ON
DOBSON WRITES TO PINCHER....
That moon story has upset
Russians
Moscow.
Dear Chapman,
R
EMEMBER that story you wrote about the Russians being able to explode nuclear devices in secret around the far side of the moon? Well, the Russians are rather angry about it. An article in the Literary Gazette sayYNG-
Some English papers like to speak of Mr Chapman
• Fincher as the best-in- formed setentie comentator in Fleet Street. Recently w had one mure occasion to con- vince ourselves that this is no exaggeration,
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1959.
E
TO
HAREM
Look. Ma. there's a plastir
surgeon in my cornflakes?
CLOSED FOR STOCKTAKING
PATON.
DOBRON
The toy you are
Chapman Pincher has confirmed
brilliantly that his information As far removed from vittorial offices of any English
pr
side of
London....
I HAVE been looking
round the Christmas toy fairs-and have been really rather alarmed.
Not by the new Space Age dimension which children. rather Attingly one feels, have "gropriated,
Not even by
Some rather disquieting Items called Teen
Re Dolls (for they have hol
the
yet
Anne Sharpley at the Toy Fairs
Scared stiff-by
a toy elephant
reached 1hst preuar (made of metal). 11
where they is
has
It extends as for as the ameen peak they have in New York moet concealed in s trunk sell "rick" dolls and lifts the log with a chrick the 19]. 1: precisely there. according to with strips of stick-on chicken- of triumph and waves it about,
Russia's Cox and nussles). mat Tach
opinion. that
greatest perfidy
expected.
Imagine "what tempting perspec- tives open up before them.
So macabre...
backing
A small plastic switchboard with o button for forwards and another for reverse And for witching on thr this awesome
toy.
HE'S TERRIBLY NICE
.
REALLY,
BUT OH, THOSE SHRIEKS !
For as
ON THE ROAD TO A-BOMB OASIS
From SYDNEY SMITH
Once again one of our correspondents
penetrates a security curtain-this time
to report on de Gaulle's Salinra rocket bare
-Colomb-Bechar
HAVE reached the last stop before General de Gaulle's atom bomb. This mushrooming rocket town in the Sahara is France's equivalent of Cape Canaveral and Woomera,
coat pouring out J (brown "Docan't do much ex- jumped up and down playing o Even a dancing skeleton and other
plastic) bottle of beer in a twhite cept go nuts, does it?" said violin. There were others that It the canning Russian intends
Plastic) tankard and lifting and pouring it into its wide open. bird and its dilemma in one jet.
a small boy, anayling the played the drums and cymbals
and maroccas. He bought the It is the last to hide from control pode spake that unwinds from your magnet controls
pocket (don't write in and ask me where you can get them Who on carth thinks scarlel-painted mouth.
piece of paved because I'm not got, to tell these things up,
long as Its torch battery lasted. quick glance.
Somewhere in a bed-sitter, civilisation be- one won with its eyes lit up, too, seemed all you)
right in a
how could ana den? And marrbre sort of way.
It's the hundreds of battery "play" with such uncover the driven, over-ingenious, oddities sufficient
Leafled "nechanica novellies"
smugly-dotty
behind the dark side of the moon. Why not demand the getling up of control puris on the moon? Why not send Mr Pincher so
that he
PINCHER
cold war barrua
་
Like the fishing bear that mechaniam?
a
thal worry me.
catches and with its
2
Ash
on
magnet суса
П
peculiar shrieking
There
nothing wan torchbulb
wrong or cruel about altering
were just they nols to loys,
verie.
very
drunkenness
these children
3
bit
lighting and
ceeds to appear to chew It up. Then down go the rod again and it catches another Ash, lights up and shriekn and chews that one up formos appears to.
On and on it goes, quivering
stoundrelly Russians with his rowling and munching,
prezi?
Where
commentators Ike Mr Piricher ser * pretext for pensation, the real scientists. only shrug their shoulders. This as a what the Amprenya
or of Pincher's commentary.
