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Those Russians Have Their Failures Too! At the United Nations General Assembly meeting in October 1960, Soviet Premier Khrushchev pounded his fist, called one of the delegates "a lackey," and fi- nally took off his right shoe and banged it on his desk. Khrushchev"s behavior was at- tributed to his inability to have Red China admitted to the U.N. and to have disarmament debat- ed on his own terms. Now the world knows what else he was angry about. On Oct. 10, and again on Oct. 14, Soviet missile- men aimed giant, four-stage rockets toward the planet Mars some 35 million miles away. Both times, the mighty rockets, which have contributed so much - to the public image of Soviet scientific infallibility, failed. These two blemishes on the Soviet scientific reputation were reported last month by James E. Webb, chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis- tration. He also confirmed what had been reported unofficially: On four other occasions the So- viet Union had shot for Venus and failed. Ou Feb, 4, 1961, a Venus probe did get into a parking orbit around earth, but the final tiring stage of the rocket failed to send _ it on to the planet. Another failure, to Venus on Feb. 12, 196], involved the breakdown of the spacecraft's communications aft- er it was 4.5 million miles out. The last two came during the same week that the United States launched its successful Mariner II spacecraft. In both cases, the vehicles were put into parking orbit. The broken pieces are still parked there. From the first, U.S. intelli- gonce knew all the details of the early failures. The U.S. decision "to hold back its Intelligence in- formation was made at the high- est political level--by both the Eisenhower and Kennedy ad- ministrations. The reasoning ap- parently went this way: The U.S. ELINT (electronic intelligence) listens in on Soviet countdowns, tracks climbing rockets by radar, and "clocks" all objects in orbit with its worldwide tracking net- work. But the Soviet Union should not be allowed to learn how well all this is done, NASA, on the other hand, had conducted a long campaign against this reasoning. First, it argued that the basic U.S. moni- toring techniques are common knowledge. Secondly, and most insistently NASA argued that its own "fallible" program of hits and misses suffered grievously by comparison with the public image of Soviet perfection. And following the flight of Nikolayev and Popovich, Air Force parti- sans had begun sniping at the Administration in general and at "the civilian space effort in parti- cular, As much to quiet domestic cri- ticisms as to correct world opin- ion, the Administration lifted the security lid a little bit. And how did the Russians react to this revelation? "We have nothing to say," said a Foreign Ministry spokesman in Moscow. "And we cannot understand why anybody is interested in this matter." From NEWSWEEK os BACKFIELD IN MOTION -- Although the above looks more like a football game than a baseball game it is the latter. Twins' Bob Allison got caught in a run down in Chicago. Defying Danger Under The Ice Killer whales were Jim Thorne's biggest worry when he first dived through an ice-hole in McMurdo Sound, off Ross Island in the Antarctic, to photograph the effects of a new thermal de- vice for melting thick ice or pre- venting its formation. This American diving expert, with colleague Don Johnson, had to wear a rubberized suit clamp- ed at the wrists and neck and two sets of thermal underwear, then dive through a four-foot hole which broadened bell-like towards the bottom, The aqua-therm was on the end of a fifteen-foot metal pole lowered into the water and fixed to a tripod anchored on the sur- face. Down below it was pitch- black. Thorne felt cold water seep in through his rubber gauntlets | and his suit at the neck, which - were evidently improperly seal- ed. Suddenly he felt something rub against him, ~~ His first thought was: killer whale! But, looking down, he saw that it was only a seal making playful passes at his dangling feet. ' Four times he came up for a new flash-bulb. After the fourth, his fingers could hardly set off the trigger mechanism. But by speeding up the trips to the sur- face he managed to make the necessary observations and finish the roll of film. He and Don, he says in "Occu- pation: Adventure" where the first men to make a working dive under the Antarctic and stay sub- merged for half an hour. Their tests, he claims, showed that the aqua-therm could stop ice forming round piers. Duck and cattle ponds, rivers, harbours could retain open water, and boats -- especially small craft -- be left safely all winter in water that normally freezes up. Locks could remain operative and even the St. Lawrence sea- way be kept opens to world com- merce, Invented by an