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Evening star., 1961-04-26
VISTAS IN SCIENCE
Synthetic Rubber for Use in Space
By THOMAS R. HENRY

Rubber for use in space is
being synthesized for the
Army.
1t is noninflammable, per-
fectly flexible at temperatures
as low as 40 F., and highly
resistant to deteriora-
ton from hydro carbon fuels
like gasoline. SyntheSized
under a contract with the
Quartermaster Research and
Engineering Command, it is
the only completely fire
proof, noninflammable rub
ber known.
Among the potential uses,
according to the Quarter
master Engineers, is as a
coating for fabrics in rockets
and missiles, and as a binder
for solid fuel propellants. An
other important use would
be in flexible, easily trans
portable and quickly laid
pipe lines for petroleum and
its products under all condi-
tionS of terrain and climate.
The new rubber still is in
the experimental, testing
stage. A major problem is
to achieve mass production
at economical costs. Co
operating are the Quarter
master Corps own labora-
tories. Minnesota Mining and
Manufacturing Co., Univer-
sity of Florida and University
of Colorado.
Need Seems Certain
1t is described by the jaw
cracking designation of "a
copolymer of trifluoronitro-
somethane and tetrafluoro-
ethylene." but it achieves
results despite its name.
Need of such a rubber in
future military operations
now seems assured, says
Dr. Zachery T. OSsefort of
the Army's Rock Island Ar
Senal laboratory.
Such use," he says" may
involve exposure to condi-
tions in outer space for rela-
lively long periods. Our pres
ent knowledge regarding eff
fects of space exposure on
Customers and other organic
materials is very meager. A
program to determine the ef-
fectS is currently under way
at Rock Island.
Both general purpose and
speciality rubbers are being
exposed to temperatures
ranging from loo to 1,100
F and at atmospheric pres
sures corresponding the SIM
ulated attitudes of rs to 1875
miles. Exposure to ultra
violet radiation and vacu-
ums is contemplated"
\ y \ n
A three in-one water air.
land vehicle now is being
planned jointly by the Army
and Marine Corps.
1t will sail through water
from ship to shore, fly over
a beach, and move over
Evening star., 1961-04-26

@. Was there a real
storm like the one described
in Herman Wouk's novel
THE Caine Mutiny"?-D. S.
A. Yes. The fleet under
Admiral Halsey, which had
withdrawn from Luzon in
the Philippines to refuel, was
caught in one of the greatest
of all typhoons on December
II and 18, 1914. A wind force
of las mph was registered at
one time, and the losses in
men and ships and overall
damage are reported TO have
been greater than any in
flicted by the Japanese, ex-
cept at Pearl Harbor and at
the first battle of Savo Is
land.
Evening star., 1961-04-26

roads like a truck. 1t will
have a gross weight of not
more than 80 tons and be
able to carry Is ton pay
loads. 1t will have a water
speed of at least more than
Is knots. Also it will be able
to cruise two feet above
water or land and hover at
a height of three feet.
Ground Effect Machine"
Progress to date is such
that both services hope to
have such a vehicle-known
as Gem, or ground effect
machine-ready for guam
tity production within the
next five years. 1t obviously
might be invaluable for
quick landing operations of
C4GIlCI ScIN1Cc.
Approximate 80 industrial
firms now are interested in
the development which
seems to them quite prac-
tical, although there remain
many bugs" Their repre-
Sentatives met recently at
the Office of Naval Research
in Washington.
Sometime next year both
services hope to have an ex-
ploratory research Gem for
actual testing of it's capa-
bilities. This would be sue
ceeded by a development
program for the next two
years before any large scale
production is attempted
The models now proposed
differ slightly for each SER
vice.
Expectations of success In
the development at least are
high. says 1t. Col. Frank G.
Hubbard, chief of the Army
Transportation Corps re-
search division: THE Kitty
Hawk era now Is over and
the time has come for the
real development phase to
commence"
Evening star., 1961-04-26
THE PASSING SCENE
CIA Held Too Well PubIicized
By RALPH McGHL

