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Day's lews
By FRANK JENIUNS
We listened this morning to a
grim young President whose first
State of the Union message sound
ed much more like Winston Chur
chill's immortal "blood, sweat
and tears" speech than the nor
mal first policy message of a
President whose party has just
returned to power.
We heard him confess that he
has been STAGGERED in the ten
days since his inauguration by
the "harsh enormity of the trials
through which we must pass in
the next four years." We heard
him say: "Each day we draw
rearer the hour of maximum
danger."
' We heard him add:
"f speak today in an hour of
national peril and national emer
gency. Before my term is end
ed, we shall have to test anew
whether a nation governed and
organized such as ours CAN EN
DURE. The outcome is by no
means certain. The answers are
by no means clear."
What must we do first:
President Kennedy said this
morning: "We must re-examine
and revise our whole arsenal of
tools for dealing with the threat
to the free world We are
moving into a period of uncer
tain risk in which both the mili-;
tary and diplomatic possibilities1
require a free world force SO
POWERFUL AS TO MAKE ANY
AGGRESSfON CLEARLY FU
TILE."
He proposed an immediate up-
ping of the Polaris missile pro
gram, strengthening of our whole
missile program of all kinds, and
an overhaul of our facilities for
moving troops and equipment
swiftly into any "brush war" type
of trouble that may arise.
That is to say: We must be
ready to fight at the drop of a
bat if we have to.
He adds:
"In the field of economic aid
abroad, the problems are tower
ing and unprecedented. The re
sponse must be towering and un
precedented as well much as
lend lease in World War II and
the Marshall Plan of the post
war years were. -
Which is to say: There must
be MORE rather than less for
eign aid. He indicated that the
communist threat in Cuba must
be met firmly. He added that
there must be special aid for
Latin-American countries.
At a time when incoming Presi
dents normally promise that great
days and happy days lie ahead,
with fewer problems and more
satisfactions than ever before,
President Kennedy chooses to tell
us that these are grave days and
that even graver days lie ahead
that for the first time in our
existence our nation and our way
of life are threatened. He chooses
to tell us that the easy days are
PAST -and the HARD days lie
ahead.
Can he carry the people with
him? Can he convince us that
now is the time when we musti
GIVE UP EASY LIVING, the!
chase for the quick buck and all
that goes with it and inspire us
with his own conviction, as ex
pressed in his message, that we
must learn to live life the hard
w ay in order to toughen our econ
omy to the point where we will
be able to resist a powerful ene
my who is bent on our destruc
tion and our enslavement?
Let's hope he can for in that
way lies, freedom.
It is a powerful and striking
mossage. It deals with all the
things we didn't expect a new
President to say, and with almost!
none of the platitudes with which
Incoming Presidents usually
Choose to deal.
It's worth reading.
Mostly cloudv throuch Tuesdav FJ
with rain tonight and shower
Tuesday; snow level about (.000
feet. Strong southerly winds.
Highs 43-48; low tonight 35-40.
High Sunday 44
Low last night 33
Precip. past 24 hours .01
Since Oct. 1 5.35
Same period last year 2.11
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Weather
Northern California Rain north
of San Francisco and Sacramen
to through Tuesday; spreading U
King City and Merced Tuesday;
cloudy elsewhere; little tempera
ture change: Increasing south
winds.
Ml. Shasta-SIkiyou Rail
through Tuesday with wiw level
near 5,000 (eet.
President
Gtes 'Hour &f Metien&l
pent
Chie f Orders Speedup
in Nation's Defense
WASHINGTON (AP) Of Pres
ident Kennedy's three "prompt
action" orders to the military to
day, the one for speeding up Po
laris missile submarine produc
tion may be the easiest to carry
out.
Top naval officials believe that
even with existing building facil
ities, the rate of Polaris sub pro
duction could be more than doubled.
His Stale of the Union mes
sage request for accelerating the
whole ballistic missile program
could present more dimculties.
Delays occurred in building the
launching sites for the missiles.
His demand that duplication in
the missile program be reduced
could compel sharp changes
production programs, elimination
of some weapons and stepups in
others.
Kennedy said the system for
speeding fighting men to any spot
on the globe at a moment's notice
to cope with threat of limited
war requires more air-lift capac
itywithout delay. If more long
range transport planes are to be
acquired quickly, they must be
bought "off-the-shelf, he added.
