The Seaforth News, 1961-01-19, Page 2Why Those Rockets
$ometimes Fail
In a big rocket like the Atlas, '
¢here are some 3Q0,000 parts that
Resist sing together, Only one
/te
/teed go wrong for total failur
couple of now -classic clinkers:
One second after ignition in an
important Mercury shot last No -
''ember, an electrical plug was
disconnected twenty millisec-
stnds too soon, An automatic
!Signal to the rocket engine or-
(tered it to, shut down. The
,Sion failed, Tile correction was
wimple: The cable leading from
the plug was made a few inches
longer.
On Thanksgiving Day 1959, an.
Atlas -Able rocket blasted off
with a payload intended to orbit
the moon. During the upward
rush through the atmosphere,
the nose fairing or shroud pro-
tecting the payload was ripped
apart. It turned out that wind-
tunnel tests of various air pres-
sures or "loads" had missed the
speed at which the peak "loads"
occurred, A solution: Holes were
punched in the fairing to equal-
ize internal and external pres-
sures,
Not all errors are mechanical,
The recoverable capsule from
Discoverer II came down near
Norway, instead of its intended
Hawaiian landing area, A ground
controller had informed the
satellite's automatic timer that
it was orbiting the world once
every 95 minutes. The actual
time was 90.5 minutes, a trifling
difference that totaled half a
world in distance after seventeen
orbits,
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line up their vacations for the
looming year?
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SEEING RED MAKES HIM HAPPY — Mrs, Skelton looks on as
Red Skelton laughs after his pet poodle leaped onto his lap as
Red was wheeled out of Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Holly-
wood Dec, 28. Red entered the hospital Dec, 3 to undergo
surgery for a diaphramatic hernia, •
Show Business Is
Tough Business
On stage in the studio, an ir-
resistible force — the piereog.
voice of EthelMerman — was
colliding with a seemingly im-
movable object — an unwieldy
George Gershwin tune, "Let 'em
Eat Cake." Engulfed in a sea of
dancers, Miss Merman groped
with the lyrics while cameras
and chorus swirled around her.
Suddenly she stopped singing,
her pie /ace contrite. "I don't
know the lyrics — I'rit sorry,"
she bellowed as she adjusted a
$40 beige cowboy hat perched
insolently on her poufy hair. A
cue -card man scurried in front
of her, The Merm repeated the
words, and then confidently an-
nounced: "OK, OK, let's go."
"OK, OK," echoed director
Norman Campbell from the con-
trol booth. "Lots of energy, kids,
'cause this may be it, — and it
had better be." And with 'that,
the taping of the musical scene
— in which Miss Merman plays
a Presidential candidate' out on
the stump — resumed again.
It was late in the afternoon,.
and Miss Merman, currently ca-
vorting in "Gypsy," had been on
hand since 8:55 that morning to
rehearse and tape a nine -minute
segment for CBS's "The Gersh -
win. Years," a 90 -minute look at
U.S. life in the 1920's and '30's,
set against a backdrop of some
60 George Gershwin songs.
Conceived last summer under
the egis of executive producer
Leland Hayward, the January
special, which was also to star
Eileen Farrell and Julie London,
had been entangled in frustra-
tions. Two hoped-for performers
—Nat Cole and Ella Fitzgerald—
had been unable to make it be-
cause of commitments. Its narra-
tor, writer -director Moss Hart,
had been forced out by a'heart
attack and replaced by composer
Richard Rodgers. Only a few
days before, a disastrous me-
chanical error had erased half
of a ten-minute taped "Porgy
and Bess' sequence shot on loca-
tion along a shantytown street
in Rockaway, N.Y. And now it
looked as if a promise made to
the lunchless Miss Merman --
that she would be sprung by
5:30 so she might rest before
her evening performance of
"Gypsy"— would not be kept.
"This is a bitch of a show and
you can quote me," rasped pro-
ducer Hayward as 'he gazed
dolorously at the proceedings.
"Originally, I wanted 'to do the
Rodgers and Hart songbook, and
right note I kind of wish I had."
For the 52 -year-old Miss Mer-
man, a veteran of thirteen
Broadway hits, ithad proved a
particularly w e a r i s o m e day,
complicated by personal prob-
lems. Among them were a hov-
ering appointment with her den -
THEIR HOPE — Children reach hopefully toward the United
Nations seal on this Indian stamp issued in New Delhi and
Worth abcut 3 Canadiun cehts, The stamp was released for
sole on United 'Ndtions Children's Fund Day,
TRUMPETS — Clara Heidt
dresses up a White. Angel
Trumpet free in Cypress. Gar-
dens, `Fla;
fist and a scheduled flight to
Mexico at the weekend to di-
vorce her third husband, airlines.
executive Rebut Six, Through
the morning and early afternoon,
she had patiently run through a.
