DON’T LOOK UP NOW

Press, 7 December 1985, Page 18

DON’T LOOK UP NOW

By

WHIM WHAM

in a joint statement the Minister of Tourism, Mr Moore, and the Minister of Civil Aviation, Mr Prebble, said that, over-all, more than 20000 visitors would come to the country next year for a once-in-a-lifetime view of Halley’s comet... steps designed to turn New Zealand into a world box seat for comet chasers .. —News.

The Comet swept the Sky, Its fiery Track Terrified simple Souls, not Edmund Halley, ‘lt’ll be back’ He told Them, and so It was, Four times since Then! That scheduled Flight being due Next Year, again, The 1910 Spectacular Was never like This — New Zealand’s own heavenly Fireworks, You just can’t miss! Book at your Travel Agent For the Mike Moore Show, Halley predicted Nothing like this Centuries ago — Simple Seventeenth-Century Folk Of the Hoe or the Hod Saw in the Thing the Death of a King Or the Wrath of God - We only polish our Telescopes, We don’t turn pale With Fear and Dread, we observe the Head, We measure the Tail — In the Star Wars Age, who’s afraid Of the big bright Comet? Rather some Crisis in our own Devices, Than Anything from » — Could any of our Missiles blow it up, Shoot It doiyn, or bomb it? i