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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, -1956..
Taking you into the lives of men
who are your neighbours-and yet
|
almost a race apart... into
apart...into the homes of women who face The Invisible every day
THE SK
PEOPLE
The real-life serial
serial by
Second Day
by Tom Pocock
Another one
These wives must try to tolerate the violence of modem fight, if not to be excited by It. They must listen to endless talk of the air: American rockel- planes; tho Vulcan cron; hydraulle and manual controls: the Gnat light fighter.
Even at the fireside they must often face a husband intently building a toy Hunter from a make-il-yourself kit. They always remember that in their husbands work a mistake that will cause another man to be down £10 in his eccounts could cost her man his life,
happen?" Personal sorrow is hejmetically sealed into the sub- conscious and the tollc is all of cockpit checks, 'oxygen supply, and escape procedures.
Plots will say that they all think: "It cant happen to me."
Baders? No
the tuce of risk, what makes these Mea fly7 Patriotism? Love of speed? They find it difficult to put into words.
One told me: "No, I don't love flying-but after a week on the mound I'd give anything for a trip in a Hunter."
So there they are. Not Rupert Brookes, not Lawrences, not Baders.
Just plain, ordinary people doing 门 extraordinary job. And that. I think. is what
TOMORROW
That is the inviable, immove abie barrier that separates the Air People from us The fact that death may come without warning. with obliterating in stantaneous violence. Fatal accidents may not be frequent, but they are there-always to be reckoned with.
News of death in the air is maloes them so wonderiAN. received
by plota without aign of emotion. It's just; "I'm afraid we lost Alee last night." S coffee bars go it He is not a fashionable Angry by
Or if the dead men is not known to them: is not smart. There Young Man. Rather, he seems profers vodka Instend
"One of the akin 10 A down-to-earth with tonic water,
remember 10 particularly Hunters went in." Occasionally no tartan-
Kingsity Amis hero. Ho ia A craze for gardening outside in orva squadrco which, the remark is deliberately and trousered girls, no
representativo
ot his the squadron offices may be although one of the last still brutally flippant: "The pilot? countrymen than the idealistic replaced by one for cruquet. equipped with obsolete Meteors, Oh, he's just a holo zebra-striped sofas, and no
ini knew The squadron's life in the air "leng-haired boys" who died
that it was the best ground.” soft plucking of a guitar.
with Richard Hillary, who and on the
After the question, "Who was ground revolves squadran in Fighter Command scribed them so movingly in about the personally of its com- and tirelessly produced statistics it?" comes, "How chid it The La Enemy."
mander. His age will be about of air-to-ak fring competitions 35-although he may appear 10 to prove it, years older and he may welt be the only one of them wear campaign ribbons.
A
are
Instead, there are tired young men in slute-grey flying suits, shabby arm- chairs and, outside, the howl and boom of Sapphire jet engines.
G
The coffee
Dar caters
OVCT-
more
The fads
intellectual
suddenly sibility to an unsure and possibly
of gin nervous youngster.
to
His flight commanders too will scem experienced and mature already men of authority at 27.
CONÊ with the ex-aghter pilot is the gay spark clusively for pilots of Fighter who flew for fun. Both have The pilots themselves usually Command, R‚Á‚F.
followed the Black Prince's Join the squadron from the fly- archers
and Cromwell's Iron- ing schools at the age of 20 or sides into the history books. 21 and remain with it for two
Drinking half-pinta of bilter and a half years. in the mess bar, the fighter of 1950 could be cager pllots
students. The sarac medica
goloty spontaneous
on the surface, the deep Bense of responsibility beneath.
Most
is customers lounge anong
tter of flying boots, dowing ashtrays, helmets
and oxygen masks, litered maga- On zines and parachite packs, the walls
silhouettes of Ruslan bombers and Brigitte Bardot. And the talk is on one subject: flying flying flying.
re
are
The arrival
of
an
ដល
The wives
pUGHTER pilots marry young. Two-thirds of some squadrona have wives living on the station These in nearby villages. whts have to come to terms with the demands of flight.