There wouldn't be time to design
and build entirely new ones.
The President ' wants equally
swift action from the s'rategy
makers. By the end of February
a month from now he expects
Secretary of Defense Robert
McNamara to submit a prelimin-
ary report on the precise state
of the nation's defense strategy.
This includes: "Our ability to
fulfill our commitments the ef
fectiveness, vulnerability and dis
persal of our strategic bases,
forces and warning systems the
efficiency and economy of our op
eration and organization the
Resume Jo .timing
LONDON WT -i - The Soviet
Union resume-.! its jamming of
Voice of Amer.ca (VOA) Russian-
language br- idcasts today after a
one-day rite, the British Broad-
easting Corporation reported.
BBC -'.Aid the jamming ceased
Sundry for the first time since
the .joortive Paris summit confer
ence last May, but was "back to
formal" today. BBC said it could
give no reason for the one-day
layoff.
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column brought the advertiser
several calls and the desired
jobs.
Volcano Found
In Crater Lake
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS '
An underwater volcano, 1,'i'J
feet high, has been found or. '.ne
bottom of Oregon's Crater ,-j'ake,
the National Park Serine re
ports. Jf
The dead volcano vR located
by Dr. Howel WilliVJuS of the
Department of Gty.ogy at the
University of Cal.rl'nia when he
mapped the bott.i .i of the lake.
Williams n.-iined the volcano
Merriam Cor after the late John
C. Merriam, iormer president of
the Carnegie Institute of Washington.
Willians said also that his
studies showed the deepest part
of the lake is 1.932 feet, making it
the deepest lake in the United
States and the seventh deepest
lake in the world.
An article on Williams map
ping project will be published in
the February issue of American
Journal of Science.
elimination of obsolete bases and
installations and the adequacy,
modernization and mobility of our
present conventional and nuclcarj
forces and weapons systems in
the light of present and future
dangers."
Almost every one of these top
ics has at some time been a point
of issue in inter-service argu
ments. Kennedy took cognizance' of this.
In the past, he said, the "lack of
a consistent, coherent military
strategy, the absence of basic as
sumptions about our national re
quirements and the .faulty es
timates and duplication arising
from inter-service rivalries have
all made it difficult to assess ac
curately how adequate or inade
quateour defenses really are."
The President's three-point
weapon speed-up program can
cause some unhappiness within
the individual armed forces.
In ordering that the Polaris pro
gram be stepped up, Kennedy said
that unobligated ship building
funds would be used "to build and
place on station, at least nine
months earlier than planned, sub
stantially more" Polaris missile
firing submarines.
This apparently means that
money which the Navy had ex
pected to use for building other
types of ships destroyers, serv
ice and support vessels will be
turned into expediting the Polaris
program.
Fourteen Polaris submarines
have been built or are building
Money for 19, including -Jhose
built or building, has been pro
vided. Two Polaris submarines,
the George Washington and Pat
rick Henry, hfve joined the fleet
Another, the. Robert E. Lee, has
completed '.iiissile firing tests and
is in the yard for final check be
fore go:-.'ig into operational status.
By thend of the present calendar
yea'., the Navy expects aDout
ei.'.'.t Polaris submarines to be
idy.
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Ban Holds
On Flier
Interviews
WASHINGTON (UPD The ban
on public interviews with the re
turned RB47 fliers will continue
indefinitely as far as military of
ficials know.
The order is to be kept in ef
fect even though preliminary
questioning has shown that the
fliers have nothing especially sur
prising to say about the shooting
down of their reconnaissance
plane over the Barents Sea, or
their imprisonment and subse
quent release by the Russians.
SANTA MARIA, the captive Portuguese liner, is shown here about 65 miles off Re
cife, Brazil, where an American admiral awaits word on a request for a U.S. destroy
er to take off the 588 captive passengers on the vessel, including the 42 Americans
aboard.
Destroyer Plans Rescue
RECIFE, Brazil (AP) - An
American admiral waited in this
Brazilian port today for a U.S.
destroyer to take him to the
liner Santa Maria standing 63
miles offshore to arrange for re
lease of her 588 captive passengers.-
Rear Adm. Allen Smith Jr.,
U.S. commander in the Caribbe
an, flew here from Bclem Sun
day night to rendezvous with the
Portuguese liner's rebel com
mander, Henrique Galvao. The
U.S. destroyer Gearing, heading
here from Africa, was expected
to pick up the admiral today or
Tuesday. ........
