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The great meteorite crater ii
Arizona, for example. ap.
parently was caused by an i'm
pact equivalent to the surface
detonation of a 3-million-tor
hydrogen bomb. One of these
can easily be carried in the
nose-cone of a rocket, the
belly of a bomber-or a small
truck.
Plowshare studies have beer
made on three possible 18TH
mian canal sites in the light
of how construction costs
would be affected by using
nuclear explosives. One o1
these locations, Rio Truandc
in Choco Territory, Colombia
will be discussed here. These
are the ground rules for the
study:
The canal will be at sea
level. 1t will have a minimum
channel width of 600 feet at
a point 40 feet below the sur
face. Nowhere may the bot
tom be less than 40 feet deep
Earth-moving methods, in all
cases. must be the least ex-
pensive to accomplish the job
The Rio Truando crossing is
"a miles long. Sixty-one miles
of this would be dredged at q
cost of 25 cents a cubic yard
for $40 million yards, or $135
million.
The remaining 80 miles
would be excavated. Because
atomic explosions are eco
nomical only for moving very
large quantities of earth, 26.5
miles would be most cheaply
excavated by conventional
means, such as dynamite and
power shovels, at $4.25 a cubic
yard. The movement of 1,030,-
100000 yards along here would
cost $4,377. 100000.
Together, these S7.5 miles OF
conventional excavating and
dredging would cost $4.512,500,-
900. What of the other 6.5
miles-really the toughest part
of the whole operation?
q Bombs Needed
The PlowShare study shows
81 "devices"-bombs-needed
Their power would range from
250.000 tons to 3 million tons
TINT equivalent. Hiroshima
was about 10000 tons. These
q bombs would explode with
a total of 1876 million tons OF
force. or nearly 1000 times
that of the Hiroshima bomb.
The q nuclear devices would
move SIS million cubic yards
of earth for a total cost OF
about $166 million. Roughly
$140 million of this would be
for conventional finish grade"
work. Only about $26 million
would be for emplacement and
Acc Service charges"
The total cost of a Rio Tru-
ando Sea-level canal would be
slightly Under SAT billion if
the atom were used where
economy dictated. Conven-
tional canal-digging methods
throughout would bring the
cost up to more than $6.6 bill
lion, or about 40 per cent extra.
A canal with locks would cost
substantially more.
1t will not be tomorrow when
another canal is dug. by what
ever means. No so far of
however, is the Project Char
lot" acknowledging project in
Northwest Alaska. A delega-
ton of Acc officials went into
that sparsely populated region
$50 miles north of Nome early
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this year to give the populace
reinsurance.
The areas remoteness had
been advanced as one good
reason for carrying out Project
Chariot there. But with in
sight rare in today's imper-
sonal, over organized world
DR.. John Wolfe of the Acc
pointed out:
1.-THE area) is not remote to
the Eskimo, the Arctic fox and
the ptarmigan."
Sunday: Atomic ships,
planes and rockets.)
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Marshall C. Yovits of the Of
flee of Naval Research said
He emphasized that talking
about such uses is still a little
previous, however.
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without locks. Neither ''if" ap
plies, however. The pinch i
on, and If it is to be relieved
by ordinary means, it will taxi
10 or Is years and cost six o.
seven billion dollars.
For this reason, atomic sci
entistS propose to use the ex,
plosive force of the atom Il
do quickly and cheaply whar
otherwise would be time-con.
Stunning and costly. They woulC
dig a second canal with the
aid of atom bombs.
The first step would be 6
dry run"-Project Chariot
This envisions creation of ar
artificial harbor-channel anc
turning-basin-in a remote
corner of Northwestern Alaska
using moderate-sized atomic
bombs for the channel and a
larger device, probably a ny.
drogen bomb, for the basin.
The Alaskan project could bt
carried out on American soil
without directly affecting an.
other nations sovereignty. II
this sort of grand-scale earth
moving project proved feasible
as some scientists are sure
it would-international nego.
tiations could be started for a
canal across the Isthmus OF
Panama.
Politics a Factor
Recent anti-American demon
strations in the Republic oi
Panama. and demands there
for local control of the exist
ing Canal Zone might make
the possibility of any suitable
deal seem remote. But political
geography has given Uncle Sam
a hole card in this interna-
tional poker game.
Several surveys Of possible
second-canal routes have been
made across Central America
where the hemisphere's land
mass narrows down to a few
dozens or hundreds of miles
Three sites look particularly
good. One is in Panama and
two are in the adjacent Re-
public of Colombia. just to the
south, where the Isthmus joins
South America.
ct would be an ironic twist
of history if the United States,
which instigated Panamanian
freedom from Colombia in
order to get a friendly site for
the first canal, now arranged
to dig a second in Colombia
because Of current Panama
nian hostility
The Atomic Energy Com
mission has published a list Of
charges for nuclear excava-
tions. These charges cover "the
Evening star., 1960-06-24
New Mechanical Broin
Outsmorts Its 7 eochers
BY q Star stan Writer

