Experts Predict Pisa Will
Lean For 150 Years More
PISA, Italy, (JP)—Getting wor
ried the Leaning Tower of Pisa
might fall before you are able to
visit it?
After this year’s final exam
ination of the tower’s steadily in
creasing tilt, public works direc
tor Edmondo Natoni announced:
“There is no immediate danger
it will fall.”
the tower’s slant is increasing at
the same rate as recorded for
the past quarter of a century. At
that rate, it will not topple for
another 150 years, experts pre
dict.
The seven-century-old tower
now leans almost 18 feet out of
line.
The President of the United
States had to pay for his own
transportation up until the time j
of the automobile.
Military Plane Output
Will Hit 750-800-a-Month
Peak Next Spring
WASHINGTON, {IP) — Ameri
ca’s military plane output is
slated to hit a post-Korean peak
next spring with plenty of pro
duction capacity still remaining
in case of emergency.
Air Force Undersecretary Ros
well Gilpatric said Friday the
production of Air Force craft
reached 666 in November and will
hit a top of between 750 and 800
a month next spring. Output then
is to taper off to about 300 a
month by June 1956, he said.
But the all-out capacity of the
aircraft industry, Gilpatric said,
is “several times” the 800-a
month peak scheduled under the
rearmament program.
The Antarctic Continent has the
highest average elevation of any
of the world’s continents.
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Vienna Peace Congress
Receives Proposal For
5-10 Year Cold War Truce
VIENNA, (JP) — The Commun
ist-sponsored “Congress of Peo
ples for Peace” received a pro
posal Monday that it should urge
the big powers to sign a five or
10-year cold war truce.
The proposal was made by Giu
seppe Nitti, Liberal member of
the Italian Parliamentary Group
for Peace. Nitti said it was offer
ed as an alternative to a plan by
Prof. Frederic Joliot-Curie, chair
man of the World Peace Council
and French atom scientist. Joliot
Curie has demanded a ban on
atomic weapons and general dis
armament.
“I believe,” he said, “we must
limit our resolutions to proposing
a truce in the arms drive, a truce
in economic warfare and a truce
in political conflict, for five or
perhaps ten years.
“This truce,” he went on, “may
be maintained while the oppos
ing blocs maintain their armies.
This truce would bring relief to
the world and we would rapidly
arrive at an exchange of peoples
and goods.”
The delegates heard an Italian
woman delegate take an unex
pected slap at the Russians Sun
day for rejecting India’s Korean
armistice plan.
Mrs. Alexandria Piaggio, repre
senting the Italian Christian
Peace movement, asked the So
viets to explain why they had
turned down a proposal that
“might have paved the way to
ward a practical solution of the
problem.”
“If the Soviet Union cites fig
ures of mass armament in other
parts of the world,” Mrs. Piaggio
added, “It should not forget its
own efforts.”
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