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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1957.
IKE'S ORBIT
New York. He warned bls close friends organiser, in the Senate; and MERICA is stunned. before the last election that be very effective in the Jubbles,
curtail his would have to
lie, his wife, Pat, and their When the news of
activities, but they insisted that two children are among the the President's condition he should run, because they most popular families in the
in the lanew the Republicans could United Staten. whe announced lafe afternoon, the country win only with Elsenhower le was jolted out of its belief standard-bearer. that. Mr Elsenhower was merely suffering from chill.
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America, already apprehen- sive, and even fearful, as a re- sult of Russian galu in outer disappointed with Nice, and the President's failure to meet,
challenge or rally The c people, has suffered another
rlevous blow.
Now Americans are think- ing about lealership.
People here thought that the President was taking a day in bed to throw off the effects of a minor win- ter cold. Now, after cover-up which crities are
outstanding an "Iron Curtain Fresident, but many doubt that calling an concealment," the truth is he has the stature and prestige out. Dwight David Eisen- to take Eisenhower's pince, hower is a very sick ma
Several weeks of rest Fre absolutely essential, and there are many in New York and Washington who doubt that the President will ever take up the reins of office Arnly his
In hands again.
After all, this is his third grave liness In less than three yeus
There was the severe heart attack in Denver and the fatig convalescence,
There was the operation for Deilis and * convalescence of
several weeks.
There have bươn, too, minor bilments and noticeable hugging of energy and declsiveness,
If Eisenhower decides to carry on he will be even mote a part- time President.
Who is to lead then? Richard heer
The old wildness when he made sweeping attacks on the Democrats-Harry Truman once zaid: "Why, the little pip squcak dared to call me a Com- munist”—hus gone,
Mellowness
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Nixon, feels that Aduns, per- sonally appointed by the Presi- dent, la talding too much power upon himmelt.
"Adarps, 'an ex-Governor of New Hampshire and close friend ct Eisenhower, has, in the Vier- President's view, poached on Nixon's territory.
for power, and 70-year-old John
Does THIS MAN hold
the secret of long life?
New York.
I
knows Utto
more than the
his
have
injections brought
There is bound to be a duel A SWISS surgeon, Dr Paul Niehans, whose A.M.A. but that
patients include the Pope, Dr Adenauer, and French painter Georges Braque, believes he has discovered a way of prolonging life and keeping people youthful.
Foster Dulles, while he might try to act as mediator, is not likely to be any more effective than he has been in his direc-
ilon of foreign policy.
Nixon and Dulles are ex- pected to represent the United States at the NATO conference
The doctor gives himself the treatment, described as "cellular therapy," and is probably his best advertise- hatchet man, a self-cooker, and Paris, It is openly correde.ment. He is a vigorous 75, ruddy, bright-eyod, erect.
valuable help to several
of his
.patients.
Doctors reject the theory that cells from D kidney
sheep's Nixon, at 44, hu
"Junior"
Vler-
Everyone knows well he will try.
A man of limitless energy, a child of tho 20th century, he has side: one of the most Vice-Presidents Lu successful American history,
He has been Eisenhower's trusted and loyal lieutenant and has preckled over several meetings
The National Security Council with skill.
At first, during Eisenhower's pilsen etui, White House addes
Lief: will do."
of
wonder how Junior
Hut Nixon, despite his youth and comparatively short period in polities, hus demonstrated statesmanstilp.
4 opportunist,
No lenger.
In
He used to be described as a
that
the already shaken his second term as Vice-Prest- Western Alliance has suffered dent, Nixon has shown maturity a new blow. and mellowness.
He is esteemed in the Senato and his relations with the Pres could not be warmer or maro Jnformal,
The question
America reeds Britain mora evor as a result of the But Now Yorkert nol concerned with
He was one of the first in the Eisenhower Cabinet to realise than
exten
Russian news. of the the
when wre schlevement in rockets others were
earth just now. calling satellites "silly baubles."
The duel
Nixon, with "Assistant Prest- dent" Sherman Adams, Seery- tury of State Dulles, and Press Secretary James Hagerty, will be directing the nation's affairs during the next Tew weeks.
There is big problem bera. Nixon and Adums do not like
He has been successful as an Ambassador at large andi ns an each other.
