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ITALY FINDS
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1955.
Hydrogen
WEALTH IN AN Churchill et Cie.
OLIVE GROVE
From
Conrad Allen
Alano, who discovered the Ajanno
I may soon transform field,
Othe
strategic and economic position of Italy, till now short of industrial power.
Oil was the wealth Mus80- lini sought so hard. But, even with dictatorial force, ho failed: and Italians al- most gave up hope of being
rich.
Now il to ghing at the rate of 400 long a clay fres well drilled in an elive give I Alunno, a anal, eey village overbaking the Adria- he harbour at Pescara
vale is staying by any statutard Ju Wars fabulous. Middle East held, a well tis day. produced 700 even Dere that as exceptional.
At Atunites, 31 IS CUMAR fata depth of 2,190 feet under strong, stendy pressum which makes pumping unnecessary 11 4 high grade 39 API der alter experts
Airt
The Alan The hat 11 toeel the whuje of Haby needs SIX milli lang of petrol a
This is
art ly
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Enormous Pool
Reologist
די
Y
Landovas
With Hatschiller beside me, I watched ihe toiling peasants
ccasionally to stare at the shiny American
heivy af e lucks lecherc£ with machinery, at the huge derrick rearing up against the classically beatitiful Jandscupe
who for
A people
centuries have tended olive groves, They sarrels groped the signifleance
m
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and who ure how In- vestigating dozens of other sites along the Adrialle.
They Chat Italy Armly believe
be ranked пя son country,"
wifi
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Alano follows the discuVETY 47 after the war of great qualities of methane (natural K) in the Po Valley by AGIP, as the state-controlled Azianda Generale Italianu Petroli com
joy s kruwn,
The sources were rapidly de- veloped, and the gas now map- of les power for 15 percent the country's Industries.
That was airendy a big ad- VEICO
First Strike
Then, same muha ngo, the Amerie REA Te strike in Sletly.
'
their
#rst wells Turee DET Ragusa by the Half Company, a subsidiary of the Standur Oil Company, arsy
about 100 now yielding stally.
{
toni
by piso
The British, represented
Company. D'Arey for oil u Stely. But it was JXHA Dude much pumping to be brought to ther surface So the well was
Uz dened
closed and the company.
elwhore,
And now the AlaringE
Lo
Fict
strike
-confirming the rostent dreunits
of the geologists.
az.
Aut th resale the off rush ka
AGIP 1 Italiaz:
Company the whole Po moregoli Valley which, according to ex- ports, contatos not only gas bat als at quantities of oil.
But the rest of the country is still open to the world's big Concestis. Britt American well as Fernch, Dutch and Berman Pables are
Italy
its
tesling experts
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Uuter
fect
Signor Kalschille autod. Was 2031 oven flowing
On the Roane stock exchange ll "Within Ave years, Italy the shares of vald gedneries ar will be alde te export oil. The ning The Communists are This ey blare as fall of the stuff
100. Chaeteristiendly, woll will tremebered In they Imunched
rampaign history," he said,
urging Catholle Premier Mario Follow Mossadegh's
Signor
lu known Sccup
what he is talking till, Hexample in Persiu: to nation-
Ratschiller
Is
ofte of the
team of
American and Italian
seientists
X alise the country's oil, starting
with AlamOS.
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the Sunshine Trail, DON IDDON finds
FAMILY OF MILLIONAIRES
Big changes on the beach where Campbell made news......10 mph was my Daytona speed limit
T
Daytona Beach, Florida. Girls in many instances came for beauty competi- E sign said: "Drive here on the beach where long or perhaps in hope of bag- ging 30 millionaire, and men Sir Malcolm Campbell were drawn to the get-rich- broke the world's speed quick State and often they end up slinging hash or jerking recard" and I pased πιν
Buick through the tunnel
Issenay
Hotel right on
sodas
IL
under the big Princess Florida today describes itself
who playboy
13 ΠΟΥ to us
been told mature. I've
over and over again: "Tourists aren't the
and beginning
end of
the bench.
Another sign said: "Speed Florida's economy. limit ten miles per hour." So
"We need them, We want on this magnificent stretch them, we will take more.
of hard white sand where we earn a lot of our money Sir Malcolm Campbell drove other ways."
close to 300 m.p.h. I had to crawl. Beach police on motor-cycles saw to that.
Citrus kings
In
1933, at
Remember? Daytons, Campbell In Bipebird did
Str Malcolm
272 m.p.h
People
park
their But where
in yachts or cabin cruisers in their
back gardens.
NEW crop of million- atres has sprouted
tena
Fort Lauderdale publicity drummers say: "Do you know another town where 5,000 citi zens park boats in their back- yards?"
town
For Lauderdale has five miles of of public beaches and almost as many miles of canals, all man-
I've never seen such a broad dead-straight ribbon of sand as
I don't know another and Daytona's, which is 23 miles they
are not the gamblera which bas 5,000 people who own long and court, wide at low tide. in property who made boats,
paper profits in the roaring real Sir Malcolm is well remem- estate boom in the twenties that bered here and so are motor- blew up and
ruined ing reporters who used to come
thousands of people. from England to all the way cover the speed attempts
Florida's new millionaires are citrus men-frozen orange juice the juice are and grapefruit most blessed discovery that ever happened here.