BUFFALO N Y, June 24-Scensts like to tell the story
about the who invented the ultimate "eectronic brain
"a vast machine that knew everything there to be
known.
On the day began operation the inventor gave the
machine its first question: "Is there God?"
The machine hummed for a second or two and then
printed out its
iS nnutn
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mittee of the Department Ct
Justice post were James Spell.
William Brewer. Job Barnard,
Bernard Hasson. John j. Finn.
Marshall Gardener, William
Monagan and Angelo Maggie.
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The Atomic Years
Seo-LeveI Panama Canal Need
Seen Met by NucIeur Blasts
CHAPTER XII
BY WILLIAM HINES
Star Seience Writer

1t is estimated that the Panama Canal will have to turn
away business next year capacity will have been
exceeded Forty from now-n 2OO0-twice as many
vessels will want to pass through be accommodated
The canal could handle far traffic it had third
set of locks if it sea-evel passage like Suez
Evening star., 1960-06-24

BlfSterirg heat, burnper-to-b bumper
traffic and even the, water in this
area play havoc with car cooling
systems. But not with those filled
with DoWGARD cooling system fluid!
This new product from Dow keeps
your radiator and your entire cool
ing system operating efficiently at
temperatures as high as 24OoF., or
as low as 4OoF. below zero!
Scientific Formulation
DowGARD is a scientific formulation of
specially treated de-ionized water and
protective chemicals. 1t fills your COOL
ing system completely. You add nothing
to it-not even water! The result is
controlled, precise protection for your
cooling system. And because you don't
add local water, you also stop rust
and corrosion damage that can clog
Evening star., 1960-08-13