who wanted to be little Jack
Horners putting their finger
into pies and saying, What
a bright boy am l." Usually,
it was some House member
who wanted to make an i'm
preston of economy back
home.
So, when the CIA budget
hopefully was presented with
quiet requests for no public
attention, t these exhibition
lists baked. They said their
little pieces about it being
the peoples money and hav-
ing a right to demand in
formation. There was a time
when some of the more wit
less actually sought to have
public hearings with Director
Dulles and his aides under
official subpoena. Fortunate
ly, common sense men we're
able to persuade the insti-
gators of this incredible folly
to cease, but they never
really desisted from noting
the budgets and focusing
public attention on the large
amounts requested.
The public image Of the
CIA, and what seems to have
been the assumption of
duties not properly connected
with counter intelligence,
such as planning the inva-
sion, were certainly among
the factors contributing to
the first knockdown expert
enced by Jack Kennedy in
his presidential career. The
Joint Chiefs of Staff are
obliged to have been yet
another contributor to the
planning. They must have
endorsed, or at least did not
reject, the invasion plans.
Whether such action was Of
ficial or not is beside the
point.
Task for President
Because of these, and
other influences, the Nation
saw the young President get
ting up after the knockdown,
with a symbolic cut over one
eye and blood on his cheek.
He must now busy himself
with the return bout. And a
part of this will be giving
the back Of his hand to some
person in the CIA and posi-
bly, on the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. He must also see to it
that the intelligence agency
retires from the spotlight.
This will mean an order
for all hands to button their
lips. This will cause some
protests from some of the
news people about their
rights. 1t will hardly be a
deprivation in news if the
President takes a few per-
sons to the official woodshed
razor strap in hand.
There is not yet total
danger, which Nikita Khru-
shchev said was necessary
for free societies to attain
unity. But there is a grave
crisis, which may worsen,
This, too, calls for less talk
And it stamps as wise and
prudent the Presidents talks
with the MesSrs. Eisenhower,
Nixon and Goldwater. Con-
ditions are strained enough
to require as much political
unity as may be had.
Evening star., 1961-04-26
UNITED NATIONS. N, Y,

O4N4 ELL INA 1OINS, IN. &.
AS any old Kipling reader
knows, espionage, or ''intelli-
gence," was called The
Game" And a very secret
business it was. A man in
THE Game" might be found
dead in one of India's many
drainage bitches, or bloated
in one of her wells. But, no
matter, he was dead and
there was no official inquiry
into it beyond the perfume
tory one of the police.
This was quite understood
by all those in the great
enterprise of discovering
what the enemy or the sub
versive elements within the
British Raj in India were
about. So it went in the day
when Kim, the MoSlem Horse
Trader. and the fat pundit,
disguised as an herb doctor,
we're persuading the old
Buddhist priest to go into
the mountain passes where
the two hunters, one from
Russia and the other from
France, were showing a vast
interest in maps and dis
contented small rajahs.
And so it has remained
to this day. We have some
Russian spies in our prisons
But, the Soviets have never
so much as looked their way
The British have lost a frog
man who was doing a little
underwater swimming about
a visiting ship from the
USSR. But, since he was a
figure in The Game, he was
never claimed.
CIA Well Known
The sad, bungled business
in Cuba, which needlessly
killed a number of very
brave men, reminds us that
our own game has beer
subjected to the same sort
Of glamour treatment giver
our movie stars, and he
public has become accus.
toned to soap operas ir
which our spies always outdc
the wicked ones who ART
against us. The CIA has beer
given the lacquer of pub.
licity. Instead of being ar
unknown agency it is we'll,
known. Allen Dulles is a.
familiar to the American
people as is J. Edgar Hoover
whose FBI is not secret. W.
have, by our peculiar gen.
ius for bad-taste publicity
made the CIA into something
it was not supposed to be
and should not be. It ought
to have remained a secre
agency. It's existence coulc
not have been unknown, bu
it very we'll could, anc
should, have remained un,
discussed.
The Congress, or at leas
some of the more obtust
members Of that body, ar
in larger measure responsible
for the idiocy which ha
projected the Central Intelli
gence Agency into the ma
tional consciousness almos
as much as the Farm Bureau
or any one of the armed
services. There have alway
been a few members of legiS
lative houses in Washington
Evening star., 1961-04-26

/ am angered that there
was so little U. S. support to
the Cuban rebels: that 1t was
undertaken clandestinely-as
If to admit we are the
naughty boys" and that
as usual-the American pub
lie seems to be the last in
Evening star., 1961-04-26
Answers to Questions
BY THE HASKINS SERVICE

