THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, 1959.
BACKGROUND TO THE SCIENCE TALKING POINT OF THE DAY
Why you can't write off this space ship as a dream
R WILLIAM
DILTON M
London to start a new juh the other day--being Britain's first full-time space scientist.
by PETER FAIRLEY
They have moved him. from His post as chief neodynamleis with Armstrong-Whitworth's t 1. No. 1 task is to pass on Coventry and sent trim to the with plans to build Brish Advanced Projeels Group at with six picked men parship. Not one of the Kingston
I think the atmosphere of this coming symposium on space travel will be rather like that in the hangar at Cowes when, for the first time the full secrets of the SRNI "Flying Saucer" were
web: fantasies, labelled Artist's und & fale sum of cash to back revealed. in reson. Bat sulid. Kleuni him. ing metal craft which will carry two Bellos up AND back safely.
And he believes he can do it.
Pure Feder
selenee feton? Dreams: Not today, in This Space Axe
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Modest start
Alt fint when the plan voies fren Dr Hittou. For he man who toyed withvipave-ships and TART-URAughts as a hobby, berana so curtah they 10: eral herize fact that die BAD to make then his professional
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Dr. Hilton with a model of a flying saucer---now a hobby becomes a full-time job.
about started to give his ideas on space He
meticulous At a jolly, bouncing 47, ho kas become Dritain's top wind-tunnel accuracy. When a French guest flight.
him up for grammar They did not shoot me down Ho
with pulled expert.
has been
errors la conversation, he went a expected," he said, Armstrong-Whitworth's for nine straight to the local technical realised my hobby was getting
We all walked in, ready to "It's a modest stort." he told believe, but still sceptical What Now we interested us was not the secrets. “But it in a stari,
and it was the sudden realisation cara must get the Guvernment
sensible, highly the country interested. If we do that serious,
qualified experts were talking of not,
the future with utter confidence.
late
It has than never,
Reliable
college, and with his 17-year-old too g and would
tho become my job." son Anthony enrolled for
Both GCE examination course. passed.
and
Right track
"and
by Friell
"It's his Mum, sir!"
have 14
NO BATHING IN THE NUDE
O
to
them the mid-1960s Hawler-Siddeley's may have to reconsider the plan
Above all, he is a family man. The reason for Dr Iton's Dr Hillon is the man respon. He uses his auburn-haired
A year's enforced distraction, Getting the Government Inter- confidence and he has plenty sible for wind-testing Searlug, wife Jorn
rix-year-old when his wind-tuurel was being ested may not be easy. Belter is the same tut Saunders-Roe's.
just He believes his principle is right, the Royal Navy's slip-to-air daughter Pamela by playing the rebuilt, confirmed this. And the
singing Negro unck-arden models started pat nede a sinali xum to reni This principle of throwing guided missile; who went to ukulele and
amuses blinseif friction America to wark on the Aerobce spirituals, and try .ee for British instruments in hout, generated
Today, Dr Hilton is Abomin US. mtellites.
through the atmosphere, away rocket: A really reliable boffin. with an electronically controlled par un his desk.
train sel. A really human boffin, who has satished hkneli that from the metal body of the
People from all over Die world When Dr Hilion speaks of he is on the right track. He han But Dr Hilton believes that space-craft
the of shock waves--ds er he and his technical based on what he eats highly write to him about his pel com- space-ships, It is important to dropped his bombshell in
He has scientific shock- puting tom. He calls it his remember at his real work on space world. director, Mr H. R. Watson, have satisthetory Lests with
rger side-rule, By crooking them started by accident. In thets to back it up. shown the detailed plans for tubes at Coventry.
asked to read n his finger nimbly, and calculat. 1957 hé was
I feel he is a boffin who is British space-ship in London on
It stili sounds
he computes paper on supersonic flight at the going to satisfy the rest of us- inh in his head, August 27 the Government will
sets of numbers up to 1,000 with RAF Training College, Cranwell, fantastic spect,
Suddenly he throw it aside and
He has not only roninred bitt. 1 has now convinced his employers, Hawker-Siddeity trast lave to think about science-fiction. Aviation LRE
adal it bas heard."
man.
a Httle ake But look at the
He is no romancer,
Patricia
Lewis
I CRASH INTO THE MOVIES ... 13 HOURS ON MY FEET AND
A HITCH-HIKE HOME
London.
at dawn.
standing around for 13 hours to say a dozen lines.
