The Seaforth News, 1958-01-16, Page 7Signals Fr m The
Ocean's ;:ep•s
Though' the' conquest of space
has been the "spectacular" of a
drama -+Filled Geophysical Year,
many scientists feel that the job
of prcibing the well -covered sub-
stance of the earth itself will
turn out to be richly rewarding.
Never able to look more than
a few' miles down, seismologists
have to content themselves with
measuring the tremors of the
earth's shell in their attempt to
infer 'what .lies far beneath it.
By measuring' seismic waves
simultaneously at differ e n t
points, they hope to be able to
piece together a more compre-
hensive picture of how they
ricochet around` and through
the symmetrical layers of the
earth -its thin outer crust, rock-
like mantle, molten -iron outer
—bore, and solidcenter.
Some are studying the so-
called Long Period waves, which
ease themselves neatly through
the earth's hot, insides, and indi-
cate by their changes in velocity
what kind of substance they pass
through. Others are concerned
with Lg waves whcih can be
transmitted only by the outer
crusts of continents. These give
seismologistsa picture of where
crusts begin and end in ocean
basins.
Unfortunately, working with
earthquake data is a chancy
business, since the exact time
and place of the tremor are rare-
ly known, Using the data intro-
duces a bewildering series of
unknowns' into the complex
mathematics of seismology. To
supplement the earth's unpre-
dictable trembling—some 1 mil-
lion earthquakes a year take
place—IGY' experts are manu-
facturing their own seismic
waves with explosives and re-
cording atomic -bomb blasts (last
summer's underground A -Bomb
test in Nevada was announced to
seismologists in advance, giving
them time to set up recording
instruments).
Though mere . sputters com-
pared with a full-fledged earth-
quake, man-made blasts are
handy for solving specific prob-
lems, such as the controversy
over the structure of mountains.
For years seismologists thought
mountains were simply ter-
restrial icebergs, with deep un-
derground roots plunging all the
--<••.. e, M"'-"" way to the mantle below the.
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The 25 -lire (four cent) issue is
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THE OLD WALL GAME—Striped and ready for battle, the Collegers stride onto the field at Eton,
England's famed public school, for the annual "wall game", played on St. Andrew's Day.
Their opponents are called the Oppidans. No goal was scored and this was in keeping with
tradition because there hasn't: been a goal since 1909. Object of the game is to work a ball.
along a wall on the campus into one of two g oals, which are known as "gaol calx" and "bad
calx". No one knows why they are called th is, but then the; wall game is a mystfying affair.
Flying Saucers
In The Home
A bewigged British judge has
just touched my distant and
bucolic heart with the Solomonic
decision that a wife is not cruel
if she throws dishes at her hus-
band. If she hitshim,. that's
cruelty. A hit husband and you're
out, But just to throw them—
that's not significent in a divorce
action; and in this particular
case he refused to grant a decree.
A judge has to keep his wits
crust. Recent findings in the
Rockies suggest that mountains
don't float on the mantle—they
sit on top of the crust. To gather
further evidence, an IGY team
is now in South America prob-
ing the Andes, and a similar
group in Western Canada will
listen in next summer when one
of the world's largest nonatemic
explosions will blast away Rip-
ple Rock, a navigational hazard
in a channel between Vancouver
Island and the British Columbia
mainland.
On the Antarctic, a virtually
unknown land, scientists' on the
many traverses now in progress
detonate explosions every other
day. By measuring the amount
of time it takes the seismic
wave to, return they can measure
the depth of the ice, and discover
what lies beneath it—rock. or
water. For those who feel that
Antarctica is merely a string of
islands covered with a thick
blanket al ice, one possibly sig-
nificant finding emerged last
week: The Rev. Daniel Linehan,
a Jesuit sesimologist at the
South Pole's Operation Deep
Freeze, found solid rock under
8,297 feet of ice and snow. A top
layer of snow and ice lies 77 feet
thick, he found.