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mail, to any question of fact by
writing The Star Information Bu-
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Evening star., 1961-12-13

is the former Betsy Drake, wife
of Gary Grant.
II II
Make ROSenblOOm, the eX-
fight champ who was shot at in
Hollywood last week, never
quite could understand why
anybody ever should dislike
him. Once a young beauty
turned him down for a date
four times. Then his patience
became exhausted, and Slapsie
Make told her: Listen, you;
you talk to me as If 1 was g
preliminary boy"
A drunken doctor sat in a
nightclub, trying to light his
cigaret. He couldn't because
he'd had too much to drink.
Poor dear" sighed his wife. Il
wish he wouldn't smoke SO
much"
DR.. Howard A. Rusk, head of
the NYU-Bellevue Institute of
Physical Medicine and Re-
habilitation, was in Ecuador re.
Gently. He brought back a pa
tient, MarcelO Leon, sponsored
by the Presidents wife. The
patient, an artist-sculptor, suf-
fered a broken leg a year ago
and it hasn't set properly. While
he's at the Institute he'll spend
his spare time teaching art and
sculpture to children.
Evening star., 1961-12-13

autograph. Kim digs Fabe'S
singing.
SuZy Parker explained to me
why Goth Century-Fox and she
called it a day. II had three
years left on my contract. They
were paying me a tremendous
salary. l kept refusing the
pictures offered. The Interns
at Columbia is my first film as
a free-lancer. I've never been
free before. It's like graduating
from boarding school. In Feb
ruary I shall go to Paris to
make a picture" she told me.
But not to marry another
Frenchman. Never again." says
the beautiful ex-wife of a
French journalist.
y II
When 1 told Suzy how cold
l had been in Paris and that l
kept warm by soaking in a hot
bathtub, she replied, That's
like Truman CapOte in Moscow.
The only way he could keep
warm there was to stay Ip to
his chin in hot water all day.
When he finally came out, the
steam on him turned into
icicleS."
I met Bill Douglas, actor son
of Supreme Court Justice
William o. Douglas. Bill has a
good role, his first in movies,
in The Interns," Have you
always wanted to be an actor?"
l asked the likable young man.
When I was TO-" he told me,
Il wanted to be a page in the
Senate. But that was the end
of my political ambitions. I've
done summer stock and I've
done the clubs" He studied
mining with Marcel Marceau
in Paris-"I intend to keep my
mime skitS active. I think there
is a marvellous future for
mining in films and television. "
4
Haya Harareet is happy be-
cause the man she loves is IN
Hollywood. We became very
philosophical when we met at
Columbia studio. Haya told me
about Gertrude Stein, when she
was dying, and in coma. She
awakened and said, What is
the answer?" And then, after
awhile again awoke and said,
What is the question:" Haya
once asked a poet, How old
are you?" Numbers don't
exist" he replied. Life is one
long day"
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Bergman Daughter
Granted q Divorce

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13
(AP). Actress Ingrid Berg
mans daughter Jennie Ann,
who was granted a divorce yes
terday, plans to leave for
France next week to spend
Christmas with her mother.
Judge Francis McCarty
granted Jennie an intcrlocu-
tory decree of divorce from
Fuller E. Galloway III, Georgia
textile heir. and restored her
maiden name. There was an
undisclosed property settle
ment.
The couple was married Feb
ruary 81, 1860, in the county
jail at Elko, New, the first
place they could find witnesses.
Jennie, now %, said Mr..
Galloway had refused to talk
to her since their honeymoon
and once had struck her. .
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Holly Cd
By SHEiLAH GRAHAM
Should Have Stood in Bed
HOLLYWOOD (NANA)

HOLLYWOOD (NANA) -
Tony Randall is absolutely
crippled with a torn muscle in
his back: II woke up and
stretched" explained Tony.
His face contorted in pain
while on his way to the hospi-
tai from the set of his current
movie, Boys Night Out"
Kim Novak, star of the same
picture, is a silent more or
less palmer in the production.
I'm an hour early every morn
ing" said producer Kim, in a
flaming green dress that made
her green eyes seem more so.
And I go mad if anyone is
late" She has given up her
New York apartment. Il found
a place in Carmel Northern
California; I fell in love with.
And I can't afford to furnish
three homes" She's off to Aus
tria IN February for some ski
ing with a girl chum.
Il y
Jim Garner, Kim's co-star,
will have it in his contract with
Marilyn Monroe Something's
Got to GiveD that, no matter
Evening star., 1961-12-13

NEW YORK.-Seven months
ago Laurence Oliver and his
wife, Joan PlOwright, learned
that they were having a baby
They Immediately reported the
happy news to their good friend
Richard Burton, who said: u
suppose he'll be named after
me" Last week Burton re-
ceived a cablegram from the
divers new baby. 1t was a
brief message, Dear God
father" signed "Dickie Oliver"
When Burton was ap-
preached about starring with
Elizabeth Taylor in the film
Cleopatra" he was bound by
a commitment on Broadway in
"Camelot." Because he was told
his services were needed i'm
mediately, Goth Century-Fox
and Burton paid $60,000 for
his release from "Camelot. "
Nor would the studio give Bur-
ton two extra days so that he
could travel to Italy by ship.
He flew there That was IL
weeks ago. He's done only four
days work since then.
= Il Il
Hal March, star of Come
Blow Your Horn" at last has
had his caricature put up on
the wall at Sardis. He in
Scribed it: I've waited 20 years
for this-but somehow it looks
exactly like Hal March" -
(signed Cary Grant"
Evening star., 1961-12-13
THE LYONS DEN
Hurry Up and Wait
By LEONARD LYONS

