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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1965.
Nathaniel Gubbins
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MONG the many things "We have had several časca, written about Portugal of assault recently," he said. "In because of the visit of who caso a debtor laid about a tax collector with a'fire ex- President Cravetro Lopen inguisher. Sometimes formier description of set dogs on us," there was a the lives of Portuguese pensanta who aro "always singing and smiling at their work despite a low stundard of living."
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The scene
Is the breakfast wuble of Mr Bloodsucker, the income-tax collector, Anxious Mrs Bloodsucker
trying to Another writer says they persuade Mr. B. to have another are happy because they ice of toast. never have
"Just a teeny weeny bit more, Indigestion. thanks to the large quan. seaut You've hardly touched tities of oil used in Portu- air es."*
"1 don't guese cooking
feel hungry this morning, desar"
Are you wori ving about that
factives you be tam today**
"Not exact).
Hunks the lack of m British diet mas maka sa table, work-shy.
732 ch
They k
In Portugoil
1
That's why they SPEAR.
why they sode The
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Furtubi
aly
With dark chatersheil
They do not spend
A vegaboil
With salt wat Wile
1
And would smi
the mustn't let ittle things laks Part stop is doing tak duty."
-1 woejant vad The farmer L 1. thing
"Well, no, I'm rather fond of them really."
"After they fore your trousers off?"
"Oh, that was only their fun, dear.. Big dogs are sometimes a bil boisterous. Besides, the Board has bought me a new pair of
trousers,'
"How big are the dogs?" "Some of them are very big fallown Indeed.
One is about the size of a pony."
"Is that the one that got you by the throsi?"
"Well, his fangs didn't ex- actly meet in my throat, dear. dut he knocked my ginares off."
"And
une of the other dogs ate them?”
"Chewed then up, dear, Bul The Board ixught me a new
-Perhaps
The Board will buy vou a new set of nerves."
"Nerves, deur? There's anbring wrong with my nerves.
"Then why are you putting
Im Guard tin hat?" ynu The mer says he's going
wh
thre CX- Regulshee his morning, dear."
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Father Christmas has dangerous job
Wa amit a Ne
From anything so crude and
vestles
IS NOT DAİ
Pavers who
I what
tart, CARROH!
An oven succe
think wego
Believing these be won't eat
Will som be haizont-912
It's true 落ちます
nevy
sing
する
sin le Unless
S. if our
fuil
we're full of alcohol
well-known fear of
Is chiefly due to lack of all It's only biologicail That if we cooked our food in
We'd 407951
woll With merry song and happy
strolle
be working with a
Just as they do in Portugoil
Tax hero
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The Patt
KITL-QURAN
hit ng bark
3.
tapaleisheit
a vitud ampera D
Bogotang animeasingly dih ul k.
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in with enough
1 lake on the job of
Thes
ask how he gets
a whop neve, partæularly in Tak that with complicated chandress, any he isn't let pro- deyn aireraft, and where he get the Tyr
Ex
Last year some children who bung Father Christmas at the bed read crime comics seerned
to think
bik Mores, les the attitude of
the modern child to the injustice them
of a commercialised Christmos
Fone thing there is hardly a child
ver live who believes Father (iristinas, particularly when he is not a rally, healthy old men with ruddy checks but uften seedy, thin, and querulous, wearing a shobby red dressing- kuwes everal sizes too big for nin and a white beard that any baby could see is made of cotton wol.
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Then there was the Hilie by who hurled a clockwork engine that wordda't go at a venerable head in
a cotton-wool wig. Other disappointed children were quick off the mark, and
the ancient olding a shaking or defend himself
against a bom- tordment of jigsaw puzzles that wouldn't At,
trumpels wouldn't go bang, and dolls that wouldn't my "Mamma,
"Some
that
loys can hurt when they hit you in the face," be
interviewer. ex-Sapta fold an
" isn't Claus, who Ixas resigned this
According
onc :J
car, the child of today not only aska awkward questions but is also highly critical of the toys
Christmus,
worth thy solution of the prob-
The only lem is to employ Teddy Boys.
