DISINTEGRATION OF SPUTNIK II
Soviet Announcement (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 14. Russia tonight officially announced that Sputnik II had disintegrated. Fifteen hours after it was reported to have plunged into the south-west Atlantic Ocean, the Soviet news agency Tass announced that the satellite was no more. Tass said that the sputnik entered the atmosphere and disintegrated this morning. According to available information its separate parts had been scattered along its route in a south-easterly direction over the Lesser Antilles Islands, Brazil, and the Atlantic Ocean, Tass said.
Travel Award
A “travel enterprise award” is to be presented each year by the New Zealand Travel and Holidays Association to the organisation considered to have made the most outstanding contribution to the development of the tourist industry in New Zealand. The award is a clock shaped like a globe of the world and carries the signs of the zodiac. Inset in the globe are a clock, barometer, thermometer, and hygrometer. Organisations awarded the trophy will retain it for one year. A hygrometer measures humidity. —(PUL)
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28562, 16 April 1958, Page 8
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