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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 1957..
REPORT FROM
WASHINGTON
By Alexander Broad
The Pro-missila
missile jockeys
It
E principal worry of The U.S. Army was not the Russians last week. was the U.S. Air Force.
The Air Force is riding hard on the Army.
The airmen claim that the soldiers, despite a Defence De- partment ruling that they are to handle only guided missiles with a range of 200 miles or less, has actually been pressing and planning for missiles in the 600- mile range.
Moreover, they say, the Army la working on anti-missile missiles, a fold of operation which the Air Force believes to be its own.
Worst of all, the Army has Tested 1,500-mile missiles and the Air Force believes that it has never really abandoned Ita interest in these,
This odd feud, which, though It has fared up afresh in the last week, is by no means new, stems from the dismal fact that the Defence Department doesn't dare to concentrate the whole missiles programme in one ser- vice or the other. Everybody's betting is that the next wor, if there is one, will be a missile war at the beginning and may be over before it gels any far- ther,
Thus, if one service had the missiles, the other might look redundant.
That would be politically disastrous cince every American who has ever served in any armed force sets
"In the words of the post-someono hath blundarod."
RELAX:
SU
R William Holford is a quiet, relaxed looking man with the
Sir William
is
not
out dazzle
architect's fault., Towns Planning at London University
missionary spirit.
a winning smile which once caused an eminent created by flat will take a long in 1948 and, with it, Sir Patrick's fashion writer to admit in print that he was her "favourite time to become humanised. to root for
pin-up boy".
his own service as though It were a baseball team,
The solution, accentingly, has bean sought in a long series of complicated rulings dividing
At 50, he manages to look ten years younger. This is surprising for, as planned consultant to the City of London and the County of Cambridge to name miselle operations between the only two of the commissions he holds--his job is among
the most harassing imaginable.
two brvices.
But missile offence and de- fence constitute a ringle, -
So neither tegrated problem. service has ever been entisfied that it can CAITY out its allotted tasks without pooching on the preserves of the other.
More Babies
Few Schools
No Teachers
Less Money
U.S. schools are full and overflowing. Teachers, among the lowest paid workers in the country are slowly arifting into other jobs.
L
Meanwhile, tho wartime birth boom is choking the high *chools and the ever bigger postwar boom is threatening to swamp the elementary schools,
Cause of the trouble
Education simple enough: a state matter but most of the sources of big money are in the hands of the Federal Go crnment. In many states there is just no way of raising the necessary Cust
The Administration, therefore, has been plugging off and on for a bit to authorise Federal expenditure on education. Last year's bill blew up after amend- ments were proposed which would have prohibited Federal wants to schools defying the Supreme Court's ruling on raclul Integration.
tried again.
This year the administration
Then the ruce issue cropped up again.
President Elsenhower, pre- sumably anxious to avoid start- ing a race
only row, offered lukewarm support for the bill. Last week, it died in the House of Representatives.
And most people on Capitol Hll rockon that after two de- feats Congressmen will fight shy of the issue for several years to come.
Political Post
There are, it stems, ways of making political point.
The Democralle controlled House of Representatives ved to raise postmen's pay to a whopping $4,700 a year.
The bill is pretty sure to be veloc by the President even it
It doesn't get killed by
Senate,
Despite these handicaps, Corby has probably fared a little better than most new towns.
Part of the reason is that, al though Sir William has never 'approved of the flamboyance of
by Les Armour
It is his job to balanes the PROFILE- demands of uneasy landlords, who want to make the maximumn profits from their lands, ngainst the purist demands of the aesthetes and the views common-sensical individuals who want their cities both handsome and comfortable.
of
No solution ever plooses all three.
Few manage to impress more than one.
Posterity
passes
It is largely throks to him that post-war Britain has avold- ed degeneration into ce vast urban sprawl. The concept of
community is, if die pleined scit, willana would probably be the first to admit. But, nevertheless, something had to be done to prevent everybody succeeding in
Ille making
Intolerable everyone else.
a dangerous cue, as Sir
to
for Sir William Holford
One solution would have been there will be a loud cry from the
makc
and
both building demolition state perogatives-to office workers with nowhere to for Buildings intended other purposes will then have to control everything via a liecasing cal. system from a master plan.
converted and they won't make Latisfactory
bo
From his public speeches, it is necessarily
reckons that restaurants. clear Sir William the price of that in terms of in- dividual frustration would be far too high.
but no rule
This is the way of urban degeneration. And planning authorities can do something to stop it.
any exhibits which characterise the Victorian age-he said the object of Victorian architecture his work..
was "to show a soul rising above is, for instance, his four per emt he has also barreness There Addition to King's College, apposed the stark
for often Cambridge, a delicate bionding which will know him as of the Victorian tradition and modernism.
He belleves that buildinga the men who designed the bulld- nodem requirements. ings which surround St. Paul's
It does bland; it does provide should blend into the landscape. Cathedral-17,
The job, however, requires as that is, his con-
is part of an island PLAN
much tact as imagination. Temporaries ever allow him to student accommodation; and it England
does provide for the conditions which is almost constantly under get on with the job.
of modern student life. But it cloud, end Sir William appears
Sir William, who was born in not stand on its own to believe that buildings should,
South Africa, graduated from The moming papers know him does
though to be judged great accordingly, have something of
He believes that plerming Liverpool University and then as the men who is in the thick architecture.
the Georgian mugness out of a night which has ranged over
them and contrive to look warm authorities should, where possi- studied in America and Roma ericourage rother than before beginning his practice, Buch curious ground as Wren's
There is the building he added and inviting on cold November ble,
rule. They should make avail- has both in abundance. origami intention for the arca to Eton-freakly, an economy days.