LATION STORES
SHOP EARLY FOR CHRISTMAS
THE SPIDER
TODAY'S BARGAIN
Austerity
complete with free leash
PURCHASE TAK
World Cupyntahé by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
SWIMMING
IN THE
POOL
American Column
NOW A HEATLESS COOKER
From
Newell Rogers
HOUSEWIVES
New York.
can now
buy heatless cooking stoves price $1,000, plus three percent purchase tax. Only the food gets hot, not the oven, for the cookers are electronic.
The first electronic stove is put out by the Tappan Stove Company of Mansfield, Ohlo, It cooks egg in 20 seconds, bacon in 75 seconds.
It needs 90 minutes for A won't-as
14/b
turkey, but it yet-turn out a tasty souffle or angci cake. Engineers аге working on that,
The food gets hot due to friction crea.ed by the rays an molecules are rearranged. Thero
4,000-watt high-speed electric coll on top of the oven to blown meats, pas.rles, and casseroles. But no burners on top. All cooking is done in the oven.
Metal pots and pans Food.
are no
Microwaves bounce off them. The elec.ronic-age house- wife will cook in paper, plastic, china or some type of glems.
AVIATION
men boast that
their new jet liners will be able to fly to London in about Ave hours. United Airlines, who fly within the US, bought 30 of the Douglas DC-8 juta for 173 million dollars. They are for service by November 1959.
IN ALL MY YEARS OF REPORTING I'VE NEVER MET A SMOOTHER OPERATOR to be ready
A
Cairo.
SOLITARY swim- mer floated lazy and relaxed in the clear and sparkling water of Gezira Club's swimming- pool here in Cairo this morn ing. As he kicked and splashed the sun caught him and projected his shadow on to the white-tiled floor of the bath. It was a strange and fantastic shadow.
THE SEA of HATE
on the
By Sefton Delmer
of
Syria's Christians. Solod's work.
That
WDA
to
America
The
THAT
British
picture great "The
with Dam Bustera," Michael Redgrave and Richard The Communist Party is to-Todd, is getting the brush-off day, thanks
treatment in Ambassador
U.S.
Warner in Syrta than
distributors, Solod, stronger anywhere else in the Middie Brothers, did not even bother to
get East outside Israei,
Broadway opening. They took it over to the King Theatre in Brooklyn,
When General Naguib and Colonel Nobser made their revoluonary coup and
over- threw Farouk in 1983 Solod was in a new "laboratory."
Д
IR FORCE Secretary Donald
no such thing as a flying sauber has ever appeared in American He was occupying a suite of skies. But he warns that a lot offices in Moscow's
#nort: super aky-
people pre going to scraper foreign office building | Imagine they are seeing saucers as top secret head of the Near when some research planes now under development take the dir. Eastern Deportment.
YN Henderson County, Ken- Soviet tucky, every citizen who operations votes in next month's election newly pro- gets a chance of a 1956 car.
Both Republican and Demo cratic party leaders approve the
The children would be amused Mand
R C. T H. PLANT, of the handed out
Ly their snart answers to any Revenue Start
questions, and even more amused
The silhouette of a thick-
Western Foreign Ministers al Federation, has toli Income- They want to know the age of shen they threatened
touse
set torso with legs and amas Geneva. He has badly holed where he detectives with razor while tax collectors that the Board of Father
outstretched And waves their claim to be addressing Inland Revenue will not accept came from, if he has a wife and they filed the big pockets of the
a "position with rippling away from it in a Molotov from drearing-gowns except to meet children, und, U 10, low melly red Jegai lability,
children, their names, ages, and valuables In the
jewellery widening circle looked like strength." tums for damaged clothing
dour of their hair and eyes, department, broken spectacles, if they are
the shadow of a giant spider assandled when trying to obtain why he has
weaving a vast crystal web. that the Middle East area, whien payment of tax arreurs
store up the roud.