Smith said he planned a ren
dezvous about 35 miles off Recife
but that he expected full instruc
tions from Washington to be sent
him aboard the Gearing. He said
three other U.S. destroyers were
en route here.
Asked if he expects to transfer'
all the passengers or only the 42
Americans aboard. Smith replied
that this depended on the outcome
of his talk witli Galvao.
U.S. Navy planes spotted the
Santa Maria at 7:30 p.m. Sunday
cruising in apparently aimless
patterns off Brazil's Atlantic1
coast.
Galvao was under instructions
from Gen. Humbcrto Delgado,
exiled leader of the Portuguese
National Liberation movement, to
keep the. Santa .Maria' in interna
tional waters until after the in-j
auguration of Brazilian President
elect Janio Quadras Tuesdav.
Quadros gave assurance that if
Challenges Russia To Cut Cold War,
Join U.S. In Vast New Space Probe
Stream Of Mexican Air
Lifts Bitter Cold Siege
the northern plains. Weathermen
said snowfall would be heavy in
some mountain areas during the
day. ,
Snmv fluri'ine fam anA wont
day siege of biting near (he Gfeat La(es and in a
By United Press International
A broad stream of warm air
from Mexico poured into the cen
tral third of the nation today and
lifted a 10
cold. I but the southern Appalachians
Sub zero weather was driven during the night and continued
back almost to the Canadian bor-ar"nd the lakes today. Light rain
nampenco. soutnern rioriaa.
der. Below zero temperatures.
were recorded during the night
No heavy rain or snow was re-
only mthe eastern Dakotas and ; ..'.. . ,
" J . .. fans rinrincr ft iy nnur rwrinH
Galvao sails into a Brazilian port
for safe discharge of the passen
gers, he will not seize the $16.6-
million liner (or return to her
Portuguese owners. He also of
fered Galvao a haven.
"Henrique Galvao is my old
friend," Quadros told newsmen in
Rio de Janeiro. "Being my friend,
he knows I will not turn over the
ship to Portuguese authorities in
any manner."
Quadros predicted that Galvao
would sail into Recife or the
Brazilian port of Salvador about
Wednesday and. "it this happens,
I shall give him every guarantee"
against internment.
The outgoing administration of,
President Jusecelino Kubitschck
decided Saturday to offer Galvao
political asylum If he entered
Brazilian waters, but to turn the
Santa Maria back to her Portu
guese owners, the Colonial Navi
gation Co.
The United States had proposed
that Kubitschck permit the Santa
Maria to enter a Brazilian port to
discharge her passengers without
threat of seizure.
U.S. officials in Brazil appeared
relieved at the stand taken by
Quadros, who succeeds Kubit
schck at noon Tuesday in a cere
mony at Brasilia, the new capital,
Delgado hailed the incoming
president's stand. He hastened to
Rio de Janeiro from his exile
home in Sao Paulo and said he
would go to help Galvao if the
Santa Maria enters port.
in the northern fringes of Minne-
sola, Wisconsin, Michigan, New!
York and Maine.
Wet weather sweeping in from
the Pacific brought rain to the
West Coast from central Califor-,
nia north, snow mixed with rain
were a third of an inch at Brook
ings, Ore., and a quarter inch at
Mullan, Idaho.
Cold weather still clung to the
East Coast, although tempera
tures seemed almost pleasant
compared with the record-break-
and freezing rain to the northern jng sub Kn readings of last
and central Rockies and snow to
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week
New Yorkers, still sliovcling
sidewalks and digging out cars
after the second snowstorm in
eight days last week, had the
Lumumba
Forces Hit
LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo
(UPH Congo strongman Maj.
Gen. JoScph Mobutu was reported
today to be pushing a military
warmest w ealhcr in well over a drive against pro-Lumumba forces
week Sunday. The mercury rose
WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi
dent Kennedy challenged the So
viet Union today to cut back the
"bitter and wasteful competition
of the cold war" by joining the
United States in a vast new ven
ture in space science to probe
the secrets of the planets Mars
and Venus.