Constitution Hall for years
in one and tWo-shot bookings,
will be next weeks man.
He will be followed by the Ma
tional Ballet of Canada, a long
time popular amphitheater at
traction which has not visited
here in several years.
Candlelight Playhouse has
two others remaining on It's
schedule after the current Bus
Stop" They are George
AXelrod's Tunnel of Love"
and. as the closer, 1.-TWO for the
SeeSaW." Candlelight's all
time favorite girl. Mindy Car
son, will star in the latter with
Arena Stages Phil Bosco play
ing the role created by Henry
Fonda. D.. Washington Theater
Club will close its summer
schedule with Arthur Laurents'
"A Clearing in the Woods" .
1t follows the current Ionesco
combination The Lesson" and
THE Chairs"
Poor New York A book
ing jam already has forced the
postponement of Come Away
With Me-" which was to have
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ger is a backstage figure. Back
stage. however, he is very well
known indeed, a youngish, trim
looking intelligent. urbane type
who directs a special kind of
Selective Service-a draft which
works, or does not, on Mr..
Schnitzer's power of persuasive
ness.
1t goes without saying, or
should, that this is a happy
form of Selective Service and
we only wish it had been in
effect under General Hershey
on July %, 1912. BY some kind
Of verbal bartering. we might
at least have started with a
higher rank than Private.
Mr.. Schnitzer's draft applies
to theater people only. He took
it over in 1854 as the American
National Theater and Acad-
emy's (ANTA) administrator of
the State Departments inter-
national cultural exchange pro-
gram. Since then, some $500
performers working in 1876 pro-
ductions have gone abroad with
their various specimens of
American arts, fine and popu-
lar.
These have ranged from the
university level unknown to
such Cutlery types as Helen
Hayes, Mary Martin, Leonard
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Bernstein and his Philharmon-
ic, and of course My Fair
Lady" which enchanted the
Russians for eight weeks this
spring.
This ANITA job is the one
from which Mr.. Schnitzer is
now taking a leave of absence
to perform another for the
Presidents Special Internation-
al Program for Cultural Ex-
changes. For either Senator
Kennedy or Vice President Nix
on tarranged tactfully in al
phabetical order, he will serve
as general manager of the rep
.ertory company being put to-
gether by the Theater Guild at
the special beheSt of the Gov
ernment.
This is a pioneering project
which aims at exporting the
best in American dramatic art
in terms of both plays and
players. 1t is still in the forma-
tive stage under Theater Guild
Director Lawrence Langner and
Mr.. Schnitzer.
Plays mentioned as prob
ables. or possibles, so far have
included Thornton Wilder's
classic slice of Americana. Our
Town." and the late Robert E.
Sherwood's ABE Lincoln in
Illinois" Another possibility is
William Gibson's contempo-
rary. The Miracle Worker"
The latter. by the way, is
the wildly favorite play of
Russians who have been here
recently on cultural hegiras:
the artistic Russians as opposed
to the political. economic,
scientific and other kinds. The
latter have not told drama
departments their choices
among plays.
Mr.. Schnitzer. to get back
to this columns starting point,
is merely on leave of absence
for his new job. He will con-
tinue to serve as conSultant
to ANITA and its several citizen
panels on the arts.
=
SATURDAY SUMMARY:
Summer theater begins to drift
toward the wind-up. Olney
goes into its last of five produc-
tions, Jean Giraudoux's "Elek-
tra." next Tuesday night. :. e.
II Will run the usual fortnight
and might we'll turn out to be
the big one of Olney's summer.
Over the seasons, M.
Giraudoux has been just about
the favorite playwright of the
Maryland house. especially in
Tiger At The Gates" and
The Enchanted" He's at
his dazzling best in "Elektra.
. With Leo Brady again serv-
ing as his director.
Carter Barron Amphitheater
has two more bookings, Victor
Borge who has been filling
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starred Shirley Booth and Ken
meth McKenna. . No theater
is available. Producer Mi
chael yerberg, who likes
the of beat m entertainment
c'Lute Song" and Waiting for
GodotO gets into the musical
business next. He will Spon-
sor "13 Daughters" a song
show with a Hawaiian back
ground, this winter. Robert
Helpmann who danced so long
with Sadler's-Wells and the
Royal Ballet will do the chore-
ography, quite a different type
for him.
The New Yorker has chosen
John McCarten. so long the
movies severest critic. to take
over the drama department left
vacant by Kenneth Tynan's re-
turn to England and The OBJ
server. Mr.. lyman it was who
succeeded the late brilliant
Wolcott Gibbs. For all its
faults, the theater almost sure
ly will prove a happier beat for
Mr.. McCarten, a so readable
man.
Evening star., 1960-08-13
WHERE
AND WHEN
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage
Nationality Fair Lady;
2 and $3.50 pm.
Candlelight Playhouse-"Bus
Stop; 7::30 and 10:45 pm.
Carter Barron Amphitheater
American Music Festival.
Louis Armstrong, Count Basic
and Joe Williams, $50 pm.
Olney-"Shadow of a Gun
man" and The Bespoke Over
coat; $3.50 pm.
Screen
AmbaS SSadOr - Oceans H..
1:35. 4:20, 7 and $50 pm.
Apex -" Operation Amster-
dam: l. $40. $40, 7::30 and
$50 pm. s.
Capitol - "Bellboy": l1:3O
am. lis. 3. 4:45, $50, BIS,
10 and HAS pm.
DupOnt-"Rue de Paris: /.
2:40. 4:25. $40, 8, GAS and
11:35 pm.
KeithS-"The Apartment:
IL am. los, '3:l5. 5:25, 7:35,
GAS and 1850 pm.
MacArthur-"I'm All Right
jack: 2:15. 4:10, sos, 8 and
9::55 pm.
MetropoIitan-"Ocean's H.:
11:%5 am, 2:15, 4:45, tbs and
ga, pm.
Crtario-"sonS and Low srs"::
l, 2:45. $50, $40, sos and
9:55 pm.
Palace-"From the Terrace:
11:15 am, 1:45, AIS, 6:45, 9:15
and HAS pm.
Playhouse - Come Dance
With Me-; II. lao, 1928, Sis,
7, $50 and 1920 pm.
Plaza-"For Members Only;
11:45 a m, 1:15, 2:40. 4:25, $40,
7:50. $40 and 11:l5 pm.
Town-"Psycho";; IL. 2, 4, 6,
8, 10 and IL pm.
Trans-Lux-"Strangers When
We Meet: 1880 am, l:35,
3:45. 6, sos and 10:15 pm.
UptOwn-"Can Can; 2 and
$50 pm.
Warner-"Ben Hur";; 2 and
8 pm.
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DRIVEN THEATERS
AIRPORT

AIRDMRT DRlVE.lk
ss " OF. 4-sl0o
POOL Jeff. DoVis Hwy, Arlington
Just Over the 18th Stree, Bridge
THE LEECH WON AN"
COLLEEN GRAY. at $40. No. =,
BRIDES OF DRACULA" Col
or. PETER CUSHING. MARTA
H U N T. at 1920. No, .,
ATOMIC SUBMARINE" AR
THUR FRANZ, at 1850. Cartoon.
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Films of More Than Routine Merit

