A Visit to C21 Spacearium Will Take You On a
Hackle-Raising Ride Into the Dark Void of the Unknown
By Paul Wells
SEATTLE MR — Wonder what
it would toe like to rocket two bil
lion light years into the limitless
cosmos past the Moon, planets
and Sun?
You can find out April 21.
Step into the huge domed, mil
lion-dollar hall known as the
Spacearium and in exactly 12
minutes, while clenching a rail
ing on a tilted platform, you’ll
take a hackle-raising ride into the
dark void of the unknown and
return.
The select band of astronauts
who have broken gravity’s bonds
will seem like earthbound mites
compared to your visit to the
Milky Way and beyond.
This figurative conquest of
intergalactic space inevitably will
become one of the great spectator
attractions at the Seattle World’s
Fair during its six-month run
ending Oct. 21.
It was all made possible by the
imagination of Boeing Co. sci
entists, development of a motion
picture lens “that couldn’t be
made,” construction of the world’s
largest projection screen and co
operation of the U.S. Science Ex
hibit Office.
Come along for the ride.
The lights in the great hall dim.
The domed ceiling which arches
nearly to the floor becomes the
heavens. Swiftly, as in a space
ship, you zoom toward the Moon,
buzz its pock-marked cold, dead
surface, continue past red-hued
Mars and its canals, on through
Saturn's rings, past Pluto and the
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holocaust of the Sun.
Roar Into Inlersteller Space
Surrounded by this 360-degree
picture you roar on into inter
stellar space. A flare star zips
by. Then you pass the huge red
sun of Anatares, the glowing hy
drogen spiral of Beta Lyra, and
the lagoon Nebula to the center
of the Milky Way.
At this point the film compress
es time and distance to leap into
the vast reaches of the universe to
the star cluster NGC-6539 and
Andromeda and other galxies con
taining a hundred billion stars.
Looking backward, the space
traveler sees the spiral arms and
shape of our own galaxy.
The awesome explosion of a
Super-Nova, or Super Star, marks
the end of the outward journey.
The scene tips then as a space
ship might bank for the return to
earth. Mercury and Venus will be
skirted on the way back.
■Realism will be the keynote of
the spectacular show — a feature
of the U.S. Science Pavilion and
its far-reaching displays.
The film, using the newly-de
signed lens to give the viewer the
startling effect of being surround
ed by the picture, was produced
under the guidance of a group of
astronomers and space scientists
to make it as true to fact as pos
sible.
The idea for this leap to luna
and beyond was hatched nearly
three years ago in brainstorming
sessions at the Bpeing Co. here.
Boeing, as the state’s largest
employer, wanted its participation
in the Seattle World’s Fair to be
extra-special. Models of rockets
spaceships and the like were too
present-day. Planetariums as such
didn’t suit. Space for a space-age
fair was the answer.
But to take visitors on a simu
lated ride into the cosmos required
a technical break-through. To
make it realistic a motion picture
lens projecting a picture 360 de
grees horizontally and 160 de
grees vertically was needed.
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atories of the Fairchild Camera
& Instrument Corp., of Los An
geles, finally perfected such a
lens.
Synergetics, Inc., of Raleigh,
N.C., designed and built the giant,
8-ton dome which serves as the
projection screen. The screen, 78
feet in diameter and 88 feet high,
is made up of 3,600 aluminum tri
angles and covers an area of near
1 ly 8,000 square feet. It hangs sus
pended inside the Science Pavilion
Theater, which holds about 750
persons. »
Along the way, the Spacearium
became a joint effort of Boeing
and the federal government.
Walter Dorwin Teague Asso
ciates was hired as design con
sultant for both the Boeing and
U.S. Science Exhibits. Cinerama,
Inc., was named prime contractor
for the Spacearium equipment
And Fine Arts Production, Inc.,
of Hollywood, was given the com
plex job of producing the unique
space film.
Before shooting actually began
the producers amassed a photo
graphic record of what telescopes
could see of the space objects to
be visited. But this did not go far
enough.