Breas for appropriate the building which looks to some a
At the recent publle inquiry surrounding St. Paul's and
Corby shows something of this building and Industrial develop- of building sky- little too much like a block of desirability
conception, too.
ment and endeavour, by spon- into the plan for St. Paul's his Scrapers in London.
with soring projects
paying bitterest opponents went away And the buildings he wants to Then there is Corby New
lowas to channel bullding doing his best to meet their ob Town. Nearly all of it is either put around St Paul's will show prospects such as the new convinced that he was, at least, something of it, Though some energies into pubilely useful Jections. It is very hard to get Sir William's work or his con-
of them are tall nothing like areas,
angry with him. but no show coption.
skyscraper dimension, but all,
FIRST
municipal flats.
of
able
And planning authorities Soon after he set up in But that was part of a general all the same they have none of
the dazzle that goes with the should, in short, use their weight practice he married Marjorie Brooks, an art student he met la Strictly speaking, neither is plan for post-war new towns.
American itica
modern to preserve some balance.
Home. They now live amid Nash relevent to the plan to provide, All of them were built to it a for the first time, on appropriate common conception rows of architexture.
Sir William, for instance, it splendour overlooking Regent's setting to a cathedral which neat, economical houses, set in Easy, sweeping lines will be worried about the decreasing Park, en area which Englishmen ranks in the forefront of men's streets cut off from main traffic; balanced by terraces and window number of decent eating places and most of the world agree 14 architectural achievements, But surrounded by plenty Sir William has proved re-rect space; handy to, but spacing which will help to make in the City of London. Restau in
them seem of managable size. markably adept at dealing with seperated from,
Sir William's real reputation, is derived from his however, trim and work os en adviser on town
plerning.
the
most obscure site developments.
of open
Industrial
over Isuca.
Corby is certainly By universal admission, he spacious. renka as one of the first ten
If It looks a little sterile and Eving architects in the world. And yet it is difficult to pokit to artificial, that is probably not
"
He took over Sir Patrick Abercrombie's chalr
of Town
Seven dandies stroll by
I
SPRAWLED in the new-mown hay gazing up at the menacing sky; at towering thunderclouds poised on the jagged mountain-range in the west, pink-tinged to- wards the sun and inky black beneath. It was very quiet and absolutely windless.
Even the UP-COUNTRY birds were hushed in
the
that torrid, by
but
凸
So it won't cost the taxpayer cont.
a cerit.
But it will make the Presl
ominous calm,
BOOT
leved that they do more good
than harm.
So now at high noon, minutes before the storm, and with low up the thunder growling valley, danced a chyrne. of dandy rippling through the dogs stubble. lllcs a long, furry make, me such a pack, naming them a
from
tho riversido chyme of dandy dogs. Dandles coming
the little things certdaly were, where there tre, many things to and radiating gulety.
cat, making for their dry and comfortable home in a tangled Scre bellevo that ferrets, hedge-boltan.
martens and nocturial, but wcasele this is not so, for the members
dent mighty unpopular with the cold wind THURLOW slots, polecats,
pos men it make sure
moun
It-and be velues
would
the CRAIG that the Congress- | down men who voted for it don't miss valley, bring- the postman's vote.
Pay for Porch
The Tuscarora Club is claim- ing $125,000 damages from Now York City,
The city built a reservoir near the club's aching rights, As result, perch and tackerol are invading a stream previously reserved for trout.
No menace
of that tribe are utterly brave THEY passed me within arm's and seldom bother to hide them- T reich and I wondered if selves.
09
ing with it a torrent to soothe the parched earth, to flow Into the
hty could read my mind
can, because drought-withered river so that
Indeed, they hunt as much by some animals every living thing would be happler. And with the rain day as by night and, like us, although my gun was there I would rise the lovely smell of seem to prefer a sunny day to never shoot weasels, and some- a dull one, for the simple reason how they seemed to know that hot, wet carth, raingling with the that, being as playful se otters, my thoughts towards them held sweet scent of bay.
they like to mix pleasure with no menace. business,
Hearing oqueaks and elucks, I alowly turned my head Not Again, although
runts are not, as to investment, taste. able to compete with office blocks.
unsurpassed
architectural
His choler of a place to live probably indicates that he will So they go under to make way go co getting along fine with the for offices. But, socoer or later, English public.
all nature was ellent, and of ally painted as murderous on me and squeals that could | - |
Wenc more
be
For they never deviated, just convention- danced by with their bright eyes course it would have to be the devils, this is an overstatement have been respectiful greeting.
for but which I fear Maybe you think that the club woneels raising their irreverent fostered by game-retters,
likely far from respectful criti-: be grateful for
But all tlle volees in ribald song, ko ncmittedly weasela ought to
samo those extra fish.
the seven dwarfs retuning from eggs and sometimes chicks, But clan of my appearance, for it
to Jeft much nose
have their dammd-mine, But the lawyers who
on the other side of the balance certainly.
of dicaired; while I have never you 42-year-old
Bright eyes
poiled off quantition they and
that atale law, which lays down the
bodevil-on a weasel who was anything smooth fur gloured this noxious pesta grounds for compensation as a result of water developments, of the smallest members farmers, and I have always be but immaculately, turned out.
I set up and watched. They of the bear family, denced gaily - reckon that the club will collect | into sight, seven of them
gained the shelter of the hedgo
• Chyma or kime war und de din few seconds before the storm -even though much of the clairn Indian fly, bringing back to mo reikter, in Gothing more than the far-off day when oli Kayle spective noun in Elsabethan lims burst in almost tropical fury,
the scythemes bed fret abermas dandy dogs te a foiktore term for, sod I was the one who tzi wali thopo-extra fish, -
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