engineer, George Cross, who accompanied the expedition, it has a submer- sible motor of low horsepower, with specially designed propeller, which can be lowered below the ice and angled towards the sur- face on a compact unit. When switched on, the propel- ler drives to the surface the warmer water which always sinks to the bottom during the winter months, never mixing with the cold. None of the warmth is lost as it passes through the middle layers, so it melts the surface ice and provides open water -- or Keeps it open if the unit is installed be-- forehand. Holes were drilled in the ice around the aqua-therm to mea- sure the rate of ice-erosion as the ice grew thinner, and it was. found that each of the 10 h.p. ish net du | ONE BAGGER.-- Ant ny Or Fo displays the one foul ball a spectacular snare with iii Hii Se mm HIGH LIVING -- The top 40 floors of the 60-story Marina City nearing oo ation In Chicago will house 895 apart- ments. Lower section of the building will house garages, theater, restaurants, shopping. centers. At its Chicago River: base will be mooring facili- ties for 700 pleasure craft. units was eroding at over four tons an hour, This was an appreciable rate for practical purposes, and prov- ---ed-that the device could do the job for which it. was designed... One morning Thorne drove out to inspect, for diving conditions, a hole which the aqua-therm had opened up to a 65-ft. channel. As he approached, he heard a loud whoosh as a killer whale loomed up from the water, spout- ed through. his blowhole, . then headed down again and vanished before Thorne could get his ¢ine camera out of its case. Frantically, he threw every- thing he could lay hands on into the water -- blocks of wood, piec- es of seal meat. Then he grabbed one of half-a-dozen red flags on poles -- indicating dangerous ice -- plunged it into the water and waved it, yelling: "Come on up!" And suddenly the whale did, not more than ten feet from him, Even through the camera-viewer he could see the little pig eyes. The deadly-looking, high black dorsal fin flashed in front of him, then the whale dived and dis- appeared. He got his picture, Another day he and a colleague saw 'a school of penguins in the -middle of the channel, leaping in and out of the water in a panic, with the killer in pursuit, Fast as penguins, can swim, the whale overtook them and they disap- peared for good. "Luckily," Thorne says, "we had not been spotted by the whale. "Eye-witness accounts tell how they've tipped over large. blocks of 'floating ice, and devoured whole the seals who had climbed there for safety, In the next hour I counted fourteen killer whales." Then the testing had to end ~ because a large erack in the ice |: made, the area unsafe they had enough information to prove the success of the operation, SCORCHER! On a scorching hot day on the French Riviera recently an at- tractive girl was amazed when a young man dashed up to her -- and snatched off her hat. "f= It--was-a-new_hat_and she promptly smacked his face. Then she asked him for an explanation of his apparent rudeness, He pointed to 'her hat. It was smouldering, The sun had acted through a glags ornament in the hat as it would on a magnifying glass and sot it alight, * Spaceship Coupling Ticklish Business Now that Moscow's "heavenly twins" have orbited the earth in companion spacecraft, the word "rendezvous" is going to have to be more carefully defined. At their press conference in Moscow the two cosmonauts said they had come within some three miles of each other in space, but that there had been no plan to join or couple the two spacecraft. Washington officials, prior to that announcement, had gener- ally estimated the two cosmo- nauts had not been closer to each other in space than 100 miles, - though some insisted a docking, or locking, operation had been intended but failed. Up to now the word '"rendez- vous" has covered any dual space operation, from bringing satelli- mity to actually joining them or locking them so that fuel, passen- gers, or supplies could be trans- ferred from one to another. From here out it would seem. that the word "rendezvous" would have to be used to de- scribe a meeting in space of two satellites or spacecraft, and the term "docking," or "locking," or "joining" applied only to an ac- tual uniting of the twp space- ships. Otherwise there will be a constant confusion from now on as to just ,what happened in double space shots. Obviously spaceships would have to rendezvous before they could dock, but they would not, of course, have to dock after 'rendezvousing in space, Also both "rendezvous" and "docking" would hardly be the appropriate words to use for an actual or near hit of an anti- missile missile and missile or even spacecraft. But what of the possible need --to silence --a scientific satellite - "_whosé¢ radio timer, say, failed