THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1959.
HIGH HEELS The astonishing story
IN THE
of why this rocket isn't ready yet...
MONASTERY Private
ANNE
SHARPLEY
reporting
from
Cyprus
Nicosia.
Line
London.
WHAT will happen if lightning strikes the H-bomb nose of one of the giant Thor rockets as it points skywards on
its launching pad near Britain's East Coast?
This question and other
minde of British safely experts
STAYING at a Greek monastery is one of those things you can do to prove you belong to a long, high-minded line of Philhellenes. But have raised such doubts in the did it because I was curious. And perhaps because in her far-away subconscious no woman quite accepts the idea of men living in solitary asceticism --without women.
that they have not yet sanction- ed the delivery of any warheads
to the launching sites.
I can discle that in spite of Insistent U.S.
pressure to get them delivered, all the
THE
THE R.A.F.'■ THOR ROCKET ON TRAILER AT EAST COAST SITE
COLUMN OF DISCLOSURE by CHAPMAN PINCHER
and U.S. site commandera These doubts mus! be have each turned a key in special resolved for two reasons:-- locks-which will never be done
used unless anger.
the Thor
Fizzle'
in
A "Fizzle" explosion releasing some radioactivity is possible. But Wak-
evidence that such
use
EIGH
The Guinea Pigs
31.M
women
50
"mechanism" which might be gerous-the submission of help- jarred fato some sort of action less people to painful and often
in indignity
the by a profound shock when it polniless goes wrong-as a watch might nume of medical progress. be made
tick 10
again by shaking it.
On balance
It's an exaggeration
To quote the doctors: "There
Is
WHEN declared operational some of the rockets will be kept vertical for quick launch- ing, and the crews must be train- ed to "count-them down" under all conditions, including stormis.
NIGHT old EVERY few weeks, some of
gotting senile that they аго were reasons for thinking that WHITEHALL My subconscious, however tar marvelled at the quantity and heads are still in storage under mishap is unlikely the Americans The warheads will have to
described by the doctors some senile patients might be worked up about possible away, need not have worried. Of the ammation of the conversa-
U.S. control at Lakenheath, have screwed almost identical be screwed off the rockets and
benefited to some degree by the repercussions from "On the "cabbage- 00 The 30 Thors already warheads
to their the 1 masteries of Cyp us 1 tion.
Atlas returned by road to Lakenheath concerned
of a very giving
strong and
the Boach,"
horror film At 9.30 the naked light buit Suffolk.
them on sites miles rockets now ready for
like" in for special maintenance.
have
given unusual stimulus. been chee the most famotes, Kykke,
We selected
the devastating which during the heat of the began to waver-the monastery's awaiting
are Aited with dummy California. plant was going out y
Modifications to the missile severe electric shock treat those who might be described as based on
over 00 effects of H-bomb fall-out, summer comes almost a sun electricity
on the theoretical cabbage-like. Those The British experie have a are now nearly complete and ment
were excluded."
when it opens in London me: resort as the Greek Cypriots for the night, Tine to sleep.
back I was escorted
alon!
that further sutely worry. They are neveral dummy runs with the chance that it might im- British experis suspect take to the mountaine
this month. the white-washed corridor
Their conclusion: "Some of contains coucemed about the effects of a warheads have been made with- cool.
because the warhead
prove them, trailers delivering out incident.
the patients were undoubtedly Across a red pia lihtly the monks who it ne kat
Jump unci
The Foreign Office fears asked if I wanted
substantial lumps of ordinary fire in the
to the launching reatiered with cartridge can the eat that was sleeping on my
So, though the Prime Minister
The resul
changed for the better though high explosive it might detonate the warheads
was so bad that
of sites
the ban. along narrow
10 country would prefer
delay
Una resurgence i struck by lightning.
any the treatment was stopped after none to a major degree. now tha the shootint of gans
Then they
Jonen.
marrying of missiles and war they had endured nine electric fortunately these were balanced the-H-bomb marchers and birds other than me, is back, 1 pillow patting out.
