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Show i -- mvifii iiiM n TniiTiTmTi A Mi mn I DESERET Impossible Journey: To Sun s Fiery Domain? to Note-T- hi k the ,eccnd of dr t. bd(tor' C m whitt' .larke scitni&r and s which re tvm brieves dutho', de'crb pieces tn ts nidns if t imoossib sit and turn mode et or oil It by which t tourney m.uht Is excerpted from h book Profiles of !he Future Wth prmsion cf the publisher Harper a id Pe ) ties , rsiK By ARTHUR C. CLARKE m the solar j If there is a plate that seems unattainable, obvious first choice. Its rays aie re- sponsible (or all life on Earth, but temp- - ot lock one ur two miles in di, meter with a suifaee temperatuie of about 100(1 degrees. But il iat.- ,; cone of shadow on the side opposite the sun, til'd in the tuid shelter of that shadow a ship could rule solely around the central file. Tiieie may be other astrouls that go ecn closer to Die sun, Il not, we may one day make one do o by nudging il with explosixes at the rignt paint in orbit. And then, dug eli in below' the suifate, scientist:- would be able to skim the atmosphere of the sun, whipping across it and out again into space on a hairpin bend. How long would Die lido take? Being a rather small star, the sun is "only 3 million nub's around. A satellite just its atmosphere would move at about a inilliui miles an hour, so would tucle it eeiy three liouis. Imagine flashing high above the center ol a giant sunspot, a gaping crater lUO.OOO nuies across, spanned by bridges of fne. The explosion of the most powerful hydiogen bomb would pass unman ed ill Dial inieinu, wlieie wiioie continents ot incandescent gas leap skyward at hundreds ol miles a second, sometimes escaping completely info space. But even a closer approach to the sun no longer seems completely out of the duestiuii, blanks to the science ol plasma pnysics. Plasma physics is concerned with tne handling of veiv hot gases in magnetic fields. Already it has enabled us to piocluce tempoi atures of tens of millions of drgtccr, in the laboiatory. I suggest that, when we have acquired some eal mastery of this infant science, U will give us magnetic and electric shields that can provide far more effective protection against temperature and pressure than can be obtained from any walls of metal. The old science-fictioidea of the impenetrable shield of force may no longer be a dream. When we possess ii. we may have a key not only to the interior cf the sun. but to the interior of the Earth as well. system the sun is an v i F eratures rise prohi- bitiveiy as we move toward the central u fire cf the sun. NT s Here are some tig- ,, L ures v hich show what would happen a t o spaceship .whose hull was at a comfortable Co degrees in the vicinity cf Earth. As the ship went past Venus, C7 million miles Lorn the sun, the hull would reach ICO hegiees; at the orbit of Mercury, 36 million miles from the sun, it would touch Jf die sun to million miles before the passed 1,000 degrees. Five million miles out, it would be near 2.0CQ degrees; one million miles. 5 600 degrees. The suriai e of tiie sun itself is aliout 9,0o0 10 uegtees. Instrument entific probes, - carrying, expendable sciwith layers matenal which slowly boil away, could reach the surface of the sun befoi e they disintegrated. But how close to the sun could a ship approach in safety? There is one trick we may employ to get close to the sun. This is to use a convenient astroid or comet as a sunshade. The best choice known at the moment is a flying mountain appropriately named Icarus. Most astroids orbit between Mars and Jupiter, but Icarus travels on an orbit that every 13 months brings it within 17 miilion miles of the sun. This astroid, or small planet, is an ir- of ' It ; may be possible to approach the sun in a spaceship protected from the heat by the shadow of an asteroid, such as Icarus, a flying m ountain about two miles in diameter. YOUR HEALTH Of The Arteries Hit Everybody? Bv GEORGE C. THOSTESON, M.D. Dear Dr. Thosteson: We read your column every day. Our daughter says everyone gets hardening of the arteries sometime during his life. I say no. Who js right? D.P.K. Answer: Sorry, but she is right. Hardening of the arteries is not a sudden, acute ailment. It is a gradual change. Hardening is not a totally cor-ievvay of describing it. While the walls of the arteiics thicken end lose seme of Die elasticity, the more important element is that the arteries accumulate a coating of plaques, or fatty deposits The big problems of hardening of the arteries are more likely to occur when ai some point in an artery, the lumen, or interior of the artery, has been clogged to the extent that blood flow through it is substantially reduced. Such points, of course, can be completely clogged by a clot that, in earlier years, would have passed through without difficulty. Pei haps the best way to think of hardening of the arteries is to regard it as one of the usual results of aging our hair changes, our skin becomes wrinkled, we lose the zest and energy (and the foolhardiness) of youth, our knees creak, glandular activity changes. Some people reach