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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1961.

BY ROCKET TO THE MOON

WORLD OF SCIENCE By PETER FAIRLEY

STAGE

Built to be launched on top of a 280 foot high Saturn rocket,

the Manned Space Laboratory

(left) is designeŭ to stay in orbit around the Earth and get as a kind of rest-house for crews and "garage" for spacecraft,

Its bullet nose will be detach. able, so that it can return through the atmosphere and be recovered. Note the form- moulded couches in frout — un which astronants сап stray themselves to withstand the forces of blast-off and re-entry- and extendable panels to catch and convert the sun's heat into wefal power.

Such a stir

when Natasha went to work in Kurashev

AND BACK TO EARTH

PLANS for getting men on

to the moon and back are beginning to crystallise in the minds of American scientists. The first contracts for the con- struction of moonships, and vehicles to explore the surface

MANNED SPACE LABORATORY

STAGE

rockets into the booster.

this

of the planet, are about to be given, Some idea of what these spacecraft will look like is given in this series of official drawings by artists of: the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration:

moonship's

It now seems probable that technique of piecing Refuelling + moon rocket together, fuelling and sending Picture above shows a small moonships on their way from a stabilised capsule, containing an "parking

orbit around astronaut, leaving the Manned Earth will be used.

the

THE Russian magazine Krokodil has been Laboratory. Other technicians in In this way smaller, more

telling its readers about Natasha,

a teacher whose story illustrates a problemn that is worrying the Russians just now.

The problem is why so many young teacher: give up their jobs in the provinces to seek new ones in the big cities.

Krokodil tells how Natasha, full of enthusi- asm, went to work in the town of Kurashey. But after only a year in her first job there she has returned to Moscow. What made her unhappy in Kurashev?

Says Krokodil: For two days she was getting acquainted with her new surroundings and her future colleagues. On the third the Vasily Vasilievich, rlay

wold her

director of the only, le put

gently, but quite

on a pair of shoes instead of the

sandals she was

wearing be-

wears such

સ

People

ture

cause Nobody sandals here. And you are Teacher. You shouldn't set bad example to others. will notice and object.

"Natasha was very surprised, but did not argue. The next day she appeared at the school in a pair of black shoes though was hot an uncomfortable in them. But this sacrifice was not sufficient for the aborigines of

Kurashev

"Why do you wear such an extravagant skirt?'

THIS IS

RUSSIA

of this stylish girl'

Others openly disapproved

her little room

"But Natasha would not give way.

The attacks then concen- trated on the way she decorated "Her bedspread is too

bright,' said, Zinaida Lvovna.

And

imagine, she keeps a

mirror and a pink hand- cream on her desk! The con-

asked the flet grew more and more bitter. ; geography teacher, Olga Kon- stantinovna. You should try to dress more modestly,' she added with undisguised irritation.

Bad taste

"A reconciliation was out o the question. The director asked to the personnel department dismiss Natasha because she created an unhealthy atmo- sphere.

Natasha herself asked to be trans

transferred somewhere- else becouse life and work Kurashev were becoming in- tolerable for her,"

in

"And do change your hair- style,' said the history teacher, Zinaida Lvovna "This Isn'i Moscow, you know! She said t Krokodil's Just word: "But in a tone which suggested that who do you think won in this Moscow was a centre of bad case? Neither elde did, The Laste.

school lost a capable teacher and Natasha left with the feel- "This time Natasha was hurt and annoyed. Her skirt was

ing of having failed in her first quite ordinary except that

it job," was wider than usual. As

-(London Express Service). was very slim, this was way of making up for her lack of curves.

she her

"As to her hairstyle, it was nefther "beehive' nor any other excessive creation. Its only fault was that it differed from the established fashion Kurashev. Short-cropped hair, frizzily permed, was considered there as the apex of degant Se decided

to ignore these stinging remarks.. But when she appeared at school dressed as before the director called her in and told her very severely: "Why don't you listen to advice of your older col- lengues? Even the local people are beginning to pay attention to you. And that won't do

1w0

capsules are about to plug ta economical boosters can be used.

lines from

tanker The alternative is to build one pigantic rocket, possibly weigh- ing 1000 tons, to po straight from earth to the

moon with

enough power to return direct..

STAGE 3

ΠΟΥ

Once on the moon, explorers will have to carry their own "little world" of air and pres- sure around with them. On the left is one

hunar sult, undergoing tests in the U.S.

Tripods will retract to allow the astronaut to sit while digs up samples, or clears a landing area for other

with

be

craft,

the tools beside him. Tripods give him extra stability

# planet where gravity is only

a sixth of that on earth.