bic me an uthusiastic good-
Their doubts were not eased heads until
the Summit convulsions each.
by
patients who were demonstrations on the roc night.
be
These when the U.S. trailers for this talks, he is expected to accept
experiments were influenced unfavourably."
ket sites. The Home Office tighter U.S. not armed for purpose arrived without brakes the
safety undertaken on the weapon
the foresees great apprehension standards before the New Year, theory that the
Later in thele report atonic action until the British or renelights.
doctors adroit that they know on the
part of credulous "practically zero" about electro people who may
believe convulsion treatment, which has the film, and then charge the Covernment with mis-
drove towards Troodos
tems.
The are not to much
To krom
Stoun-
1:30-
tau as a series of mpacted. Into church
thickly wooded pyramida (un- tike Cyprus's other range which is a sharp points and Crusader castles and after
NOSPR
by
oil
At live s.m. the church bell already cracking hours of broke
there dawn and just before six was
led at the usund scurry by kind.
cimbing and cornering was the monastery.
Not one of those pectacular Father Eugenios to the church Greek monsteries just maag- and put in a stall next to him.
Gradually, like a gilded forest. itu to keep a gnarled grip on a clifftop, but an easy-looking the full extravagance of a Greek church interior be- group of large buldings with a Orthodox
The service lasted cafe af the side with drink enme clear, advertisements, to help with the an hour with Father Eugenios's kindly whispered injunction to salmer rund.
"Hav
cigarette." saline to "si" and "stand" to guide me, a great deal of tuneless but Father Eugenios, removing his blck stovepipe had and giving energetic singing by the monks Ine Gown in comfortable and novices and a feeling that behind that layer on layer of chinta armchair in his "cell."
gold of the altar screen there remained Inger on layer of gold yet
a
Father Eugenios's cell was, in Jeet, two quite spelous rooma which gave all arrivals through them a jack-in-the-box efferi,
Seven chairs
B
He had a tartan blanket for a
bedspread, a radio draped with pink silk scarf, an upholstered sofa, seven chairs, and a day-to- day tear-st
wine calendar, a advertisement, which indicated at for Father Fugenios it was il the 17th day of last mouth. Father Eugenios
small, Was
utterly and charming, although, so much for eloistrat gulet, he had to keep dashbag off to answer the tele phone.
Your
supper's ready," shid after a small boy novice had come in and spoken to him in Greek.
brown. bearded
Jan
As he led me along the arched verandah
what I wondered strange new food i should ind.; "There on the table in the room
Breakfast was
A
full-scale explosion would
because impossible
the
after
tenuous
brain is
ຕ
CAN WOMEN CRACK
THE
WORLD'S MOST
YOU call it "a bribe.”
New Yorkers call it
hurd tady any one of a hundred And the latest
elitese, more of the good brevic and a spoonful of quince jelly names,
taken ceremonially with a glass is "the old payola."
of water in the monastery's re-
ception zoom.
signed the visitors book an
It's IL good nume,
bit especially the
about means
the same page, as it happened the oid. For it as Archbishop Malcarios."
The stay was over. I was good old-fashioned graft- now one of a long high-minded New York's oldest and (if line of Philhellenes. curiosity had been satisfied, you judge by the well-
And my
QUOTE
by Sir Gordon. Russell, Direr- tor of the Council of Industrial Design THE average регон 13 not highly Imaginative and can- not be expected to visualise a in which I was to spend the new thing from description. Te set out an all-too has got used to a poor standard night was funtliar dish-egg and chips. of design and, indeed, sometimes
Father Eugenios came whisk- į prefers it.
ing in as fuished the
meal.
"Come and listen to the news,"
he said, and once more, at what
heeled
company it keeps)
most prosperously respect- able industry,
CORRUPT CITY?
by IAN
Of course, it has its ups and downs like any other business, undal after But this year is one of the good years. In New York alone some 18 Investigations into graft scandals are going on right now.
