THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.
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U.S. ON THE PUSH-BUTTON-CAR Get in the right spirit
STANDARD FOR CHRISTMAS
Now York
it is
UDDENLY
Christmas. A little premature, perhaps, but then Americans like to be ahead in every- thing.
The long line of Christ- MRA trees which marches down Park Avenue was lit this week as the master switch was pressed, and choristers sang outside the famous Red Brick Church. Appropriately, anow begun to tall just before the ceremony, and the city is garlanded white.
in
THERE'S PLENTY OF PETROL AND FREE SERVICE. TOO
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125. rear
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The laicst Detroit model longer, wider, lower, and cost- liar. It has even more chromium plating than before and spe1 İN Europen s Jel-type
the might consider some of models in doubtful taste,
Almost everything is push-
There bution controlled electrically operated door locks.
windows. xower-vented
IDDON'S
eral Motors, ficnry Ford, and Walter Chrysler, expect to sell 6,000,000 vehicles more than
next year'.
the to
sleres the shoppiet consisten: Bad PUS- beam
the tained: but
sunt last- minute rush is expected.
Women eudiomers outnumber Une men by about six to one.
there six- although
special shopping depar- "men only" ments.
arc
The lights are being left on
offices
way power seala, and, of course. to furm in skyscraper
push-bution transmisi10. and all the de-
huge crosses,
partment
FLOT VA
have
elves,
been
and
decked with Christmas wreathe, figurines, angela,
goblins.
The most spectacular Christ- mas show is as usual in Rocke-
feller Plaza.
The promenade is lined with
giant red cartes
And
ان
white candy- built On
a carpet coloured lights and leading 19 the mammoth tree, which looks as if it is decorated with year's rainbow balloons,
1957 models
last
The symbol
"THE motor car is the bulge- THE
backbone ol bearer and America's Industrial civilise- tion,
The L
symbol of American affluence und never has
and power
it been glossier
and more dazzling.
On the first day of the show
of cars £125,000 worth
There is,
Wha
sold.
probably 19 you know, no petiol shortage bere, The highest gasolene price is around 2. 3d a gallon. In New
Jersey and in Texus it's a low as 1. d
THIS is the "Grent Automo York it is only 1s. 10d., In New
bile Christorða,“ After 10 years the National Automobile Show has returned.
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and the new auditorium here, tho Coliseum ai Columbus Curele, a packed with people looking the 1957 cara parade.
Tho power-steered.
show
two-toned, power braked, and power-uirconditioned. There are 124 examples of U.S.-made molor cars on display.
I went there and found the Collecum mare crowded than any of the great Fifth Aventie
Fith stores - Sales
Avenue Bonwit Teller, Bergdorf Good- man, Bests, Lord and Taylor.
There's so much petrol
arc
At some stores you can hire n girl to do all your shopping ihen deliver The for you and Unsel-wrapped prosents to your apartment or hotel room.
three- BQ W (n a tra
chinchilla coats quarter-length
costing from
from
Dr
tay
Maximian £2,054, mansea of minks £1,071 to £3,213.
There
flagons ns much perfume costing
30; ritinstone-trimmed cash- poodles and for ntert
Jewellery that duchghunde: renges from £33,000 star dia- moods to 3s. "junk" gems.
A
Spectacular
DIARY
★
The whole elly
and alows gleams. It is shot with colour. it is very, very rich.
Thun ever
New York merchants tel me more money is in the hands of Christmas shoppers before.
the public
in diving And
In- deeply into hire-purchase. stalment credit this year has risen almost $2,000,000,000.
From all over the country-
Pittsburgh. Chiengo, Cleveland, Denver. Los Angeles-Christ-
mas business is booming.
Bonuses will be even bigger, particularly in Wall Street, than an last year. It is routine for American drm to give its eme ployees a month's extra salory as a Christmas bonus, Broker- age Arms are giving as much us three months' exira salary.
of
1.5
on giving.
all send that there has tree ist zametacute jewil of
In
a price war in Texas. outer areas of New York State manny Karages uffer free lubilen tion atx wasting 10 the cus- tumer who buys ten gallons of petrol.
America will be on wheels this Chaustinus as never before There are 32,000,000 cars American roads this year. und every one in three people, ins cluding children, owns a t mobile,
un
mammoth diamond angel in the bed by a polden wet dow of Tiffany',
The cuts melodious with The from soud of rattis pealing
the department ampilfers in stes, and the chimes of church bells.
St Patck's Cathedral and St are drawing Thomas Church erta die I base any of the stines along Fifth Avenue, now known as the platinum-plated The moguls of the motor car trade, Harlow Curtice of Gen- Midway.
ACROSS ANTARCTICA:
U
THE SECOND PHASE
By Christine Ross
NDER the leadership
of Dr Vivian Fuchs, the main party uf the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition is now On the high seas in the motor vessel Magga Dun, hended for Vuhsel Bay.
This marks the beginning of the second stage of the three-year programme for crossing the Antarctic con- tinent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sen via the South Pole.
