Secrets of our Thor
TRAINED RAF crews
at Britain's first. rocket base at Feltwell, Suffolk, today need only
15 MINUTES' warning
bases
to blast off a batch of H. RAP officer commanding the
site Turns als key In the
bomb carrying: Thør rocket's side to start the 15-
rockets onto an enemy.
minube coun! down. Three minuter before "Hiring zero," Each could plant its the USAF oficer present turns nuclear warhend on a target anything up to 1,500 miles
KWAY.
his key.
Buth officers are linked by open line to RAF Bomber Com mand and Strategic Air Command headquarters in
Tho Ministry of De- American. fence any lifted a tight Becurity clamp to allow me
to revond these facts.
Dogs.on guard
The Americans are respons-
The RAF crews at Feltable for storing and maintain- well are now on, a 24-hour, ing nuclear warheads for the seven day--week alert, rockets. The British crews are, alongside United States a run the bares. At Feltwell, airmen. In the month since e 100 Americans-including
the base became operational they have "mock fred" nearly 600 of the 66ft.-long intermediate range missiles,
Throb more
Before next July three mare
such bases will be operational,
civilian Technicians have moved . At the other buses about 000 civilor technicians are helping to prepare them to employed by U.5. rocket firms become operational.
Rockets for Feltwell are fown into nearby Lakenheath USAF base, The 16-strong fr ing crews are heavily guarded by potice with dogs.
At certain stages its the d-phase count-down Uti the Drimet, quid-tuelled Thors, firing cast be held up for minutes, hours, or cancelledi.
Fach will contain a squzelen of Thor pockets. They will be at Hranssell, Lines, Yorkshire and a fourth-as yet
liselised--escales.
The bases all have a main and
RAP
persoanel ferr future under
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST. 17, 1959.
FILES
**And have that one with mo," said a senior officer who, while approving of the sentence passed on the Guardsman who kicked
the mickey-taking tourist on the shin, felt, deep down in his Coldstream heart, like me-that a score had been made for the Brigade.
Just Fancy That!
Nagitated woman walked into Gravesend police station recent-
four auxiliary sites.
ry sites. Each firing rain in America. The Felt Agata, worn
she stares
flat, like the VI Adieugs" of well crews work a "rola to the last war, on rallways inside return to Vandenburgh air base, low, long mangars, The Brok
California, for real Aring silon are more than 10 miles practice.
apart. 7
No Thor va be fired with
unf two keys belog turned. One British,
"
Asterionn.
A telephone message was sent to Chatham police-eight miles away.
A Chutham motor-cycle policeman raced to Harman Terrace Feltwell is at present the most and broke open the back door. Later he reported:
lern tip of the Neto missile
"Arrived just in time. Water boiled dry. But anved beetroot defence min.
Said an Inspector, smiling: “Just part of the police service,"
(London Express · Serulee),
and pan."
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My instinct
London Express Service.
for
creating these exciting women VITTORIO de SICA
сло
ITALY'S TOP PILM DIRECTOR
THIS is another in the xories of "Rastimonies · from people who, despite being dominant in their proton- sions, rarely record their personal thoughts on paper. This technique has important yardstick: The subjects shall be only people of exceptional talents. Rarity is the mark of quality. JOHN CRUESEMANN recorded this story>---- can
AM a director who lives in the crowd. I could give all sorts of reasons for my talent to spot talent. I could pretend that I had some special magic per- Honality. But no man truly define himself.
a girl who was already set on
That is impossible. And her career, I would sound ridiculously
Sophia Loren, for example,
vain if I attempted to ex- had started films when plain this faculty I have. I made
with her "Gold
in
I believe I did draw
cannot do so except this. Naples,"
the best from her. Sophla
I never talk at someone, but Loren is a great actress, she ls only with someone, I feet full of possibilities, the possibilities.
In everyone there exists fist tiny possibility of talent; and I work in that belief until I and there is no possibility left,
I certainly "discovered" Annu Megnani.