In gingham
A fur fabric bear in clothes: Fot #hastly druiery gingham adaysujt. straw hat and a bow
savemlisis, din when they lecri- eating as many fish as its battery-driven appetite allows, In Spain Another loy, mnde
sold out, wana a smaller
Well, there you are, Chapman, and already You are labelled as a cold war large fish pursuing
warrior,
defender of the sh and maily consuming it. atom bomb, something ap- ht proaching warmonger. are treated with sarcasm, pity It's and contempt,
You
I wonder why you are attacked
Could Jike this?
it be that you were getting a little near the knuckle
Yours sincerely, Christopher Dobson. -(London Express Service).
Now look at this elephant
terribly *
nice elephant
of grey velvet with a red bulb in the centre of its foreheat up like an Indian that lights cast mark.
Uttering
frumpeting
ๆ
its
terrible strained and dragging velvet feet along I advances with lifted trunk
SELECTION
by Friell
HUNGARIAN CONGRESS
"It's like this, Russia is protecting us from the West. The West is trying to protect us from Russia and
Kador is protecting us from ourselvos."
TOY
POLICE KEIT
Gay
"Has it got an extension for topping?”
a
and
<).
Neither creatures
Wimbledon in
onc supposes,
SPAIN
Mediteransknin
A-BOMB OASIS
ALGER
ROCKET
Was a child supposed to sit An elephant blowing bubbles.
there are four little bears ail fore the road self for hours watching this mis- A bear doing its washing. Both playing musical Instruments crumbles away repetitive, kulded animal lifting its cibow employing soap bubble solution. to roars of appreciative piece
tankards of und cr..ptying
into Both foaming mechanically on laughter from a young man into a pebbly itself just like Dados? If so,
who clearly would not have was it n drunkenness or anti- could you either cuddle, talk to koked at them twenty years beaten-dest
device?
fact track, A tow or even bash on the head.
earlier, judging by the
fading passed by giving
when that
he
had them from russet to I barely a glance. But almos!
not working
A single child every adult stopped and gazed
glanced at them.
purple across in rapture.
the horizon, rambling from oasis to oasis-to The Bomb.
The drinker
And quite 11 few .adults hought, I noticed.
A small bird in a
u7,
in
All for him
"This one absolutely sends cage, me, erled a young man in his And how did the manufae- when wound
bent
a thirdles, winding up a mechani- turer зchieve these
He plonked it down curious really rather horrifying imita- cal bear, combinations?
that tion of a genuine caged bird, on the demonstration table and in a top hat and silk against its yellow plastic bars. roared with laughter as the bear monkey
Such
But at least that bubble- blowing elephant has solved one
Christmas presents. of my know it is sure to bring endless gurgling joy. To a lovely young Indy-of at least forty.
-(London Express Service).
DEPRESSED? THIS WILL HELP
DEPRESSED? Although most of
us are slightly depressed these days most of us can get over it. But one in 10 of us, psychiatrists reckon, will not.
by
Dr Gerald Edwards
talking to Peter Fairley TOO SLOW?
through,
American
firms
manufacturing in Britain
on an
TORO
300
TOWN
COLOMB
Mins
BECHAR
ALGERIA REBBAN
Sahara „Mīles
Colomb-Becher and the place It leads to an Insignificant basis valled Reggan where de Gaulle going to set off his bomb-re- present Bomething which France's Western nilles are still Įfailing to add up properly.
Desert
Loudon Express Service
A senior officer said: "W5 are right in the middle of
transforma- complete
There is to be a hugD expansion for our very RM- bitious long-term Pro-
tion,
gramme."
So Rocket Town is booming- Modern air-conditioned apart- ments and vins for Servicemen They Br symbols of de und their families atu springing Gaulle's vast Operation "Gran- above the dust and rock of this deur de France"--which means great plateau 2,550ft, up. basically the realoration of
Franco's faith In Frenco prea tareas.