"Wintergreen for P r e a i den t"
number in which she was hoisted
up and down in a plywood heli-
copter, blasted with fake train
smoke, obliterated by confetti
and , streamers, and 'had to con-
tend with a large chorus and a
24 -piece orchestra on such rou-
sero as "Strike Up the Band"
and "Who Cares?"
After she blew the lyrics on
"Let 'em Eat Cake," a mike
boom dropped in 'front of her,
ruining a subsequent take. An-
other taping had to be scrapped
because of a traffic mix-up.
"As I said ' before, this had
better be it," called out director
Campbell. And on they went
Merman belting, the chorus pos-
turing, the technicians in the
control booth technifying.
The number went off without
a hitch, but in the control booth,
a minor disaster struck. The
tape — when it was spun back
— had several technical blips
in it There were' sequences left
to tape, it was almost 6 o'clock,
and everyone was staggering.
with worry, But then one calm
voice spoke up in the darkness.
"They'll never know at home
they'll think it's something
wrong with' their sets," .said the
speaker, "Let's' go on,"
And so they did, everyone fin-
ally adjourning ' into the snowy
streets at 7:20. And that, as they
say, is' show biz.
FIGS FOR A QUEEN
Queens have always received
Christmas gifts from their sub-
jects in the past, Mary Tudor, on
her first Christmas as Queen of
England, received sixbarrels of
figs from on admirer and a bas-
ket of sugar loaves, from another,
Her half-sister, the first Queen
Elizabeth, announced that cloth-
es and ornaments would be ac-
ceptable as Christmas gifts. One
of her most cherished presents
every year was silk stockings.
"Mind can control matter"
state scientists, It's a safe bet
they've never tried playing
golf!
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POPE JOHN'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE — Standing before a lighted
montage of St. Peter's Square, Pope John XXIII records his
third annual Christmas message. The Pope called on the world's
Catholics to fight what he called a "diabolical conspiracy against
truth" being carried out through all forms of art and mass,
communications -media. The Pontiff's 5,500 -word address was
broadcast around the globe by the powerful Vatican radio and
by a link -up of national stations in other countries.
HRON ICLES'
INGERFA►iim
eussubattava D Clarks
Now, at last, Christmas for us,
as well as for you, is over. It
seemed a long time a -coming but
it finally got here. But, oh dear,
Friday night ; we . thought we
were going to be done out of
our Christmas " dinner! And
Christmas morning it looked' as
if we might lose our little dog
Taffy. Now those two incidents.
require a little explanation. So
here goes.
As I told you before Dee and
Art were holding Christmas for
all of us in Toronto — the same
as they have done for the last
three •years. We try to equalize
things this way. We pay for the
turkey, Dee chooses it and cooks
it, I make the Christmas pud-
ding. Two weeks before Christ
Inas ... get that, TWO WEEKS
BEFORE CHRISTMAS ... Dee
ordered a 17-1b: turkey from the
. chain store at the plaza where
she does all her shopping, which
usually amounts to over $28 -a
week. They took her order, her
name, address and telephone.
number, and the turkey was to
be held and picked upon the
evening of December 23. The
weight of the- bird was impor-
tant.. It had' to be big enough
to feed us all and' some left
over for eating cold. But it- could
not be too big otherwise it would
not go into Dee's apartment -size
oven.
Friday -night Dee, and Art went
shopping as usual; asked for the
'turkey that had been ordered --
and.. presumably set aside. But
the clerk said "We don't have
any turkeys left that size. The
best we can do is either 13 lbs.
or '22."
"But,"" said Dee, "I ordered -
my turkey a 17 lb. bird —
you must surely have . set one
aside."