According
to the magazine that are ecntinuously being re- Look, the Pope, 81, has had placed. When a man or woman three of Dr Nichans's injections. Hote old - may over 60 — some Dr Adenauer, another B1-year- cells fail to be replaced. old, gets them in dehydrated doctor says "A sickness of the form.
body is a sickness of the cells."
Over 300 doctors throughout Europe are using the treatment
their patients.
on
The Swiss surgeon's medical He points that formula is simple.
out that the human body in of trillions of colis
There wts strange hush composed
+ over Manhattan as people talloed about the President's latest m siin.000.
There were group around the millo and television sels la bars and restaurants and there was a big crowd in Times Square walching the electric News ticker.
The question all America is asking Is:
Can Ike COMIC back OT is this the end of Eisenhower as President? next few weeks, perhaps days, will give the answer.
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With his "cellular therapy" young healthy cells are intro- duced into the body, revitalising organs that are ailing, and thus slowing the march of old age.
will merge into
of
a man's kidney, but Nichans re- plies that 12,000 persons he has injected with
animal
DIY, PAUL KIEHANI "I've always been my firet sufnia-ple?"
cells during the past 20 years 60 per cent have been helped or even cured where other treatments have falled. This
good-looking man says: "I have always been my first Indeed, I almost THERE is nothing elaborate guinea-pig.
about the treatment. Fresh killed myself once with a new this Except for cells are taken from the bodles preparation.
înisadventure, tho animals-such
injections 03 young
have always done me the calves, ewes, or pigs-made into
of
At speed
int
by DON IDDON
a solution, and injected directly greatest good."
whose parathyroid glands had Into the patient's body.
He believes that he is helping been damaged during an opera. to win the fight Speed is essential because cancer. "In the past 25 years I
against lon. Some have the cells might die.
trented more than 1,000 Nighans found 1100 WOMBA patients are even treated at the men and more than 1,000 was sinking so fast that it slaughter houses where the coils women
the сапсет was too late to attempt the are obtained.
endangered age. They have all grafi. Instead, on "Inspiration,” Many doctors, particularly in This is no accident."
been spared cancer until now, he mashed the calf's glands Into a solution, and injected the the United States, scoff at Dr
Liquid into the woman. She Nichons's claims, The American He also claims to have cured, recovered. Medical Association announces: or helped to curo, cirrhosis, Since then Nichans
nephritis, heart allments, mata- carried out hundreds of tests **Most American physicians dies involving under-develop and experiments, and m 1931 do not believe that sufficient ment OF abnormal growth published his first paper оц data are avalable for them to dwarfsin and giantism-and cellular therapy. Justify the usc of this sub-linesses involving sexual health Today the Pope publicly en- stance on their patients. Fur and the brain.
dorses his treatment, and there example, they have yet to The doctor says his claims Is close friendship between the know its exact composition, are not sweeping and concedes Swiss doctor and Pius XII. bow the material can be that the curative powers of his The cost of Nichans's treat- standardised, its physiological treatment are not limitless. action in the body
has
ments are elastle. He may
A student of philosophy and charge a rich man $1,000 for determined by specifle tests. theology before becoming a Acties of treatments and 0 Nor is there bufficient Informa- doctor. Niehans has always poor man nothing. tion on its safety or clear-cut been fascinated by the subject
Doctor Nichana is not in- Indications for its use."
of prolonging life.
terested la money. Back in 1931 a surgeon asited interested In making Niehans is unperturbed by him to perform a graft with young and stretching the the criticisms. Ho saya he glands from a calf on a woman span of mankind.
Ke 13 the old
un-
SUDDENLY a man comparatively known jumps into the headlines as the richest American of all. His name: Paul Getty. This is Chapter Two- and moving from the world of oil wells into the world of art,
Money and Mr. Getty
by Peter Lewis
wish to call at pride of his miniature zoo.
She
investments,
Finally there is one of the shrewd art greatest collections of French though, he says, "I don't earo 18th century furniture. "We to pay unrealistic prices for reckon our collection as the anything in life." finest in the world," the direc- "He does not alan a cheque Mr Paul Getty's home shares it with two brown bears,
tor the Wallace Collection, for a work until he has found which Getty tised to box with in America, drive out of the when they and he were
Sic James Mann, told Getly. out with tremendous thorough-
Yours is No. 2. The Louvre of
nego ull he can about its sprawling city
hi Los younger, their two cubs, a white is No. 3."
tory and what. It has been sold Angeles along Sunset Boule wolf, a pair of bison and some
gazelle.