Not the least of the seis-
mologists' job will be to find
whether earthquakes can be pre-
dicted. The earth's crust, under
constant tension, is thought to
have a strain "budget". When
the strain accumulates to a now
unknown level, trouble begins.
In key unstable areas around
the globe, the IGY seismologists
are trying to measure this
breaking point.
From Newsweek.
AUTO -POWERED - The Seamobile, pictured during a 'shake-
' down cruise, will make .its public debut at the Mid-America
Boat Show late 4n January. The unique vessel."hailed as the
first practical automobile -powered ,boat, uses any standard
make of auto as its, Motive power and` steering appaa'otus. A
car is driven across a ramp onto the boat. The rear axle is
fastened to a hydraulic rack, front wheel to steering mechan-
ism. The engine thus drives a transmission system powering a
three -blade propellor. When the car Is hooked up, the motor
let -boatman then simply "drives" across the v''ater,
sharp, and this one is out to a
fine point. I have often wonder-
ed about these dish -throwing
wives. Never, in by observant
career, have -I known; firsthand,
of a wife who tossed crockery
at her husband. It is an athletic
diversion I believe is limited to
comic strips:
It is like the rolling pin, with
which the happy bride sits at
the front portal and awaits the
early morning homecoming of
her mate. No doubt a man has,
somewhere, been hit with a roll-
ing pin—because a man, some-
where, has been hit by about
everything — but it is not an
everyday happening in the nor-
mal conjugal arrangement.
My notion is that -dish-throw-
ing is a trumped-up euphemism,
and that both sides agree to
argue on that basis rather than
tell what really happened. A
bride will, by the urgency of her
desires, willingly accept the ac-
cusation and merely say "Good
riddance!' The decree is con-
sidered well worth the name.
A judge who then raises the
question of accuracy is intruding
into the law of a new note, and
one we should contemplate with
open mind.
I don't think the woman threw
dishes at all. I think that out
of my personal observation of
those women the periphery af-
fords me for study, an of whom.
indicate a dish is, by its crockery
nature, an item al' intrinsic worth,
to be treasured up—never flung
in anger. Dishes may be broken
by accident, and frequently are,
but such accidental destruction
is accompanied each time by sen-
timental regret. To jeopardize
the oneness of crockery by a
free-for-all is against the grain.
Several times I've gone to the
frivolous expense of new dishes.
I see some I like, and bring them
_home. I remember we started
with some cherubs rampant on
rose trellises, and after that a
stagecoach with lovebird. Once
there was a mismatched pastel
set, so if you got a blue cup on
a blue saucer it was wrong. One
set was ivorylike. Right now
we have a yoke of oxen breaking
ground before a red farmhouse.
Well, each of these sets, as it
was replaced, became wonderful
weapon material, and could have
been thrown at a husband. We
were never going to use them
again. They were not expensive
or old, and posterity would never
treasure them. But carefully,
lovingly, each old dish was wrap.
ped in paper, stowed in a box,
and carried to the barn attic
forever. There they are now.
And how many times has some
little sugar bowl clinked dismal-
ly to the floor and the shards
been brought to me touchingly
with a "Can't you mend this?"
I mend it so it can sit on a book-
case or sideboard, never to be
used again, doomed to senti-
mental perpetuity, of desuetude,
if I may coin a phrase. Every-
body knows it is broken. "Oh,
how did you break your little
jug?" they ask. The details are
recited, but never-never has it
been suggested that she hove it
at me in fury. I think the court-
room tales of dish -throwing
malign the average woman, who.
loves dishes`.
The British judge was, under-
standably, overreaching. Judicial'
cognizance limits him. The testi-'
mony said she threw dishes, and
there was no denial, It would ,
be an open-and-shut case, ordin-
arily. But he had hopes of put-
ting the marital train back on
the tracks, and perhaps he hit
on a happy "out". He resorted
- to a doubt I have also had, Did
she • hit. him?