Even as he announced measures
to bolster this nation's nuclear
age military power against Com
munist might, the President told
Congress he "intends to explore
promptly all possible areas of co
operation with the Soviet Union
and other nations 'to invoke the
wonders of science instead of its
terrors." "
At the same time he warned the
Soviet Union and Red China that
the United States will continue to
oppose the use of "aggression and
subversion" in their drive for
world domination.
In place of a conflict of force
he offered "open and peaceful
competition" in commerce,
science, politics and ideas. In a
peaceful struggle between free
dom and communism, he said, "1
would look to the future with ever
increasing confidence"
Thus in his State of the Union
message, following up his inau
guration address of 13 days ago,
Kennedy held open to the Com
munist powers a choice among
three paths for the future: spread
ing conflict, peaceful competition,
or increasing cooperation. He did
not display much hope that they
would speedily choose the ways
of peace or cooperation.
He called this "an hour of na
tional peril" and said he had been'
staggered during his 10 days in
the While House to learn "the
harsh enormity of the trials
through which we must pass in
the next four years.
"Our problems are critical," he
declared. The tide is unfavor
able. The news will be worse be
fore it is better. And while hoping
for the best, we should prepare
ourselves for the worst.
Kennedy implied new political
and economic oflcnsivcs by the
United Slates in Communist-con-twilling to join with the Soviet
trolled Eastern Europe. He asked Union and the scientists of all
Congress for greater flexibility nations in a greater effort to
make the fruits of this new knowl
edge available to all and, beyond
that, in an effort to extend farm
technology to hungry nations to -wipe
out disease to increase ex
changes of scientists and their
knowledge and to make our ow n
laboratories available to techni
cians of other lands who lack the
facilities to pursue their work.
"Where nature makes allies of
us all, we can demonstrate that
beneficial relations are possible
even with those with whom we
most deeply disagree and this
must someday be the basis of
world peace and law."
Kennedy's proposals for scien
tific cooperation among the United
Stales, the Soviet Union and other
powers were the latest in a long
series of such propositions to
come out of Washington.
Kennedy laid down no startling
ly new foreign policy in his State
of the Union message. His discus
sion of foreign policy constituted
rather an argument to Congress
and the country for the need he
sees for massive and costly ef
forts to meet the Communist
challenge.
to use economic tools in this
area, evidently meaning iorcign
aid. And he said "we must never
forget our hopes for the ultimate
freedom and welfare of the East
ern European peoples."
But when he addressed the So
viet Union directly Kennedy put
his emphasis on the possibility of
cooperation.
'Specifically," he said, "I now
invite all nations including the
Soviet Union to join with us in
developing a weather prediction
program, in a new communica
tions satellite program, and in
preparation for probing the dis
tant planets of Mars and Venus,
probes which may someday un
lock the deepest secrets of the
universe.
Today this country is ahead in
the science and technology of
space," Kennedy said, "while the
Soviet Union is ahead in the ca
pacity to lift large vehicles into
orbit. Both nations would heln
themselves as well as other na
tions by removing these endeavors
from the bitter and wasteful com
petition of the cold war.
The United Stales would be
Military Tribunal Mulls
Fate Of Six Americans
White House
Comes Alive
WASHINGTON (UPD The
White House came alive Sunday
night with gaiety and conviviality
comparable to the Franklin D,
Roosevelt era.
Washington society could not
recall a White House party in re
cent years that had more bounce
than the get-acquainted reception
President and Mrs. John F. Ken
nedy held for members of their
official family.
ft was the . Kennedys first big
social function in the Executive
Mansion and they did it up right
with plenty to drink, lots to eat,
beautiful historic setting and
background music by Ihe Marine
band orchestra.
The guests who came at 5 p.m
in Oripnt1 Prnvinre to Ihe nnrlh
After claiming victory over aj8 "cpartca rciucianuy ai7 p.m
lo 28.
Temperatures sank below freez
ing before dawn in all of the coun-
NEW ORLEANS (UPf) The try except the Pacific Coast, the Equator provinces, Mobutu's ten
stage was set today for a resump-iSouthwest and the Deep South. itral government troops were said
Lumumbist column at Bumba, on
the frontier between Oriental and
tion ot rn:;ss racial ciemonsira- tany mornir. g temperatures
tions by irate mothers when twojranged from 67 at Miami lo 11
white boys attend an integrated below at International Falls, Minn.
school that had been boycotted i
for 10 weeks.