The value of cach major e Vane, the writer, who has
for in the past." So saya Ethel .. vard, past Beverly Hills and
The house itself is not parti- pleeg runs into tens of its lush companion suburb
thou done much to put the Getty cularly Jarge.
of pounds. Yet in But Getty and sands
the art collection on the map, Bel Air, past the Uplifters his wife preferred not to live purchase of them Gotly has Club, the Polo Grounds, and there but at their beach house once again showed his flair for family she had often suggest- the Will Rogers Memorial in the grounds, right by the buying the right thing at Park, down Pacific ahore. Palisades Highway, and turn right at the Pacific.
A mile or so along the coast highway you will find heavy Стоп gates set in a. 10ft, stone wall. You will not be able to open them,
They open automatically for the electric eye fitted to Mr Getty's Cadillac when it is 30 yards away.
Less privileged visitors have to call the house from tele phone concealed in the wall and themselves. Then an identity electric eye Inside the house leta them in.
The
view from the front of the ranch house looks out over half a mile of sloping lawn and glant trees to the blue ocean. The view from the back looks up through wooded hits to gat, dark canyon where coyotes bark at night.
Santa Monico ranch onca e famous cattle ranch but now whittled down to about
Tapestries
the
As a friend of the Getty
that his treasures right moment. Many of
his to him
should be shown to the public. treasures were acquired at prices far below their normal He had been cherishing the idea or writing the story Of market value.
them as a book, He bogan buying art treasures 19 he bought oll shares, in the 1930's.
Authorship
HE ranch museum has been unobtrusively built on at one end of the house, Thore "Due to my father's prudence can be little doubt that of all and business foresight I was the end they merged both Mr Getty's great possessions fortunate enough to have cash plans by undertaking an this little mascun is what ex- in the depression years," cites him most.
saya arduous pilgrimage round the Getty. "Some of It I devoted art centres of Europe as
Co
It is a Wallace Collection in to works of art and I've never authors, digging into the his miniature, Even Mr Getty's regretted it." (His parents lett tary of the Getty treasures and money cannot buy a collection a fortune said to be in the acquiring Boveral other fm- approaching those tho great region of 100 million dollars.) private collectors of the last century
amassed—not in the art world of today, in competl. tion with the publie museums of two continents.
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A bargain
ONE example of this canny of
portant works on the way.
One result was a joint book, "Collector's Choice," which has the distinction of a commenda- tion from the grand old ; · man art scholarship, Bernard But in quality the Getty
buying is his giant Boucher Berenson, and of selling in collection yields nothing to tapestry, once owned by the many thousands of copies in
family. them. Among its paintings are Portuguesa royal
It reo languages. As a book two Rubers, which are Gotly's come into the hands of French broke now ground in writing personal favourites, a Titian, a and Co, the New York art about art treasures for a wide Tintoretto, and Gainsborough's dealers and was sold for 250,- pubile and it is one of the portrait tho
of James Christie, 000 dollars.
proudest achievements of nuelloncer and founder
Then the depression inter- Getty's life, Christles, where Paul Getty has vened and the buyer found, ho The other result is that the been on occasions, a powerful could not pay. Few other greatly enlarged Getty Museum bidder.
buyera were to a position to is now open to the public on There are Beauvais tapestries muko offers for a thing on such two days week, and is bou 40 acres, lies within the Log
scale-there are only two coming a cultural landmark of Angeles city limits. It supports designed by Francola Boucher, &
Savonnerie much tapestries in the world. California. one or two cewe now for milk, and exquisite, rare
carpets?
Gelty made an offer of 65,000 Curiously enough, Getty him- Visitors park their cars in a
There Is n...collection.
of dollars and to his surpris-- self has not yet seen it in la paved, walled courtyard
Greek and Roman was accepted.
now splendour." He has : 'beka front of the house, dominated ancient
Gettý, however, is not just a too bury to go home for 3 KİN by an Italian marble fountain, sculpture, including some
He famed
rich man who hux made some years. and guarded by marble lions,
Not all the long at the ranch ore marble. Oas of them is Torosa. Getty's pet loness and
itsalt
in
Elgin Marbles.
of
TOMORROW: THE WOMEN HE MARRIED