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Pioneer V, lacking only its pad-
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font to batteries within Pioneer V. Erich has 1;200 solar Ceps: w ityif ifileid is,Choited, ahoy.
ii Ns WV** lohnoOt orblia. of Vento OW refM
Where Motorists
Get The Work0
w.
;",fo to take .445, If be finds the
driver innocent and the state
doesn't get any cash, their tile
gets nothing."
The word "payola" does not
.appear in, our copy of 'Webster*
New international Dictionary,
but is quite certain to find go
Way into the next edition, with.
a definition in terms of commer-
vial bribery with particular ref-
erence to radio and recorded
music, But the word is catching
on fast to describe payoffs. of all
kinds,
Lea keep payola out of the
.administration of justicel—Jour.,.
nal of the American judicature.
Society,
FIFTY-SIX G TACKLE—Football player Larry Cundall, of Colorado University, lies un-
conscious after he was blocked by another player. The impact that cooled Cundall was elec-
tronically measured as 56 times the force of gravity by an aircraft company which builds jet
ejection seats.
smgiszrr SENTENCE
In 7 955; .0, Benjamin Moore was
sentenced to a twenty-year pris,
on term for being in possession
of narcotics.
Shortly after entering the state:
Prison: at Olympia, Moore at-
tended a religious service. At
this service the prisoner made
a vow he would not speak un-
til he was released at the end
of his sentence, He explained
this to the chaplain, and stated
that it was his way of showing
repentance for his crime, Apart
from thos short words of ex-
planation, Moore has remained
silent since 1959.
Who Never Smiled way to signal — and three times
the ships passed on.
"Our water soon ran out,"
Poplaysky said, "but there was
much rain, We rationed the vod-
ka, but it finally went, too. And
last of all, our food. Those last
few days we were eating the
leather thongs of the tops of our
boots."
When the Russians were
brought aboard the Kearsage
they were red-eyed, caked with
brine spray, their hair and
beards grown long.
Villagers in mountain-top Pas-
turo, Italy, gather to worship in
a church flown to the 8,000 ft.
high site by United States Air
Force helicopter.
First the framework and.
foundations were "lifted" up, and
later a cargo of glass for the
windows.
Orost. and corruption are be-
ing disclosed in the current
islative investigation of the New
Mexico justices .of the peace, A
.successiOn of state policernen .tes-
tified that they had received $20
to $30 gifts in cash from some
justices .of the peace in the Gales
lisp area, The implication was
that the gifts were made to
duce the policemen to take per-
sons arrested to those justices for
trial,
One of the justices, in a letter
to the committee chairman, said
that justices of the peace are.
compelled to "light for police
business like dogs over a bone"
in order to earn a livelihood, In
a further statement to the Albu-
querque Tribune, this justice ex-
plained,
"There are a few state police
who write traffic tickets by the
hundreds, and a J,P, may think,
in some cases, that if the defend-
ant is found innocent the officer
may get angry. If so," he said,
"the officer may take these hun-
dreds of citations elsewhere, And
at $5 a ticket, this would knock
a big hole in. the J,P,'s income,"
The Sante Fe New Mexican,
while not condoning these prac-
tices, suggests that the people
of • New Mexico might consider
the fact that the state itself
bribes the justices,
"That"-says the New Mexican,
"is exactly the essence of the fee
system. If the justice of the
peace levies a fine .against a
driver, the fine goes into state
funds and the state allows the
probably the first kis.s he has
,ever had," Pr, Munthe said.'
When Rosalie appeared to take.
him for his .afternoon walk the
.cohneVs wife suggested taking
him fora drive in her landau..
The hospital visit waS off So was
the cruise.
From that day a now life began
for both. every morning • She,
came to his room with a ...new toy.
gvery afternoon •she took him for.
i4idderitvhee 4catiwi°nOtdhs'e .aznocio,44ten to
Always, on their return, she
carried John upstairs, stayed to
help Rosalie bath him., and soon
was bathing him herself, alwayS
kissing the ugly scar on his arm
before putting him to bed.. She
always stayed till he fell asleeP.