to- turn it off? One could explode a package of shrapnel in its path, silencing and possibly destroying the satellite. That operation might be called a rendezvous, but most certainly a very special kind. This proposal for.a more exact definition of rendezvous would read out of its meaning a coupl- ing or linking of spaceships. . As the technique of docking or linking of spacecraft progresses it will involve more and more varied operations. First there will be the transfer of fuel, of supplies, then of pas- sengers. From that it. will go on to the assembly: of major com- ponents into a larger space struc- ture. It will include repairing spacecraft in space, the possible rescuing of space crews in case of an "abort, of relieving and rotating space crews on large space stations, writes Neal Stan- ford in the Christian Science Monitor. There are some interesting . sidelights to rendezvous. For example, if fuel is being trans- ferred, it must be remembered it will not flow from one ship to another by ordinary gravity as is done with refueling air- craft. There is no. gravity. A special pump will have to be used, with power to force the transfer, Also it may not be wise to let spacemen move about outside their spacecraft in. space suits, clambering around the outside of their ships with magnetic shoes, safety. lines, and gas bottles for propulsion. ~ Pressure _suifs may. prove to be too rigid and the range of temperatures on each side of the, suit may prove too difficult to cope with, Micro-meteoroids also may be a problem for a suited man, whereas they would have no effect on a spaceship. It could well be that space- men, doing space station assem- bly work, will have to work in ° small, one-man' space tugs oper- | ating: from the mother ship. The space construction worker may work remote tool-bearing arms similar to those used in handling "hot" nuclear 'materials, Rendezvous, or coupling, is basic to almost every space oper- ation of the future. That is why this subject has suddenly be- come of prime importance and interest to space scientists and pilots. It is the technique to be sxploved in a lunar landing. It have to be perfected and pittied many, many times, wever, to be sure of the pre- cision that ls essential for re- peated successes. Abominable Snowman A Myth Sir Edmund Hillary, the con- queror of Everest, and leader of an expensively equipped expedi- tion to discover the "Abominable Snowman," no longer has the slightest belief in the creature's existence. "As far as I'm concerned," he said in Montreal recently, 'the Snowman is just a myth. In the area supposed to shelter him he exists only in the minds of the natives." Sir Edmund contends that he found a simple but logical ex- plantion for all reports of the Snowman's activities investigat- ed by his team. "We figured," he said, "that the tracks were'just tracks made by small animals enlarged by the sun melting the snow around them." Sir Edmund also doubts wheth- er the Chinese really climbed Everest, According to their claims, their mountaineers reach- ed the summit at 2 a.m,, when it was impossible to take pictures. And instead of planting a flag there, they left a bust of Mao Tse-Tung. : More proof is needed, in Sir Edmund's view, before the Chin- ese claim can be accepted. New Zealand's greatest climber loath- es bunkum and brings a hearty, down-to-earth attitude to bear on all his problems. As a friend of "hig says: "Ed doesii't care a damn for legends or stories, unless they measure up to hard truth." How Can I? -By Roberta Lee -- Q. How can I go about clean- ing my all- fiberglass luggage, which is of the type that has no additional covering? A. This type of luggage is cleaned by wiping with a damp oloth, Any scratches can be smoothed out by the careful use of some. fine steel wool. Q. How can I freshen rancid butter? / A, This can often be done by breaking the butter up and put- ting it into some fresh milk. Allow it to absorb the- milk, drain thoroughly, then wash in cold salted water and work' it again into the desired form, Q. How can I remove an espe- cially stubborn "press-on" knob from the radio or TV? "A. Loop a twisted scrap of | strong soft cloth behind the knob, gripping the loose ends firmly in your fingers. Press against the cabinet front with your thumb tips, at the same 'time pulling firmly on the cloth. The knob should work free without damage to cabinet or knob. Q. How can I remove finger- nail polish stains from fabrics? A. These stains can be remov- ed from all fabrics (except ace- tate rayon, plexon, and vinyon) with acetone or fingernail. pol- ish remover. Pure amyl acetate (banana oil) can safely be used on rayon and vinyon. Saturate the spot first with carbon tetra- 'chloride, then apply a drop or two of amyl acetate to the stain. 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