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Chapman Pincher
BRITAIN
and the ATOM
HE ereation of the new Ministry f
THE
Power could be caus- able. in one hold, incisive move. of convertin Britain's political reverses into commercial triumph.
I take this optimistic view
for these reasons:--
Victorian Britain developed her Fudustrial supremacy through far-sighted Investments in the oce of steam. These Investments have pali off right ut the present day.
Perhaps investing . the atom how to
extent which
1110V
VA seem foolhardy will give Brital
pceopti era f world) dominusion in the #ld of the chtop industrial power on which high living sturland» depend.
Circumstallers have alreatly combined to give Britain a world lend in developing atomie power for Industry. The nation bas yel to realise fully the commanding position which British scientists have built up in the last 10 years.
Short
Incentive
aslly-won
aturved of oll, Briálu han every Incentive to invest to the luft Ja alemle power. America and Russia, with huge des ut
casily
this
worked coal and oil, lack
Incentive and are already thell behind beemise veonumle spurs are blunt.
logies
This situation com be exploited and it seems that Mr Maemilia
has the foreight and drive
do it.
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I believe (haj investing to tise peaceful atom can provide 11 psychological which the nafton no desperatris needy На ди antidote to the feeling that decline to second- class status is inevitable.
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programme
MACMILAN TAKES OVER FROM EDENS
LABINET
A.SMTI
THE CHINA MAIL; SATURDAY, JANUARY 26; 1957.
SACS
"If you be so hot on politics why woren't you mossing off up to Lunnun while there were a vacancy?"
The Drive-in Cinema
Australian Style
Sydney.
THE old, familier einema. To which recons suburbanites
by ARTHUR MORLEY
can be parked and cafe. where adults can have doned to build them, and the 1,000 cars
order their steaks or ham- their courting and sought other State capitals and facing the screen.
eat them burgers and their entertainment, seems provincial cities are follow- to he doomvi i13 this ing suit.
open-air tables.
Dominion.
Those already built are so the popular that you often have enter an hour to
[ forecast an espansion the lom-power
After Surviving which
boldog | riyalry of radio the
and tele. to walt enthusiasta would have SAL-
vision, it seems likely to them. sidered impracticable two years
subeunib tat 11 new forni The Drive-In is tailored ugo.
al entertainment--the upen to suit the needs of the dir Drive-In, Drive-ins are sweeping the nation. Mel average Mr Suburbanite of bourne has them. So has 1955. He has a car, he has Brisbane, Sydney has start children, he likes to eat
and he likes the cinema. The Drive-In caters for all these į circumstances,
Necessity
Atomic projects, which weig *not commercially fen.1" x months
haye ago
entr "absolute necessitler' «trace the Suez crisis put up the pries d fuel oll and petrol
The power of the new atenue electricity stations at Bradwell, Essex; Berkeley, Glos, and in Scolland has been doubled in It is near- the last few weeks,
their certain. I bleve output will soon be doubled again.
These atomie divances do not mean that the minuri wid become any lese Important in the community. Indeed, an of the purposes of the Power Ministry is to phose in cual production with atomle power, not to plinge it out, as muny miners fear,
In the full-blown atomte age coal will remain a vital alertal
In Britain's economy--bit to be i
used as a source of chemicals, not wasted as a fuel,
AU thear brilliant
tles will be wishful unless the
Minister of
has pollest power.
1
Australia Day
So here from
Richard Labrum
Comics this graphic description of an authentic Australian rite
All-weather
Beside euch car is an 'elec- trieul outlet. From this, an idvidual loudspeaker is passeal into the car. through which the soundtrack of The flm is played. The occu- punts can tune it loud or soft, to suit themselves.
Down to the side of the area, away from the screen, is a children's playground. For 3d,
the children are given rides on shetland ponies and nearby is a milk bar for children-selling ice- cream and sweets and drinks. The whole of the children's area is under the care of supervisors-so that Drive-in patrons can "park" their youngsters while they watch the film.
In essence, the Drive-in as the Australians are building it, is an open-air cinema. It bas 翁 huge all-weather screen feosting £80,000), a projecting unit, and a paved space so sloped that up to of
Across to the other side the area is a barbecue
at
Or, if they don't wish to leave the car, they can give their orders to waitresses, who bring dinner trays and drinks, to the car.
Sve Irinks become the *Dhe rentertainment for unds of Australian familles,
jamas
You see them arriving at their favourite Drive-In soon after 5 p.m., when the doors ерен. Usually the children are pyjamas and dressing gowns.
in
stroll about the grounds in the twilight until the show begins.
The first Session ends Just before @ p.m., but the children are already in the car, and if they doze it doesn't matter. They do not have to be carried from theatre seat to car, nɛ in
the conventional theatre. The second nightly begins at 9 p.m.
Fession
This, usually, is just as crowd- .od.
