HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1962-10-25, Page 6Why Do Astronauts
take Those Risks?
saan�e of the people I meet
nave trouble understanding why
unyane would voluntarily be
Masted off into the unknown
teaches of spade. at more than
17,000 miles an hour.
When they ask me about it, 1
sin tempted to reply that it's be -
rause, in one very important
ceruse, I have nrever grown up.
That may sound flippant, but
isn't meant to be. Although
past 40, I feel I still have a fair -
size remnant of the moat price-
less possession ofe childhood •—
surioeity. 1 share with my own
=hildren, Lyn and Dave, a con-
summate interest in the things
around us, and that curiosity
isn't restricted by any arbitrary
boundaries, whether it be the
state line, or the earth's atmos-
phere, writes John Glenn, in
NEW SW EEK.
I believe if everyone retained
a• child's curiosity throughout his
life - curiosity about ideas as
well as things — all mankind
would benefit. Mast of the cam -
farts which surround us in our
Project Mercury Astronaut
Walter M. Schirra
daily lives have resulted tram
tee curiosity orf some inventor,
scientist, or engineer. Inquirring
minds are at tlhe root of learning
and new knowledge, and all pro-
gress in the acquisition of new
knowledge forms the basis far
more.
Rarely do any of us pause to
reflect on how new most of the
things around us are •— how
much of the total human pro-
ess in science and technology
Whitt we aeccpt as eo iwen-
place, were the products of re-
search a ad development efforts
which were insignificant com-
pared to the massive programs
under way today.
We live in the most exciting
age in the history a mean, fund
i£ we use our opportunity wise-
ly, another decade of progress
will produce a civilization so ear
beyond our present experience
that it cannot yet be conceived
in detail, even by the most vis-
ionary minds,
The period in which we five
has been called Vie age of
science and technology and it
certainly is, It might also be call-
ed the Age of Imagination and
Inquiry — of nnreetrained cur-
iosity which is leading mankind
toward vital discoveries, many
of them as yet unforeseen.
Perpetual and intense curios-
ity is a been not only in techni-
cal and scientific matters. Pro -
1
gross in such areas must be
matched by an equal progress
in social, governmental, intellec-
tual, and human afafirs if we
are properly to use this nw o Women Have Stolen Our Pants
found knowledge and power
its maximum benefit. Collars, Hats, Now Our Braces
A frank curiosity in all these
areas can result in broad pro- itemsSo many of
male attire
gess for all mankind. A child's have been rte
tremendous interest and curl- • fashion that only one single dress
osity about the world aroundaccessory remains which is still
him results in a rate of learning I unplacably male,
that is astounding, There is no Which one? The back collar
reason why this should end stud!
when we become adults. Our trousers were stolen years
Cariosity is not limited to
ago. Tailored suits became an
technical fields. rt is more a way intrinsic part of the female
of life, wardrobe long since, and the
I flew alone in`Friondsship 7, Bowler hat has been so widely chested or for those who intend
hitt thousands of brilliant, lana- adopted as to become practically to be,
ginetive, and curious minds de- neuter. Perhaps the most disturbing
other d the knowledge, and A few years ago a Parisian aspect of those whole idea is that
aand thousands employed
skilled it, to couturiere offset strapless eve- women who inevitably display a
putod able minds envployed it, to ning gowns on Ms models with thin red grove when they change
a there, shirtless wing -collars and bow their conventional for a strapless
In space, one has the inescap- ties around their swan tete bra in the evening will now sport
a thick parallel alongside to mar
the marble beauty of their bared
shoulders. This is as good an ar-
ise l time, has the without
theney been carried out) have all been gument as any in support of
In leaner and snow t press the taken over by women. turtle necked ball gowns.
indlwence of ancient pressures.
Like the mind of a child, it is i This week a fashion flash re -
yet antaineed with acquired
feasts, hate, greed, or prejudice.
I•n space, as yet, tb.ere is only
one enemy — space itself. I•t is
an environment hostile to all Sweeping into popularity is
men and all nations, and one the fad for "elastic" stretch -
wallah will challenge all men's pants — and a new feature aim-
greatestabilities, d at keeping tight trousers in
tion of the elasticated strap be-
neath the instep. All this tension,
coupled with the formidable pull
of a pair obraces asserting it -
FILES SUIT — Singing star Judy Garland filed suit in Las
Vegas, Nev., to divorce her third husband, producer Sid Luft,
shown at right, on charges of extreme'cruelty, mental in
nature."