As was only too fitting that only a year ago-when the Bri- that the habits of the most In October 1933 Solod and "give away plan" no a meuna
brother of the
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It should do.
For Solod has demonstrated
tish were
For the stocky barrel. chested little swimmer
now an
in
professur and researcher at the university of his home town of Key for a job in the Soviet He at once decided to switch foreign service. All that is veil-
the headquarters ed with customary Soviet sore political warfare
from Beirut to the What is certain, however, is mising Cairo.
tiveness,
to of getting" more volers
BAKERIES
methodical analysis which made his wife flow out to Cairo still in Suez--way
Solod 21 outstanding take charge of operations him-poll safety under Westem control, is young
area of questionable scientist have remained to him self.
characteristics of hi reliability. That is putting it at as basic tight blue trunks was none its most conservative. By under. diplomatic and political work, other than His Excellency taking to supply Nasser with all Daniil
Semenovitch Solod, and more the Soviet Ambassador
to submarines, Cuiro.
His Excellency was enjoy ing his first swim after re- covering from ear trouble which had kept him from the pool since May,
away
of the tanks, and jet
fighters
He has sat in his various
research laboratories while ho
Doing fine
to the
in Burlington, Iowa (pop. 32,000). раз patrons five cents a loaf to tako their bread away. In a price war a normal 20 cent lost sold and, and Oze
they have been sitting for three, two
guns, embassies as though they were over since in the Soviet Em-cents, and then was free. Now Egypt has been mainly request- sifted and exatriped reports bassy, surrounded by a high, two shops offer the Avo cents
ing from the West, Solod has launched a most powerful new cold war drive against us.
Hls masters in Moscow in tend these arms they are sending to Egypt £80,000,000 worth in the first batch at bargain prices, making them the equivalent of reporting at least £200 millon at normal
I say the spider shadow is only foo atting because in all my years of political
from his agents, watched over impenetrable fence and staff of to everyone who comes in for a the progress experimental 19 full-fledged, fully privileged tree lont political cultures he had planted Soviet diplomats. here and there,
J
His patience
t
U.S. Buinmer 40,000,000 The only Western crony is his estimate that by next. next-door neighbour, the Papal homes will have TV sein on Nuncle. (Odd this? Not a bit which 100 million people may
it. flts perfectly with the new watch tho nominations of Kremlin effort to make friends Republican and Democratic pre- with the Vatican, perhaps even aldential candidates at party San Francisco
around the world I have never word prices-to light a fire of with all his academic conclude a concordat and try to conventions in
come ncross a
astuto civil disturbance and war in this area whose peace and security are so essential to the West and Western Europe in particular.
cannot more
diplomatic spider than this 45- year-old envoy from ali the Russias,
he
And the fact that with his bright, spectacled eyes brimming with an allcgether undiplomatic ration of impish curiosity does not look the least bit like a spider when he is out of the bath just
makes him all more effective at the come-into- my-parlour game.
He pounces
the
His technique
sobriety and patience you pust its pro-American \party and Chicago,
stress sufficiently' his from power.)
man of patience-be is also political Intuition, imagination, and initiative,
ROONER Frank Sinatra The tentacles of spider Solod | C announce that ho are now pushing out to Libya aigned milionaire heiress Gloria and Saudi Arabia, in both of Vanderbilt to stir opposite him The first time I came up with which young States he is eslab in his next film. Their names this quality of Solod was in Hishing Soviet embassies which have been linked romantically... Damascua To my immense sur will come under his Overall Prize I
found that Communist command,
"NCLE BILLY" ADAMS, agitators Were
the using and sincerely anti-
For the
aged 110, a former slave momcat, however, freed by President Lincoln's THOSE Czech arms and Soviet avowedly
Greek Orthodox Moscow and
Solod are сол fighters will boister up the Communist
emancipation proclamation, has their efforts on dis Church in Syria and Lebanon centruing all fanaticism
In hospital at Lancaster, ghing
lighting the fire of war here.
