U.S. Astronauts Plan 22 Orbits; Set for Tuesday
CAPE CANAVERAL — (UPI) — L. Gordon Cooper Jr., a slender 36-year-old astronaut, whisked through a rehearsal yesterday of the voyage that, if all goes well, will send him 22 times around the world starting next Tuesday morning.
Cooper, in the midst of last-minute preparations for what shapes up as the most ambitious manned flight into space ever undertaken by the United States, was due for more rehearsals today and tomorrow.
Then, if the schedule holds firm, Cooper and his back-up pilot, Mercury teammate Alan B. Shepard Jr., will enter the seclusion of Hangar "S" on Cape Canaveral sometime this weekend for the last medical checks and final hours of waiting.
Cooper is scheduled to blast into space aboard a silvery Atlas rocket on a 34-hour journey that will take him 575,000 miles around earth — further than all previous U.S. manned space flights combined.
Yesterday, Cooper rode to the top of a huge, red gantry at launch pad no.14 and climbed into a space capsule he named "Faith-7" for a practice run that lasted several hours.
It was just one of numerous simul-
lations made and will make, before the flight.
Meanwhile, over the broad expanses of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, ships moved to areas where the astronaut could be expected to land, either normally or during an emergency, at the end of the long voyage.
If all goes well, Cooper and "Faith-7" will return for a landing in the Pacific near Midway Island. But ships were stationed throughout the Pacific and on into the Atlantic in case of an emergency.
For Cooper, the end of the longest wait of his life was in sight. The astronaut is the last of the flight-eligible Mercury astronauts to get his crack at space. Only Donald K. (Deke) Slayton is left, and he has been ruled out because of a minor heart defect.
Cooper originally was scheduled to have rocketed into space last year as America's fourth orbiting astronaut. But troubles ranging from financial to weather to difficulties in the rocket booster combined to cause four major postponements.
Informed sources said early today, however, that both the rocket and the bell-shaped space capsule were "checking out fine" — a major step toward meeting the Tuesday morning launching time.
The major "unknown" today is the weather. Conditions have to be just right in the Cape Canaveral area, in the no.1 landing area in the Pacific and Atlantic before Cooper will be allowed to take off.
Weather experts say it is too far ahead of time today to tell precisely what could be expected in these main areas next Tuesday.
Sedan Freshman Navy Color Girl
Carol Whipple, Sedan freshman, has been chosen Color Girl for the Navy Spring Review and Color Ceremony at 7 p.m. Friday in Allen Field House.
She will take the colors from the graduating senior cadets and give them to next year's seniors. Monday night she will be presented at the Navy Ring Dance.
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Student Peace Union Meeting 3:30 p.m. Pan American Room, Student Union
College Life, 7.30 p.m., Union, Parlor A. Film, "John Wesley."
SUA Poetry Hour: Ghaniian student Augustine Kyei will read some of his own poems at this week's Poetry Hour, on Thursday. Browsing Room, Kansas Union.
Christian Science Organization. 7:30
pause. Danforth Chapel. Everyone welcome.
Episcopic Evening Prayer. 9:30 p.m.
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German Club Annual Picnic at Lone Star. Will leave from Fraser at 4 p.m. interested students should sign up on third floor of Fraser outside the Gerber Building for $50 per person. Next year's officers will be elected so all are argued to attend.
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College Gets Wall-to-wall Turn Six Balliol College freshmen admitted today they slipped into Trinity College, quietly laid a carpet of turf in the commons room, replaced the furniture on the indoor lawn and left.
"I must admit they made a good job of it," said Trinity Dean David Raven.
First Hospital Visit At 103
BATH, Maine — (UPI) — John Crosby Preble was reported doing fine today during the first hospital visit of his life.
Preble was admitted to Bath Memorial Hospital Tuesday for treatment of a hand injury received in a fall. He is 103.
HOW TO SEE EUROPE FOR ONLY $300 A DAY: NO. 2
Last week we discussed England, the first stop on the tour of Europe that every American college student is going to make this summer. Today we will take up your next stop—France, or the Pearl of the Pacific, as it is generally called.
To get from England to France, one greases one's body and swims the English Channel. Similarly, to get from France to Spain, one greases one's body and slides down the Pyrenees. And, of course, to get from France to Switzerland, one greases one's body and wrigles through the Simpson Tunnel. Thus, as you can see, the most important single item to take to Europe is a valise full of grease.
No, I am wrong. The most important thing to take to Europe is a valise full of Marlboro Cigarettes—or at least as many
the customs regulations will allow. And if by chance you should run out of Marlboros in Europe, do not despair. That familiar red and white Marlboro package is as omnipresent in Europe as it is in all fifty of the United States. And it is the same superb cigarette you find at home—the same pure white filter, the same zestful, mellow blend of tobacco preceding the filter. This gem of the tobaccoist's art, this prodigy of cigarette engineering, was achieved by Marlboro's well-known research team—Fred Softpack and Walter Fliptop—and I, for one, am grateful.
But I digress. We were speaking of France—or the Serpent of the Nile, as it is popularly termed.
Let us first briefly sum up the history of France. The nation was discovered in 1066 by Madame Guillotine. There followed a series of costly wars with Schleswig-Holstein, the Cleveland Indians, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Stability finally came to this troubled land with the coronation of Marshal Foch, who married Lorraine Alsace and had three children: Flopsy, Mopsy, and Charlemagne. This later became known as the Petit Trianon.
Marshal Foch—or the Boy Orator of the Platte, as he was affectionately called—was succeeded by Napoleon, who introduced shortness to France. Until Napoleon the French were the tallest nation in Europe. After Napoleon most Frenchmen were able to walk comfortably under card tables. This later became known as the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Napoleon, after his defeat by Credit Mobilier, was exiled to Elba, where he made the famous statement, "Able was I ere I saw Elba." This sentence reads the same whether you spell it forward or backward. You can also spell Marlboro backward — Oroblram. Do not, however, try to smoke Marlboro backward because that undoes all the pleasure of the finest cigarette made.
After Napoleon's death the French people fell into a great fit of melancholy, known as the Louisiana Purchase. For over a century everyone sat around moping and refusing his food. This torpor was not lifted until Eiffel built his famous tower, which made everybody giggle so hard that today France is the gayest country in Europe.
Each night the colorful natives gather at sidewalk cafes and shout "Oo-la-la!" as Maurice Chevalier promenades down the Champs Elysees swinging his malacca cane. Then, tired but happy, everyone goes to the Louvre for bowls of onion soup.
The principal industry of France is cashing travellers checks.
Well sir, I guess that's all you need to know about France. Next week we will visit the Land of the Midnight Sun—Spain.
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Next week, every week, the best cigarette you can buy the whole world over is filter-tipped Marlboros—soft pack or Flip-Top box—you get a lot to like.