The first stage began in November 1966 when the
Expedition sailed for the Antarctic in the Theron, and established a base near Vahsel Bay which Dr Fuchs named "Shackleton,” memory of the explorer
in
Dr Vivian Fuchs (right) and Sir Edmund Hillary discuss
the route to be taken by the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition.
who, as early as 1914, made
herole but unsuccessful after them, for they are housed completely isolated, except for
in snow tunnels welt below the rudo communication. surface, where the temperature
다
attempt on the 2,000-mile crossing.
When the rest of the Ex- pedition returned to London
prepare for the
to
stage in the long and ar- duous programme, in which everything foresecabla must to the be planned down last detail, eight men re- mained behind to prepare the base for the return of
fairly remains degrees Fahrenheit,
The rest of the Expedition steady at 10 winter at Shackleton, pre-. tho 2,000-mile paring
Three Stages be fitted.
DUT in spite of all these hard-
for
com-
On May 4 the sun set for the journey straight across the con- of the South dreary Antarctic winter, not to nent by way next
must be accom- again undil mid-Augus, Pole. This
four months t they and caselessly the wind blew, plished sweeping great drifts of snow are to get clear of the Ross Se over their improvised hut, and before another winter closes in. attering the face of the land- And into this c01 too short in- intensive scientific scape almost nightly.
period
must vestigations and restrach
Meanwhile, the New Zealand the main party in the new ships, the eight men have support party, led by Sir Ed
muzad Hillary, left Wellington year of 1957. In addition, succeded in accomplishing much this week in the New Zealand they had En exacting of what they set out in do, and naval vessel Endeavour for the Rous meteorological programme, Dr Fuchs has recently said that McMurdo Sound on the radio
if the Expedition is successful Sea. There they will establish communications to in crossing the Antarctic
Scott Base, and another depot Polo, maintain, ground and air tinent the men of the advance 300 miles nearer to the reconnaissance to carry out, party will have made
Thus, the crossing party will imve depots bovering the and the huskies to feed and possible.
The second phase of the en- and last 300 miles of the tend.
terprise will begin when the journey, But for the rest of the self- Murga Dan reaches Shackleton 2,000 miles they must be
about the middle. of sufficient. base
A Storm
BUT before they had time to Jentesey 1937. Time la alt a
'It o' tractor, much
All the cool and 148
Doral wad
tort
Joining Up
A party and
first
aemove all the stores and portant in the Antarctic la between equipment to the base, site, a the norm broke up the sea-ice so winter and winter. That is TT is hoped that Dr Fuchs
crossing that it drifted away, taking with who is being done in thece Hillary will meet somewher
that of Sir Edmunt. of the con Unent Is
spread over three yours, in the region of Mount Albert The main rat and the huge. Markham on or about Now The lous of the fuel left the transmitter will probably, have Your Day 1058. After that and travel eight men very,
much at
at the boes built before the arrival of they will join up sme and tón » first Intense cold which the Magen Donoho mercy of the
together on at Jenet ono occasion, reached purch
of the routo
Routh reconnoltred by arian minus: 635 thegrees Fahrenholt.
miriando New
dog <denty Their long vigil has been spent stedges. The dext step will be weak in February, if all
· đây-in-hing Intyre, kebbverted to natablishunnediyor, briso. 300, inecording sa igrwiildembark Puding: dome, 20 ya + miles to the southDéput
by
100
w
about the
plan. There the
on the fast jumping-off place without delay for New Zeala
which the for the crossinu u Here, threa [which]
for the final stage could four men, will be left for the departure and returns for depend do not share the dia- wicker, to...: muriy out” metagro-entary box
of the men who look touted work, They willy
Everywhere the emphasis
is
The Elgenhower-Dulles policy of being cool to Britain, and France from been abandoned after alx weeks, and thêre is positive compulsion herb to pour. out several million dollars to Europe.
Some Americans
say: "Per- haps it is to salve our con- science."
Elenhower wanis 10 give. Nixon wants to give. Dulles
lend: wants to give-or
but Secretary of the Trocsury George Humphrey would like to balanco his budget,
Pickets out
ot the United
ONLY OVER
Nations, known sardonical-
ly as the divided nations, have I found the Christmas epirit lacking.
the Rusalan, and Egyptian head- quartery 'on' Park Avenue.
of
The outstanding feature the U.N, today Is that it in runbig brown. The Coloured in the General Assembly of the 70 nations. outnumber White.
the
The delegates of the West the big and handsome Cabo Lodge Junior, the elim Sir Plerson Dixon, who looks like the the late Leslie Howard,
from burly Sir Leslie Munro New Zealand, Sir Percy Spen- der of Australia, and their cd- visers, are swamped by tide from Asia and Africa- and South America.
the
I find Broadway much more stimulating
UN. than the dower. Times Square is 30 bright you would think it was on fire, and 42nd Street blazing like the Strip at Las Vegas.
A
Ethel Merman, who belts out There are no Christmas a song like a stevedore, is the decorations so far in the big latest hit in "Happy Hunting."
I don't think Ethel has had glass building. Because of the diverally
among flop in a quarter of a century, of religions the delegations no formal cele at least in comedy. bration of the birth of Christ is planned.
There are groups .of angry pickets outside the UN. head- us there are outside quarters,
The Old Vic company is play- and ing to packed audiences, "My Fair Lady" will probably run for ever.
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