European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 10, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes tuesday october 10, 1967 Venus probes of ., Russia in Homestretch rather switch than gag Shell go by Howard Cape Kennedy fla., a two Venus bound spacecraft american and russian Are on the final laps of Long lonely journeys that May unlock secrets of the Cloud shrouded  s Venus 4, launched june 12, will reach Venus oct.18. America s Mariner 5, launched from Cape Kenned june 14 will arrive one Day later. Each has travelled More than200 million Miles on Long Arch ing paths in route to their planetary rendezvous deep i space. At the time of the encounters with the planet Venus and the Earth will be about 49 million Miles  5 is to Fly within 2,500 Miles of the planet tomake scientific investigations. Then it is to zip on into orbit about the Sun. The russians have Bee relatively silent on the purpose of Venus 4 and there have been conflicting reports on its assign ment. Shortly after the launching russian astronomer wrote that Venus 4 was intended to Fly past Venus rather than attempt a Landing but last month the so Viet news Agency Tass quoted a space Engineer As saying the i Obe had been sterilized to pre vent Early contamination of the Venus surface when it drops onto the  experts said that at 2,437 pounds Venus 4 haste weight capability to detach an instrument capsule to the surface. The United states launched two previous probes to the planet both in 1962. Mariner 1failed, but Mariner 2 provided the first close look at the mysterious planet. Mariner 2 indicated that Venus had no measurable Radia Tion belts or magnetic  produced estimates that the surface temperature on the planet May reach 800 degrees probably sufficient to preclude any form of life there. How Ever Many scientists have questioned the data. They be Lieve that in some areas Suchias in mountains the tempera Ture might be Low enough to support some form of life. Among the half dozen major experiments on Mariner 5 Are radio measurements of the Den sity and composition of the heavy Venus atmosphere. Other instruments will seek data on figures on the planet s mass orbit and position in relation to the Earth. The National aeronautics an space administration said the information could help answer such questions As How much Venus resembles its sister planet the Earth what Chance robot Landers have of finding life there and whether there would be any Point in sending manned expedition to Venus. Benedict after passing the planet Mariner 5 s path will carry it within 54 million Miles of the Sun Jan. 4. Investigators Hope to obtain important data fro this unexplored Region of space before the Craft s batteries deteriorate from the Sun s intense heat. Nasa also Hopes to run joint Experiment with Mariner 5 and Mariner 4, the still operating Mars probe launched in 1964. Simultaneous measure ment of Shock Waves in the solar plasma by the widely separated Craft May show scientists a correlation with magnetic Field studies. Russia has launched three spacecraft to Venus none completely successful. Venus 1 passed within 62,000 Miles in 1961, but its radio has been dead for several months. Venus 2 came within 15,000 Miles in1966, and four Days later Venus 3 attempted a soft Landing butt crashed on the planet. Radio gear on Venus 2 and 3 Faledas they approached the target. Reno Nev. A will mrs. Miller spoil Success by Tak ing vocal lessons to eliminate her tremulous Long notes whether she will or she wont the onetime housewife is deter mined to fit her padded Frame into a new image. No More the lagging a half note behind the orchestra. No More the Frac tured melodies. She s going straight. It s a Gamble she admits but i m willing to take a Chance on a new mrs.  All the people weren t responding to the old mrs.  since she burst open the music world last year with the album mrs. Miller s greatest hits she has been a Puzzle. How could a 58-year-old Matron singing teen age songs in an Uncertain contralto manage to sell660,000 records Elva Miller reflected on this Capitol records created the Angle that she s so bad that she s Good or it s what you Call Camp but still that does t explain Why so Many records were sold. It s True that the album was a gag. But it s also True that i have drawer full of letters from Young people saying we think it s wonderful that you Are singing our songs was mrs. Miller in on the gag she claims that Shewaun to not at first. I Don t sing off key and 1don t sing off rhythm she insisted. They got me to do so by waiting until i was tired and then making the record. Or the would Cut the record before i could become familiar with the song. At first i did t under stand what was going on. But later i did and i resented it. 1 Don t like to be  made a second album for Capitol prophetically titled will Success spoil mrs. Mil mrs. Elva Miller. It s a Gamble Ler despite sales of 30,000 on that one the record company put Forth a third album