the rocking-chai- r age as early as the 40s. Others are playing tennis in the 60s and golf in the 90s Some lose their hair early, others don't. So some people begin having troubles traceable to hardening of the arteries when they are fairly young and others have slight, if any, trouble for many years. But whether we weie bom with sturdy aiteiies or arteries that will tend to obstruct too soon, we all have gradual hardening of the arteries as we grow older. Indeed, it has been remarked that our artei ies start lo harden Rom the time we are born. So the quesiion isn't whether your arteries are going to harden ; they will. The, question is whether they will harden to a degree that will bother you. It would be nice if someone could discover a pill that would keep arteries from hardening. It would also be nice if somebody could invent a pill that would keep us from growing older. Best things we can do to protect our arteries are to observe a reasonable diet, and keep our weight normal, and develop a lifelong habit of regular exercise. The right diet? Balanced, moderate or low in animal fats, and a diet that keeps oai weight normal. The exercise? Any kind, but make it regular. Get some every day. Brisk walking is fine. Don't sil all week long and then liy to make up for It with too much exeicise on weekends. Dear Dr. Thosteson: My husband was and found to have gall stones. Somewhere I think I read that milk should not be used by anyone with gall bladder trouble. Am 1 right? Is there a special diet? Mrs. J.A.B, Answer: There Is no reason why a person with gall bladder trouble should not drink milk In reasonable amounts. Diet is not a matter of great importance, although it is of secondary significance. Too much fat, particularly too much at any one time, is the main consideration. For mote details of this, and the icasons, read my booklet. You and Ymr Gall Bladder. Send 23 coats in coin and a long, stamped envelope to Dr. Tnosfeson. caie of the Deseret News, P.O, Box 1237, Salt Lake City, Utah 84110, for a copy. MfftftV-GO-ftOUN- D Young Words Worth Hearing Does Hardening By LAVOR K. CHAFFIN Deseret News Education Editor Those who are r.o longer willing to support law and order no longer deserve its protection. This sounds like the carefully statement phrased of Congressman cr 1 Law Day competi- student-conducte- oratory: Minorities are most often victimized we should and least often protected correct the flaws in our social system, Janine Skurzynski, second place winner. ... Respect for law is the cornerstone of our society, Joel Richards, whose talk was exceptionally well organized. He began by noting that natures laws are the cornerstone of the universe. commentator. But It's not. It's the work of Irene Bort-- o u s s i, Wasatch Junior High School student and winner of her school's spe-cispeaking tion. The competed in the assembly, livened by music by the school orchestra and vocal groups. Here are other samples of student assembly d with omy a few adults looking on teachers, proud parents and judges for was itself a demonstrathe competition tion of order. It also was culmination of a w'epks-lonprogram directed by teacher Mrs. Lonnie Nave which included talks by 100 students. Eight finalists g The real dropout generation is the one in charge now. It's been permissive when it should have been firm, Pete Gallegos. Respect for law and order must start with parents, he said. We are the country and we can keep it free, Carol Braithwaite. Discipline is the very basis of civilization; without law and order there John Morgan. would be no civilization, He noted that civil wrongs often are committed in the name of civil rights. We need greater understanding of we need faith, hope and each other ... Huge Shipment charity, Amy Harris. We will still have crime unless every person accepts the responsibility to obey the laws, Robert Merrill. The entire program was tefreshing and encouraging. Its difficult to see how students like these can grow into anything but high minded adults who will at once strive to uphold the law and rectify inequities in our society. We adults should not lightly shrug off the students admonition to set a better example. As much as we deplore the present wave of student protest, we who are in charge now, as Pete Gallegos says, must have had something to do with its development. Whatever the extent of our contribution, it is a shared one. Parents and teachers both had a hand in it. Some of todays young adults obviously were not properly educated by eillier their parents or their teachers. As parents we should show terest in and greater support program, s as the one conducted atch Junior High on Law Day. preciate both students and more infor such at Was- We'd ap- teachers more. 