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und Waltresses bring snacks drinks to the ears as the oc- cupants of the profit is not made at the box-office (maximum price 4/- for adults and 2/- for but children, with cars frec), by the sale of refreshments.
watch the show. Most THE SEAL OF
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No new theatres are being built here now, but Drive-Ins are springing up as fast as pro- moters can obtain licences. And everyone of them that, I have seen is crowded out at every session.
Australian audiences love them--no dressing. no rushing through dinner, no transport
Many families bring plenic suppers-sandwiches and tea in asks. They picule in the car. and then the kiddies play until the movie begins at 7 pm.
Other families have n hot problemy. dinner at the tarbecue, and
The Wild Men Of The Bush
T
HE 750 square miles of
A
sand, shell and pan- danus known Grote Eylandt, sprawled possibil)- cluse to Arnhem Land,
Thinklog
euoked up something that Power
eighteen Aussies will not forget in a hurry,
To the limit
He will not be able to do this
unless he has the politient Influence to Irite the Govern
ment to invest to the limit uni the atom and the clentists behind it.
Be sure that this move fo exploit the atom to the text will not go unnoticed. Sir Percy Mills will have to set a cracking pace to cope with the inevitable competition from Rusia and
America.
This is a time for boldness. and it thrills me to see that Mr Macmillan is being bold.
Historians may yet record that Britain recovered her world leadership and prestige h the second half of the twentieth century
became beenuse she "powerful" in a new construc-
tive senec.
ARTIE...
"He's a Texurt all right- that's a twenty gallon hat
he's wear
af
women,
the Scupiane base mess tek priority in the standard con- Yersation setup possibility of a Jap landing, the fortnightly dying boat. For one at least the radio and the billiards table were neglected. So were camp-ple
and dehy drated potato. Fred Gray (Native Proteeter) had invited the boys to silend, a ereum- elsion coroberer.
totem songs. together.
paluted portions of their bodies. Coloured wool was draped round their shoulders and waists.
Then a remarkable thing took place.
Some of the elders filled their mouths with thick, white paint and half-spat, Half-squirted it Into the seven spluttering faces!
Now everybody is standing. The music grows stealthy, xini- 'ster. Across the sand, back- wards and forwards goes the entire gathering. crouching. muttering a rhythmic formula. War spears fly at an imaginary Joe.
Now a hush Talls. Even the bush seems to have grown ,&ilent-respectfully slient.
Bowie-knife
We followed Gray gingerly aeris a stretch of dirty, rear-
sandi. ing hol
In the bush nothing stirred, but our cars
Tho children are suckienly told us it was jammed full of dule things that crawled
beating sticks From a peart shell he selected a thrown
each on their backs, lump of yellow piginent applied with his head between the legs Hew. They made a muffled sound
saliva to his quill and stroked of an adult, Loin like
cloths ere ike sap sizzling. From high- lagoon mark drifted the stench One man in each party pro- dt a few times with the entour., bound lightly over their eyes. of old turtle shells,
duced weird fish heads
snorting noires The quill then returned to his. Yet even now they do not
mouth to be sucked, jufelly, struggle. and entrails, causing us to gulp from long, hollow roots, tobacco smoke.
a sound cuming In bursle that re- We topped
When the proper dilution huis. dune, skirted some
and sembled the mouse-signal 'V'.
ob- coloured spittle had been found the coroboree in pro-
tained, a line was added to the geometric design. between two pandanVA
ATLYS palins.
Heart-beats
the
of
A bowla knife, newly sharpen- ed, is handed to one tall old veteran who stands a moment fondling its edge.
We clench our fists and bile our lips.
At the centre of the gather
there was a line bf seven ing naked little forms side by side, The scene before us was gay, lying on sheets of bark. These yet there was an air about B. were between three and four, that indicated a quickening of To the rising lempo the un- And about to be circumcised. the tempo, lension. The orthodox "aurgeon" went· elong chanters kept having mirror with the line of prostrate bodies, A crude shelter had been
No sign of fear appeared on climaxcs of their own with delivering the coup de grace rzised whose shadow was dark- their chubby black frees, On quivering, frothy lips. Everyone to each. After the firet terrible ened by about fifty blackfellows, the contrary they looked bored. smoked-mostly our bults which squeals, we fled, and a chorus Their hubbub dwindled away Their eyelashes and the sides were parsed round-continually. of walls floated after us out of to a grinning silence as we drew of their parted lips writhed, with
the scrub, where the mothers near, but at word from Gray fits. One found oneself blink-
waltet. A tiny fat infant sat drawing the ceremony was resumed. ing and spitting in a sympathetic furiously at a native pipe made... Cruel-we thought,
sort of way,
from a hollow slick and a .303
Flies swarmed into our eyes
But absurd of us really, I and mouths Soon we, resigned As they lay there, motionless, cartridge caic Spasms of high- ourselves to tho' feel of their a4 death, these babies were pitched laughter rang out. Three doubt if these simple. Groote tickling legs and watched having their tie pat-bellies hideous patriarchs, sitting apart, Lyland blackos have such
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