Police protection around Mc-'d I awa
Donogh 19 Elementary School, re KCQS LGVcl
duced to only token proportions. I
was expected to be heavily rein
forced today in anticipation of
strong reaction to Friday's sur-
Congo Blast
numbered about 400, most of them
representing the new "who's who"
of the Kennedy administration.
The party was spread out over
the fiisl floor of the White House,
HAVANA (AP) - Six Americans
accused of conspiring against Fi
del Castro may learn their fate to
day from a military tribunal that
could deport, them, keep them in
prison or send them to their:
deaths.
There was speculation the court,
might emulate ' Soviet Premier
Khrushchev's freeing . of two
American liters last week as a
gesture toward the new Kennedy
administration.
In a 2'i hour trial Saturday the!
Americans claimed they had come
to Havana in a stolen boat early
in January, alter the United
Stales broke diplomatic relations
with Cuba, to help defend Castro's
revolution.
The prosecutor scoffed at the
Americans' explanation and
charged they were bringing aims
to rebel guerrillas fighting Cas
tro. He asked for death by firing
squad.
Although Castro has repeatedly
called for the sternest treatment
of those trying to overthrow him,
defense attorney Luis Raul Fleitas
cited the prime minister's less
angry attitude toward the new
U.S. administralion and Premier!
Khrushchev's release of the two
American reconnaissance fliers.
Fleitas said these were samdes
of "good faith" the court should
follow. .
The army court had a mece-
dent for deporting the six men.
Alan Robert Nyo an ex-Navy p.
lot, was expelled aflcr a dealh sen
tence against him was suspended
in April 1959. Nye claimed he had
come to Cuba to join the Castro '
revolution but was convicted of
plotting against Castro's life. ,
The six Americans are George
R. Beck, 24, of Norton, Mass.;
Tommy L. Baker, 28, of Dothan,
Ala.; Donald Joe Green, 28, of.
Gastonia, N.C.: James E. Bean,
34, of Cedar Falls, N.C.: Alfred
Eugene Gibson, 32, of Mount
Gilead, N.C., and Leonard Louis
Schmidt, 21, of Chicago.
Standoff!
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP)-It was
badge against badge 'in Billings.
And a male maneuver won over
feminine wits.
It began when an off-duty traffic
policeman a block from his car
saw a meter maid watching the
final seconds tick away on his
parking meter.
Click went the meter and the
maid started across the street,
ticket ready.
"One more step and I'll pick
you up for jay-walking," bellowed
but most of the guests gathered! Ihe patrolman.
in the green-walled state dining He waved good-bye from his
room, clutching their drinks and car while tile meter maid was
making new acquaintances. jwailing on a red light.
to have occupied Buta and Basoko,
two major centers in the west of
Oriental Province.
Previous reports from the out
lying area had indicated that forc
es supporting imprisoned ex-premier
Patrice Lumumba were gain
ing strength and were getting help
from outside by air and overland.
Oriental Province is a stronehold
for Lumumba forces. CAPE CANAVERAL, Kla. (AP)I But none of these was ever be
Buta, a commercial center on, A very smart young eartnnng ore analyzed to learn whether
Africans
Depose King
USUMBURA, Ruanda-Urundl
'API Native officials of Ruanda
have deposed Mwami (king)
Kigerl V, abolished the monarchy
and set up a republic.
'The action by 3.20O burgomas
ters and municipal councilors rep
resented a triumph for the Bahutu
tribe over its traditional enemies,
the Watutsis, who once ruled this
cast-central African land.
Elected president is Mbonyu
mutwa, a Bahutu chief who was
Ihe target of an attempted assas
sination by Watutsi warriors in
the bloody tribal warfare in 1959.
While the officials elected their
own government, including a leg
islature and a Supreme Court,
they announced the republic rec
ognizes the United Nations trust
eeship that Belgium administers.
Chimps Ready For Space Flight
' de student UNITED NATIONS, N.V. (AP the Rubi River, is 150 miles northjsoon win wsi wncmer ine mam they can think and react nor
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FOLKS WHO PASSED BY the block-long tape on Main
Street between Eighth and Ninth Saturday were gener
ous wiin contributions for the New March of Dimes.