Sammy Calm, the lyricist,
discussed the fact that some
writer's usually view their out
put as they do their children
rarely having any favorites
Once. he said, Irwin Berlin
rode to California by train, ac-
companied by a recording COM
pany executive who wanted tc
do an album of Berlin's own
favorites. Choose six songs,
he said to Berlin At the
end of the 3,000-mile journey
Berlin said: Il don't know
which to eliminate"
Calm also told about another
songWriter who played, for his
movie employer, a song for
use in a film. The producer
shook his head: mo, no. 1t
dosen't sound fresh. Don't you
have some fresh?" =. The man
replied: Are you buying songs
or bread?"
When Fredric March first
was signed to play an angel
of God in Gideon" he re-
ceived a letter from the di-
rector. Tyrone Guthrie: 81
think we have a really impor-
tant play in Gideon If we
can bring out even half that's
in it, there's a fine evening
for those with eyes to see and
ears to hear. And if we don't
make it, at least we shall have
come a cropper trying to jump
an important obstacle. The
Evening star., 1961-12-13

CALLING thing is to break a leg
by jumping off a footstool."
Some scenes from the movie
Requiem for a Heavyweight"
are being filmed on Randall's
Island. The stars vehicles are
parked outside the stadium
Jackie GleasOn's lls-Royce,
Anthony Quinn's Mercedes
Benz, and, most expensive of
all, Mickey ROOney's taxi with
the meter running all day long.
At the AFL-CIO convention
in Miami Beach, the story was
told about another such con-
vention, addressed by then La
Dor Secretary SchweIlenbach.
He wore a brace because of
back injury Schwellenbach's
throat became dry. but the
brace prevented him from
reaching for the pitcher of
water nearby. He asked a man
in work clothes to lift the
pitcher for him. II can't" said
the man. I'm the electrician.
Wait. I'll get the property
man"
X Il
Rep. Emanuel Cellar and
his law partner, Milton Weis-
man, were involved in an un-
usual law suit concerning
freight demurrage charges. The
case is Nasser VS.. Israel =.
The plaintiff, Nasser, is jew
iSh; the defendant, Israel, is
Egyptian.
There'll be two Sherlock Hol-
mes shows on Broadway next
season. The first is play,
Baker Street.; the second will
be a musical version, with a
book by Richard Condor g.
The Betsy Grant who wrote the
comic piece, "Oh, Beautiful Ice
Cream" for Vogue magazine,
Evening star., 1961-12-13

what. he will finish on a GER
tain date-probably eight weeks
after starting the movie. Il
have a date with the Mirisch
Brothers for another picture
says jim, land when I say III
be there, III be there" The
Monroe film is having another
reWrite. 1T needed it when
saw the script two months ago.
said the former Mr.. Maverick
They are down to the last
segment in How the West
Was Won" MGM's SIS million
Cinerama romp. George Pep
pard is the star Of this section,
with Henry Hathaway direct
ing. The Western is Gin
erama's bid to get out of the
travelogue class. They had just
about covered every country in
the world. Coming UP in
Cinerama: The Wonderful
World of the Brothers Grimm"
and "Charlemagne."
Debbie Reynolds always gets
what she goes after-keeping
it, of course, is something else,
But she is delighted to get
Cover Champion to direct her
next movie, My Six Loves
Debbie plays a musical-comedy
star who adopts six orphans.
Singer Eahian went To Metro
Evening star., 1961-12-13
Butter Exports Slip

OSLO. - During the first
seven months of 1861 Norway
exported only 2,978 tons of but
ter compared with Sill tons
in the same 1860 period.
Evening star., 1961-12-13

Singer Fabian went to Metro
to meet Kim NOvak, a long
time idol. But she asked for MS
Evening star., 1961-06-30

"If q person seemed we'll
balanced, personable, hard
working I'd hire him. I favor
two coffee breaks a day, one
to wake 'em up and the other
to keep 'em awake; one hour
for lunch unless an employe
brings his own, in that case
is minutes. I'd give a weeks
vacation and If the employe
stuck with the company for
three years, I'd give him two
weeks. You don't get much
done by remaining aloof from
your employees. I'd want to
be their friend. Employees
shouldn't have to ask for
raises. The boss should know
them well enough to give
them raises. AS an executive,
I'd be too trustworthy"
Evening star., 1961-06-30