Films of More Than Routine Merit
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN"-Entertainng
II not especially lively film of the Mark Twain story
BELLS ARE RINGING"-Judy Holiday delights again
lavish movie version Of her Broadway musical hit.
"EXPRESSO BONGO"-Laurence Harvey in a biting comic
comment on some of contemporary mores.
THE FBI STORY'-ThrOugh the with
as crack crime buster for Mr. Hoover's bureau.
ICE PALACE'-Drama- laden movie a scale to match
Edna Ferber's drama Laden novel about Alaska.
room AT THE TOP"-SmOne Signoret, Laurence Harvey
in the soaring story Of ruthless
SOUTH PACIFIC"-Mitzi Gayn0r in a gaudy film version
suitable for those who the stage original
THE 10 COMMANDMENTS'-Ceci B. de Miles mammoth
Biblical spectacle, about Moses his times
Evening star., 1960-08-13
THE PASSING SHOW
THE PASSING SHOW
Mr. Schnitzer to Help
November 8's Winner
BY JAY CARMODY
Drama Editor Of The Star

Whoever the next President be- and the choice is
rather limited to number he will find himself blessed with
able out of the frontiers culture.
The Robert G. Bob) Schnzer and the geographic
frontier is New York. where else?
the theatergong public concerned Schnit-
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started for my room. In the ele-
vator two girls kept a staccato
of gum chewing competing with
their conversation.
II was SO mad at him for
what he said"
"What'd he say?"
"Y'know."
II do?"
Yeah"
"Oh! Well he was only teasin
an besides he's awful cute . :"
In my room I looked across
the court. Yes, the lonely were
here. They made the Meridian
Hill bright by lighting up quiet
rooms at $50 on a summers
evening.
So Much Fun
And there are the others. The
girl from Michigan who took
the civil service test to get out
of a high school class and
passed it and thought it would
be great to live in Washington
She says she's never had so
much fun in her life.
There are most certainly the
small town girls the boy in the
lobby described. But there are
also the bright intellectuals like
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the girl who came for an over
seas assignment with the State
Department, disliked her job
and is now a Senator's secretary
moving in the Georgetown set
There's the girl from Lam
caster, Pa, who came because
the pay was better than al
home. The girl from Middles-
boro, KY. who had two friends
living here who wrote and said
come to Washington.
And the girl who is just a
Pentagon statistic but insists
washington is glamorous and
there are all sorts of important
people around me and you just
never know when you'll meet
one"
The girl who hated her thick
town" is here. And the girl who
had two years of college and
wants to do something in poll
tics. And the girl who is hus-
handwriting.
The new Government girl has
lots of sisters. The women who
found their way to the city of
trees and marble statues and
are employed by the Federal
Government number a stagger-
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NEW GIRL IN TOWN
UncIeSom's Call
Heard Far and Wide
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Page
she talked pleasantly. answer
ing my questions.
She said she'd stayed at the
Meridian month and works
for the Federal Aviation Agency
and isn't homesick. Then she
added she isn't homesick be-
cause she goes home every
week end.
No Boys Yet
No, she hadn't met any boys.
But some of her friends had.
You can go in the recreation
room. A lot are there. And
at the YWCA dances. I guess.
I'm moving out. Four Of us
found an apartment"
Back through the lobby, past
Bermuda clad legs and pin
curled heads and a few soli-
tary giggles to the main floor
cafeteria and some beef hash
The cafeteria was almost de-
serted. A few girls were dumped
in twoS and threes. others
alone. A few whisked in for
ice cream and Cokes to take
to their rooms.
A song that was saying hello
young lovers went its romantic
way, oblivious that It was being
piped into a room full of eX-
pressionless female faces. An
occasional smile or laugh. Not
much conversation.
In the lobby 4 bulletin board
offered car pool rides, and SO
records, an Oriental rug ano
rocking chair for sale. A nete
said two girls were interested
in sharing a two-bedroom
apartment with two other girls
"A place to meet new faces
started out the bulletin board
plug for Burlington Hotels
Friday and Saturday night
DANCES (big letters followed
by s-t-a-gs (small letters.
Feeling left out?" was the
psychological approach taker
by a church group that ther
pencilled a why not come over
and join us?"
Near this board sat three
boys, casing the quail" as
they later called it.
The quail marched past, OBJ
livious-with a little too much
obliviouSness-to the males. A
soft hello" from a handsome
boy bagged them.
An Unconvincing No
The boys asked If they'd like
coffee and girls coyly said ne
and then made a few figure
Fights on the rug with theil
toes and said goodbye and went
upstairs.
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Indifferent families. The ones
curious about Washington.
Some came because of
money. Compare the salary a
girl can get in small town
lin West Virginia and her $40
a week in Washington sounds