Of course, she did not.
This is expectable, If .a wo-
n -Ian, roused to a high pitch of
anger, commences flinging dishes,.
or anything, at her husband, the
anatomical considerations are
dubious. The noise and excite-
ment would distress the neigh-
borhood, and an auditor might
presume great woe and damage
were' being inflicted. But the
husband would not necessarily
be in danger.
Oh, now and then you'll find
a woman who can wind up and
pitch a strike, but this the ex-
ception. I don't mean you could
not go out and in five minutes
find me a 'talented housewife,
who could lob 'a tureen off her
.husband's knob,. with nine -out -
of -ten efficiency, but you might
spend ten years looking for an-
other. I think you couldn'tdo
it often enough to substantiate
the impression that most di-
vorces began with a dish -heaving
episode.
The judge was not being just
a judge -he was becoming a
moralist and philosopher, and a
student of the truth. Something
of a sensation must have de-
veloped among thebarristers and
solicitors when he asked, "Did
she hit you?" Taken aback by
this unusual trend of thought,
the husband bumbled that she
did not, and the case collapsed.
I'm glad. "if she ever hits you,"
the judge Implied, "come back,"'
01 course, we should also pon-
der on the reciprocal tendency
of human nature. A wife who,
In rage, began tossing teacups •
at her husband might not always
tell about it afterward, and such
Is retaliation that a few soup
plates would come hurtling back
with masculine accuracy. I hate
to dwell on this sad eventuality,
but we must be honest with the
chances. It might be that the
husband, instead of seeking a
divorce, would be pleading self-
defense.
Anyway, a woman can now
throw dishes at her husband
with impunity, but is cruel only
if she hits him. The judge prob-
ably hasn't priced china in the
shops lately, to learn that
economic demands for replace-
ments can be more cruel than
getting conked on the noggin
with a nappy.
—By John Gould. in
"The Christian Science Monitor"
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In the 15 months that "Peyton
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million copies have been pub-
lished in hardback and pape2'-
bound editions, It is a startling
statistic, particularly when com-
pared with Margaret Mitchell's
"Gone With the Wind", which
has needed 21 years to sell
5,435,000 . Apparently one out
of every 37 Americans has
bought "Peyton Place" or is
waiting for his ordered copy.
Mrs. Metalius has thus far tak-
en $250,000 in royalteis. For the
movie rights, however, she was
paid only $70,000. The reason
for this is that Twentieth Cen-
tury -Fox was the only studio
which would touch the book, and
then only after considerable ex-
purgation.
"When (producer) Jerry Wald
sent me the book in Europe last
year," Mark Robson, the director,
admitted recently, "I threw it
away without even answering
him. Much later, Wald gave me
a script that changed the book's
sensationalism into good, natur-
alistic drama and did a superla-
tive job of integration. Only be-
cause of this, I took the job.
When time came to go on loca-
tion, Camden ((population:
3,700) was the only town in the
Northeast to extend a cordial in-
vitation to the production unit.
Gilmanton, N.H„ where Mrs.
Metalius wrote the book, near-
by Laconia, where she later
moved after separating from her
schoolteacher bus b an d, and
Woodstock,---Vt., considered by
the Hollywood people as the
most typical New England town
in existence, had all been under
consideration. But each com-
munity has had enough of "Pey-
ton Place" as soon as it was
published and was loath to co-
operate.
Mrs. Metalius herself had
nothing to do with the produc-
tion. "She had no sympathy at
all with the countless problems
of converting her story," Wald
said last month. "At least half
of the book had to be dropped.
The way she kept carping, it
sounded as if she wanted us to
do a 15 -hour film."
Last week, she was back in
Gilmanton at work on her sec-
ond novel, "The Tight White
Collar". Its theme: "Man's in-
humanity to man—in a small
town." - From Newswedk
FAIR WARNING
"Just think," said the conceited
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