As the first English reporter
Secret
The number of servicemen at
are likely to obey also. 10 visit the Colomb-Bechar
EL secret. I BUT it's a lot of fuss rocket bose in more than Ave Colomb-Bechar is about very little. The order years, I was received here with can only say it is soaring up to
mark and
it will polite surprise, and to put it the. 10,000 is based
American italy, caution.
probably double that in the next two years. Act which suys that any contar colour harmful to amounts banned from animals in large
must be
Guarded
Tough, brisk air force General Robert Aubinlere, commander of the Colomb-Bechar rockets base, The caution went so far as told me: "France wants
demands pressing for
for a modern army, and In Colomb
plenty of practice. Children At some point in his life, PARENTS often worry of backward parents often because their child is get the same label because slow in learning to speak. the grown-ups talk so little human use even in smalleabled confirmation from Paris Bechar she is trying out the
or so badly.
In the same way, the youngest child in a family usually talks sooner than the first-born. He has had more practice,
that person will need treat lent. Today comes a new
Is he backward?" they ask. drug which gives him hope.
Well, Einstein did not The drug, imipramine, is speak until he was four. achieving spectacular re- That is not as surprising sults. It can be swallowed as it seems, Genius, both aa pill. In many cases it mathematical and musical, will remove the need for develops early, but often at electrically shocking the the expense of other facul brain.
ties.
amounts.
of my hard-won written author weapons which will give her a Massive doses of the coal-tarties from the Ministries of Wer fatrer chance of defending her
own coil," The confirmation has 110W
Yes, general-Ihat's true. Soon the heavily But here on the desert edge, of an orgutis3- and away down its distant Forces track to the A-bomb base some-
is being forced and tested.
It is the pride of the French for France.
dyes were fed to the animals-art of the Sahara hundreds of times greater than
a woman, even if she daubed arrived, herself 20 times a day, would guarded gates be Ekely to lick and swallow in tion called the United u lifetime. No such law exists Special Machines Testing Centre thing for stronger than weapon NEW CAMPAIGN in Britain. And British man-wil swing open for me.
And the first thing I was told THE British Medical facturens are perfectly satisfied
with the safety of all colors about it was news of Operation Association is planning used.
Grandeur de France. A man in Washington a massive anti-pollo cam- In clinical trials On
could memorise palgn. It has just sent out of groups
severely de recently pressed people totalling seven lines of seven figures 1,000 copies of
80 as they were read out to 16-page booklet on polio to 1,066, between 63 and
ahim, and add them up cor every local authority in per cent either made
or rectly. But otherwise he Britain. complete recovery showed
ment.
I nent
EXERCISING
**IB
THE (LEFT)
regarded as mentally Questions such as: marked improve was
detective.
vaccination likely to be Learning to speak is not followed by immediate un
First, you must pleasant reaction?" and
Some responded better than they would under elec- simple. tric shock treatment. Most have good hearing. Second, "How long will protection your brain must develop a laat?" are answered simply. improved equally well,
The BMA suggested it The drug is most potent centre where sound words
CRT be associated with might be a useful basis for against what is called on- dogenous depression a meaning. Third, this con- the authorities' own local corked to in campaigns next year. The feeling of deep and long- tre must be lasting despondency which struct muscles of tongue, reaction has been so good to pro that enough copice for the grips a person for no ap mouth and larynx
smooth and fluent public will now be printed. parent reason.
duce
It has had less effect on sounds, saying what YOU LIPSTICK BÁN reactive depression the mean. kind that is caused by out- This, known
the IF
*F fewer shades of lipstick
are on the market soon.
side events such as death speech "centre," is on the women need not worry. The of o relative or financial left side of the brain in U.S. Food and Drug Ad- worry.
right-handed people, and ministration has ordered 17 The imipramine pill is vice versa in left-handed. colours to be removed from made from 'a chemical com- Which is one reason why the list of ones permitied in pound. It normally takes doctors do not encourage the making of Hipstick. about three weeks for the parents to try to make left- That's about half the total treatment to show results. handed children use their used. The 17, shades of Hospitals have been right. It could have un- red, orange and yellow, are using it successfully since pleasant consequences, made from coal-tar. January, and it is now Parents must talk a lot to There will probably be an available to doctors.
their children to give them appeal. If the order goes
FAVOURITE
No back legs. They were removed years ago for fear someone
might get Kicked.
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PHOTOS OF THE MOON
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