To obtain answers to such ques
tions as “what do Saturn’s rings
look like to a space traveler pass
ing through them?” and “what is
the shape of the Milky Way gal
axy?” The Fine Arts Company
turned to astronomers and space
scientists. These men reviewed
the film at various stages for sci
entific accuracy and realism.
Boeing and the fair people ex
pect 5 million visitors to take the
“Way Out Yonder” ride.
Just one thing. The space ship
pilot better remember every time
to take that left turn past (Mars.
It’s mighty easy to get lost out
there.
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT
FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA
SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT
NO. 1061
ORDER FIXING TIME AND PLACE
FOR HEARING FINAL ACCOUNT
AND PETITION FOR DISCHARGE
IN THE MATTER OF JHE. ESTATE
OLE J. ALSTROM, Deceased.
FRANK T. ALSTROM. Administrator
of the. Estate of pie J. Aistrom, de
ceased, having filed in this Court his
Final Account and Petition for Dis
charge, praying that 4 day be appointed
lof the hearing thereof, it is hereby J
ORDERED that the said Final Account
be heard before this Court in the Fed
eral Building a| Nome, Alaska, on
Tuesday the 17th day of April, 1962 at
the hour 6t JhOO pin~, when and where
all persons interested in said estate may
appear and * shcfW cause,' u any they
Have, why said account should hot be
settled; and at said hearing the Court
wilj determine what persons are to take
th£ estate' Under the intestate laws of
the State of Alaska ? it is further
QBJJERED that notice of said hearing
shall be given by publication of if copy
hereof, ontoe a week for four consecu
tive weeks in the Nome Nugget, a news
paper' of general Circulation at Nome.
Alaska, and by posting copies hereof
in three public places within the Dis
trict, one of which shall be posted at
the United States Post Office at Ala
kanuk, Alaska.
DONE at Nome, Alaska this 2nd day
of February, 1962.
/*/ GRACE E. HERMAN,
Special Master of Probate
Pub. Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26, 1962.
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Peyton Place: 6 Years Later
Six years ago, Grace Metal ious, an unknown Connecticut
housewife, was stealing time from household chores to satisfy
a lifelong craving to write a book.
She knew her subject intimately—life in a small New Eng
land town. By day, with the children packed off to school, and
by night, with the family asleep, she pounded away at a bat
tered old typewriter until the book was finished. She named it
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Hopefully, she submitted it
to a New York publisher. It
was rejected. She submitted
the book seven times to differ
ent publishers, waited, and re
ceived only a rejection slip for
her years of labor. On the
eighth try, there was no quick
reply, and after an exasperat
ing wait, word came suddenly
from Julian Messner, Inc. that
her book had been accepted.
But they didn’t like the title.
On September 24, 1956 the
book was published. Its name:
“Peyton Place.” Six years lat
er. it still remains the most
talked about phenomenon in
publishing history. In hard
cover and paperback, it sold
8.000. 000 copies. The movie
rights sold for an astronomical
sum. A sequel, “Return to
Peyton Place,” sold another
4.000. 000.
Critics, psychologists, teach
ers, and plain ordinary readers
tried to explain the book’s suc
cess, why the story of what lay
behind Peyton Place’s respect
able facade should so capture
American interests. Whatever
the reasons. Grace Metalious
became wealthy from royalties,
sudden fame nearly wrecked
her life, and her own home
town became a divided camp—
for and against her.
Yet surprisingly, Grace Me
talious remained pretty much
herself, tending her children,
preferring small town life, and
r
using her spare time writing.
The result: another book,
“Tight White Collar.” It was
another honest, if unflattering
look at the world about her.
Predictably, it aroused local
passions, provoked readers ev
erywhere, and broke sales rec
ords. Just reprinted in paper
back by Dell, this story of mod
ern men and women choked
by the tight white collar of re
spectability again places Grace
Metalious in the middle of con
troversy. For an author whose
only wish is to write ... and to
live in privacy with her grow
ing family ... the literary hur
ricanes are raging again.
Next: a grandchild in the
Spring, and possibly another
book. Meanwhile,- no tight
white collar for this small town,
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