At the Princess Hotel the bar man sald "Yes. Sir Malcolm was very popular. He used to drink champagne, but not, of course, on the nights before he drove. Reporters weren't quite 50 popular "
A bargain
THEY still have racing
83
New-old fight on the world enigms.
The 'Napoleon'
Who Waits
In
T
Moscow
-By, PETER KIRK
HERE la pattern in revolutions which should not be overlooked. Consider this:
A popular rising takes place against an auto- cratic government. A liberal lender emerges, but he does not have the ruthlessness to rule a country in chaos,
A more extreme party takes over and for a time an extremist dictator (but yet a man of some humanity and brilliance) becomes the leader. Soon, however, he gives way to a harder man, a man cold as ice, and the revolution devours its children.
way.
All those capable of opposition are put out of the
His rule is long but inevitably it must end, and the men who succeed him are like pygmies compared with him.
They decide to end personal rule;' there must be government by committee, but the people are not accur- tomed to this. They know only personal rule and the government soon gets into difficulties.
•
•
The one stable force in the country the Army takes over power.
Yet through it all there is one man who is constant the Foreign Minister.
Do you recognise the pattern? Isn't it what has been happening in Russia sinco 19177
And yet it is not Russia, or what has happened there The events I since 1917, that I have been describing. have in mind took place in France between 1789 and 1797, and the result was Napoleoni.
The parallel le astonishing.
Kerensky,
There are, of course, minor deviations. the liberal Russian, is still alive, while Mirabeau, his French counterpart, died of a broken heart.
Lenin and Stalin died in their beds, while Danton and Robespierre, the French equivalents, went to the guillo- tine.
the
Bame.
But despite these differences, the formula
The Army is taking over Russia. Under our eyes, the Revolution of 1917 is reaching its ultimate fulfil- ment
The heroes of the "great fatherland war." as the Russians call their struggle against the Nazis from 1941- 1945, are trooping to the seats of power.
•
Brought back into prominence from which he has been ex- cluded since the end of the war, la Marshal Koniev.
We have Nikolal Bulganin, the master planner and brilliant administrator, as Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.
And hard on his heels came the great commander in the Deld Gregory Konstantinovitch Zhukov, the conqueror of Berlin and the only man whose popularity once rivalled that of Stalin. He is now Minister of Defence,
Who, then, is the "Napoleon"?
I belleve it is likely to be Zhukov, the key figure in the astonishing events which have taken place in Moscow so recently.
SANDY THE BOY FRIEND TINKLES INTO HISTORY
London,
SLIM, darkly hand- some man of 80 in a scarlet pullover sita made, with trim green banks, over a midget piano in a Swiss Cottage basement. He plam trees, and orange groves,
talks gravely and tidily, Its beauty is breath-taking, like a classics schoolmaster.
stores of New and the luxury York, just as they moved into
I perch on a divan bed and Worth Palm Beach's
Avenue branch shops in he sings, through a cold, A aong about Sweet Jane (who
It is a mixed blessing as far have set up as the visitor is concerned, and Fort Lauderdale. canned orange juice served to
orange groves where I could which is growing bigger and have reached out and pulled an richer. orange off the tree.
me in restaurants right besido It is a very rich little town hasn't got a lot of brain),
Ten years ago its popu-Jane Seymour,
Jane, I gather, le history's and the Today lation was only 18,000.
Core
One ot
it is 58,000. There are perhaps young man has just spent eltrus - processing plant more millionaires to the square 10 weeks writing a musical
out foot in Fort Lauderdale than
Dade City can turn here, and Daytona Beach's enough fruit producta
in 24 any place outside of Texas You Comedy about her husband, "Speed Werk" has started. I shall hours to fill three 60-car goods do not have to own a yacht, but Henry VIII. "It will cost not be here to see the racing, as trains. It is the biggest in the It helps socially.
about £25,000 to stage," ho says calmly. "I think of call-
I'v received a "hurry-up" call to world. Florida's famous Lyken return to New York,
family headed by John Lykes, are the owners.
Wall
It has been orna Interesting 2,500-mile trip, and if I want to The Lykos Steamship Com- fly or go back on "The Orange pany is also the biggest under Blossom Special"-streamliner the Stars and Stripes. similar to the Twentieth Con-
Pleasant change ing it 'Oh, Henry."""
HIS wonderful town of water
ways doesn't want any part of Jacksonville's industries or even
at
The idea is to put it on Drury Lane, the first English show there fer ekht years.
soulds a crazy pipe-dream tury Limited—which takes 24 I was told at the Chamber of Daytona Beach's motor races. In this frugal fint. A shopping- hours to New York, garage men Commerce office: "If you want It is quite content with its bag hangs near the
paraffin here will drive my car back for
satistics we can give them to yachts.
stove. But the little card Inked 75 dollars.
the members of the
up by
doorbell you. The 83
outside St Augustine has a different reads: WILSON-Please press Lykos family are each worth more than £2,000,000,
enchantment. It is not merely hard. the oldest elly in Florida but it is the oldest city in the entire United States, and it la un- spolied.