round the outside, or down the
inside? With the localised ten-
sion that will result from shifting
the brace position out of the pure-
ly vertical, it is presumed that
the decision will rest upon
whether the lady in question is
in search of more defined "se-
paration" or more closely pack-
ed "cleavage." Otherwise, it
seems to this writer that braces
will be suitable only for the flat
able impression that here is a
virgin area of the universe in
which civilized man, for the
necks. Our shirts, our sweaters,
our slacks (if that is the name
for them once the adoption has
JEWELLERY ON, THE JOB
eels that a new Parisian gim-
mick is the adaption of men's What did happen to grand -
braces as decoration on wonie�1's mother's platinum earrings? Now
leisure clothes. an old-fashioned piece of jewel-
lery, they may simply be locked
in the family strong box. Or they
may be hard at work as a catalyst
a 'les, a in a modern chemical plant. Plat -
President Kennedy put it well the correct position is the atop- inum is one of several precious
w hen he s a i d : "There is no metals now in heavy industrial
strno national demand. The chemical industry
coneno prejudice, — second largest consumer of the
bone' hazardst outer space asu yet. metal — uses it in the form of
Its uare hostileeto us all. f t t catalysts to make acrylic fibres,
Its conquest deserves the best of self in a diametrically opposed aniline dyes, ammonia, nitric
all mankind, and its opportunity direction offers menacing cense- aid, vitamins and other products,
for peaceful oaaperation may quences. But this does not mean a heavy
neves came again." What if the elastic breaks?• drain on the mines: much of the
demand is met by recovering the
ga If the failure takes place in the
thousands of Years of hu- To that I would add only this: then the die
over a'usa never boot -strap area en su n
history has been c f man- The human race may 1 f t offersthe lady virtually indestructible meta
man rs I release
o erasion
sed into the life spans of many aero have a similar chance to a fearful jolt in the fork, Whilst I from old jewellery, worn labor -
who are still oliva today. demoaustmate that we can be the f the failure occurs within file story equipment and
It took centuries for men to kind of people God intended us i'scraps.
progress from horse-drawn carts to be.
to automotive vehicles as a ry pri- PROOF-READERmimeans of transportation. Yet GOES TO JAIL
a secondhand Model T like the I
one which I drove in my teens, A typesetter and a proofreader
twenty -odd years ago, is a vat- in Communist East Germany
tied antique today. I were out of their jobs and in jail
It didn't �aeur to me then to last month. The charge: A typo -
tuck one away in a barn and graphical error,
rave it until age had increased g It occurred in a front-page re-
value by twenty times, NOT I ference to Communist boss Wal-
do
do I suppose any of us now is ter Ulbricht in the newspaper
etoriag away one of thane old Neue Zeit. Ulbricht has the lab -
Atwater Kent radios —the ones ! orious title of first secretary of
with the speaker on the top the Central Committee of the ly into her handbag.
against the day when they, too, Socialist Unity Party of Ger- To the more practically mind -
will be sought as valuable an many, customarily abbreviated, ' ed, the immediate question is con-
tiques, in German, to the ZK of the SED, cerned with how the braces will
Since then, we have all been What put the anonymous type- be actually worn. On the level
,evee
anon. ibyn gine -Pictl of i eyinglevi- setter and proofreader behind male chest the question never
union. Imagine—picturou .flying bars was the transposition of ZK arises, but when a woman wears
thousands of miles through the to KZ. As every German knows, braces do they ... well . . go
lair to appear in your own living KZ stands for Konzentretion-
rsoam t t' n camp
braces it is likely the lady will
find her trousers down round her
ankles like they've been catapul-
ter.
Also, even the flimsiest, absurd-
est pair of those esoteric crea-
tions which women laughingly j
describe as "pants" have a dis-
turbing habit of outlasting the
elastic designed to retain them at
the waist -line. Considerable a-
plomb is required for any lady,.
with her dignity collapsed about
her, to step lightly out of the dia-
phanous heap and whip it smart -
alager, or concen ra.ro
Electricity, the e teradhone, the and Ulbricht's title came out:
ei on, and engine, the televi- "First secretary of the concentra-
tion camp of the Socialist Unity
(Communist) Party,"
ISSUE 42, -- 1902 Question: Was it really a typo?
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Tolt3ida$osrtricr 'ALtifjf•(Tj'.
TOP -SIDE SOUNDER -•-- Canada jo'necl the United States and
Russia by blasting her first space vehicle into orbit. The
launch wus conducted at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.
Described as a "top -side sounder," the Alouette is designed to
investigate upper levels of the ionosphere and space noise
that disrupts long-range telecommunications.
Prosperity Depends
On Threat Of W el r
America is getting to depend
on its war machine .. .
California, for .example, re-
ceives $100 million a week from
its defense orders, and Califoe-
n i a (by coincidence?) is t h e
slate where the moat money is
donated fo.r jingoism. The pee-
pie on the West Coast have con-
vinced themselves that a Com-
munist is under every bed and
tike missiles will fly next mor:,th.
We are pleased in Colorado
that the Martin ,Co. is ready to
move into tho airspace program
which should absorb technical
personnel in huge mrmhen•< in a
pram -time efl'ort.
