may be optimistic. But it seems just about feasible."

STAGGERING

Washington. X7ITH these moment W

ous words John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, call- ed on his countrymen to stump up an extra £3,150 million to turn the charged world's favourite science fiction story into start ling, breathtaking fact.

That was

wooks ago, What is happening today?

Is How near America to getting men on the moon? What chance has the of beating Russia to it?

TARGET DATE

The They

man on

be finished off, with the re- covery of a volunteer after three orblis,

for. Chimpanzees, left alone jonger, will provide new mod cal data.

THE SURFACE.

The almosphere here

with urgency pcblans are staggering. Invalve designing

. rocket, Next year, shockproof packages weighing up to 5,000 tons, build of instruments will begin im- ing and fring TWO generations pacting on the moon's crust. "A of powerful new boosters, dis- fully-equipped scientifle, labora- covering new metals, porfecting tory will touch gently down in markananship, completing 0 1904. thorough survey of the moon's terrain, making maps of space, gleaning new data on astronaut line behaviour and creating a of spreeships. All ́da "six years. But everybody-from NASA administrators James Webb and Director of Spaceflight Abe Silverstein down to the cleaners believes it will be done. This,

in brief, is the plan!

To learn, and to witness the birth of this fantastic "moon" bound project," I have flown to A three-pronged asisult will National Aeronautics and Space be made on the problem of set- Headquarters. ting enough booster-power to Here are America's top "space guarantee a moonship crew t

level-headed return brains"--serious,

ticket. Liquid-fuelled

Administration

A year later a tractor will crawl out over the planet's sur face. As Abe Silverstein says: "Certainly none of us would propose to land a man on the moon's surface until we know what it is like."

Finally, the way will be

America clear for men.

wil

know exactly what its Apollo moonships are going to be like

Silverstein filled in some details. by January next year. Mr

They will be bullt

us

that

men who none the less hang rockets will be clustered, said "modules" components YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Stopped, 7 Bootle,

moon maps in their offices, ad- rocket motors improved, and an can be joined together

nitting," te to sec

fashion bus geometric

to suit different missions. Like A goal."

& Extends, Beet, 11 Pink, 12 Actor, 15 Find, 10 Heat, 17 Angus,

18 Went, 19 Bird, 21 Curtous, 22 Tennis, 23 Snigger. Down: 1 Able, 2 Combing, 3 Sleek, 4 Text, 5 Preacher, 0 Desert, 10 Enduring.

11 Pin, 13 Tending, 14 Out, 15 Farees, 18 Wiser, 10 Bute, 20 Hose.

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BEGINS TODAY

4

Mammed Capsules

only returns to Earthi

by Peter Fairley

kunt dusa 6000 mph. required to escape Moon's genivity

2

APOLLO Rocket approaches Moon backwardn

APOLLO Rocknt with mannen? Capsicu

fired from Earth

Whom Rocket

tands horizantity

on surface »1 Moon

Six years to turn

years-to

science fiction into

breathtaking reality

about seven tons, in which three curacy required is far beyond and we think we knów how to crew wlll

sit, plus all their any attempted before in this handle it.". radios, guidance systems, 11fc-

SEVEN MILES

best for this job. They will certainly take part in the launch- ing countdown."

support apparatus and tools with type of guidance. nage com- For the ultimate manned a thick beatshield at their backs, in down from, say, the moon, landing on the moon, the

But he warned. "We are Each "ship" will be kitted and and getting into a corridor peat Apollo ship' will be given an clearly going to have to deve victualled for 14 days.

extra pair of engines and a top new techniques. A whole second. huge fuel tank to note body of knowledge needs. allow it to land gently, Mr to be established by 1907" Silverstein explained.

only carth WIDE.

must

"They will be put first i310 carth orbit," says Mr Silver- "This angular accuracy stein, "to check out equipment. be very high and we are going It there is a failure we can re- lo have to develop some tech- turn the craft to earth and niques." make corrections."

When bigger boosiers Are

available, the Apollo moonships EXTRA POWER

the

our

re-entry

The moon has no atmosphere to slow the craft down. It takes

that much of a power plant to do it."

in

The moonship will come backwards, either neer hori

SD iso zontally, or vertically, that It settles on its tall, Will take- oft back to earth be automatic?

will be sent off around planet. They will return direct,

High-speed diving straight back into atmosphere at around 25,000 means the "ship" will become a

flaming torch unless m.p.a.

materials are used in its con- struction.

