' ~ lo- • r th first t e, n at ic guided missile a e plod d - in flight. Launched fr a I other plane 0 , t e is hspe to target - and bursting 1th an at ic blast. So far as 1 kno , thi ha never happened before. The te t a ad abo e the vada desert - at an altitud of more than thir.t. thou and feet. The highest - · ;,hat an at ic device ha ever been known to explode. First , a squadron of j t planes laid a pattern or oke trails - at that great altitude. The pattern - prov1d1 the target. And - functioning as easuring line 1th hich to estimate the p er of the atomic explo ion. The , the " other plane", a B- 36 bomber, lew to a specified point, and relea ed the guided missile. Which, appar ntl . , a under rocket power. And - guided elect onical b . the "mother plane." The mi sile - speeding to the target- point in the pattern of smoke trails. •1•he flash as blinding at Lo.s Vega , sevent . -five mil s awa . • Curiousl . , here was no mushroom haped cloud. The atomic explo ion, t th1rt . thousand feet, did not produce that f 11 phen enon. Instead, fo d. Th glaring ir ball . ell 1sh white. giant smoke ing wa ring of a It' the target had been a hostile b ber - what ould have happ ned? ell, the fireball e t nded for a radius of a quarter or a ile. M aning - that if the at ic projectile is db, a quarter ot a ile, the hostile b ber would have been d troved by the fireball. Even if the bo ber were e eral miles a a. , it would probabl . be put out of c 1 aion - b. the hock of the blast and the radiation. This at 1c guided ssile could knock out a whole squadron of planes. We hear, o over, that it could be directed at invading aircraft, while th se are a thousand miles away. 9ff1o1el cbseMeN fpem 8reat Dr1~e1B &Rd Canada An historic event- the first explosion of an atomic guide missile in fl ght. that he ever ad t predict on about ue o . and Matsu. A coupl o eeks ago, the Chief of aval O erations as quoted as decla ir - the Chin e Reds ould p obabl . attack those off- hor 1 land in id-April. Ye terda, the Admiral denied - having ad an such prediction. But n the Philadelphia ening Bulletin and the Chicago Sun Times declare that veteran reporters of their ade notes of what Admiral Carne~ said - at t e d nner he gave to ne a en. The note in icating - that Carne . as quoted correctl .• So now we have a controv rs~ - what di, or what did not, he Chief f aval Operations predict? In Wa ton, As t nt er tr. of t te Carl cc dl, r fu e to co ent o bli e report - th the "laked' th ecret alta paoer. Gave em - to th ork Times. The ashington orre pond nt of the Detroit Hes, Martin H. en, sa . s that cCardl gave a copy to J es Reston, th Times ash1ngton correspond nt - on instruction of the StateDe artment. The de sion bing - to give th Times an "xclusive' on the ground - the Times wa the onl. newspaper that ncould" or "Would" publish the entir text. Several R e publican nat rs learned about th - and so did Presidential Secretary Jim ·,~ert. • Jmd - the protested to the StateDe rtme t. Dulles . Toda., Jim Hag rt. sad - th the telephoned Secreta told hi - if one n pap had th seer t material,, 11th others houl have it. Hg rt . a. s th t, an hour lat r, the Sta te D partment informed him - th Yalt Pa er would b r le e for 11-arou d pub 1cat on. The gov rnment r port - a harp incr se in job. The nu ber f Jobholder rising to ixt 1111on, four hundred and sevent -seen thousand, in arch. An 1ncreas of more than h lf a million over the previou month. The ••a1oa taa. r1 re sho a h prise tn f obs, and arch it ssed the largest gain in actor. emplo,ment~ fo the month1 since 1neteen Port -Stx. The national figure for une plo _ ent - dropping b two hundred and even thou and. LONDON ta1n inst 11 d a ne rime ini ter, toda. , 1th a ce e o~ - brief and simple. erel . a matter - of gentleman - - - kis 1 a lad . 1 s hand. That •s the traditional form. Her ajest . , ueen Elizabeth, called Anthon.v Iden Buckingh Palace, and asked h to ass e the post of r e Mini ter. He agreed - and she held out her hand. Heb ed, and ki sed the roy-al hand. TherebJ becoming the Prime Mini ------ ·- ---,.~----------------- ...... --- ...... ________ _ Eden then ent Co ons recei ed him with a cheer. His first act, as head or the government - to ver a eulogv to his great predeces or. that Sir Win ton Churchill will continue to be the d inating personal1t. in the House of Commons - though no rel . a private member, on a back bench.~. The Commons agreed with that - all parties pa ing homage to the ret1r1iu Prime 1n1ster. Sir Wins ~ on, toda. , moved out of Number Ten Downi ; S treet - his ome through historic . ears. Leaving, he w alked al wl. aero s the thr e hold - 1th tears gli tening 1 his e . es. LO A - 2 g gro p che r nd a - "or h ' a oll . good fellow." Chu chi , sa . ng good b to ber Ten 1So - 1ng Street, · nt on to h1 collntr hou , Chartwe 11, in K nt. Next ek he nd · • C chill will e ve tor a v cat on in Sicil . • Todar, Chur hill expl 1ned h . e retired. In a • asage,to ■ OAM!1111ea or the A•es•nettve P••b.