Pennsylvania. possessed Arabs anxious to re- as a cover for their activities.
And they are doing fine, cover homelands
from which They
In were cathing they have been
the by century-old ties between
Yes, that blissful smile on the Church in Antloch and the face of the bathing spider in Israelis.
Church in Moscow in order to Gezira Club pool is well
among justified. create pro-Soviet cella
of
driven
They will encourage others to sce in the Israeli moves the sign AN you point to some other of a new Zionist desire to ex- diplomat with a record of 14 pand and stop Arab arms, and years of patient waiting, patient, the intoxicating power they hold painstaking political analysis will whip up a Holy War fury und quick self-effacement of counter-attacks, behind him-combined with the
subtlest
intrigue
suddenly
At the same time the mere of Soviet MIG: pouncing and landing a SCTL prospect sational coup like this arms deat delivery here to Egypt and Syria between
mako
already Innel's young Ambassador will. Solod and young dictator Gamal,
Abdel Nasser?
·
influential preventive war fac- tion more eager than ever to anticipate their arrival with a
on
died
DRITISH actor William
Travers is being screen- tested for a co-starring role ‘in a Alm of "The Barretts of Wim-. pole Street."
EIGHT PRETTY MOROCCAN
GIRLS ARE QUAKING
From SYDNEY SMITH
preventive blitz now that the Eirls and their hus- for un, including his former was, offered.
from
Paris. Madagascar with only 21 con- There were no takers--th
a dowry of £1,000 each, It is a most sensational coup potential enemy is still for
NIGHT lovely Moroccan cubines.
Now all Morocco calling the sustan's 22,000,000-capital, Look what this rather inferior in equipment.
bands are wondering what enemies such as the "Old Man" donnish Ette' ma-ho is no
Thon the eight found them. more... than - Aft.
The beauty of the scheme 18 going to happen to them of the Alle the Pasta of Gina----his
Ben Youseef gets Marrakesh, El Glaoul. The in-selves husbands. But the word achieved,
Fit from the Soviet point of view whon
termediato Bultan, B4-year-old going round that they had ls that there is no reason why back. arms bact has immensely this trouble in the Middle East Ben Youssef, the pro steady announced his abdies The sultan return from exile
Ben Arafa, in Tangler, has better watch out strengthened the influence (at should not remain coilined. to the Left-wingery is the Nasir, the Middle East without involv. Nationalist Sultan of Moroc- tion and named Ben Youssef is being hallod as a victory, for Cabinet, like up and coming Dr thy the Soviet Union itself in 00, is expected to return soon as his successor. Mohamed Abu. Nosseir, recently, war. All that is required in a to the throne, appointed Commerce, Minister,
little subtle diplomacy.
are: former members of his But the only people who do And that, say the Nationalists, And who could be better harem. They refused to go with not feel easton-for Ben Yousser meshs that this is just a. kranaló trusted to assure this than little liim into exile i Madagascar is known as a hard and jealous wings he will soon be back in Daniil Semenovitch, Bolod?
man-are the the praty girls Mode in Casablanca have two years ago, have been unable to disdey did not like tying they when med to the decontra in Corblare
chose freedom.
The Tabch look, then in hand, Bearded Hörveinen bars and educated then,
Vikingatang, at through the size, KLADA
B40.Yours) 200
The doctor in arciously, proONG- ing that Egypt should line, her self up economically, with the Soviet blog. / And politically
Solod has struck a forítékel
deal blow against
The tight pretty girls? They
don.. DIR
flying,
ctly: what cireum- und
Bến
handsome miltan had ta
the Moroccans. He is being the stalled in a luxury hotel at Beauvallon, near Nica
ve
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