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THE HIDDEN HISTORY
OF IT ALL
THE hidden history of great national projects, especially those which come to scandalous failure, always makes more sense than the official fine as dispensed in Parliament. Here, then, is the hidden history of the life and death of the Blue Streak rocket, which has been grounded before it even flew after the expenditure of more than £100. million.
Blue Streak, for which Mr Duncan Sandys will carry the political "can," was the brain-child of Mr Harold Macmillan and his scientific advisers when he was Defence Minister five years ago.
Be conceived It then on the pelnciple that without the inde- teni nigans zl delivering H-bombs Britain rauld not re- wain top-riase
with oral perwer in world affairs.
mation
He evantarel this policy through Mr Sandy's whom he laced in ollice to canty cut his plans.
Now Mr Macmilian- and dis vitdaily Mr Macmillan alone. - Jus Bed Blue Streak, Why
Then is strong evidence for believing that
Prime Minister is takinuta enleulsted Kimble 1
world wire mucitar disarmament is conving within the next five years,
If he is right there will be no need for any new H-bomb carrying rocket. If he is wrong he will be able to buy an
days insisted wto on its use.
on the right of
Neither Presklent Eisenhower nor his sucesor can judge how Congress will reput in Ave years). fine.
Mr
Clear out
Wallinson. the Defence that Britala Mister, insists would t her own J-bomb Warheads to these Skybolts.
But as a ban on atom tests la w most inevitable, how will Britain be able to test this warheid?
Is the Government going to risk giving the R.A.F. deterrent weapons which have never been tested?
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Ulanova and Fonteyn
AS RUSSIA'S GREAT
BALLERINA RETIRES, THE STAR OF COVENT
GARDEN TALKS ABOUT THE DANCER'S WORLD
woman with the In Moscow, Russia's prima ballerina Ulanova announced
grey-flecked bun of fair
Ar Macmillan, aware of these hur the evening stroll that she is to go American sub-
deficiencies, has
got his way along the banks of her
was quite leisurely, quite unhurried,
stitute such as the Skyboll because the inen who wold beloved Muscova river have resolutely opposed him plane-launched missile.
were all removed six month ago, It is no coincidence that there was a tertiae clear-out at the Defence Ministry immediately after the election.
That veto
Some new
arrangement con-
coining missiles was certainly agreed when My Macmilion visit ed President Eisenhower, osten- sibly in discuss adeunie tests last month.
He was assured think the US will sell their new missiles to Britt if we need them in
ve
For Galina Sergeevna Ulanova, the prima ballerina of all Russia, and, many say, the world, had nothing really to hurry for the other night,
into semi-retirement... and man-on-the-spot sent this despatch.
1
That is
a pretty handsome when she was about 12, they It is for sent her to the great Romanova pension over here, instance. 1.000 roubles a month and Vaganova. more than ex-Premier Marshal Nikolai Bulganin was given few weeks ago.
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When Mr Sandys went. Sir Frederick Brundrett, the chief scientist, was retired Dough willing to serve Iresser. Sir
At 30, she had accepted a ichard Powell, the Permanent grateful Goverment's pension It is four times the average Secretary, was moved.
of 4,000 roubles. The great wuge paid to λ worker in Ulanova was in semi-retirement. Moscow.
So was the Deputy Chief of the Defence Stoff.
Of the top
men only Farl Mmmtbatten reunained. As First Sea Lord he had always
opposed
Blue Streak in favour
The loss
Overnight, she was picked as coming great of the ballet singe. At 18 she joined the Leningrad opera company and ballet theatre. And in 1944 the Balshoi Theatre convinced hor that she must come to Moscow What sort of n womnt is to bring her career to full Ulanova to command a pension Rower. like this?
Luxury
to ten years' time. (The Douglas Aircraft Company, which is to make Skyhelt, has been pressing of the submarine-borne Polaris the feeling of loss among Mas- But she has a fine and strong One has to be here. to scis She Is not a pretty woman. hurd to secure export markets), missile.
claw's balletomanes, It is as face. And, of course, she moves But I can
When Skybolt, which needs a disclose that
to earry it, though Shearer. Fonteyn. and with eat-like litheness and the manned airplane there is no watertight
appeared on the drawing board Helmann had all quit the stage flowing grace of a swan. committing the the RA.F. could not get rid of
the same night. agreement future President от the Blue Streak soon enough.