(
are
to
The
The New
Orient Express
BY-ELECTION POST-MORTEM
MELTON WAS A COMPLICATION
THElection
HE result
By LES ARMOUR
London. difficult had Mr Nutting been of the by employed to eat his own words. Certainly, is case would have at Melton sounded less convincing.
He, therefore, resigned from The Government, as The Times the Government but not from
his seat. dinner Was always spoiling political correspondent put 龌 "disagreeable when Brian was late down. So it, now we have stey when he's
shock." flying so it's always ready."
After his resignation, he asked.
As other wives hear their husbands starting the car catch the 8.15, these wives must Iloten to the rush and roar of starling
gas turbines, which, bafore
they can boil an egg. VASUALLY, ¤ squadron com- can thrust their husbands into
mander described the pro- the stratosphere.
"Chap How do these women face up These are the heirs to "he
school cese grammar
nasimilation:
It? Few" of 1940. These are the boys. One or two pilots in the arrives here full of the joys of to
Thinks he's
Some are non-committal: "It's young men who fly the Hunter squadro
have passed spring may
Just another job," and "Ok, must have come to the a few will fighter boy. fet lighters,
widely through Cranwell, nec
I'll get used to have come
"We knock the nonsense out suppose thought to be too fast and too
elementary from
proctical: the of him and he should be battle- Some powerth for squadro plots to schools and the ranks of the control.
R.A.F., and, here and there, a worthy in six months."
There is, of course, so much bo men famous pubile school muy
more to it then that. The over- represented.
worked and hackneyed words But in gliter squadrons, leadership, loyally, and team- One was almost poetic. She The Conservative major. in the Foreign Legion,
social spirit.
The gradual build-up of said: "It has made very ity dropped 8,418 votes to a background counts for little.
mutual confidence.
conscious of the sky."
marginal 2,362. If Con- A mon is judged on his
You can see it in the eager- Conscious of the sky
Under these circumstances, qualities as on avlator and o
acse with which a newcomer the sailor ashore remains conservative votes across the companion.
offers 10 make the coffee. You scious of the sea beyond the country dropped by that Mr Netting decided that he
As mouth. Just The squadron leads a corpor-
the thoroughness harbour can see In
the proportion in a general elec should resign his sent as well.
Many people in Melton appear ate life. On the surface
this with which a dozen pilots will soldier automatically
tion, there could only be 4 to think that he was treated potential battlefeld 自 represented by fashions and count and re-count hits on
handful of Conservatives very badly. In some ways Jie is very, fods.
One squadron festoons its drogue largel spread out on the landscape. very different.
So these people In others he is coffee bar with the severed ends grass, long after they could have
left in the House of Com- wandered off for a glass of beer and lunch,
These are the
young upon whom, u the last resort, the foreign policy--and possl- bly even the existence-ot the British nation depoids.
The new men H®
TOW does the modem fighter
pilot compare with those men of 1940?
much the same.
The fighter pilot looks behaves like an intelligent, imaginative, friendly, and dinary young Belton of 22.
and
was
or-
M
ir
of malo visitor fies and female visitors petticoats.
Another favours desert boots. Captain Queeg's catch-phrase, "I kid you not..." Is adopted
You can see it in the way a sqoudron commander will pur- posoly give a position of respon-
mo
"
Just as
aces
in
live
every
with
the sky. They watch the shirt- ing patterns of the clouds, the sirength and temperature of the wind, and the colour of sunset.
SHARKS? What
cowards they are
London "Oo-16-13," she laughed, "I
M E. Simone look at them in an anti-shark
they are cowards at
Cousteau, 85-year-old, but Most
heart.
fish are
more
-says
wife of underwater frightened of me than I am of Madame
explorer Jacques Cousteau, them."
gazed out at the Thames Mme. Cousteau has just
from her suite in the Savoy returned after ten months on Cousteau Hotel and said: "I am much the high ces alone with four-
more nervous about flying teen others, all
back to Paris
than
men. Sho travelled 80,000 miles through the Mediterranean, the Red Sea,
I have ever been of any the Persian Gulf and the Indian
.....
the
thing under water." Mme. Ocean, on board the research and had to cat turtle eggs and Then Cousteau begins to catch Cousteau. had flown over ship Calypso,
the then even the turtle itself. The up on sleep. from Paris
during
to see the making of her husband's fim. taste? "Rather like bad beef," tiring. I usually need 12 hours
premiere of her husband's Cannes Grand Prix winning film, "The Stent World."