the country soul of mrs.  i could see they were doing nothing for my records in the Way of promotion she re marked and i Felt this was a signal. So we asked for my re lease. Without consulting us Capitol released the news that iwas being  now she has formed her own company vibrato records and she will lease future discs to distributors. She is trying out for a acting role at Paramount and is mulling a nightclub tour with her new image. After a year in the unaccustomed spotlight mrs. Miller seems to have maintained her equilibrium. She is grateful for the Fame that took her All the Way to Vietnam As an entertainer for the  s wonderful to be a part of the world not just one person As i was so Many years As a housewife she observed. But still i am Well Anchor Din my Home. If something comes along to Stop this merry go round i la be Able to go right Back to being a House wife. In the meantime i will have met lots of people and Hada great Deal of fun. Not Many women my age have such an  prolific French or Maurois fascinated readers Paris up Andre Maur ois who turned from a career As a textile Salesman to become writer was perhaps France s most widely read historian biographer and commentator of this Century. He died monday at his Home at the age of 82. The gentle faced hard work ing author was renowned Here and abroad As a leading inter Preter of France for the British and americans and of the United states and England to the French. Maurois s production of literature was phenomenal. For More than 40 years he protein longhand from 8 . To 1 . Every Day except when hews travelling. He often would finish the Day with a creative writing period in the afternoon or with re search or writing Magazine and newspaper articles. I live a very quiet life working very hard doing Noth ing else he once explained. Guess that explains my Spe Cial interest in the romantic period. I suppose that the Hec tic life of the romantics was substitute for the Type of life i never  his great love was biographical writing. The dozens of biographies he wrote Brough him Fame Fortune and satisfaction. A biography is at the sometime As interesting As a novel and As True As a Book of his tory he once explained. His last great biography Wasa portrait in 600 pages of bal Zac another of France s most prolific writers. He declined to write any More explaining that i Don t think it Wise at my age he was then 80 to undertake something that would take three or four years of  Maurois brought to fascinated readers the easy to grasp biographies of Byron Proust Vic Tor Hugo Dumas Disraeli tur Genev and nearly a dozen others. It was the Disraeli por christened Emile he took the pseudonym Andre Maurois when he began to write while he was a Liaison officer. His name was officially changed in 1947. At the outbreak of world War i Maurois joined the French army and because of his excellent English was As signed As a Liaison officer with the British army. This was Tobe a turning Point in his life. After the War he wrote a ironical sketch of a British officer the silences of ," which launched him on his writing career. Maurois soon was settling in to his Long hard writing re Gime. The Effort paid off and he was elected a member of the French Academy on june23, 1938. At the outbreak of world War ii Maurois abandoned occupied France and fled to Britai nand later to the United states. There he lectured and taught notably at Princeton and the University of Kansas. He also published a French language weekly newspaper in Newyork City. His leaving Europe for Amer Ica during the War caused some rancor. Winston Churchill said after Maurois went to new York from London we thought we had a Friend we Only had a  in the later stages of the War Maurois turned up in Algeria Tunisia and Corsica where the resistance was forming but he never joined Charles de Gaulle s free French movement and he returned to Paris Only in 1946. Maurois held the grand Cross of the legion of Honor and was a Knight commander of the British Empire. Maurois was also a prolific writer on love women and sex. You Don t love a woman for what she says he once wrote you love her because she say you love  in his last Book letter to ayoung Man Maurois wrote i Don t advise you to treat women As an inferior sex i ask you to treat them As a  he is survived by his widow Simone de Caillavet and three children by an earlier marriage. Andre Maurois. French Academy Robe trait and one of Shelley that launched him on his biographical career in 1923. Born in Elbeuf in Normandy West of Paris Faurote was raised in a Middle class  son of Ernest Herzog a bedding and textile maker his Early education ended at the Lychee in Rouen and he immediately began work As a Salesman in his father s firm european edition col. James w. Campbell Usa editor in chief it. Col. F. S. Michael jr., Usan Deputy editor in chief Arnold Burnett managing editor Elmer d. Frank production manager Henry r. 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