Libera ce Shows. Off
$275,000 Hollywood Home
HOLLYWOOD W* — Liberace
tossed a party last night to show
off his $275,000 Hollywood Hills
home, a symphony in gold that
he will live in just five weeks
a year.
The mansion, above the Sunset
strip, is so big that even the
rooms have rooms.
Liberace said so far he has
counted 29 rooms in the 32-year
old house, whose former owners
included Ann Harding and Rudy
Vallee.
The pianist traded a $100,000
apartment house for it.
“When I moved in,” Liberace
said, “the decor was early Gloria
Swanson so I spent $175,000 re
decorating.”
The result is a miniature Ver
sailles, done in French provincial
style.
“I saved some money building
the living room valances myself,”
he said. He also built a French
provincial china closet.
“Pm away on concert tours 47
weeks a year, so I don’t have time
to build anything else myself,”
he said.
The house has five pianos but,
unlike his Sherman Oaks house,
the swimming pool is a normal
rectangle.
“No more piano-shaped pools,”
said Liberace. “Every time I felt
like a swim, the pool was out of
time.
First Nuclear-Powered
Ship Readied for Trial Run
CAMDEN, N.J. to — The Sa
vannah, world’s first nuclear
powered passenger-cargo ship, will
leave the New York Shipbuilding
Co, yards next week for York
town, Va., it was announced yes
terday.
At Yorktown, her reactor will
be brought to full strength and
the Savannah will have her first
sea trials under nuclear power.
The trip from Camden to York
tuwn will be made under power
from her auxiliary engines, which
are conventional, oil-fired.
It may be another 18 months
before the Savannah begins regu
lar, passenger and cargo service.
Belle Isn’t in a Hurry . . .
PORTLAND, Ore UD — Belle,
the 10-year-old, 2Vfc-ton elephant
at the Portland Zoo, has been
pregnant for 18 months. She still
was pregnant this morning.
Since last Thursday, officials
have been expecting her to de
liver the first baby elephant born
in this country in 43 years.
Last night, they took an electro
cardiogram. It determined that
Belle had a pulse of 30 to 38
heartbeats a minute, and the un
born baby had one of 60, indicat
ing it is ready for delivery.
That, apparently is about all it
determined. Officials kept wait
ing. But Belle didn’t appear to be
in any hurry.
Rocket Failure Ruins
Attempt to Boost Five
Satellites Into Orbit
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. M —
Rocket failure today ruined an
attempt to boost five satellites
into orbit simultaneously to probe
a number of space mysteries.
The space quintuplets hurtled
into the sky at 4:30 a.m. circled
snugly in the nose of an 80-foot
Thor-Able Star-Rocket. The first
stage of the 55-ton rocket per
formed normally and observers
at the Cape saw the second stage
ignite.
But 20 minutes after launch the
Defense Department announced
that the upper stage failed to
build up sufficient thrust after
ignition and the $3.5-million ve
hicle fell into the sea “well south
of Cuba.”
The failure wrecked the United
States’ most ambitious multiple
payload experiment to date. At
tempts have been made previous
ly to send three satellites aloft
with one booster, but never as
many as five.
This was to have been the first
of three major U.S. space efforts
scheduled this week. On Friday,
an Atlas-Agena rocket is slated
to hurl a Ranger 3 payload to the
Moon to take closeup television
pictures and land an instrument
package on the lunar surface.
The attempt to orbit astronaut
John H. Glen Jr. is set for Sat
urday.
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HIGHWAY LITTERBUGS
WOULD BE PUT TO WORK
JUNEAU W — Highway litter
bugs would be put to work un
doing the damage they have done
under terms of a bill introduced
Monday by Rep. Stratton Jr., CR
Anchorage).
Persons convicted of throwirig
litter on the highways could be
required to “pick up garbage and
rubbish from the nearest highway
for four hours a day on each of
two days.”
The highway policing chore
would be a condition of probation
is sentence is suspended.
Strike Oii on Wilshire Blvd.
LOS ANGELES U!) — They have
struck oil on Wilshire Boulevard,
in the hefcrt of a shopping center
known as the Miracle Mile,
Metropolitan Transit authority
crews drilling test holes for a pro
posed subway ran into oil at 20
feet beneath the boulevard Mon
day.
But the find isn’t rich enough
to make drilling a well profitable,
officials said.
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Syntax Exercise for
Students Draws
Rows from Parents
WAPPINGERS, N.Y. UP) — The
school teacher passed out a syn
tax exercise to a high school Eng
lish class.
“My name is Irving. I have a
dog. His name is Schlep. I keep
Schlep to bite the postman.
“Sometimes I go to grandpa’s
farm. He runs a hot car ring.
Sometimes grandma lets me put
phony license plates on the hot
cars.”
And so on, -for Si sentences,
adapted from a satire on first
grade readers originally published
in a humor magazine.
Underline the subjects once,
predicates twice, the teacher .in
structed the class. Give the syn
tax of the encircled words.
One mother noticed the exer
cise her son brought home.
What are they teaching, Eng
lish or juvenile delinquency? she
demanded in a letter to the
Poughkeepsie Journal.
“I was (born and raised when
they taught English in schools,”
she said, asking that her name
not be published.
We cfo teach English, said Dennis
Hannan, head of the English De
partment Of the Wappingers Cen
tral School. He said 80 per cent
of the school’s graduates in the
last 25 years had passed the state
regents examination in English.
A letters-to-the-editor battle
raged for a week. The newspaper
said, they ran about 3 to 1 against
the exercise.
About 50 parents showed up
Monday nigh* when the Board of
Education considered the matter.
Hannan explained that the
teacher, whose identiy was not
disclosed, had used the example
when students inquired about
sick humor during a study of
humor in literature. She just kill*
ed two birds with one stone, ac
commodating the student interest
to a grammar lesson.
The Board unanimously voted
confidence in Wappingers Cen
tral's English Department. Nobody
said what would become of the
offbeat test.
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