great. They don't think about
the cost of living. They don't
know what it is.
Some even have vague ideas
of saving their country-espe-
cially the ones who get with
FBI and Central Intelligence.
The not too bright ones get
stuck in the herd and don't
know how to get out"
This boy had passed the
course well.
! I'll describe you a Beckley
(W. Va girl. There are a lot
from small towns just like her.
She's usually got good figure
I-34-23-3 5-5'5". She may be
poor, but dresses neat. She's
not been exposed to the, hor-
!rply over dresSed-not- dressed
at-all look. The girl from the
small town near large city is
the one who wears mules and
rhineStoneS at noon. There are
no large cities in West Virginia
LAS I said. she's not bad
looking at all. But what makes
her part of the herd is there's
nothing distinguishable about
her. She's not really bright be-
cause no ones encouraged her.
Ask her questions like what's
the most important thing in
the world?' and she'll think and
think and sometimes she'll gig
gle and say you ask silly queS-
tons and sometimes she'll say
being happy But she can't
say what'll make her happy.
They identify with the basic
norms. Their wants, you know.
like a guy has car. The next
important thing is it's a con-
Uertible car. Then a neW con-
vertible car. Most of them
haven't caught up with the fact
that it's chic to drive European
cars.
Many are lonely, but don't
know it. They have a vague idea
life isn't all it should be.
Then there are the others.
Sharp, professional, brittle
types. You find them all here.
They have one common inter-
: est. AS soon as they get here
t they want to get out. They
want to start living their own
+ lives in their own apartments.
/ 1t was now $50 pm. and !
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/ Clicking heels attracted the
boys attention, but they be-
longed to older legs so they
talked to each other. Five min
utes later the three girls pre-
cision-marched back through
the lobby, looking straight
ahead as If they'd trained with
Buckingham Palace guards.
This time the boys were not
interested in stopping them so
the girls droopily retired to no
mans land, firmly indicated by
a sign above the elevators say
ing positively no men allowed
above the first floor"
went to the basement laun-
dry room, saw buds overflowlng
from wh;rrinT machines and
two girls ironing. wearing what
was now obvit usly part of the
Meridian uniform-pincurls.
Wandering down the hall I
noticed water pipes incongru-
ously painted flaming yellow,
red and orange in the drab
cement basement. At the end
of the hall, calmlyI glistening,
was a deserted swimming pool.
guarded by a hairy-chested.
bathing-suited fellow attached
to a telephone.
Reluctantly leaving his per-
sonal conversation. he told me
the pool was open and could be
used now and no, he could not
explain why no one was using
it.
Back in the lobby I entered
a room containing piano and
jukebox but no television. Two
men informed it was the rec
room and asked If I were lone
ly and received haSty no.
The three quail hunters had
not given up and were talking
to two girls. Since I rounded
out the party I was drawn into
the conversation by Handsome
Boy.
An Opportunity afforded"
I found out he had been a
Juvenile delinquent of sorts"
and was now in college. With
pseudo intellectualism he said,
Il come here because it affords
me the opportunity to choose
from a representative cross
section of female society"
He approaches his represen-
tative cross-section of female
society with you look like
I can talk to you" That, and
ian offer of a cup of coffee,
usually does the trick.
In five years of majoring in
Meridian Hill-Lab. 101. my
friends observation of Gov
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ing $500, according to last
years figures.
They all have their special
reasons for being here. Even
those who try so casually to
shrug their shoulders as they
say simply, We're here because
we're here
Tomorrow: Exam Day
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eminent girls is these are the
girls who didn't marry right
out of high school who wanted
something more than Their
small towns. The ones from
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Body Deaths Cited

CANBERRA. - The infant
mortality rate in Australia in
1859 was 20.5 per 1000 live
births. In pariSon, the
United States rate was 27.2 per
1000.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1960-10-06

school board whose real philos-
ophies and concepts OF policy
formulation are actually I'M
known" James asserted.
Debate Areas Proposed
He proposed nine questions
for discussion by the candidates,
and expressed the belief that
they embraced areas which
should form the "real issues"
of the campaign. The ques-
tons:
What should be the func-
ton or role Of public education
in the community of Montgom-
cry County?
. What should be the goal or
goals OF education in Montgom.
cry County?
. How does the policy max
ing function of the board relate
to the administration Of the
schools?
. Should the present educa-
tional policies Of the board be
continued?
. Should the estimated in
crease in per-pupil costs for
Continued on ALB