Sin was a happy woman now,.
1-Ter expression had changed, in-
finite tenderness' shone in her
eyes.
But John, still pale and thin,
coughed at night, and had tem-
peratures. One morning Dr.
Munthe heard th e ominous
crackle in his right lung and
knew the boy was doomed, fie
wanted to engage a medical
nurse, but the colonel's wife im-
plored him to let her nurse John
instead. And as John weakened
with haemorrhages, Dr. Munthe
noticed that his face was grow-
ing beautiful, strangely like hers,
When the little boy died his
lips at last were parted in a
beautiful smile. She was heart-
broken at having to leave him.
"Why part with him?" asked
Dr. Munthe. "Why not take him
with you , to England in your
yacht and bury him near your
beautiful parish church in Kent?"
"May I?" she exclaimed; al-
most with joy.
"I think he would like to take
this with him," said Dr. Munthe,
taking from his pocket .the dia-
mond brooch he had reclaimed
• froni pawn and pinning it to his
pillow. • "It belonged to his
mother."
Seeing the brooch, she stretch-
ed out her arms towards the
dead child — her child -- then
fainted. -
Arrangements were made for
the yacht to sail at once . for Cal-
ais, where the coffin was taken
aboard. Later Dr. Munthe visited
the Kent churchyard where John
was buried. "Primroses and vio-
lets were growing on his grave,
and • blackbirds were 'singing
over his head. I have never seen
his mother again. Better so," he
conchf ded, •
• Thus ends a tender episode
from this absorbing inside story
,,rt_
B of iadonest,or's life in Paris, From
How A Tailor-Bird
Sews Its Nest
Good Act But
Slipped At Finish.
To the guards at Fresno, pris-
on, 7 miles south of Paris, 38-
year-old Jean-Louis Andries
seemed a model prisoner. They
knew that 4 string of arined
holdups had led to his ten-Tear
term at FreSites. But Whenever
the night-shift jailers passed his
ground-floor Cell No, 37 they
saw Andrus lying peacefully
in bed, occasionally stirring in
his sleep.
Or that's what they thought
they saw. In /act, Andries, a bit-
part actor before he took up
crime, was staging an elaborate
hoax, fie bad molded a plaster
cast of his own head, darkened
it with charcoal, wigged it with
his own hair, and attached to it
a torso-like heap of old clothes.
To achieve those realistic stir-
rings, he had bored holes in the
ceiling of his cell and passed up
Series of threads to three con-
federates, who gave the dummy
an occassional twitch. Mean-
while, Andries himself had cut
through the floor to the cellar
of the jail and was digging his
way to freedom.
In two months, Andries tun-
neled 40 feet to a point beyond
the prison wall. Then, at 3
O'clock on the morning of Feb.
5, he and four other convicts
wriggled out of the tunnel and
vanished. Then, the hunt was
on.
Police caught Alain Choplin,
21, hiding under a bed at his,
grandmother's • house. Another,
Jean-Claude Drouet, 35, headed
for his parents' apartment. A
policeman spotted him coming
out of the subway, and grabbed
him.
But Jean-Louis Andries and
his buddy, Andre Bazin, 26, led
the cops a merrier dance. They
stole a car, robbed two stores
and stocked up on such long-lost
treasures as a pistol, cham-
pagne, and even tickets for the
French national. lottery. Before
making his escape, Andries had
hinted that, as an actor: "I know
how to disguise myself as a wo-
man." But he and Bazin were
still in men's clothes when a
suburban innkeeper recognized
them and called police.
And so, with only one fugi-
tive still at large, the curtain
came down on Jean-Louis An-
dries, little melodrama. He, and
his troupe were booked for a
long return engagement at Fres-
nes. — From NEWSWEEK
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A BIG HELP
OOF — FOR SCIENCE—The exact.force of impact as one
football player blocks another is recorded via wires to elec-
tronic instruments of Stanley Aviation Co., at Boulder, Colo.
