ROCKB'l' ?ll ,u ~ , fJlo-r -2- lr - Sr, On S~turday, the public will have a chance to make the ~1- -li ~~ ~ a l ' } _ f ) acquaintalice~neroines. Able and Bak '--'t be t I " /\ ) er, o pu on display in waahington. The space 11011keys ~ r a ~ ~ u /- make a trip through outer space, and come ~ack alive. The names - representing the two tirat letters of the alphabet. Able - a seven pound Rhesus monkey. Baker - a tiny girl. A squirrel monkey - weighing onl"Nound • ....,.,.J--":(' Launched - in the nose cone ot, Jupiter rock•~• al- Cape Canaveral, Plorida, early this 110ming. Soaring - three hundred miles out into space. The nose cone - co111ing dolll'l in the tatget area, precisely. Spotted - · and picked up. The two monkeys in the nose cone - alive an~pertect physical condition. Able and Baker - not a biAworse for their space-ri' ,Mith - all . its acceleration, deceleration, and weightleaanesa • . Scientific instruments ~lp ~ t, •;\ the nose cone - recording physical reactions of the monkeys, every second of the time. only one thing - failing. Able - trained, especially, to press a signal key when a light flashed..= ;211 the compartment ROCKET - 2 in which · ehe wae riding. But - no signale. Maybe it wae a failure of equipment. Or, maybe - the little monkey forgot her leaeone. Maybe any of us might forget - on a trip through outer space af" / ~ 1)-(f-tj ~ 6WI ~ f - ~ e successful experiment - a milestone 1n the progre■■ toward interplanetary travel. Other similar experiments with ~ animals - to continue showing the way~ ;fntil, finally, the turn of human beings will come.) The seven Allerican apace men - now being trained for a trip in a rocket, in the not far distant future! ,to follow 1n the path of those two pioneers - Able and Baker. EISENHOWER Today President Eisenhower had his conference - with the conference. The Forei Mi gn nisters of the Big Four - received by the President, at the White House. -8ome4thing 11\Ee an ftXll Jiam 1 to the- 6ene ff& eenfe rence • The President began by thanking them for break!~ ott ~ their sessions in Geneva - to attend th~tuneral.ef iohR Pe•••• llllll••• ,••~••,. Thal}_ got around to those intemational problems. We don I t know exactly what was , said - except that the President urged the Foreign Ministers to press , for Rrogreas in wi:d~~~ Geneva.~ that a sumit meeting or the heads or eti.te ~ ' / A The center of interest - Gromyko, of course. Who, today, seemed in more affable mood - than usual. The Westem Foreign Ministers - making him their spokesman, when they emerged from the White House. Gromyko smiling, and telling the newsmen: "We had a pleasant and useful conversation with the President." Toni ht, the diplomats are on their way ba ck to Geneva - where they now p lan secret sessions in a try to get somewhere - in the Berlin matter. - BRITAIN - In London, the Soviet Embae~trying to laugh ott the affair of Mrs. Nina Dmitrie/ '11ft wife of the Red naval attach•_ who is asking political aeylum for hereelf and her five-year-old daughter. For the British, however, 1t 1 e no joke. Home Secretary R.A. Butler - returning to London trom Scotland._,)l'o give / personal attention - to the case. Mrs. Dmitriev - guarded by detectives of Scotland Yard. After her husband, the naval attache took a plane back to Russia. Under circumstances - that might suggest coersion. At the Soviet Embassy, a apokesman was queried by news reporters - and laughed. Saying: "Many wives decide to leave ~ / - R ~ their husbands an~ 'manv husbands would la like to leave their I / \ # w l v e e . • • ~ well, maybe so. But it's odd for a domestic break-up - to ta k e the form of a wife seeking political asylum in a foreign country. OLYMPICS Today's decision by the International Olympic Committee : is a surprise. Ousting Nationaliet China - and preparing the way for the admission of the Chinese Reds to the Olympic Games. The announcement - made by American Avery Brundage, Chainnan of the group.,..wfio says the decision was taken - because / the Nationalist Olympic Committee does not control athletics in China. The Nationalists, however, may request admission, later - ae repree , enting Formosa. This action was taken - at the request of Soviet Russia. Pressure - from the Communist worl~ A!th a possible threat_ that the Rede might secede and form their own Olympics. The state Department in Wash i ngton expresses dieapproval _ of the expulsion of the Chiuese Nationalists "roaa the Olympic committee. t NUN - Over in Italy, a nun left her convent - and got married. Doing this - with official church permission. The Vatican_ releasing her from her vows. A rare event.,- · ijut here•a the sory. When she was twenty, in the city of Trieste - she became engaged to marry a young fellow named Stradiot. But he was taken into the army - in the Second World War. She - to wait until he came back. But, according to all appearances - Stradiot was killed in the war. The grieving young woman - going to a convent, and becoming a nun. Taking ,,owe - as Sister Carla Francesca (the "c" is pronounced like the Er&glish "ch"). But then after years, Stradiot came back. Only to , -d. fir,d hie fiance - a nun. In a co vent -ff'i the Elizabethans - a branch of the Franciscan Order. Whereupon he vowed - he'd never marry. unless - to the woman who had been his intended ) wife. The two saw each other, occasionally. The nun - meeting Stradiot under formal convent conditions. Until, finally_ Sister Carla Francesca told the story~ to high HUM - 2 - Church officials. The result - a dispensation from the Vatican. S i ster Carla Francesca - released of her conventual vows. Today, the couple were married - and ott on a wedding trip. In u s tralia, a ·elegation of shee farmers - utting in a m urnful com . laint. skin g g overnment authorities - to do something to relieve them of a p lague, · ich i s ruinin t h eir sheep st · ~ tions in western Australia. · h : la ue - of k ngaroos. hn estimated ei g ht million of t h em - over-runnin g the grazing lands in u e tiouth ales. ore ,angaroos er acre - than shee .. The number ot kan g aroos in that one district, in fact - almost equals the total human ~ opulation of Australia. But - what to do about it? or course, they might all go Kangaroo hunting. But it would take a lot ot gunfire - to bag eight million. And t. ey are such amusin g a nimals it seems a ahame to shoot thea. ~hy not g ive them a c.rt of the empty vut Back in i1.ustralia? But how ou ld you fe nce t•• in, J.Jon - t ose jum ing kangaroos? ABBOTT Bud Abbott, one-time partner of Lou Coetello, says - he's broke. Ruined - by income tax. The government - disallowing half a million dollars of deductions over a period of seven years. So he has nothing of the fortune he made - in the heyday of Abbott and Costello. At the age of sixty-three, he says: "All my so-called pals , suddenly - don I t \mow me any more." Ho, he doe an I t intend to try show business again - with another partner. Aow - I that Lou Costello 1s gone. "It would be like building another empire," says Bud