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CONTENTS UNDER THE BIG TOP -- Exploringthe perennialappeal of the Big Top, NBC's "Project 20" has captured on sound-film both the glamour and the grubby reality of life .under canvas. Its full. hour "Circus" will be the "Du Pont 8how of the Week" on NBG- TV Sunday, Jan. 21, with famous clown Emmett Kelly as story- teller. It is a tale told chiefly from the viewpoint of circus folk FEATURES themselves, concentrating on the real life of the "backyard," and featuring on-stage performances as well. The clown soaking tired feet in the water-bucket is Gene Lewis.

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If somebody told you that he was a ship's husband, you American Merchant M,arine at home. Even with government might feel tempted to reply: "And how are all the little subsidy, U.S. flag operators have found it difficult to make a boats?" profit. Under law, tankers, or and bulk carriers are not•avail- Actually a ship's husband is a land agent who represents able for subsidy in the first place. As a result, American own-- the ownersand attends to the repairs, provisioningand other ers of some 10,000,000 tons of these types of ships have re•s- expenses of the ship. tered them in Panama, Honduras and Liberia and call them the PanHonLib fleet. ' But don't feel too badly. Few people know many of the strange facts -- as well as odd superstitions -- that describe American dependence on the PanHonLib fleet has reach- the world of ships and their crews. ed a critical stage. The Communists are determine to wrest Perhaps the oldest known boat was invented about 1700 merchant see supremacy from us and their 800 new merchar•t B.C. Called the kelek, it consisted of a wooden raft bouyed by shipspose an economicand military threat. Merchant shiI•. a .float of inflated animal skins- as many as 1,000 sheep and are vital for carrying raw materials, petroleum, supplies, goat pelts. Keleks are still in use in Armenia and Iraq today! eral cargo,personnel to many different countriesand battl• The ancient Greeks used "long ships", or galleys, with as fronts. many as four banks of oars. The Egyptians hauled corn on As the situationnow stands, American owners of the Pa•- the Mediterranean Sea in a broad-beamed "round ship" usual- Hon Lib fleet benefit the U.S. taxpayer in two ways, at no ly propelled by a single sail. The vessel in which St. Paul was costto him:1. Theirships can be operated competitively •n shipwrecked may have been of this type. international trade, and 2. the fleet of fast modern ships is " Our nautical term "forecastle" derives from the fighting available to the United States in the event of war or other na- platforms, or "castles", that were erected on the bows of ships tional emergency. during the Middle Ages. The future of American-ownedFlags of Necessity shipsis Columbus' trio. of ships were models of seaworthiness in yet to be resolved. But encouragingsupport has "(•6rrie--from their day- but so small that if set down on the decks of the the U.S. government.C. DouglasDillon, then Under Secre- Queen Mary, they would still leave room to. drill a regiment of tary of State, in June 1959, told the representatives of nine infantry. His flagship Santa Maria was only 128 feet long, or Europeanmaritime nations: "My final thoughton this subject about as big as a fair-sized modem yacht! is that, until such time as it may prove feasible for these A..•- With all the modern emphasis on jet propulsion, it's hard ericanshipowners to operatecompetitively under the Unf•ed to believe that as far back as 1786 American inventor James States flag, my government retains its interests in the Rumsey demonstrated on the Potomac River the first ship tinuedoperation of ships under foreign flags including Pa.•i- operating on the jet principle. Rumsey's vessel was propelled onLib registries. From cur viewpoint there are important and by streams of water forced through the stern by steam. valid defense requirements which support this position. And. When Sir Charles Parsons built the first turbine ship, the thereare good reasons, inour view, why it wouldbe unjus[[- Turbinia in 1894, he was using a principle demonstrated by Heron of Alexandria in the second century- the ability to fledtoundertake aconcerted campaign,as has sometim•T beenEvensuggested, the time-honoredagainstthese ceremony flags."' of breaking a bottle •,f obtain work from heat. Parson's steam turbine engine drove ß the Turbina at a handsome speed of more than 32 knots. To- champagne across the bow of a ship has roots in superst•tmn. ,day's mighty liners like the two English "Queens" and the It datesfrom the dayswhen sailors went out of theirwa• to S.S. United States are marvels of steam-turbine propulsion, appeasethe sea.Greek and Roman fishermen would leav• a but their basic construction. is simply a variation on the prin- portionof theircatch on the beach as a peaceoffering, a•_d ciple discovered by the second century inventor! Indo-Chinafishermen once sacrificed a man yearly to. the s•ca The lean rakish clipper ship with its cloud of sail gave god as the price of their fleet's safe return. way to the improved steamship in the latter part of the 19th Ancientships displayed human skulls and animal hea•s •century, but as late as 1911 commercial sailing ships resem- on their prows to prove to the sea deity that a sacrifice h•d bling the-famed clippers were still being built. The France II, beenmade- andthis was the ancestry of thebeautifully a five-masted sailing ship, was also fitted with two steam en- carved figureheadson 18th and 19th Century ships! gines! Salt must •ot be mentioned at sea by Scottish fishermen, Lloyd's of , which handles marine insurance and some nautical circles still. consider it bad luck to start eat- throughout the World, lists as the oldest vessel on its register ing a fish at the tail! the Galicia, a 279-ton ship flying the Sparfish flag and built Why do sometars considerit unluckyto havewomen op in England in 1853! board? Because ships have always been called by the femin- Today there is a large fleet of 450 American-owned mer- ine "She" and it figures that a lady ship might be jeaulousq7 chant vessels.which are registered in Panama, Honduras, and female competition for 'her sailors' attentions. Liberia and fly the flags of these countries. 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