The experiment was conducted to find what the human body
can take when ejected from. an airplane seat. Colorado player
.loe Romig hits Larry Cundall 'with a boneshattering 56-G
force, knocking Cundall unconscious.
She had everything life couiti
give except a child.
There was a profound sadness
in her eyes. Her husband wanted
-her to consult a nerve specialist,
but she disliked dOctors. Once she
had painted and studied art in
Paris. Now she took interest in
nothing except children's wel,:
fare, subscribihg to summer holi- •
days for them; and 'orphanages.
She was one of the most beau-
tiful women Dr. Munthe had•
ever seen, but. with something
lifeless, bored, about her face
and sad, dark. eyes. Not until he
talked of the foundling hospitals
he visited in Paris, the thous-
ands of abandoned babies dump-
ed in the provinces, did it light
with interest.
Two weeks after his return to
Paris she • arrived there with her
husband, en route to join the
yacht at Marseilles. She asked if
Munthe would show her one
of, the children's hospitals he had
mentioned. When .•:.he finished
with his patiOnts he found her
sitting -in, the dining-room with
John on •her lap showing her his
toys.
"He has .got your eyes," she
said., "I did not know you were
married."
Dr. Munthe explained that the
little boy was an orphan with a
very sad history;. who never
smiled. He then showed the scar
on the boy's arm.
"It is true," she said gently.
'lie has not smiled a single time
as other children do when they
show their toys."
She then bent down and Len- ,
derly kissed John, who looked at
her with. great surprise. "It is
The Longtailed Tailor-Bird is
a frequent visitor to Singapore
gardens where it chooses large-
leaved plants such as the Canna
in which, to place its nest. The
neat little olive-green bird, with
the red, head, and the long tail
which is constantly raised stiff-
ly above its back, is easily re-
cognized, and if not, its noisy
ways will soon betray its pre-
sence.
The Tailor-Bird is well named
because of its remarkable habit
of using its long pointed bill
as a needle with which it will
literally sew together large
leaves to form a funnel to hold
its cup-shaped nest. Vegetable
fibre, probably mixed with cob-
webs, used as thread is passed
through holes in the leaves and
knots cleverly tied at both ends,
I once watched a bird at its
work; the tips of two large
leaves had already been sewn
together, and the Tailor-Bird
stood inside the envelope and
passed a thickish string of vege-
table fibre through a hole in
the leaf, drew it across to the
adjoining leaf and then pushed
it through a second hole. When
this had been done, the bird
stuck its head out of the envel-
ope, pulled the string hard from
the outside, after which it was
passed inside the, leaf again.
When it came to the making of
the knot, the end of the string
seemed to be "teased" until it
held fast. — From "A Company
of Birds," by Loke Wan Tho,
A speaker was lecturing a lo-
cal Club on forest preservation.
"I don't suppose," he said, "that
there is a person in this hall who
has done a single thing to con-
serve our timber resources."
Silence ruled for several sec-
onds, then a meek voice came
from the rear of the hall: "I once
shot a woodpecker."
SECOND STRING
After taking out two marriage
licences i n one day, Dorene A.
Craig, of Seattle, explained to
the puzzled Registrar that she
had quarrelled with the first man,
but had replaced him with the
second.