This aceme to me quite a
the bargain,
drive down coat 40 dollars in petrol and oll alone, apart from my expenses staying at motels and for meals.
I've found that people in Florida are very hard to please --nore so than New Yorkers,
Breath-taking
CHECKED on his figure and
.
It seemed to me
its people
Unchanged
By JOHN BARBER
He kicked so hard they shut enough, a limousine, a Mayfair
him out of rehearsals, He is flat, and 15 Savile Row sults.
still unhappy about the New Sandy tas no car. He belongs York production. He regrota
to no art clube. On his few bitterly that he will never know nights out, he eats in Soho. "If Broadway would have liked am not acquisitivo-I don't care the show as he wrote it. for antiques and things."
In
all
He likes reading novels, but
things Alexander he borrows them from a circu- Galbraith Wilson is a Scot, His He is vaguely dourness, his caution, and his lating library. thinking of getting a house in charm are almost Highland Ho Hampstead, but is leaving the is arrogantly sure of what ho wants. Which is not to say bo choice to his business manager.
is concedted,
How did he celebrate the succes of his lovely show? He redecorated the kitchen.
Unhappy
لمراد
Ha won' a scholarship to Harrow, another to Oxford, tried acting, then decided to write.
At the Old Vic school he learned
stage technique. His songs were first heard in Jack
2 "Oh, Henry will have a full Waller show, "Caprice." .It orchestin and chorus," he died before reaching London, murmurs. "A cast of about 40. but not before teaching Bondy
It about notons" Oh, mode,
temperaments, won't be an operetta, or 'Merrie midnight rehearsals, and all tho England'-Ish. Neither will be foam and fury of putting on a a hotting-up of the Tudors-you show. know, with a hoy-nonny-no and a boop-a-doop-boop," hate that.”
The style?
I'd
A few days ago Sandy! packed his papers into the synthetic leather briefcase he bought in New York Alexander Kortia's mansion in and went to Sir
Kensington Park Gardens.
"Bang!
Black Crows
All ho can think of now is. watches for it none too kindly. Show' business "Oh, Henry,"
He knows everybody will ba sitting like binck crows waiting He took a lift to the first door for him to put both feet wrong. and there, wurrounded by Renol and Modigliani paintings, in a "Out goes, the joint!!, cries chaste, elegant, ambasadorial Justy Henry VIII in his new The dreamer at the plane is room, he drunk coffee and sang show, after beheading w wife. found that at least 40 members were · also ancient. When 1 Sandy Wilson, nuthor-composer and played all afternoon.
In comes the sweet who are independent and some of the Lykes family are worth passed through the old city gates of the current smash-hit of times ill-mannered. There is over $5,000,000 apiece. Eighty- round the square of the walled London and New York, "The "MaggerNELficent", pusted" as ho groots her successor,
millorarbe *Can't the three
and moated city I saw hundreds Boy Friend." "Hola", earning the 61-year-old · alm · magmate.. Will the competition for
"My film lested 20 years. Now royally, or be of old men and womnes aunming round £1,000 a wock,
now musical rolgn tourista'' dollar and many wrong.
beheaded at themselves.
I know your muscal version.
Calmly, Bantly' – straps wash your car garages even
Bandy's enormous mucous (he will live as long!! Toc"Oh, sight? without charge if you buy tenMy two favourite towns in
Later I learned that the ladies sold the him rights the other Henry is based on the famous his briefcase, Florida after Palm Beach and gallons of gangline.
:.. Miami, which
and gentlemen of St Augustino are phenomenu,
"I know It is right for me,”” Their service is excellent not just cities, are Fort Lauder still wear on special becoming day) has lers him unchanged 1983 film, The Private Life of
and untouched. He lives just a Hary VIILN
"I don't know if ho antics. farthingales and knee-breeches, he did when he wives his hit an tyres checked, windshield and dale and St Augustine.
as they do in Willfonisburg/
this sume basement, a nobody, Bandy writes as he lives, not anyone will like it.”, windows cleaned, battery topped
to impross but to satiaty hla up, water and oil checked.
fierco
be
Fort Lauderdale, which is
They make a pleasant change has written the biggest midway between Miami, and from blue jeans," shorts, and Is a State of hand-" Palm Beach, and where I stayed sweaters.
Autoshow success since "French Florida
Without (Tomeu ? which proce some men and lovely women, overnight on the retten. Journey often working in lowly jobe. In north, de the Venice of the Unlled For me Florida has made amint this wig, 15. Tubembles Californias. Hinked. There is waing, womy» pleasant change all round, S
own quiet test And when WAN (The Boy" Friend?” a anybody tries to ramp-up his dash in the par or the world-was the "American – propisode of a glorious cars ducars Englated on vamping up This autumnis, with “OH, HIEN **The Bay Triand""meke: kloksgewe skulli” know......