"TrustworthineSS and neat
ness are qualifications I'd de-
mand before hiring someone.
I'd like the silent hard work.
or instead of someone who
was always telling me what
to do - a Self-confident
worker. I'd hand out the
raises, but not to employees
who kept at me for a raise.
But I'd like them to feel they
could come to me with their
problems. But trying to un-
derstand their problems would
probably be my weak point
as an executive because I
couldn't fire anyone who'd
give me q sob story. On the
other hand, understanding
people would be one of my
strong points"
Evening star., 1961-06-30

IF / were president Of o
company, I'd hire . person
who made o good first i'm
preston clear speech,
neat appearance and one
who had o good record, even
In high school. I'd definitely
give coffee breaks, one hour
for lunch and one weeks va
cation after two years. Pay
{aises should be up to me.
I'd favor the aggressive en-
ploye who did more than he
was required to. I'd check
their records and work per-
sonally. I'd be impatient and
I'd fire anyone who kept on
making mistakes, but I think
I could get along with peo-
pie 90 they'd do a good Job"
Evening star., 1961-06-30

"Td demand nsatness,
promptness and . college
education from anyone I
would hire. / Nike the Nvely
personality-plus. In return,
I'd give q coffee break be-
cause you can put your best
foot forward II you get re-
freshed, and an hour for
lunch. I'd like to get to know
my employees and then /
could pick the ones I thought
should get raises based on
the work they do. Sometimes
I'm awfully hard on people.
That would be my strong
point for being an executive,
but on the other hand I'm
scatterbrained, and that
would be q drawback"
Evening star., 1961-06-30

Neither the aggressive nor
silent type would I hire, but
someone with personality and
loyalty to the company. On
the coffee-break question, I'd
prefer to have coffee made In
the office. It takes too much
time II employees go out. For
lunch I'd give Is minutes at
the most, but one hour for
executives because they have
o lot to talk about. I'd mingle
with my employees because
I'd want to know what they
were really like. What 10 my
strong point for being an
executive? Efficiency /
make It Q business to get
everything done a. fast Is I
can, even to cleaning my
room"
Evening star., 1961-06-30
JUDY THOMAS
Murray, Ky.

II wouldn't demand sx-
perience Of . person I was
hiring II the Job wasn't Inn
portant. People have TO start
somewhere. But the Job
hunters would have to be
neat In dress and actions and
have an education. I'd want
aggressive employees because
silent and timid types don't
give q good impression Of the
company when they meet
people. I'd mingle with en-
ployes because II employees
like the boss they'll work
harder for him. I'd be able to
get along with the employees
and they'd work for me be-
cause I'm me and not be-
cause I'm the boss"
Evening star., 1961-06-30

Someone ] would hire
would have 70 have ability
for the job and get along well
with other workers. He
should be aggressive and get
things done. ! would mingle
with the employees to o GER
tain extent TO get to under
stand their problems better.
Sure. / favor coffee breaks
about 20 minutes In the
morning and afternoon.
Lunch periods should be q
full hour. Vacations should
be increased the longer an
employe Is with the company,
starting with Q week and 60
ing to q month after several
years. I'd want to pick the
ones to get raises. I plan to
become q physician"
Evening star., 1961-06-30
WOULD THEY HIRE YOU FOR A JOB?

faVors q short lunch period that would result in
shorter work day. and would give three four weeks
Of vacation.
David Belt II, of Westminster, Md, Junior execu-
tive tranes in favor Of everything that would increase
efficiency and that includes coffee breaks and adequate
vacations As for the type Of emplOys he prefers David
observes, It doesn't matter as long as he does q
good Job"
Do they think they eventually viii live up to their
own specifications Most optimistic They admit
they have lot Of work to dO-especally IN getting the
necessary college education. But they are confident
group. And they're certain they will succeed.
Stor StOff Photos by FRANCIS RoUT
Evening star., 1961-06-30

Before hiring someone, I
could tell a lot about him If
he had written a letter first.
Then I'd check his grooming
and his first words when we
met. If I were an executive,
I'd understand people and
could judge their character
by their personal appearance.
I'd mingle with employees to
a certain extent to gain their
respect because they'd do a
better job, but I wouldn't
mingle with everybody. I'd
pick the foremen and through
them get to the others. I'd
be too easy on people when I
got to know them. I don't
like to exert pressure on peo-
pie, but I'd like the Job done
right"