For to Moscow. Ulanova and future Congress to sell wa
So when Mr Macmillan, ballet are one and the same. missiles in a
Reigning r which way
grandiose, picked up the hatchet glittering palace of the Bolshoi would provide nuclear inde.
everyone moved in to help Theatre. Ulanova has been the pendence.
unerowned queen of the Soviet Union for nearly 20 years.
Now she is on a pension. At the official rate of exchange it Is 236 a week, but in reality it
Arrangements for the export of any U.S.
him.
nuclear weapon Chapman Pincher
with or without the warhead has to be autrezi in the dedail by Congress, which bas
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"Judging She said: Bolshol "Whenever Ulanova wants to the moment is the thing. I feel dance ogoln the stage is hers." now that perhaps 1 Am not going to improve....that I am un a sort of table top and 1 must know myself when to stop before I fall off the other side.
Ulanova also had a definite view on what she will do after reilrement.
haven't any inclination to direct ballet school or anything of that sor," Ulanova said. "I shall enly give guidance on the inter- Gretation of the main roles to the leading dancers."
IN LONDON the other night Dame Margot Fonteyn, Britain's prima ballerina, talked about Ulanova's de- cision.
intelligent, the great ballerina DAME MARGOT loves fuxury. She has two cars, FONTEYN sat in little green Volga she drives the garden at her Ken- hersell; and in the garage et -the Vissotni Dom is great sington home and talked With her artist husband. Ruin- silver grey, chauffeur - dilven din, she lives in an eight-room Mercury. It is the only one of Ulanova. apartment on the ninth Bloor of its type in Moscow and Ulanove the luxurious apartment block adores it. Vissotni Dom. This is one of the great wedding-cake-sliped She has four Stalin awards. buildings erected by Stalin. He, And few people know that she the man of steel, was one of the has as many other decorations movement... such a flowing
most ardent Ulanova fany,
All her life Ulanova has been a slave, as well as the cansum- mate mistress, of her twinkling loes.
Her father was 乳 bailet director. In the grand old days of the Czars in gay St Peters- burg (now Leningrad). Her mother was a ballerina and a teacher.
Ulanova's first stumbling steps as a toddler were led by her father into a dance.
"As far back as my memory, zobe, I have learned to cherish the flow of movement to music,” she told people.
parent ts
could
When her teach her no móre, and that was
She said: "It will be sad not to see her dance again.
"She has such perfection of
style so that, there appears never the Kremlin as any man in She
also a member
break....such 15
for to be a sharp Muscow of the Soviet
Parlia subtlety. ment
"Friends tell me of Pavlova Ulanova is not In permanent and her style, but I was too retirement. She danced 011
young to see her. But watching April 10 in "Romeo and Juliet," Ulanova I understood what they
meant.
Different
THE MAN WHO WANTS TO DO
DOWN
‘All things
bright and beautiful'
by KITTY DIXON
LL things are not
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bright and beautiful in Britain's classrooms when the childrön sing their morning hymns, it sooms,
In fact, things are remarkably dull and often: downright ugly. according to David Hulbrook, the 37-year-old author, play- wright, and sometime school- master wha is cumpling revolutionary new children's hymn book.
He is throwing out many old favourites, including "All Things Bright and Beautiful”
He says: "Hundreds of thousands of children are made 10 sing
bad very
every hmong morning.
"I'm going to produce a book which a teacher can use with- out blushing. There certainly isn't one available now.”
"Taste'
Mr Halbrook believes that only one-third of the hymns In most books are sulinble. Many teachers, he says, pui aside the
regulation books search out new hymns with Zatchy words and lots of "best."
und
The remults? Disastrous, In Mr
Holbrook's estimation.
One of his own three children from recently came hojne school chanting—
We're going to our Father's
mansion
On the Happy Day Express; And the letters on the engine
Spell J-E-S -U-S.
Mr Holbrook is excluding all hymns which he considers out- dated and adding new ones "In good taste," which teachers will be able to use as examples in poetry classes. "There is no need to go to extremes and Jazz them up," he said.
Spirituals
In choosing his hymns, Mr Hol- brook is relying on plain state-
And here too there was 'a vlowpoints bo- similarity of Licen the great ballerinas, for Dame Margot said: "Dancing
ment. and teaching are two different things. I wouldn't want to teach elther, but I can see that une could help with Interpreta-
on to another duncer."
at
Then the question of Ulanova's pension: for, of course, dancers
even prima ballerinas Covent Garden-have nothing to retire on apart from what they have saved themselves.
roubles a "Four thousand caonth," mused Dome Margot. "Well, "One does not, of course, try remember that the ballet is suppose we must to copy. but one can learn.