'Chaos' Features 13 Male Archangels! MUSICAL WHIRL By HAROLD LUNDSTROM Deseret News Music Editor Standing On Pointe at the forefront of Utah's lively arts. Ballet West is ready to send its thousands of patrons and admirers balletically heavenward next Wednesday (14). celebrate the coming with its variety of To of spring Karl-Birge- new flowers, .Ballet West's own is Spring Gala a variety of ballets. First of traditional melodic music. Though composed and played by Instrumentalists as opposed to electronic sounds used in the music of much modern dancing Chaos is a work by the late Swedish r avant garde composer, Biomdahl, and is modern in the full meaning of the term with complex sounds and rhythms. the is casion Lew Christensens Three Movements for the a Shoit Haired, Chrixtenxen contemnorary bal- let danced to a major work by the American jazz composer, John Lewis. It was done, says the director of the San Francisco Ballet and a younger brother of our own great William Christensen, as an answer to all of the types which seem to be invading us. long-haire- Because of the popularity of Bene Arnolds ballet, Cycle, that was premiered a year ago and for which Ben Lokey received such high praise in creating the leading role, this moving ballet will be featured as the third item of the program. Cycle is performed to the music of the gieat Ernest Bloch. Four short ballets presented as a single item under the title Quartet will dose the program that will be given perin Kingsbury formances May Hall "Chaos is a complete change from 8:30 p.m. Quartet is a study in styles and ballets by Carolyn Anderson, Mary Lynne Shupe, Tomm Ruud, and Richard Tanner, all principal soloists of Ballet light and humorous ballet, it points a laughing finger at some of the foibles and hangups of modern society. A The second ballet is danced sans the brand new Chaos, girls! Titled woik of Richard Kuch features 13 male dancers. They represent, in a very abstract way, the 13 archangels deParadise scribed in Miltons classic, Lost, from which Mr. Kuch derived the idea of his ballet. at West. - You can keep Moth-rr- s SEE! HEAR! Day properly by taking her to the Chamber Music Recital in the Concert Hall on the University campus at 3 p.m. The program promises to be interesting, with the premiere performance of Alexei Haieff's Elege for two pianos, four flutes, bassoon, trombone, and wood- - Ilaicff is at the University of Utah. Mr. blocks. composer-in-residenc- Another BYU number will be Villa Bachinas Brasileiras No. 5 for Lobos soprano soloist, Clare Johnston, and eight cellists. The University Trio will play Beetho- featuring Janet and William Carolee Grubb, Grosbeck, Brown. The recording APPOGGIATURAS which the Utah Requiem, Symphony Orchestra and the University Civic Chorale will complete Saturday for Vanguard, comes at a propitious time. This year marks the 100th anniversary of Berlioz death. There are cuirently four of Berlioz complete recordings available, the most recent was released a lew months ago on the DGG label. It was directed by the late Charles Munch, consideied the Berlioz authority, and included the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Chorus. Dr. Munch also has another outstandon RCA ing recording of the Requiem with the Bunion Symphony. It has been reported that Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic will also record the Requiem for the centennial All of which means that the Utah Symphony is among good company, and one hopes that Seymour Solomon's inventiveness in recording technique in the Tabernacle is able to surpass the recording techniques of the competitors. by Brickman the small society I WbH AtPTO WAS FATHE- N R- 3 5-- 0 vVoeMegrp, Str- Syrdu-O- e A portion of the program is being directed by Percy Kait of BYU. This will Concerto for Four include Vivaldis Violins. The four soloists are Ben Hudson, Christine Nokelby, Joan Larsen, Mark Jasinski. vens "Trio in E Flat, Ire i 'M' is For Mother And Money By HARRY JONES out-sid- e 400 fiogrppv. We would have to approach widiin Friday, May 9, 1969 legular chunk fn e- J3 NfcWS, Of Poison Gas To Begin Soon You guvs who very last minute put things off to tiie . . . Tomoirow is uui last ihauce to shop aiounl fui what people in the trade rail Second Cli: istma.s Motliei 'x Day. You had better get with it unless you plan to get tip befoi e breakfast on Sunday ani dasp to th" all nig!.! market L.r a cheap box of candy . . . the wold cheap describing both the chocolate covered cherries and vourell. You had better get up bcloic breakfast. regardless. On Mother's Day you are supposed to cook il. It's p.ut of li e bit. She has tc eat what you cook and smile through it all . . . it's in the l ru.es. A good menu calls black fur bread so the honored one cant see burn tiie spots quite so easily. Scramble the eggs ofn-cia- with grated it c h e es e. If turn out doesn't too well and it won't blame it on tiie cheese. Ham bacon. It can be eaten just Die way it comes from the can. Oiange juice is good. There's a secret to making it. You put three cans of water with the can of concentrate. Shake well. Then pour off some of the top. No matter how hard you shake It, the orange goes to the bottom. Serve cold milk instead of hot chocolate. There's not much damage that you can do to milk. Leave the breakfast dishes until Monl day. and take c little gal out to dinner. Djn't let her :; dutch unless she insists. Heres a shopping tip for her gift. her clothes, go to the women's