What about Lowry Air Force
Yager
Our niet.ro arra will not. read-
ily yield.- to a reduction in the
13,000 force there. W i t h their
tucnilias,
then: Air Force leen
mean a community of 40,000 peo-
ple, That's a weekly purchasing
power Of ane million dollar's!
Economists convinced former
President Eisenhower that we
can have prosperity without
having a program t.ha.t will wipe
out Russia 25 times.
I3u•t the transition per i o d
might prove bathersorn8, No one
likes to make adjustments. Mi'l-
lions wound rather whip them-
selves into a frenzy and keep
the calci war "on the brink"
Littleton (Cole.) independent.
501130 Reflection's
On "My Fedi Lady"
My Fair Lady closed in New
York Sept. 29. I would have pre-
ferred to see the Empire State
Building go,
I lilted to think of the musical
as a permanent New. York fix-
ture,
Eauly clueing its N e w York
run, My Fair Lady was more
than an institution; it was many
institutions. P 50 p l e who had
seen My Fair Lady trumpeted
the fact, and those who had seen
It twice were unbearable. Even
a contrary snobbism appeared:
„I've never been to Europe or
My Fair Lady."
In' those clays you could gel
a seat to My Fair Lady by ac-
quiring tickets long in advance,
by knowing the right person, or
by paying outrageous prices.
There was one other way to ,see
the play: Vertically, This involv-
ed waiting: in line et the box
office in t•h•e morning for the
privilege l standing up for the
performance later in the dray.
These morning waiting lines
were another institution, and I
belonged to it.
At the peak of My Fair.' Lady's
popularity shortly after it open-
ed, the box office queue started
forming at the close of the pre -
v 1 o u s evening's performance,
about 11:15 pen. The morning I,
waited in line, blessedly a sunny
October -day, the lineup had
formed at 6 a.m. I arrived at 8
atm. and became No, 12 in the
lineup. By 9 a.m., the quota of
30 standees was filled.
Rules of protocol carried over
from day to day. Almost instinc-
tively, the first person in line
each morning brought paper
and pencil, He listed himself
and each new arrival in order
from No. 1 through 30 (or 60 an
matinee days). Standees then
were free to wander off for cof-
fee or breakfast, or, on icy days,
to revive circulation by canter-
ing around the block. Just be-
fore the box office opened at 10
eau., each person- claimed, his
rightful place In line.
Each day's lineup invariably
included at least ane "specula-
tor" — or, if you wish, scalper,
He would later sell his standing -
room ticket at a profit of at least
$5 or $10, or more if he could
get it.
Standees chatted, read books,
or merely sprawled on the sin-
gle, wide, hard concrete step at
the Mark Hellinger Theater.
There were bridge or Sorabble
games almost e v e r y morning,
Passersby looked straight ahead
or glared, dependung on whether
they were New Yorkers or tour-
ists.
On my October day, 27 fannil-
iar faces, two new ones (friends
of scalpers?), and mine showed
up for the night performance.
Now wearing suits and dresses
instead of our morning attire of.
sweat -shirts and'sneakers, we
took" Ow standing positions be-
hind the last row of orchesVf .
seats, We had become a chili.
And a force,
Great plays are inherently
great; erities a n d theatergoers
only recognize them, I like to
believe it was the standees,
%wattnae sacrifice of time and
o o m 10 r 1, who gave My Fair
Lady its ultimate tribute and re
eognbtion of greatness. — Jack
Bolter in the National Observer'.
Modern Etiquette
By Anne Ashley
Q. Is it correct to eat short-
cake with the fork, or should a
spoon be used?
A. The fork should be used.
Q. Isn't It all right, when in-
troducing a. man to a woman,
merely to say, "Miss Collins, Mr.
Harris?"
A. Yes — with a slight , pause
between the names,
Q. Is it all right to write
thank -you notes en the type-
writer?
A. Although most typewrit-
ten notes stream generally ac-
cepted it is still better to write
thank -you notes by hand.
Q. Is it correct for a divorcee
to continue wearing her wed-
ding ring, especially it she has
two children?
A. A divorcee usually removes
her "wedding ring — since there
is no marriage anymore. And if
she wishes to continue wearing
her engagement ring, she wears
it on other than her third fin-
ger, left hand,
MATADOR'S TWIST—Mata-
dor's hat made of a custom-
designed hairpiece fits snugly
on the crown of this New York
model's head. Wisp of hair
flares up at the center top of
the false hairpiece.
Rea Live
Paper Dolls
Woodman spare, that tags^,
You just night be slicing izs-
to milady's wardrobe of the
future. Modern wood•utiltza.
tion technology bas made ill
possible to p r. o du c e from
paper fabric the smartly
styled outfit, upper left, corm
plete with hat and purse.
Other items include vest for
'under ski jacket, handbag
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