PATRICIA LEWIS GETS THE BRUSH-OFF
what you du in one day at the studion.
I PLAYED me in a
But by the end of it not only Firstly, you artive-belare the movie the other were my feet in need of seven milk. While your lids are still with sleep they're week you know a league boots but my heart was heavy typical film man's idea of a tourniquet. Yes, weighed down even further with
of a female columnist...
A Dig, snart hal
and smots, big kilk which had me using all surts of dialogue l'è merez we in real Hre. ('m nice!)
SE
Dolling up
that money, darling, for one so young! And myself calling him Sir.""
Lovely Larry-with his crew- cut, shorp eyes and razor wil-
Back on the set, the assistant director is calling "Now, girls
I'll scream for him any day.
We
this lump of stone in my chest layers of eye-shadow and cont- was actually bleeding. gushings of mascara. Suppusing you ing, it was, with compassion for slept-Instend of staying awake and boys, let's settle down to all the would-be stars who spend all night so as not to miss your werk."
enf-then your hair' need We do ... and we work... their lives as extras.
and set Which and WC work... und #shampoo means at least two hours' doll work... until, several crow's ing up before you're ready to feet later... the lights go out face those make-you, break-you and we're free to leave.
Free
take off shoes, clothes, set smiles. Free to walk out in the fresh air. Free to bitch a ride home, Free after thirteen hours to pul your feet up, elose your eyes, and dream-but not for me-of the day you'll see your name In lights.
It was only a day and as day It was rather fun、、、、 Su Equity makes sure they got acting opposite
Laurence a minimum of £7 a day-bul Harvey. Yolande Donian, and what a day! And it may CIMT Richard. having only one day a week or a make-up nan chase me around month... or even a quarter. with a powder puff se my nervous sweat didn't show....
10 driving down
This, my friends with star Shepperton dust clouding your vision,
Meet me at the Club!
says Mr Brandyman
The ubiquitous Mr. Brandymon is the universal clubman. A most popular member, welcomed joyously everywhere, with his famous long drink: MARTELL Brandy and Ginger Ale or Soda. Your members will take to him.
Make friends with
MARTELL
Sole Agents: DODWELL & CO., LTD.
cameras.
Lights
1
...
So British
Finally a little man with call-sheet tracks you down and Is says:
"Miss
We're Low-is. waiting."
He cucorts you to the "noor" and you spend a duzed hour moving two steps forward, three inches to the left while
and they "line" you up
toe
The most Provocative Thought Chic, tanned New your line with strips of sticky of my week.
Yorker Mrs Muriel Davidson paper.
Suddenly you realise you are
tells me a story she says is as comfortable as a Guardsman typical of the British-and just Trooping the Colour in a heat- the way she likes us. wave: it's the lights-great big "A couple of years ago I saw "brutes" they are, scaring you a beautiful moonstone ring in a with millions of watts.
shop window. I went in to buy But to take your mind off it, but it was too small. They them--they actually start call- said they'd let me know if any ing "Quiet"... "Action"... iling more suitable came in. and all those holy Hollywood Five days later they rang my phrases you have dreamed of hotel to say something had. I went in, but the ring was still hearing.
100 small.
A break
."
Then, just as you're thinking this acting lark is not so bad after all, they shout "Cut and you start all over again... and again.. and again.
Eventually its "in the can" and you prepare to pack up und go home until Val Guest, the director, reminds you it's only lunch time and you've got to be back in an hour.
