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The Brussels Post, 1960-03-31, Page 2TEARS FOR A LITTLE BOY — Faced with an order to surrender 3-year-old Richard Guy Montemorra, center, after rearing him from infancy, John Vesta and his wife Concetta shed tears in a Brooklyn court. HRONICLE ettit,9111FctAMI MENTAL BLOCK OVERCOME — Alice Marie tornbs, 4, (centre), +he little girl with the big Intelligence Quotient' (138 1.Q.) will be adopted by the only parents the has ever known, Mr. and Mrs, Rickard Cornbs, following a change in a Staten Child Welfare Board rUlifig. The Board reversed a twO-yecir-old *Wish which would have separated the foster child from hot' Parents because they allegedly' did not provide the proper cul- toedi enyleorfteM, Also happy, to have their sister back ate fief taiembef Other girls, Gall, 1, (lA), arid Sherif Churches in the Round Rising in a city famed for its ancient churches, the modern- istic church of "Jesup the Divine Workman", above, is an impressive addition to the landscape in Rome, Italy. The circular main portion stands next to a belfry that rises 183 feet and is topped With a 37-foot cross. Below, looking more like a coke oven than part of a' church, this odd brick struc- ture is on the grounds of the new Skarpnack Church being constructed in Stockholm; Sweden. The "igloo with a port- hole" was built especially for youngsters of the congregation to play in. It can be uSed, for _instance, by a Scout Patrol. Dreams Of 'farming. Under The Sea Oapt, Jacquee-Yv.es: 'COnSteatt, the Worlds greatest undersea ex-. .1;derer, was high and dry one Xnerning recently in "a room on the sixth, floor New York hotel, A. glass en the breakfast table held the nearest water, but as alWayS the restlessly imagine- tive Gallic mind Was. Swimming among a dozen. aquatic ideas. His newest, grandest dream: Building an underwater animal farm. He got the idea from un- dersea work as a French naval officer, and the Monaco (:)eaTIO- grp.phiq. Museum, which, coue- teau serves as director, is back- ing it. "A ship might sink in the mast deserted part of the ocean," Cousteau. explained, "but one year later, the wreck is teeming with sea life," Cousteau's con- clusion: There is a tremendous' amount of life in the sea that could be systematically farmed if only shelter were provided so that the sea animals could con- gregate and proliferate in eco- nomic- numbers. Working on this theory, Cous- teau and his colleagues are building a "baitron" — a con- crete slab "apartment house" whose different levels could lure varying forms of sea . life, 0n one level, for example, there are . • convoluted pipes for.; eels_; on an- Blouse Bonanta PRINTED PATTERN Sew-Easy blouse wardrobe — smart with skirts or slacks! Take advantage of all the beautiful buys in cottons — scoop up the newest prints, stripes, solids. Printed Pattern 4885: Misses' Sizes 12, 14, 16, 18, 20. 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Under- water Confederation — a fitting honor for the man who gave millions freedom in the seas through the co-invention of the Aqua-lung, the wet-suit, and the underwater scooter, In New York, he planned to confer with American engineers on his "X- boat," a radically new (and still secret) ship being built at the Cousteau-founded French Un- derseas Research Center in Mar- seilles. Then, he would report on the latest cruise of his re- search ship, the Calypso, to the annual meeting of the Woods Hole (Mass.) Oceanographic In- stitution, before flying to Paris to look in on Associated Sharks, his film company. From Paris, he would fly to his "land" home in Monaco. Had the underwater explorer turned land-locked' ,entrepre- neer? Not at all: When the Calypso lowered Cousteau's saucerlike submarine, affection- ately dubbed Denise (in honor of Mrs. Cousteau), into the Mediter- ranean ,off Corsica for its first 1,000-foot dive last month, the captain was one of the two-man crew aboard, At the age of 50, he dives with the best and brashest of the younger men. But to be a great explorer these days requires more than cool grace under high pressure: The ex- plorer must also be an adept publicist, skilled at raising money to support his schemes. In Cousteau's case, support has come from a variety of sources. The National Geographic Society and the French Ministry of Na- tional Education have sponsored Calypso cruises. Sales of his best-selling "The Silent World" and revenues from the film of the same name have helped. So have the admission fees of 700,- 000 annual visitors to the Monaco museum, a massive granite pile en a cliff overlooking the Mediterranean. Bud;-'these reve- nues are not adequate for the bold new biatron village which may cost as much as $250,000. "Our purpose is strictly ex- perimental," Cousteau explained. "We want to see what materials and what conditions produce what results. Later, some of our houses will be made of plastic, others of metal. Some will be sunk at 100 feet, others, up to 400 feet. Some 'avenues' between the houses will be illuminated; others will have pipes for dis- tributing chemicals. "If there is a short cut in the tedious chain of life in the sea we want to find it. On land, the pig and the cow are most