150 years older dancing you try to create some-
than ours, so we shall have to thing, knowing what you are
wall. But I don't expect to see 1
that under after but never being quite sure it by the time I stop." also told Soviet law she was entitled to of what effect you have created. take on her pension 12 years Do That was after, 20, years
נונס
But in all probability, I
never again be told, she will seen dancing on a stage outside the Soviet Union.
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of devotion to the stage.
But she danced on,
Now, at Inst has Begun her last reluctant bow to advancing
years.
British drug gets
£100,000 'look-see'
firms
paid nearly £100,000 Japanese manufacturers. for "Took-sce" at the
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and
Friendly
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"I'm not sure that watching yourself again, on a film for example, is a good thing.
met Ülahova the first lime in Brussels and we had lunch together and we talked. She is a warm, friendly person, I watched her dance then and
of course again in London when the appeared here.
moro than
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TALKING
POINTS
The elder statesman ig someone old enough to
"If I could give a perform- know his own mind and mice which pleased me as much keep quiet about it,
as hers did then I would be happy, Pertops I am among the
four or five lending dancers in
the world.
I do not know.
"One does not think in terms
BERNARD BARUCH.
Whoever profits by the 11 YEARS
of numbers or who is greater crime is guilty of it. than whom One dancer may vital Cephalosporin, which to ex-be dramatic....anplier British penicillin-type drug tracted from a mould, has been
........according to the role, or the called cephalosporin.
moment,"
If they decide to manufacture
It tey will have to pay n further £100,000-and royalties on every ounce they produce,
This is the arst major result
-FRENCH PROVERU.
brought to the stage of being a drug of "exceptional promine" Before she renched Пет after 11 years work by a team decision to stop dancing Ulanova being believed; In friend- I love, one has need of led by Sir Howard Florey, the bad
discussed how lung she penicillin pioneer, and Dr E. P. could carry on, Abraham, at Oxford University.
It may be socially valuatio treatment of illnesses
of the Government's decision,to. In the
prevent the plating of British where penteltiin folla,
patent penkillin' lost the nation billions of dellats in royalties.
Perfection
discoveries. Britain's fallure to The U.S. Brna háve sent their The strain la recch utmost selenlists to the Oxford Inhora cerfection is harsh for any bil- tories. They have also been lering. Ulanova sald then: "T The money has been paid to provided with samples.
Eshall have te- nalage when I am the National Research Develop- Two British Arana, Glaxo and no longer, physically on top, of ment Corporation wilich has Distillery, hoye taken up Ute the lecdifié rolls. Then F nfuet bech Anuncing the experiments home market production rights Judge the moment, when the und has patented the findings, où cephalopati
Further "look-wer"
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ship, of being understood.
-ABEL BONNARD,
Love is the salt of life,
JOHN SHEFFIELD.
There is one genuine love
MENANDER.
audience fédis that this is the philtre consideration,
CO30,"
He does not want anything per- sonal or sentimental, "I don't want any of that over-pas- sionate stufT. You know, wallowing in blood and dwell- ing on worshipping the In- strumenta cf the Cross," ho told me. "EL puts the, chil dren off religion."
Yet oddly, one of the hymns in Mr Halbrook's new collection the American Negro spiritual, "Were You There?" which includes the lines
Were you there when they
cruelled my Lord? Were you there when they
nated Him to the Tree?... Were you there when they
pierced Mini in the side? And another spiritual. "Merey's
Free," which is going in- begins:-
What's this that in my soul
is rising? I grace? Is it grace? Which maken me keep for
mercy crying, Is it grace? Is it peacet
'Misleading"
In his search for the dispassion- ate, Impersonal, and unscnu- mental, Mr Holbrook hás approached Benjamin Britten to compose some new Hymns for his bookt.
He is also considering organising a composition contest for the best modern hymns suitable for children,
look forward to hearing both Mr Britten's contributions and the contest winner's, .
But what to wrong with WAI Things Bright and Beautiful? To me, It has always auched the perfect eljiidren'à hymh me Its wolds are simple, Joyful, and the melody plensing.
But Mr Holbrook is adamant,
"It is misleading," he saJai "it all things are bright and beautiful who mnado the streptococcus??!
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