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Last week a project was announced that would add to Armagh's value as a symbol of peace in Ireland. The governments of both the North and the South were backing a planetarium at the ancient See of St. Patrick. His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Catholic Primate of Ireland, and His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Gregg, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of the Church of Ireland, have given the project their blessings. Ex-Prime Minister Eamon de Valera, now Chancellor of Ireland's National University, is on the planetarium...
...Lindsay, director of Armagh Observatory (founded 1790), has faith in the planetarium as a peacemaker. Under its domed ceiling, he said, both Northerners and Southerners can enjoy St. Patrick's stars, and through them learn to know the real stars, which are common to all Ireland...
Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium was really only kidding. It wanted to show the public what was known about journeys into space; trips to the moon were no longer comic-book fantasies, said the planetarium, but a definite possibility-perhaps before the century is out. Tongue in cheek, the planetarium began taking reservations and faithfully promised to turn them over to the first interplanetary travel agency, when...
Applicants were to "check tour desired" -in the order of their distance: the moon (240,000 miles, 9½ hours); Venus, Mars, Jupiter, or Saturn (790 million miles, 1,333 days). The planetarium's "Passenger Briefing" warned that the moon is no such warm romantic place as it might seem over Miami, but rather a chill, arid spot, covered with a layer of dustlike pumice several feet thick, where conversation would be impossible, climate problematical, and locomotion difficult. While working up to a speed of 3,621 m.p.h., those with high blood pressure might suffer momentary blackouts...
...last week, the planetarium had received more than 18,000 reservations and requests for information. A man from Munich, Germany wanted to build a hotel on the moon, and a bellhop from Marion, Ohio a skating rink on Venus. A New York fur broker asked about trapping rights; a radio cowboy saw a chance "to get in on the ground floor of radio business on Venus...