Moon Crawlers (below)

will

also be needed. Scientists work

the with

ald of lights, radar- Cargo assist them to explore crevasses

booms and derricks, to

Finally, the inke-off back to carth. It must be accomplished without any of the elaborate facilities and supporting gantries of Cape Canaveral, The MASA idea is to land a combined firing

· platform. › and...ra-anity-capsule backwards on to the moon ค extending legs.

Astronauts would adjust the poise of the firing pad before closing all hatches and starting count-down. Four... three...

.one...home. Perhaps,

1760

THIS IS AMERICA

New York, Monday

All he

wanted

was electricity

ILLBILLY farmer Bill Jenkins, battle crazy

H"

because electricity was not led into his cabin deep in the Ozark Mountains, held off police for several hours--but at dawn today he died under fore possible primitive forms of a fusillade of bullets. life-may exist

in which moisture and there-

This Crawler, Atted with His body was found after the three sets of caterpillar tracks police fired more than 100 shots to give stability, is designed to and bombarded his home with take off vertically and go for tear gas. short flights over the planet's terrain,

London Brarest Syratos

THE LIE TEST IS

GETTING ROUTINE

In U.S.A. some firms make staff take it yearly

W

New York.

Jenkins, aged 38, wounded two policemen with a shotgun last night and forced 10 others--and an armoured car-to retreat,

Reinforcements were brought up during the night.

Workers' Unión tot court, accusing the union of being unfair to workers. pä

DARENTS have much to say schools are run.

about the way American

Today a group of protesting As light spread, the posse had parents

school are foreing a io 30. increased

It was sup superintendent to change three ported by the armoured car and books from the reading list of an army weapons carrier.

a 16-year-olds high-school class Jenkins appeared at a window to inhale fresh air. Tear-yo- shells were lobbed through.

in Pontiac, Michigan.

The books. are Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Let-

Peter Evans

A burst of fire then, silence, ter," Pearl Buck's "The Good Cautiously, police crawled up to Earth," and Walter Edmunde the cabin and burst in. Jenkins "Drums Along the Mohawk was sprawled on his bed.

.The parents claimed the The battle began when an books are, "obscene. "School attempt. was made to arrest superintendent, Dr. Dana P. Jenkins for abducting the Whitmer expressed his grati- manager of an electric company tude for having his attention and forcing him to chop down drawn to a "broader community a tree on the right of way of an view of the books. electric line.

Jenkins wanted the electricity: --- led to his cabin. His little farm

is half a mile from the nearest

IT'S REPOSSIBLE to get a

road, 25 miles from the town. of seat for the Sunday night debut Brarison.

RRESTED by Barcotics agents yesterday the two musician sons of the late Fats Wailer. Ronald and Maurice Waller, have been charged with

dope

Police say they disposed, of £36,000 worth of dope a year.

THEN the owner of a popular Manhattan saloon noticed recently that peddling.

one of his bartenders seemed to have some mysterious source of should anyone care wealth, he ordered the man to take a lie detector test or lose his job. kind of skirt I am wear- protested Natasha.

away

what

Ing?

SANDEMAN

the voice

As a result it was found that.

years,

What about the parents? the man had been stealing from only when

director said, raising his his employer, He later admitted

a specific case of that he lied on questions-in- SIGN in my local hortionl»' Don't you think that we that he and been working a wrong-doing seems to be involving his honesty. tomteral store; "After planting our should take their opinion into "kickback" racket for several volved. Olhers conduct the investigat

|needs ---- step back quickly.” The Investigations showed that proprietor is a Texan account?

tests on an annual basis--or live during the periods between his But I am not telling THEM what they should wear. Every- This lie detector test is part to regret it

tests, he had stolen more than

£123,000 from the company one has his own way of dress- of a growing trend In USA case in point is a Chicago 1

ME UNION set the work out. ing, said Natasha.";

business life.

organisation which has been However, the most important put in the closer shop tag giving the polygraph examina- job buing done by the Be detec- Soryand die Furult keskist The lie detector or polygraph, tona to its employees for mure for soms to be in the field of every man bed-produced al being used increasingly by big than a decade. One of the pre-employment examinations, quota two bars forelle was companies and small in an umployees, who had been tested Companies are more interested due lago home

Her room

Krokodil adds: Hrom

that attempt to keep cheels on the regularly for nine years, became in keeping out potenting troubles Bored workum, who greata day on Natasha's relationship honesty of employees, and to too sick to talte the examinations makers and thieves, before, tiny working were lined as by navnl with her colleagues was very sitt out potential (hieves among In 1967 Le strained. The only person who applicants for Jobs and again i 1908re hired than in localitiem cilere forstepar produce mo amuratio supported her was the Some employers, like the pub When He was finally tested for the crime Has been com Now that y young teacher of Russian iltera- ownm, turn to the polygraphi again it. 1989, diere were plans pin-iLondon Kapress Kérvive), I broth

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