effi- cient meat makers. Corn plus water equals a porker. Grass plus water equals a beefsteak. "We're looking for the pig of the sea." — From NEWSWEE'H. Q. When two girls are walk- ing together and meet a boy who is a friend of one of the girls and he stops to talk, does the other girl stand by while they converse or does she walk on slowly? A. She should walk on slowly until her friend rejoins her — unless, of course, her friend holds her and introduces her to the boy. Get Theirs Laughs AU Rppdy4,4.c454.." We were among those whore favorable reactions were spon- taneous and unrehearsed, live. and direct, when the television net'Works. announced, a while back, that henceforth they were. swearing .off even the little bitty kinds of deceit - We got a clearer, if not neces- sarily impressive, picture of what that meant when, after certain shows, we began to hear announcements telling us that the programs had ' been pre-re- corded and that applause and laughter had been dubbed in.. Although we admired the can:- dor, we Wondered if the honesty drive wouldn't have been better served if the laughter and ap- plause had been left out instead of branded as fake, Now the campaign has gone a step farther. The other night, after an alleged comedy shale, it was announced.. that the show had been "taped before a live audience with reaction techni- cally augmented," What device or devices were. used to augment the reactions of the live, but taped, audience, we do not know. But our unaugmented re- action is that even the dubbed- in enthusiasm of a non-4xistent audience is to be preferred to the somehow hypoeCenjoyment of • live people ev,h0 evidently didn't like the coinedy enough to do what ought .to come nate- rally,Denver Post. A RED SCENT — Russian act- ress Rayisa Udovikova samples some "Carmen" perfume at the Gypsy Theatre in Moscow. The scent is produced at the city's Novaya Zarya factory where six million to seven million bottles of perfume and eau de cologne are made every month. When Billy Rose Quotes The Bible Thou shalt not make Unto thee any graven image, or any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath... —Exodus 20:9 Whatever else he thought of them (and he once Called them "2-ton knick-knacks"), Broad- way shoWman Billy Rose has never considered his million-dol- lar collection of Rodin, 'Lipchitz, and Maillol statues as "graven images." Yet recently as Rose ar- rived in Jerusalem to superin- tend preparations for the 5-acre outdoor museum he is giving to Israel, he was confronted by black-bearded Benjamin Mintz, the' Rodinesque deputy speaker of the Knesset (Parliament), who insisted that outdoor statu- ary would be utterly sacri- legious. Undaunted, Billy cited a learn- ed interpretation of Leviticus 26:1. "On the floor of your tem, ple, you may place graven im- ages and statues so long as you do not bow down to them." Taken aback by Billy's scholarship (courtesy of a bevy of Talmudic scholars who sup- port the Rose museum), the dep- uty speaker retreated. It turned cut that the Deputy Director of Israel's Religious Affairs had "graven images" in his own home. But in accordance with Hebrew custom, lie had avoided sacrilege by leeceiking bits off thole fades, "Nobody's prole bust up my Bodine- or Maillols," re- torted Billy, "Withbut busting My face first." Israel's rabbinate finally came up with 'a Sole:Mon-like corn- prom ,se: Its mentbers would tot visit Billy's collection — so what they did not see, they would not officially dohdetent Billy also reached his own compromise with Mints: The objective works will be placed indoors, and the ebstraets iti the new garden. "Nobody knows what those ab• stract things moan anyway." said Mintz, satisfied, "so they tit'On't really graven images," Preeciont from 1 al 1 ,(11)4s hosts tiny' other kind of frac/Ont.—Ed if ow O., Well, at least I am in good company. Or am I — that's a de- batable point? Anyway Mr. Khrusthchey and I have one thing in common . . . we are both re- covering from "flu". And if com- plications for you, Mr. Khrush- chev, were the same as they were for me you would not be doing too neuoheetalking for a change. How was: your tongue, Mr. K.? After, the fever had left me my tongue was so red, swol- len, dry and cracked I was in absolute misery. You may re- member, Mr. K., that if you touch frozen metal with wet fin- gers they stick together. In just that way after falling asleep I would wake up to find my tongue sticking to the roof of my mouth. So, like you, Mr. K., I had to cancel sev era' engagements. There was a pot-luck luncheon at one Institute meeting and a grandmother's meeting at an- other, both of which I had prom- ised to attend. But how could I address a meeting with a swol- len tongue? Or do justice to a pot-luck luncheon when every morsel of food I took, instead of being chewed, would have to be rolled around in my mouth and then swallowed. Such a con- dition, to say the least, would make it impossible for remarks to fall with their usual fluency from the tip of one's tongue, However, one would have more time to think and perhaps be a little more cautious in saying what one might otherwise have said without too much consider- ation. And that, I think, applies to