Now the big question is whether to cat or steep. Stomach wins (it always does with me!), and when you get to
Never mind," they said. "We'll keep trying,' I went to
Italy, then to America. Nearly two years went by before I came back London.
"The first morning I left my hotel, went for a cup of coffee, and passed that same shop.
"I" Baw giant monstone
ring.
"So in I went. "Oh, good, Madam! sald. We were thinking ringing you'
Ski-man
they of
The Most Paradoxical Sight
the restaurant and find yourself of my Weck: A man in a palo silling with Laurence Harvey blue sweater manoeuvring a und Yo Donlan with Clim speedboat over the still, chill Richard in touching distance waters of a bay in Northern you're glad it did.
Ireland and towing behind him
As Larry prods his way a man in a black rubber fror- through smoked polinon and man's suit en water ada. The potted shrimps (he's got studio man in the pale blue sweater? lunches organised) you nak him Speed-uce” Donald Campbell. how he feels, working with the The man in the binck rubber boy from TV's Saturday night mult?, Téxtile tycoon Cyril Lord Pop show "Oh, Boy!".
* Well, who's to any how samo
Says Larty: He makes me feel very poor and very old. All
people get their_kicks?...
➡(London Krysten Service),^«
very 3007.
-London Express Service).
THE WORLD OF SCIENCE
The
hush-hush
Science Reporter PETER FAIRLEY
ONE
London.
NE of Britain's closest-guarded science secrets was revealed on Monday when a revolutionary fuel cell was demonstrated on an airfield at Cambridge. The cell converts chemical power directly into electricity by mixing two gases.
no
Scientists believe it will make these levelopments possible:
Electric TRAINS that need "Hve or overhead rall: TROLLEY BUSES that can run without arms and power wires; SUBMARINES that can operate for long periods under the sea without surfacing to recharge VEHICLES batteries; 8PACE with smaller "power packs" for their instruments.
'Exciting'
common
"Do as you re tola, constable. Take then clothes to
the station as evidence and I'll wait here, and arrest
them when they come out."
revolution down
an
on
airfield
eight times that of steel wire.
-
and
The best
Having found the strong stuff they are now trying to and a
commercial use for it.
slon for working out the Retail Prices Index and a variety of other facts about Erilain's exciting development done in ployment figures, wages
hours of work. Britain for years." THE BRAINS
Giant
robot
"brains" are going into use in the Services nud the Ministry of Labour and National Service.
office
near
The Air Ministry wants FO £190,000 electronic computer at its central pay Manchester to handle the pay roll calculations of 80,000 civi- lians working at Ministry head- quarters and airfields,
The Royal Army Corps
Lots of clerks must be thank- ing the Middlesex electronics firm which has scooped the con- tract.
'WHISKERS'
American scientists are hot on the trail of "perfrot" metals. A perfect meinl in one which is does pure, long-lashing and not fall under stress or fatigue.
-(London Express Service).
TALKING POINTS
He charged nothing for his
Now they have found they can make "whiskers" sprout on preaching. It was worth it rome metals such as copper or
Ordnance wants one for keeping from. records of the Army's stocks of motor transport spares, accounts and for calculating needs of
The demonstration was the watched by experts from Ministries of Transport and Power and from the Services. The National Research and Development Corporation, which units. has been backing the invention, The Ministry of Labour in
£140,000 ver- considers it "the most tends to use its already
·
-MARK TWAIN.
•
•
The true
nource of rights is
GANDHI.
The strength of these duty. whlckers is many times greater One than the "mother metal." whisker finer than a strand of human hair, has 180 times the longing of the soul, strength of ordinary iron or
NOW THAT ANGLO-AMERICAN DIFFERENCES HAVE BEEN SETTLED WE'RE ALL LOOKING FORWARD TO HEARING THAT OLD ZITHER THEME AGAIN...
VICKLY
Prayer is not asking. It lea
GANDHI,
THE THIRD MAN
London Express Burela,