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PLEA FOR AIRLINES 'COCKTAIL CODE?
Chiengo, Aug. 30.
An aviation editor recent-
ly called on American air-
lines to draw up a "cocktail code,'
Mr
Kelle
uniform
Saunders
of
the
National Aeronautics salt serving of drinks aboard planes
"potentially a
Krave
prob-
fem" and the airlines should tua up to it on an industry- wide basis.
tu
Mr Spunders gavo his view? In an article filed "ime chart a course," published in the Air Line Pilor-official pub- Bention of the Air Line Pilots Association.
Mr Saunders said he wasn't ready to give full credence to of drunks molesting reports stewardesses, Bahting in airliner cabins,
carelessly starting
ພະ
I'
on planes. But he noted that "al ponsible
aielle captain" ported instaffers like this in a recent magazine article. He said the situation had repelied the
point where bar service
"largely 12
abroad planes is competitive sales gimmick.
Bad Publicity
“Airline "A"
announces that i
ils passengers may buy a cock- till or highball before
on a planes,
dinner
"Its Competitor, Airline_"," toon counters with an offer of
one on the house.""
"Airline, "A" then adopts
policy of the
on,
one
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1955,
From All Parts Of The World
Americans Plan From Belgrade: Search For Sunken
Rush From Rus-
From Washington: For The Tourist
Yugoslav Explorers
Cities.
sla.
From Rome: Termites
Have Invaded Many Of Romo's Historical Bulidings.
From Halifax: A Man Choo “Exilo"
"TENS OF THOUSANDS" OF RUSSIANS WANT TO VISIT AMERICA BUT...
On A Bleak faland In 'The North Atlantic.
A Fingerprint Smudge Mars
Soviet-U.S. Tourist Plans
Washington.
American- officials are look- ing forward to greatly ex- panded Russian travel toj the United States, when
Russia will let "tens of thousands" of Russians visit the United States if satisfactory financial ar- rangements can be worked out.
and if the Immigra- tion Department's finger-He said Intourist, the Soviet printing requirement is lifted.
But getting the requirement changed will take an act of Congress. Under pre- sent law, all non-official visitors to the United States must be finger- printed. However. the State Department is ex- pected to ask that this be changed.
on the house and all others on the passenger. In And so ad inaltum."
Mr Saunders said protests against drinking on planes “ure just beginning" and coull develop into a groundswell of adverse publicity and pussin ger reaction that could badly hurt the airlines."
He said he wasn't calling for "prohibition" bul there were grounds for "adopting a sensible nder which the practice code con be controlled uniformly on all the airlines.
"And this needs to be done now before the slication gots out of hand and degenerates into a scandal or a tragedy," he
ald-United Press,
Antibiotics Close Up TB Hospitals
There will be
New York.
#cure
for
Cauter by 1957, Dr. R.
Baker of the
Southern Re-
search Institute at Birmingham,
Ali, predleted,
Drugs
for the
cure of the
major types of cancer will be fount within the next 20 years," he told the seventh summer seminar on the chemistry of natural products at the Univer- sity of New Brunswick.
Ho said chemotherapy, the cure of diseases by drug treat ment, should be applied to
cancer as it had been
Buch
"out-
standingly successful gains! such bacterial diseases pneumonia and tuberculosis,
"With the advent of sulfa drugs and the antibiotics,
pneumonia
rarely,
dies from
one
today," he said. "The strides in TB treatment have been so grent that many of our im- portant sanitariums have been closing their doors for lack of sufficient pallents." United
Press,
MEET THE CHAMP!
It's Degrading recent
years, only a relatively few Russians have visited the United States. The great majority travelled as officials of the Soviet Government and therefore did not have to undergo fingerprinting, a process the Russians con- sider degrading.. Mr Vladimir M. Ankudinov, high Soviet tourist official, said last week that
a
travel agency, would set up a New York office to help Russians, wanting to travel to the United States and Americans desiring to ro to the Soviet Union.. American experts in Soviet affairs said the Russians were apparently getting rendy to lift the Iron Cur- tain enough to let a good of their
more many citizens travel abroad. But they thought nothing like "tens of thousands" the would be coming to United States.
Wealthy Russians In the first place, they said,
there are some Russians who have more money than they can use in the Soviet Union and who might like to spend some of their funds journey to the United States. These are prin-
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SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
8.16
T. Mag. U., Pot GF,
C. 1
NRA Harvias,
"The foreign news you read to me always sounds the same for varlety see if there are any good sales!"
Record-Breaking OUR HEADS ARE
Bet
Spaghetti-Eater GROWING BIGGER
Chieri, Italy,
for eating ate, one pound,
Glovanni Di Claudlo recently
a new record spaghet. He
one and a half ounces (hale a Ishlogrum) of tomato ' sauced spaghetti In one minute forly seconds and two-fifths,
the
Washington.
If you have a big head, the chances are you are pretty smart.
No guarantee, of course, but an expert said there seems to be a definite relationship between man's intelli- gence and the size of his skull and brain.
Watched by several thousand locals and foreign tourists
record was triumphantly Dr T. D. Slowart, nationally immigration cases. Experts from won the 3rd Spaghetti known anthropologist, confirmed all over the country are attend
competition at the what many have suspected for a | ing. annual September Festival held long time man's hond is getting In this small town near Turin. bigger all the time:
Trophy"
DI entrics.
In the dawn of the human raco when man possessed for "We don't know exactly why skills, Dr Stewart said, man's
Cinodio was one of six
Rules of the competition aro rigidly enforced.
A
cipally people who work on
basis, royalty
like
authors. Up to a few months ago, the United States would not have been willing to grant visan to a great many Russians. But officials said since the Geneva Big Four "summit" meeting that opposition had softened.
Restrictions
Authorities said President
Off Yugoslavia's Adriatic Coast THEY SEARCH FOR SUNKEN CITIES
Helgrade.
Yugoslav archaeologists are exploring the bottom of the sea for a chain of sunken cities off the Adriatic coast. Legend and local storytellers glo an eighth-century earthquako have long told of the lost clics, end was partly explored some and a few have been occasional-fty years ago by a diver from ly touched by divers, Borne as the Austro-Hungarian Navy, long as Afty years ago.
The explorers will also look But no systematic explora- Into Roman port installations
bo under tion began until recently, when known to