THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, 1959.
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DINING OUT
Are you a deck-chair
THE odds are that you
are a bit of a holiday Don Juan. Nothing serious, of course, but a
bit of a Don Juan never-
theless. Maybe you
Don Juan?
don't believe it. Then JUST TRY THIS TEST
we invite you-and your long-suffering wife — to take part in a ten-minute quiz to lest your Romeo rating. Tick off your answers to the questions, honestly and fearlessly, then check up with the solutions at the foot of the article.
1. You're sitting in a deck. your wife chair on the bench,
at your elbow and the kida making sand-castles. A good- looking "cookie" passes in an elegant bikini. Would you
A-Remain expraased in our
Meidspaper. B-Gare of the "cookie" and
1/0
wife won't natire,
C-Braie golir wife's attention to the bikinmand deptore the present-day trend tovarda near-nudity.
2. You're on the beach (with your wife, of course) und the cutle next door has trouble with her deck-chair. Do you!
A-Let her get on with it. B-Ruzh merass and Netp. ComBudige Nutr wife and kne darn well the wife will sep! "I think you whole cu und help her, Grorge,”
ure
3. You and your wife having wash-and-brush-up hetore the evening meal at the butri. Du you:
N°
A-Walt for the wife and no
dman with her for a pre- dinner drink.
13-Rush youT own dressing ant dark dolenstairs for the odd word with the pretty barmaid who stems to understand you, -Harry your wife, take her
with
for a drink
and introduce her to the barmaid who's "such a pood sort,"
4. Your kids get friendly with two sets of children of your hotel. The mother of one set is with a middle-aged brunette pimples. The other mother is a young blonde with a figure. Do you:
A--Agree to team up with the family pour kids like best,
D-Team
13 By twith brunette's family hux
meet the blonde on the stairs some evening)
C-Convince your wife
that
the blunde's husband is a Jello ha van be useful to you. In business.
5. Your wife suggests she'll take the kids tu a concert, and says: "Why don't you have an Do on your own?" afternoon you:
A-Say "'d love to go to the
Concert."
B-Tell her pou'd rather str at the hotel and torite
Just Fancy That!
Fulwell.
one could find Fred Goodberry's ball after he drove at on Fulwell (Middlesex) golf course, playing for the artisans against club members.
There was a long search. Then Mr Edgar Besi, playing for the members, put his hand in his trousera pocket. There was the golf ball.
Said Me Best, who had been standing 200 yards from the ter: "fell nothing at all. Nobody was more surprised than I."
Derchiam
COMPLAINT was telephoned to the police at Dereham, Norfolk, during a heavy cloudburst recently, that a man was standing in the nude in a telephone booth,
Later the police detained and questioned a man.
He explained that he had gut so wet in the rain that he had taken out his clothes to wring them out.
Coverack,
SHEEP trapped on the cliffs al Coverack, Cornwall, dived Cott, A into the sea and started swimming strongly towards France. Fisherman Viviani Carey gave chase in his boat, caught the sheep Back on shore holiday- half a mile out and hauled it aboard. makers applied artikelai respiration-and soon, with a "baa," the sheep was off to its field.
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is to be feared
Do noriet it spread!
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darn
letters (knowing well the blonde is doing the same).
C-Take your binoculars and
head
urarent Jar bathing pool,
al
d. 1's fancy dress night the camp. Your wife decides to go as Cleopatra, but you hear' the girl at the next table she's going as Eve. Do you:
Am Go an Authony.
BG as Aslam.
C--Go #3 Autuna,
say
7. At the hotel breakfast time do you:
atti-
A-Not bother to come down, B-Shup to the table
your usual cap-off tude of primipy paper-Luanvraed silence, C-Greet the waitress
ur Pist devastating smile and julky, top-of- the-muntning qùips.
8. On the beach do you:
A-TU MA
0229 tit to bother you-and then fall asleep in the deck-chair. B-Help him to held a sand-
rastle-elore to the prett girl in the neri
chair.
that pul -Sumest
pian ball together, and why use that re boy over there to Jala 1701 with his sister (aged 18)
as an extra fokter.
deck
$1. And when you May cricket on the sands the you
A-Allow pour ton tu
!
млім
Maur
FRITT
CROUNCE
WITH JAK
"A gallant effort, darling, but you shouldn't have bothered.
Why
London.
bout BRITAIN'S first rocket base capable of hurling US. Thor
um Arst ball jud to ma- | courage Bin
B-Flog him all #!
Brucht to shore ali girls
skilful
athlete you are,
the rockets on to any enemy turget within 1,500 miles -has just become opera- tiona).
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C-Drop the dolly catch that the sister hils to you just
to show how much of a
gentleman you arer
QUIZ ANSWERS
It makes Britain the
London kiprers Service
Cropos suxotto always flare up like that."
the new rockets
have made
'war nonsense'
most advanced rocket based Thors an effective de- fuelled T2 rockets ready to curacy and performance of retaliation point in the terrent today? Nato area.