Shysters
AITKEN
--------New York, Thursday -----
being told
Bribes
New York's principal protectors. the 24,000 strong police force, provides a alue, For, excluding Latin America, the men loughingly called "New York's dincst" are probably. the world's must consistently corrupt law enforcement agency.
New Yorkers have seen the pilgrimage of overcoated
copa
pround the neighbourhood stores and bars asking for "unsolicited Christmas gifts.
Any taxidriver can tell you the price of getting his licence renewed without trouble ог delay, and most smali shop- keepers can tell you how much 11 costs to park a delivery
street.
been
The
used for 20 years in the treatment of ordinary mental
being held
patients They admit that one leading them over the fall- of the objects of the investiga- out danger. tion is to and out more about (L. Meetings aro
I refrain from naming the
to consider counter- ductors concerned in the bellef that their intentions
to moasures Were entirely humane. I report their public that the film is activities as further evidence of fictional exaggeration, a trend which consider dan-
--(London Express Service),
Eskimos may
assure
new system of writing
the
a
get
Ottawa.
CANADA'S 11,000 Eskimos may soon get a new
written language to add to the two systems which have already been taught to them by missionaries.
But
many Canadian church. the men are indignant about the new
language.
Dr D. B. Marsh, Anglican Bishop of the Arctic, says that to destroy syllable writing would Lefebvre, of be to destroy something which
Montreal, has
become distinctively
In the Eastern Arelle, most Eskimos, and means that books by Greenlander and scandal at last to a licence to chent. Dishonest van regularly in a no-parking Eskimos at present use syllables, written
a type of shorthand In
the the classics they have translated Western profess to see a gleam of light, shopkeepers were
Aretle they use u would be available to Canadianı that they could safely go ahead Building contractors can make Roman alphabet without the Eskimas. For at last the women are and sell short weight or inferior a fair estimate of how much letter Z. involved. And if there is one quality goods provided the they will have to pay to avoid a
Neither system is adequate thing more dangerous than a profils were shared with the flock of prosecutions for minor
to represent correctly woman scorned It is a woman inspectors.
violations of city building reguEskimo tongue, swindled by her local shop-
lations, and the owners of small keeper.
workshops have a similar know- minor icdge of the cost of They reach into flelds as far Thanks to the women, two
At the summit of this racket violations of the fre regulations. and 2 crooked apart as the law, television, am- city officials
So it goes on, So it will always services, bulance
newspaper union boss are already in gaol. was no less a person than the distribution and even graf Dozens more are expected to Director of the City Bureau of
zo on, until New Yorkers wake up to the fact that it is not an investigation itself.
And the tide of Weights and Measures, one Fred follow them,
who admits that inevitable part of city life. And J. Loughran, indignation is already lapping the swindle has been going on In the past few weeks the round the ankles of
now the Wozzzen aro helping, for eight years. has blown off television Robert Wagner.
(hat may happen.... quiz shows, TV and radio record Council of Physical Recreation's programmes, city slum clearance
-¿Landon Express Service). annual meeting-
projects,
evca gambling-and MAY be wrong about this, the neighbourhood butchers'
but if there is any meaning shops. in this catch phrase, “a higher
It all began when housewives standard of living," surely It Teenagers have learned that in a working-class district of means that people should have their favourite disc jockeys may suburban Brooklyn discovered more time to do as they like De necepling money to play them that their hard-won house- and that there should be more one record rather than another, keeping money was buying even opportuniiles for enjoyment.
less than usual. They were pay-
I realised was his normal speed, by Prince Philip, at the Central
we brook-necked along the corridors back to his cell.
The news was followed
throbbing voiced
alonte
crooning.