"We need great accuracy. en this return flight," Mr Silver- stein testifled, so that we can hit the spot on earth we are attempting to reach. The

new

"But we have been studying

MEN BEST

this problem for the last 18 "I think you will) "ând,". Mr

ae- months," added Mr Silverstein, Silveretem replied, "men will be

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PERSUASION. By Jana Austen, Everyman's Library, 6. 6d. (with Northanger Abbey)..

COME years, before the * story opens, Anne Elliot, whose father lù a vain, oom. placont aneb.

beon over-persuaded to refusG-A young naval officera pro- post of marriage,

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MAN WITH TIN TRUMPET, By Frederic Mullally. Bar-

ker. 15.

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● IT BEGAN IN BABEL. Her bert Wendt. Weldenfeld and Nicolson, 42. The Author specialises in popularising the ectences which deal with the

the

WITH the year more than half over, it is already puissand story of my this book on ethnology. perfectly safe to award the prize for the study of races and peoples-he nastiest book of 1961 to Mr Mullally's second novel.is particularly successtul in re- the facts to mankind's It wins on three counts-nastiness, of theme, of

myths and jegends. plot, of construction.

of

THE DRY AND LAWLESS irrelevant As to its theme (which number

́and YEARS. Judgo John . H. Lyle. tilla would-bo la the only reason for re- which could have been dreamed who fought gangsterism and scenes Prentice-Hall, 28. The judgo ferring to it at all) it pur- by a schoolboy without much corruption in Prohibition Chica ports to be "an up-to-the experience but with a mildly: go, must have been a better minute expose of the depraved imagination. And lawyer than he is writer. Ho publicity game."

there is, Incidentally, a good was apparently so much on top deal of schoolboy jsmut in the of his job that he is able to re-

All it does expose, in fact a writing. Mr. Mullally's attempt to foul his old nest, for he used to be a successful' Press agent himself; But the shobby' little tricks des- cribed horo wouldn't fool an› experienced newspaper column- fet for a moment,"

Involved

Ill-written

port all sorts of unlikely conver xations - oven those between gangsters and their molls.

Jane Austen's last novel is hortanderest, most fauch. ing one. Her contempt for tha vulgarity which under- leo endbhary, hér unsering

of the moral roi which may be hidden behind

a charming or R respectable facade,

The plot? An involved affair, their good taste. by rejecting matten (who says things: lik in which a blackmailing Press this one); were

"It's nominal in name only"). Behind the zany mirth Ras agent called Michael Kendrick

• THROUGH THE FIELDS OF HÖLOVER. Peter Do Vries, Gol- 1 so that Mr Mullally's pub-i

Iarice. 109. Summer-img in lishers quote on the jacket New England, and coruscating Rolence, taken out of context,

Danse

naver dleplayed in a more

delicate and deadly", mane,

nir.

Pariusion, though,

which I wrote with mildlyfun with a massive chairel- satifical intent about his first ching from a far-out Red Indian

"Me not Chippewn novel (published, by the way blook") to a malaprop-minded by: another rm, who showed

eff 'olit

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is married, to a tart called Sacaix This time, I have tried to very cool talent indeed. who has are affair with a dreary avoid writing anything which roR THE GOOD OF THE tycoon who, is one of Kendrick's can be exirnoted and used as COMPANY. in

above mií a story of the love that does not alter when it alteration NN AL Anné #lilot saya 1. "All the privilège Talaim for my OWN 'Alm that of loving longest, when exles tance for when - hope qoria.#

customers,

inducement, to road th

· Thomas... » - Hinde.

The tycoon's son commits oueris, 1l-written book, with its Hutchinson. 18s Young man in stacido Beenuse He finds his worn und shots, le picudo big frm told to write the father making love to par toughes, and has Into Chairman's speech dude himself lourmaid, as because his father sentimentality,

[weightily nɖvlagd"; "te ṛall siden, with every redrafting another ilusión" goes: but the chairman is sympainatio.Per boptive, il billor view of the ~(Londón" Efpreiz Kerules), štycoon rack,

won't lai him

makaleve, to anand

Lesbian actress. The motive, HAROLD HARRIS

-here as elsewhere. In obscure.

Into this distasteful (narrative -arm "injected at dined intervals ́a