The annual "tape" was sponsored by the Klamath Falls
Exchange Club and manned by members. Students of
Script and Mike handled the loudspeaker and urged
Klamath Basin reridents to donate. Left it Angelo Con
sani who placed a $5 bill on the tape. Center is Gino
G heller, Klamath Falls fire chief who is an Eochange
Club member and right is Brenda Horger, Klamath
Union High School Script and Mike student. Total
amount had not been tallied by press time Monday.
John Thompson
drug store clerk, touched off the
latest crisis when he accompanied
his son, Greg, to the school which
' . , The Soviet Union today charged of Stanleyville, capital of Oriental. clicks along normally
. 33. a i STO-a-wecK (he Bcsian government with new Basoko is on Ihe Congo River, 120'haywire in space flight.
acts of aggression in the Congo.
including formation of a foreign
legion to fight against forces loyal
miles northwest of the capital.
Troops airlifted from here by.panzee,
Mobutu, commander of the Con
golese national army, intercepted
' ; , j 7 ' " ,to deposed Premier Patrice Lu-
it tv, . A u I h ! mumba and his pro-Communist a group of pro-Lumumba soldiers
his other boy, 8-year-old Mike.
This earthling will be
one ot man s closest
cousins in the department oi
smartness.
He, or she, w ill provide the first
chim-inai-jnrf for man in vnartt
with him today. He did not attend
Friday because he had a cold.
near Bumba Saturday as they careful measurements whether
tried to infiltrate anti-Lumumba mental faculties and reflexes are
Equator Province. Informed
sources said 63 Lumumbists were
deputy, Antoine Gizenga
Tass, the Soviet news agency,
said Deputy Foreign Minister
Valerian A. Zorin. in a letter to
Greg's attendance caught scgrc- the president of the Security Conn- killed in what was described as
Kauunisu on Kuaiu. nivy nan ei asn charged Belgian "coloni-i perhaps the heaviest lighting
long abandoned all-day vigils at a!ists" bombed several Congolese,! lie Congo since the nation be
the school. Crowds, which at thclowns controlled by Lumumba's 'came independent last summer,
beginning were around m. dipped forces ann caused numerous casu While Mobutu was pressing his
steadily after no one dared breach alties. imilitary campaign, Kasavubu and
the 100 per cent boycott by white Zorin'l letter, apparently de- other politicians resumed round
students. !livfrH nvrr Ihe wppkrnri was ji Lihte lalkt here tndav Aimed at
At Franlz School, those wholprclude to a Security Councillfinding a common ground for uni-idogs have even been brought
dared go lo school were jostled 'meet ing on the Congo scheduled ficatiori of the rival political fac- safely home after orbiting com-
and had their property vandalized, i for Wednesday, llions. plctcly around the eaitn.
A highly trained chimpanzee is
scheduled to ride Tuesday 113
miles up and 290 miles down
range into the Atlantic ocean from
this famous space port,
Later, If all goes well, one of.
seven human astronauts is sched
uled to lake the same type of
ride In another step toward hu
allcctcd by the weird stresses of
taking off in a rocket, and float
ing in space without the familiar
ritntatinn m n-uvtnv un mm
On !hfs answer could dcDcnd,"""" u,l"
partly Ihe prospecls that humans
ever can go to the moon or Mars
or on jaunts through space,
The chimpanzee will have jobs
lo do in his brief ride.
Menial processes of the voune
Animals have ridden up and chimps are closer to those of man
down in rockets before, and Soviet! than the ape, scientists report.
And their reaction time of .7 of a
second Is close to man's .1 of a
second,
Six chimps have trained to flick
levers when lights go on or else
they get slight electrical shocks
through Ihe fool. They have
learned lo .perform almost per
fectly in the laboratories.
A key question is whether Ihcy
can do as well under the oppres
sive pressure of rocket takeoff
and during nearly five minutes
time of zero gravity in the arcing
ride.
Cameras and electrodes will re
cord expressions and reactions.
heartbeat, respiration and tem
perature, lo correlate with the
chimp's performance as "pilot."
One of the biggest unknowns Is
whether anything happens to men
tal faculties during the peculiar
state of weightlessness. The
we'-htless slate cannot be dupli
cated on earth for many second
except In certain airplane flight.
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