department. Ask the derk to If you want to buy By DREW PEARSON and JACK ANDERSON i A massive shipment of poison gas w ill start moving across the country this month in 20 long freight trains. The lethal gas will be delivered in 16,500 one-tosteel cylinders to the Naval Ammunition Depot at Earle, N.J. There, the Navy will load the cylinders aboard two Liberty ships, haul them out to sea and dump them into the ocean. n Some of the cylinders, which have been stored in our secret arsenals since World War II, are so corroded that the Defense Department had to obtain a special waiver from the Transportation Department to haul them by rail. Tanks containing toxic materials normally must be tested hydrostatically before they will be allowed on the railways. Yet the Transportation Department, on the basis of a few spot checks, has granted the Army an exemption from the nor- mal safety requirements. Because of the danger of leakage, the Army will attach a bag of absorbent material under each cylinder valve. This isnt the first shipment of poison y gas across country under a secret disposal program called Operation Chase. Small spillages from the earlier shipments occurred in St. Louis and Kansas City. A more serious spillage, requiring decontaminants to be rushed in, occurred in Iowa. nill-tar- The new shipments will begin on May June. The poison gas will be picked up at Rocky Mountain Arsenal, Colo., Pine Bluff Arsenal, Ark., and Edgewood Arsenal, Md. Max Richard Rep. McCarthy, an expert on gas problems, has cooperated with us in digging out the details of this massive shipment. He has also called upon Secretary of Transportation John Volpe to hold up the special permit until a more thorough investigation of the safety problems has been made or alternative methods of deactivating the gas at the arsenals have been explored. The congressman also pointed out that the death trains will be traveling along rail lines at the same time that other trains pass by on adjacent tracks. In one of the major rail accidents that occurred tecently at Dunreith, Ind., the derailment and subsequent explosions were caused by two passing trains rather than one 16 and continue through blindfold you . . . spin you around a dozen times. Then you walk slowly in any direction and buy the first thing you touch (unless it is another customer or a clerk.) For no matter what you buy, even with your eyes open, it will be too big, the wrong color, the wrong style and the wrong material. And Die thing you pick blindfolded can be as easily exchanged as something you picked out after shopping for hours. A psychiatrist friend of mine claims that a woman would sooner have an inexpensive gift wrapped beautifully than an like a fur coat expensive present that isnt gift wrapped. So now you know who the in our circle! is odd-ba- ll But no jealousy, please. Give a mother all kinds of gifts, but do you know which she will like the best? She will like the scribbled Mother's Day card . . . handmade with colors in genuine crayon . . . the work of a little chubby hand! If you go into a store and tell the clerk you want to buy a gift for your wife or mother, do me a favor. If he suggests a light Take or an easy to handle . . . smack him in the mouth for me. lawn-mow- er Mothers Day gifts should be personal things , . . things she wouldn't buy for a dress, someherself . , . perfume thing along those lines. But next year, let's make it Mothei's Day every day through kindness and thoughtfulness. Give her gifts next May, but call it by its right name . . . merchants day! ... Wit's End The reason so many sportswriters are covering the Golden Spike Centennial at Promontory . . . its a track meet! tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitniiiiiiinniiiiiniiiiinimiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiii BIG TALK ... train. McCarthy also WTote to Secretary of Defense Melvin Lai-- d questioning the diposal of poison gas at sea. Does the disposal of large quantities of gas at sea, he asked, inise ecological problems that we are not aware of? Are the gases to be disposed of rendered harmless immediately or aie they absorbed by sea life in a manner with which we are not familiar?" The 20 death trains will be escorted by Army guards who will ride in three cars one on each end and one in Die middle. A total of 1,100 freight cars will be loaded with the gas cylinders. As an added safety precaution, the 20 trains will be restricted to a speed of no more than 25 miles an hour. Note: Rep. Byron Rogers, has raised so much Cain with the Pentagon over tiie nerve gas stoied al the Rocky Mountain Arsenal that the Defense Department Is quietly moving all the nerve gas from Rocky Mountain to Dugway Proving Ground in neighboring Utah. This despite the leakage of nerve gas which killed hundreds of sleep and cows on the Utah range last year. The fact tiiat cows, as well as sheep, died Irom the gas was never released. r ft t' , is-- , A V 4 'i v :r. -- H' east is but west east and west the twains did meet." Kipling was wrong is . . . ... FOm fihetos tiken Oy Llo,,M y. Outfit uocuii aatiy Bdtv Birthday luf |