-, h said: nor t pat, I've felt that, t . age it would not be right to continue." e said he d1dn 1 t feel it proper to t the r pons1bil1t of leading the Conservative P - :rty in a new general election. But he added that, in the electi n - he would run. for Parli ent again. Co i ing previous n we that Sir W'inston Chuc 111 intend to ta . on as a M.P T ere a a ore race n nc , todav. Th inning jock . - C ptain Pe er Townsend. Linked r anticall. - th Princess Margaret of Britain. A race for gentle en Jockeys - at Maison -Lafitte. Th handso e Captain dre ed in polo costume, as obbed b. cro ds of the curious. 1x police clearing a path for h m, h he eighed in. C ptain To send rode a highl. fuutt•xswwnwg favored thoroughbred owned b the Aga Khan. There's a surmise that the C ptain ight hav a bett r chance of marcying rincess Margaret - now that Sir Antho~v Ed n is the Prime Mini ter of Britain. Eden, like Townsend, having been divorced. But the word in London is that this is not likel. t bring about a change of policr - respecting the marriage of rinceas Margaret. But, an: a. , the Captain won the horse race. VATIC n R m , o P • e . l th s c e ora t 1 . ng Ea er eek. · To rro ··. ing a c r • emon . · that urel, was app op 1ate1 , e be t d - eighteen d corations. Creating - Knight o the Ord r o St. S . lve tr. S · O h 1d the ont1ff decorate? The . ere-~ ighteen doctor ad edical tecbn1c1 na who partic.tpated in bringing hiil tnrough 1 illnes, 1n Dee ber. At the t e, the new see ed to 1nd1aate - t event -nine year old Pontiff could ever survive. That 111 - wit ga tr1t1s and spell of hiccoughing. But the doctors were able to d . agnos correctl. - and prescribe a successful treat ent. The . • ure des , erve the Papal honor they ere given, toda . • In , r 1 a culpto - ge d ln , u iq 1n the 1 tor . 0 art. Mak a portrait bu t 0 hi re. Blli; - h nev he C l p tor 1s - blind. • · Erne to a u 111 as :xt . . ear old oldier 1n the r t orld • Injured - bJ t exp osion of nd gren • H s ey-e 1ght destro . ed. I a ho pit 1, he _ et ro e - Sari a ath n _ ter, the . were 1 d and had two c ildren. During the years, t e ife c e to re · 11ze - her blind huband had a ta1 · nt for culpture. And encouraged hi to ork at it, in p1te of h s fl1ct on. In ne ing darkne s - s p ng nd carving marble. Creating work of art - out of imag1 t n, and a memo~ of what he had een s bo . • orking - 1th onl . the touch of s , eneiti e fingers. fe years ago, the blind sculptor on r cognition. Exhibi 1ng - a remarkable effigy of Christ, the S a viour. The face - an inspired ·ork. CULPTOR - 2 Sev ral months ago, the wife died. He knew her face - onl . b . the touch of his fingers. So no he's engaged 1n the strangest work of all - a sculptured portrait of her. Picturing the features - that he only knew by the sense of touch CRIME In Tok . o, toda . , a sentence of hanging - imposed in the case of a fantastic multiple murder. The criminal - Sadamich1 Hira awa, an artist. Once - well known and successful. But later, his luck changed. He was convicted of the murder of twelve persons - in a bank hold-up. Murder - ~ poison. Hirazawa went to the bank, dressed in a white uniform, and weating the arm-band of a Tokyo health emplo . ee. He told the bank workers he had come to give them preventive medicine against an epidemic of d,sentery. The, believed this, and he gave them - doses of potassium axw.a c~anide, mixed with green tea. The poison••• 111111 ,ttai i i affected them after a minute or so - one collapsing after another. Hirazawa making off with one hundred and sixty thousand Yen - about six hundred Dollars. The case dragged through the courts - now resulting in u conviction am.sentence. PEARLS Word rom the Far East - th ( J panese techn icians have succeeded in gro ing cultured pearls of ah ge size . Pearls - with a diam ter of three-eighths of a n inch. A nd - in record-breaking time. The gi ant pearl produc ed - in less than a . ear. They'Ve do ne this in the Philippines - p using giant Philippine oysters. \In waters off the islands, there's an oyster - a toot wide.frhe Japanese have long been experts in the culture of p e a r l s . ~ i ~ u ~ • foreign matter, something like sand, /- ) 1 . A ) ~ ~ ~ in the shell of the pearl oyster.A :St04aer ,110~'--tried the giant oyster of the Philippines - with phenomenal success. ,... ROBBER T h igge t ba n k r o bb e r . n th his tor . of New ork Cit . - and o n e of the most c efull . plann ed crimes on rec rd . .:I{ ~ y andits armed with a submachin gu n - making off with - three-hundred-and-fi~-thousand dollars , today;. Two of the robbers held up th e chief clerk of the bank at his home - as he w a s gettinginto his automobile, to go to work this morning. They forced him to drive them to the bank - a branch of Chase-Manhattan, in the Borough of ueens. A.U'tLc2} There, at the door, the other "'9 banditf •K waiting. The plan was - to use the chief clerk as a hostage, for gaining entrance to the bank, before opening time. Just then, the bank manager drove up with a woman employee of a nearby real estate firm. They were held up at the point of a gun - and the bandits and their prisoners went into the bank. Where there were six employees, already at work. They were held up.- 11111Rtl'tie robbers loaded money into sacks~ ROBBER - 2 --- 77 ~ locked th ei r prisoners in a wire cage in the vault, and got awa . through crowds pouring to a nearb . subwa . . At about the same time, three robbers were holding up a Jewelr . firm in Manhattan - g etting awa . with a hundred thousand dollars' worth of loot.