Her underwater started
when
cárecr sie plunged Into marriage at the age of 17.
by SABAH. ROTHSCHIEND.
On their honeymoon the and Sho does not appear in the
her husband were swimming
with goggles in the Mediter in herself though she dived ranean. Looking around at the every day 100t, with the 14 strange world of fish and wear, aqua-lunged frogmen,
Jacques Cousteau wondered "They did not want anything what more there was to discover to distract attention on the In the implumbed depthand,
h?" Madame, explained. "One
said Mme. Cousteau. 11
"Diving is very
sleep after a busy day under the sea." Finally, they had to eat o
Thla glant grouper,
Wils #a
The Cousteaus have two cousin..of. Ulysses"--the name children, aged 18 and 18, who they gave to a fish which be- "are studying at the Lyceo In came so tame that it would not Paris. They learned to dive leave the divers. Ulysses plays almost before they could walk.
important o porte in EMA Couricati's film, ind
an
"dolistrund, vý
When his son was five years old Couteati bucked him under Aboard the ship were several his arm, descended 20 feet in household, pets; a Portuguest, the act, and let him go "Ever salda Madame ing dog which hime Cour since leau bought in Madeira, a Courteau, Philippe, has been
cat with blus
blue eyes,
Mme Courteau's conversa a monkosy
tion stopped bruptly lice dr out of a ge We orizo had a wild pig as a and an anxious logic came into frightened, away and stop the mascot but I was, wastindi over- bersyos -“Fish, have very definita divere obecavation. All food
mo characters, she told me, "ook for, the trip was stored in a deep, poles are like dogs, Hay/hive freeze, and cooked by one you
reactions Octopuses the crew??
He has spent most of his lifa strict rule aboard the ship was condo wa called - "Hubblou a very good, swimmd Nad
since then finding out, hime, that no fish were to be apeared Cousteau has been finding out or enter, in case they would be. with himOMAN
are the but.
Aby hung
mons.
But the unpleasant feelings of the Government probably do not stem from fears that that will happen
Melton is a special case.
The
question it must be asking itself is: Just how far are the condi- tions existing in Melton likely to be duplicated in other consti- tuencies?
Some of them are not repeat able.
Resignation
The by-election was caused by the resignation of Mr Antheey Nutting
his local Conservative Associa ilon not to take any action, until
he had time to put his case to them. They ignored his request and passed a motion of no con- ndence in him.
Opposition
The situation was also com- plicated by the fact that there was some local opposition to the
now
Pike.
candidate, Miss Mervyn
In all, as many as 10,000 Conservatives stayed away from the polls. The Socialist propor tion of the vote went up, but the Socialist vote did not. They ta important.
it is impossible to say whe-
many Conservatives starea away because they opposed the Government's polley. No doubt some did.. But which polichick they oppose? Did they oppose the Intial Intervention in Suez or did they oppose the decision to withdraw from Suezt
Mr Nutting was a clever cod conscientous Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and the sor of man whom even his politicol enemies found it difficult to dis- and
And, it some oppose one the other, did the some Government lose the votes of
fee, thermore, he was la a par-' both groups or only of one, I
ticularly difficult situation. His
the
which? Catter
major job was to represent Bri No doubt the Conservative Lain in the United Nations. In Centrul Ofice will do its best to this capacity, he had constantly find the answers, urged other people to obey UN. · But one thing does seem rea-
zonably
Conservative decisions.
When the Government acted voters in Melton did not like ever Suez he felt his situation seeing their MP deposed by the had become intolerable. It is, local Conservative Association. indeed, arguable that the Gov- No doubt, there
are many ernment's position would have Conservative leaders who been made considerably more privately glad to discover that.
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