The clerk shook her head; "We
haven't got any birds left that -
size," she repeated;
Then Dee- began to see red;
went out to the car and got Art
to come in. From what I' was
told I gather there was quite
e hot argument! The clerk had
no real explanation for the mix-
up, or as to why they had- made
no attempt to notify Dee -by tele-
phone. Art asked to see the
manager but he couldn't ` be
found — one clerk said' he had
gone'- out some place for a few
minutes, It finally ended up with
Art saying — "Well,,,all - right, if
that's • the way you do business,
you can keep your groceries!" So
he and Dee both walked out and
-
le'ft their entire order sitting
in the shopping cart. Next morn-
ing- Art tried to get in' touch
with the general manager but,
it being Saturday, the head of-
fice was closed. - Art swears he
will never do business with that
sALLY's. SALLIE
II BIRD I�
SHOP yy�
"Call the FBI! This bird you
sold me raves like a
tabid Red!"-
'
chain of stores again. ` What
would you do?
Naturally this little set-to
threw a ' monitey-wrench. into
Dee's schedule. Saturday morn-
ing she had to start out again—
to shop and to hunt a Christmas
turkey. She got. the size she
wanted but not a particularly
nice bird as, of course by that
time they had been pretty well
picked over. -
I am telling you this. because
just recently T read an article
which said among other things,
"If you are, pleasedwiththe ser-
vice or product you get from
any particular store write and
tell the. management about it, -
It will be appreciated, On the
other hand if"you have any com-
plaint, let them know that too.
Any reputable business will lis-
ten to all reasonable complaints."
So that's that. We finally did
get our Christmas dinner — af-
ter a lot of extra work and wor-
ry for; Dee. -
Now about Taffy. Christmas
morning, about eight o'clock, we
put Taffy outside for a run on
his rope, as we always do. He
has about thirty feet of rope and
that way can get all the exer-
cise he needs. As we sat at
le sst 1 Ii e a rd 'a peculiar
sc uvel, "Wh ICs that?" I exelaire-
ed and ran to the window, There
saw Taffy on his baek, legs
gnawing the air, with two bigger
clogs attacking him, One• was a
German shepherd (mongrel) the
other "a pure-bred blue terrier.,
We chased the other dogs away
and called Taffy in. He managed
to come but was limping and had
blood dripping from a deep
gouge in his shoulder ,• . and
shaking with ;fear. Although the
wound was deep it did not seem.
big enough to require stitches,
I dressed it and when ' we left
home we gave him an aspirin—
thought he would be better quiet
then to come with us. Today tie
seems a lot, better. '
What is the itest,way to keep
a dog -,let him. loose to annoy
people, or keep him under con-
trol, thus avoiding trouble with
neighbours but depriving the
dog of natural means of defence?
Of course we do take Taffy put
on a leash tor' exercise but it
seems to me a dog should also
be safe in his own backyard.
Taffy certainly wasn't. IT I
hadn't heard him he might ha+'e'
been killed. -•
Modern Etiquette
lay Anne Ashley
Q. Is it all right for a young
man to smoke his date's cigar-
ettes
A. it isexcusable to smoke
one or two if he happens to be
out of cigarettes. But certainly
not all evening. He must,, as
soon as possible, buy some fresh`
cigarettes for himself and his
girl.
Q, I received a birthday card
with a handkerchief included from a friend. I neglected to
write her a note of thanks, and
my husband says I've been rude.
Is this so?
A. I'm afraid so: One should
always thank a donor of a gilt,
whether large or small,
Q. When giving an informal
dinner in the home. is it all right
for the hostess to say, "Just sit,
anywhere you wish"?
A. No, The hostess should al-
ways designate specifically the
seating arrangement of her
guests.
Q. I see more • and more wo-
men shaking, hands with men
and other womenupon being in-
troduced. Is this nosy consider-
ed'the proper thing?
A. Although considered option-
al, I think it shows more sincere•
pleasure and warmth over a
meeting or ..introduction- when
women offer their hands.'
ISSUE 2-1961
Jacket Tops Plaid Jumper - Fun To Sew
Mom and Grandma, take note! Little girlswho go to school
are slttir.g.pretty this winter, in a colour -coordinated outfit thdt is
easy for you to sew. Jumper, jacket and blouse; -•all three ere in-
cluded ih Anne Adams Printed Pattern 4924: As shown here, the
soft, furry jacket islined with the pretty plaid of the jumper.
Other suggested tabrics for this charmer are velveteen, corduroy
etr denim.. Printed Pattern 4924 comes in Children's Sizes 2, 4, 0, 8,
Send FIFTY • CENTS for this pattern (stamps cannot be ac-
cepted, use postal note for safety), Please print plainly SI7,E.
STYLE ealMBER, NAME, At)IIIUJSS. Send ;your order to Anne
Adams, Box 1, 123 Eighteenth St, New Totento, Pattern D:epai't-
meat.
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