That sound...
by
Greek
How remote it all seemed after the telephone had stopped ringing and the novices had stoppest shouting rock 'n' roll- and so remote from the world
of women,
This consideration was
al
by the Rev. Gordon Hyslop speaking at a youth service Bloomsbury Baptist Church, Lon- don
GREAT many people
lid
Excuses
mayor
Slum dwellers patiently wait- ing more and more for meal. ing for new homes have dis- And they were getting worse covered that their landlords and quality for the money. the alum clearance contractors keep then In
are in league to
their misery"
Accident
Chickens that weighed 31b. in
the butcher's shop mysteriously weighed only 23b. есть the victims have found kitchen scales, Steak that in that ambulance services and looked tender on the slab turned
sooner completed then we heard an unmistakable sound along the stone-flugged corridors.
A the world do not realise abyster lawyers are in league to out to to tough and gristly on Click, cilek, ellek. And I walked a splendid lady in a fur that it is man who is important enrol new legal clients for the the plate.
coat, stiletto heel and a smlig of pure gold teeth. She, too, staying the night.
WDS
and man who maitets. Our lawyers.
science, great inven-
eyes turn all too readily on all Boris of other things develop- Neighbouring monks began toments In drop in, passing round cigaretics tlons, and the while Father Eugenios made natlous soffice. Hero WL9
shubby monk with
young
the Black
Imperial who was, of all things,
a Manchester United fan.
"When they are besien I feel
*
power of great |
Grubbiest
they
In growing numbers complained to the local inspec torg ol the city Bureau of Weights and Measures. But they And housewives have dis- were mot with blond excuses The dollars covered that the men paid by and shifty anilés. the city to protect them from continued to dribble dishonest shopkeepers
in drain. with the dishonest
by Mr John Chugg at Barn-league staple, Devon, Rural Council shopkeepers. sad," he said, reeling off the UIERE should be asurden names of the players.
A shed where a man own get LL, thin in new. But New wite and | 43 Yorkers know that behind
And there was one of those away from
down the
Network
Indignantly, the housewives
confused prolonged uproarious children, smoke his pipe, and it all lies a police department took their complaints directs to tallding sessions associated with | recover his equilibrium. Mediterranean peoples, and
perhaps the Irish
Father Eugenios, talked about
*
Live time syben Archbishop by Lord Mancroft, speaking Makarios was a novice at the of Sunday Observanco laws monastery, and two or three of London last night the island's milliumaires,
IT is a fact that only a Mokam- The fur-coated tady talked medan or practising Jew about her work, which was |çan operate as a barber in Boot- sirvesmaking, and 1 sat wed land on a Sunday.
notorious for its persistent graft City Hall. And when the files acandals, a body of politicians were bulging with angry letters who are sizung the grubbiost la City Hall officials at last decided the world, and a pubito morality to act:
that is more inclined to ask. What they found was a sing- in "How can I get in on 17 than gering, network of crooked deals
"klow can it be stopped?”
between butchers at aver New York-and the city's own integro- Yet experienced obsovers tors of weights and messures. who have seen the "eltrewida The inators were mystsenali- treakdown" vojne kod go in cally peddling · "what-wingind
How could he get away with 11? A glance at the record of
MY FAIR LADY
COMPANY
system, Eskirno. alphabet
Churchmen profest
Now Dr Giles the University of has developed new
the Roman using
It would also mean that which he hopes will stan Bibles and Prayer Books would dardise spelling and usage. have to be reprinted.
It
resembles closely
The Northern Affairs Depart written language used by the ment is expected to arbitrate.
advanced Greenland
-(London Express Service),
more
NO. DARLING, NO!
"HOT BLOODY LIKITY. WAS CUT FOR
THUS VERSION!
ALT
SKARSAL FOR MOSCOW
terse Camarans by prrangement when the Movabazter Quardian
the
★
A
TALKING
POINTS
society grows round
Ita ideals.
RAJAGOPALACHARI.
**
A platitude is a
trath
we are tired of hearing.
-GODFREY NICHOLSON.
Learning is often the
enemy of initiative.
LORD SAMUEL.
Every reformn was
a private opinion, t
onca
EMERSON.
It is not the longest sword but the longest purse that conquets.
-DEFOE.
The best reformers are thoon who begin on them-
*-BERNARD SHAW,