A. --- Nu.
fire at Western European solid-fuelled rockets must nations. Theye! are un- be guaranteed. On the face Liquid-fuelled reliable, too. And they will of it, it looks as though Does this bring new hope rockets, like the Thor, are not wipe out Ali the solid-fuelled rockets will be for the West? Or new dan notoriously unreliable. They bomber bases from which more reliable, and will cer- Well, how did you ger of attack to Britain? do not always fire, or land, an immediate reply would tainly need less time to be make out as a holiday Are even deadly H-bomb as predicted.
for every (C) answer one mark.
Effective?
come.
For a rocket to be effec-
deterrent L A
點 weapon or
Q-What, from a mili- tary standpoint, deters Russia from war today?
fired.
Don Juan? For every carrying rockets working (A) answer give yourself for pence? Can this have
Large numbers of bomb But even these have the five marks, for every (B) had any effect on Khrush- tive, either as an attacking ers are always in the air. same problem: They cannot answer three marks, and chey's thinking?
back the message proportion would get radio must be capable of wiping through the best Russian "Target
In destroyed." out every point from which
launching total nuclear war defences. the enemy can strike.
you cannot afford hours of Q.—So Britain's V-bomber uncertainty about the BuC- force has a really important cess of your attack. role to play?
Q.-How could this bo A-A vital role, But avoided? dispersed bomber auch bombers are not the forces. Russia is known to only deterrent today. The observing these British have at least 1,000 liquid West has literally thousands sutelites." But by the time we of tactical fighter bombers have manned satellites. I think capable of nuclear attack, we will have a far more deadly welpan then the land rocket, or the bomber... spread all over the place the satellie
alt of which in the alr are so frpm Turkey to Germany.
vulnerable.
If you score 40 or over, your wife (bless her) can Wing Cmdr. Asher Lee, count her blessings 25 wartime Intelligence officer, to 40, you're developing and one of the world's quile a seven-year itch, leading authorities on Soviet look out! Under 25 marks, rockets and air power, you're a veritable deck-answered some of these widely chair Don Juan (and questions when I met him.
Q-Are pretty clever at that).
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A-I think the West's
COURTSHIP
SUMMIT
AND HIS MOTHER CAME TOO
Wald Copyright by mrangement with the Afandhsatre Unartsen
"By
The strategists say:
from maned
Safe base
These, mixed up with V-bombers, B47's, B52's and others, would play havoc with any radar system
Q. What is that? (even these can be jammed)
A-The solid-fuelled rocket That, and no enemy could tell fired from a submarine. which was the feint attack I think, is the ultimate weapon. and which Was the real The submarine is a sate base, practically inviolate, 11 gives strike.
mobile the rocket a flexible,
Tunge.
Q.--Out doesn't tho
At present it vait only bo presence of Thors and Y.- bombers in Britain make us detected at a few miles. I don't believe it will ever be possible much. more of a priority targot?
Improve detection to Even if it is, there is bound to AI think not. Khrush-e confusion on radar screens. chey knows he could be
Q-How near are we to this struck back from a hundred
other places. Why then ultimate weapon?
fiddle with it, knowing she has not the cash to push through a proper development programme. I would like to see Briitin and America gel together in the pro- duction of an ultimate weapon, as they did in developing the ntom-bomb.
But when complete aus- now virtually concentrate on one rather A. — America with her prise attack is
for the Impossible, why race miles Polaris ultimate weapon? than others? The only 1,500-2,000 mistake we make is in submaring solid rocket, and A-Because the submarine- basing all our V-bombers in Russia with her Comet and rocket makes complete nonsense It means that from Britain, where they can Golem, are both at the stage of war.
as well as from above, easily be destroyed.
of successful trial, firing, below, But guidance must still be the people in the middle can bo
potted at. improved.
Nobody in the middle could Who is leading this rocket gain. The Russlans seo the sense of that, too. That is why race?
I believe their disarmameni pro- A-America lags very slightly posals at Geneva should be behind. But both have reached taken seriously, if slowly. the brink of a break-through on
庭 writing the guidance problem. It is hard
Bomber force
I would be far happier with д Commonwealth V-bomber force, dispersed in Australia and especially Canada. Then, even if our went up in smoke, the rest could still hit back.
I am
book,
BM
to plek between them, for all examining the methods of rocket development today com- making war next time. 1 pares with the 'state of the war- entitling it Ad Absurdum. plane in the 1014-18 war.
Q-How long is the
Is Britain wasting her. manned bomber likely to be time, then, by pressing on with thought a better, weapon her liquid rocket Blue Streak, than the rocket?
due to ninrt Aring trials In 19617
A-At least, five, perhaps
A-in o`way, no. But I think another 10 years. The neIt is unrealistic. of Britain to
Peter
Fairley
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