Let me tell you how I win a woman from the crowd.
I believe quite truly that I
When I planned to make eza make an actor out or almost "Umberto D" some years ago anyone out of you, for instance, I decided to go to Aquila in the When I am directing and pro. Abruzzi district and luck there, ducing a film, I am nevere in for I had an idea this would b
this selection. I leave de Sicu,
the aelor, out of it and make no concessions to myself. Nor. gambler though I am, do I bet on people's ability to uct.
POSSIBILITIES
the shadow: moreover, she was in mourning. In fact, this girl, har name is Muria Pla Cassillo, had not come along to be looked at herself, but to accompany friend, who was all dressed up. "Come here, please," I said.
I spoke with her. She had just the right voice, a slung intona- tion. I invited her to come lo Rome for a lest next day. She passed, appeared in "Umberto and D." went on the stage. made ulher pictures.
TOO SHY
Often I hear people say that Hollans are all born actors, so that you cannot fall with them.
the best place for my search. The great French director Rene
Clair has asked me about this,
So I advertised in the local and so has David Lean who told paper that I would be in the me that people in England market place on the following would be too shy to respond to Monday at a certain hour; I such an approach. gave a full description of the
kind of girl I wanted, and in- Allow me to say this is not vited a kely
I swear to you I could giris to keep right. the rendezvous with me there. do the same with an Engfish
likely
In my time I have "dis covered" famous actresses, und
On the morning in question crowd. I could spo! sometimes helped, to "bring out" when I arrived in the town I girl in the crowd and get her
TALKING.
POINTS
"The needy DIAD can never Hye happy."
-LORD BURGHLEY,
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment,
-BENJAMIN FRANKLIN.
*
"Good luck frees many men from punishment bui no JA JA from fear."
--SENECA.
What is civilimtion? answer, the power of good women,
-EMERSON.
Perhaps one of the cardinal serora of our time and land is that we continue in a sedentary life the diet that onen served to provide necessary muscle and body heat for un setiva one,
-WILL DURANT.
*
Wiso men talk because they have something to say: foola because they have to say HONO- thing.
***PLATO.
ANNA MAGNANI
MARIA, PIA CASSILIO
found the square, full-there to sel. There are lots of girls must have been nearly 1,000 l England who have qualities young women there, some pos- and defects. That is charming. war when the misory wan awful, sibly not so young.
But which
Бос English So we made "neo-realfat" Alms, I looked about me for a long actresses perform they scem
A MOOD time, but I could see no and only to have quales, and no- who fitted the conception of the defects. Such a phy. part I had in mind. No one. Most of my plctures, and
Then, at a certain moment, I those of other Italian producers, Nov spotted two black eyes behind have been about poor people.
black,
a column. All I could ser were This is chiefly because there are those cych, so very
more poor people in Italy than because the girl was hidden by elsewhere. Especially after the
SELECTION by Friell
"I'm afraid my wife couldn't quite make sema of that bit about pedestrions, and corners in the new Highway Codal"
But unhappiness in every- whore-also In rich houses, there is another reality- condillons are better In Italy
as in other countries, but there seems to be a mood of angoisse, a sense of being warrled and not
knowing why,
People appear to be bewildered by the fact that materially ifa not so bad, yet should bo casier just because of this.
This is not a political matter, not a question of Communismi or Fascism, Life seems some- how out of control for many people, it la not just anger, it goes deeper than that. And I want to capture that mood.
PREFERENCE
As n director, comedy does not Interest roc. There is no satis- faction in it, There are two kinds of pictures, beautiful pic- turos, in which Bort of "highlife"
exists, and useful pletures, which tell you some. ihing.
I profer useful pktures. Comedy is a good holiday, but it is not usunily life. And the cinema of its best should reflect life.
What people really seek when they go to the cinema is to bo with other people, to laugh with them, and live a little and leave with the crowd, F
--Londen Express Service;