Rescue At Sea
In the fading winter twilight,
the U.S. Navy patrol plane was
no more than a slowly moving
gray dot against the sky; 2,000
feet below it, the tumbling seas
of the mid-Pacific were running
20 feet high. The plane, manned
by Lts. Glen Conrad and David
Mericle, was heading back to its
carrier, the 41,000-ton Kearsarge,
when the fliers spotted a 50-foot
SoViet landing ship helplessly
adrift. Thus the world learned
of another conflict between men
and the sea,
It started the night of Jan. 17,
when . four Russians were taking
part in landing evercises in the
Kurile Islands, 1,020 miles to the
northwest. A sudden storm, with
winds up to 75 mph, had blown
their craft out into the 40-foot
waves of the open Pacific. The
craft's engine went dead, it car-
ried no radio. The provisions con-
sisted of dried beef, a loaf of
bread, one bottle of vodka, thtee
canteens of water,
Said Philip Poplaysky, 20, af-
ter the four had been rescued:
"The weather never abated.
The waves smashed and pound-
ed. We got almost no .sleep."
Three times during their 49
days at sea, the soldiers sighted
passing ships. But there was no
The Boy
A True Story
by Arnold Wareing
Dr. Axel Munthe, a young
Paris physician, opened his paper
one day and read a sensational
news item that was to involve
him in one of the strangest ex-
periences of his varied life.
A Madame Remain had been
arrested in connection with the
death of a girl in suspicious cir-
cumstances. She was also ac-
cused of having caused the dis-
appeatance of a number of new-
born children entrusted to her
care,
Three years earlier, he recall-
ed, he had been summoned by
her to attend a young woman in
childbirth. He had saved her
life, and that of her half-suffo-
cated, blue-eyed baby by breath-
ing air into his lungs from his
own lips.
But for what?' To leave the
child to the tender mercies of a
baby farmer who — it was now
clear — exploited unmarried
mothers-to-be, aided by a' shady
doctor accomplice? What had be-
come of the boy? Where was he
now? Somehow he must find out.
He visited Mme. Requin in
prison and ascertained where she
had farmed out babies that year,
Alt the same time he obtained
from her the, pawn ticket of a
valuable diamond brooch be•
longing to the young mother,
which she had left in her cus-
tody.
He then traced the boy to the
Norman village o f Villeroy,
where he had been lodged three
years previously in the squalid
home of a drunken shoemaker.
Half-naked, the boy squatted on
the stone floor gnawing a raw
potato. He had emaciated arms
and legs, narrow chest, blown-
up stomach, terrified eyes, and
sat quite still. He made no sound
when Dr. Munthe lifted him on
to his lap, He was still silent,
seeming not to care, when the
doctor produced a present of a
wooden horse from his pocket,
Deeply touched by the boy's
plight, Dr. Munthe paid the
rears far his keep, wrapped him
. in a travelling rug and took him
back to Paris. There nuns of the
Creche St. Joseph found him a
home with a respectable couple
who had lost their , only child.
The doctor paid for his support,
sent him toys, and visited him at
Christmas.
"He is a strange child," said,
the wife. "He never even says
'mama,' he never smiles, not even.
when h" got the rather Christ-
tries yOu sent him." So writes Dr.
tifurithe in his autobiography 'The
Story of San 'Michele.'
For a year she had evidently
been kind to him, NoW she Wel
expecting another child. Alter
the birth she was not able to give
him the same attention. That ,
frightened look came hack. He
would have to be taker, away,
But no more foster-homes, Da.
Munthe decided, Little John --
the name his mother had called
Otit ender the chloroform —
would now be cared tar in his -
own home in the Avenue de
Villiers, with his maid, ilosallei .
as nurse. People talked, saying
that :he must be the father and
his house-keeper left in a hat
What did it matter, so lent as
Mtn was happy?
There might have been not&
ing More to the story, had he
been called, to Lender' one clay
:fox' a tonatiltatiOn. After he had
seen his patient her :theater beg.,
ged him to Stay longer to see her
SiSter-iii,laWp a colonel's wife, at
they were ail *Oiled about het,
Her husband adored' lief, they
had a beautiful'. house iii` Gros
tenet Square; line old &unti'
Matigiori in Kent, had jugt return-
ed froth a cruise to India in:theie
yacht
bailiterrar
were shortly to
bit
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Oaf hew' i igh junip tetarit ofr.7 fief,