you, Mr. Khrushchev, more than it does to me. Well, so much for, that. And now, barring unforeseen compli- cations, Mr. K., it looks as if you and I might both be around for a little while yet to use our influence, good or bad, on a long-suffering public. But I have a problem — and it might well be that Mr. K. and I again have something in com- mon. My doctor says — "Take off some weight — you must be eating too much!" Well, now before you get the idea I have the proportions of a porpoise let me say that I am 5 ft.. 7 and weigh 150' lbs, I don't like cakes or pastries, hardly ever P at dessert at dinner, don't go in for snacks between meals or at bedtime. Always drink skim milk and have lots of cot- tage cheese; have very little Tried food, so where can I cut down? "Am you Sur6, 'Nurscl Iy it his mine?" At home, and away from home, people laugh because I eat so little. "What do you live on?" they ask. And yet I must admit the bulge amidships Is definitely there. I am not allowed strenu- ous exercise so I can't help my- self that way. Incidentally I don't drink — other than tea and coffee. So where do I be- gin? Anybody any suggestions? Can someone tell me how to take off ten pounds? I am not really very interested' in, food so it should be easy — and yet it isn't. Oh well . . . What comes next, I wonder? 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In the hook 3 quilt pattertia, Send' cent* for yoirii average intelligence to Nadily absorb, Incidentally did, anyone see the eclipse of the moon last Saturday? I was wandering Around the house in the small hours and knew it must be taking place by the queer light but the moon was riding too high in the sky for urn to see it from any of our windows, mainly because of the metal awnings. At zero 1 certainly wasn't going outside to do any moon-gazing, 1 thought the Moon could go into eclipse and out of it without any assist- ance from me — which it did. But Taffy didn't like it at all, Several times he started barking and I noticed rabbits stuttering across the snow as if wondering what it was all about. And now the weather! Of course everyone is talking about the weather . such a long, cold winter and no let-up in sight. Apparently the last month has established some kind of a record — never once rising above 32 degrees. I have just looked up last year's columns, written in March and at that time we were battling floods, following a sudden thaw. That is something that may be in store for us again before too long — and then we may wish for the snow back again. Once we get a' change in the weather there will sure be plenty of water around here, maybe some flood- ed basements. But we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. This time last year we had Ross staying here while his baby brother was getting himself born. Now Ross is three years, old and Cedric 'has just celebrat- ed his first birthday. So many milestones .come along eaoh Year in a growing family. Dee is fed up with the winter — says all she does is put on and take off snowsuits and overshoes. Oh well, the winter can't last tor ever. More birds around every day; sun warm and bright. Some- time a wind will blow from the south and father will be running ditches instead of shovelling snow. If you feel downhearted think what's happening in other parts of the world. We are lucky — if we'd only stop to realize it. Strange Voyages Scrubbed and polished until every brass rail Shone, the U.S, heavy cruiser Northampton steamed through the Baltic on. afternoon recently, its prow cleaving a passage through the thickening ice, Aboard were 1,200 officers and men togged out in their best blue winter uniforms in preparation for the civic re- caption that awaited them at Stockholm, Alas, 25 miles from the Swed- ish capital, the Northampton got stuck in the ice. And instead of the Americans going ashore to meet their hosts, the Swedes — by the hundreds — donned ice skates and skis and sped across the ice to greet the embarrassed bruiser. "HIT, WELCOME TO SWEDEN," the Swedes Sprawl- ed on the ice. Capt. Harold G. Bowen Jr., the Northampton's skipper, promptly offered them coffee and cakes, Across the Bal- tic, another ship, the - German freighter August Peters, was get- ting a very dieferent reception. The North German city of Kiel had forced it to move to the most remote anchorage available, and as it finally steamed away. flying the red flag of danger, Germans sighed with relief. The reason: The August Peters car- ried a load of 28,000 shells of the deadly gas called "tabun," devel- oped by the Nazis and capable of wiping out whole cities in a mat- ter of minutes. A stockpile of ta- bun shells fell into the hands of the British at the end of World War II, and was dumped into the Baltic. Recently, it occurred to ICiel authorities that the rust- ing of shell cases might release some of the gas, and even set off a chain-reaction explosion of the whole lot. Hastily, they hauled up the shells, then encased them in heavy cement-coated contain- ers, and loaded them onto the August Peters. Their next des- tination: The bottom of the South Atlantic. ' An executive is a man who decides; sometimes he decides right, but always he decides.— John Patterson.