COMMENT IN BRIEF
Librarion: Well, I don’t know feally what to think. But isn’t it terrible really? Something could be up there and we wouldn’t know anything about it. Housewife (very Kiwi): "Ha, Ha," I said when I heard it first. "They have done it first after all."’ And all these Yanks running around like little boys! Especially the bloke who said it was just a hunk of iron that anyone could send up. I think he was crackers, Contractor: It makes you wonder just what they have got. I don’t like the idea of them shooting things up above us at all. There should be some kind of international control. Overheard in Pub: Search me, I don’t know how it stays up there. Whose round is it? Engineer: It is the hotles that is interesting. igi satellites and that sort of thing. Do you know that, if you were one of identical twins and left the earth, you’d be younger than your twin when you came back? I can’t follow all the mathematics of it, but that comes into Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. Shipping Clerk: Oh, it’s way above my head! Female Relative (aged): Almost anything seems possible. And I can’t help wondering what God thinks about it all. You'll see! They'll go too far one of these days. Typist: Oh yes, it is wonderful I suppose. But I don’t go in much for that sort of thing. What I mean is what’s the point of it anyway if it comes to that.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 5
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254COMMENT IN BRIEF New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 5
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