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THE CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, JULY 1.
FRIDAY SPOTLIGHT by Cummings
Commencer
"Remember, Harter, those idylle, haleyon, tranquil days when we had only Russia to contend with?" London Express Service.
A SCHOOL FOR THE
WITH everything but If it's Heathfield she won't
the final details
fixed, it looks as if Prin-
cess Anne is all set for have to worry about swotting
Heathfield, the boarding academy for girls on the Ascot road. Fees: £150 a term.
But though the Queen will be able to tell her daughter plenty about the
in the heart of the golf ent outts for lacrosse, cricket rourse country they chose-an- and tennis), Altogether it will other golf course.
set the Queen back £120.
Now the girls who want
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bathe have to go in a strictly previes party to baths at near by Bracknell. Few of them play golf.
and curriculum
June 4...
SHE WILL find out about the importance of having a brother at Eton The Fourth of June Eton and Harrow match is the
what's expected when ing It's one of the big girls day most Heathfield girls live
she gets there, I propose to pass on the sort of in- formation-never writ- ten into the prospectus which is so important to every new girl.
Clothes...
SHE WILL be forever chang-
grumbles at Heathfield and is considered good training for the social days ahead.
a
for.
SHE WILL find her head- mistress, Miss Kathleen Dodds, traditional in the summer he will have anything but the
choice of four different style schoolmarm. check dressES supplied by Attractive, brown-haired Miss Debenhams (the one with the Dodds was once engaged herself. lowest neckline is the most She even left to get married. popular) and nowadays even the But she returned, unwed, with younger girls get away with a no comment. atiff petticoat or two,
The check dresses cost about £5 apiece, The list specifies
SHE WON'T have to swot much. Said one old girl: three. never felt there W35
much urgency about passing exams. I don't remember anyone going on to University, though most of us got through our GCE all right."
of an
SHE'LL MIS8 the convenience on-the-spot swimming pool. Years ago the trustees had to decide between a nine-hole golf course or swimming pool,
It's bad when students start learning slogans
AT
T Oxford in the old By ANTHONY LEJEUNE
days there were twa gallows: one for towns- men and one for mem- bers of the university,
Doubtless Prime Minister Kishi of Japan would like sprue Aqually direct way of disposing of the ringleaders of those of ing students in Tokyo.
Signs
was
and no one even
seemed
know what his views on actually were.
There was bad tempër evETY-
35 where. Nowhere could you find
• cool thinking or pensibila dia-
sparked by month-lone selves as "students," never student demonstrations.
"undergraduates": presumably Students at the University or because "undergraduates” has A eussion. HAVANA recently forced a pro- distastefully non-political sound fessor to resign because he whereas "students" makes them opposed Castro. At the head of feel part of a world-wide mouru
UBA'S Federation of Univer- ment.
sity Students is a 27-year-old
Hope
major who wears a pistol when Students is forbidden by its pinned
The National Union of But I did see one petition,
He goes to lectures
to a
notice-boarth own rules to play politics, but neglected, unsigned, which gave 1Д PANAMA, Left-wing inevitably it tries to organise me tope. students have been demonstrul- students into herd activities 21- courages them to think of them- nives us a separate force in the community.
But riots in medieval Oxford ing against America. In CAIRO. were town-versus-gown affairs, un Nasser's orders. ludent strictly private fights; whereas have been demonstrating against
Trag. these Japanese students are 50- ing used as organised Commun- ist shock-troops,
All over the world studenta mirror the violence thema,
The army coup in TURKEY
PRINCESS
At an age when most girls are writing darkly in locked diaries they feel that their Head under- stands all about Cupid's darts. Miss Dodds knows that most of her pupils are going to be She will need a navy suit with popular, pretty and well dressed which is worn two straight skirts (about £8) and that marriage will figure
with white largely in their plans,
slimmer. Plenty of meat and was on an outing in London Viyella shirts,
She, did much to help poor fresh vegetables and salads, with a school party, a waitress She will need a white mar- Princess Fazilet when her which says Miss Dodds are no at Fortes recognised the uniform cella pique dress for church and fance King Faisal was killed. more expensive than "stodge." and asked if any of the girls special wear (about £7). And The Heathfield code plus words SHE WILL know all about knew the royal pupil. "No" the winter coat (£10) is camel of advice from Miss Dodde sus not taking advantage of her replied Princess Alexandra, with a velvet collar.
tained Bobo Sigrist through her position. She will never talk "never heard of her." There are dresses to change into in the evening and a full range of sports clothes (differ
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complicated matrimonial affairs.
SHE WILL find that the diet is planned to help the youthful
about who she is, nor will any Maureen Owen
of the other girls,
Once when Princess Alexandra
-(London Express Service).
FLYING SAUCERS BECOMING
THE Astronomer Royal, Dr Richard van der Riet Woolley, reaffirmed his belief that "space travel is utter bilge” in London, the other day.
considered by scientists as putable as Dr Woolley.
re-
RESPECTABLE
"I said it was 'ofler bilge'
What is even more surprising that certain combinations of when I arrived four and a half
is the fact that these speculations these atoms can automatically years ago and it remains utter Professor R. N. Bracewell, of are being published in leading become. alive under climatic bilge," he said. "The surfaces California's Stanford University, technical journals, such as the conditions similar to those which of the moon and planets are so considers highly likely that highly academic Nature. What once existed on the earth. inhospitable that there is no robot reconnaissance vehicles has happened to make reputable Thousands of millions of other
question of living on them." the outer-space equivalent of scientists admit that even the planets are likely to have ex-
Three events
U-2 airplanes-have already been sent to study the earth. or
I say that Dr Slay-on-the- should be expected soon. He Ground Woolley is in danger of suggests that scientists should finding himself sole bolder of now mount a sustained effort to this belief five years from now. search the skies for them.
The performances of the Rus-
One
U.S. experimenter is sian and U.S. moon-shooters al- building a radio set to scan star ready confound him. Now the systems for signals from beings possibility that other worlds may who are expected to be more in be watching us is being seriously telligent than we are,
EX-SPY
concept of the dying saucer pericneed these conditions and so may not be "utter hilge"?
may have produced life. I trace this exciting develop-RESEARCH on proteins has ment to three events
shown that wherever living The PROBAHUJTY that matter has arisen it is likely to life exists on other planets is bave evolved along lines broadly now accepted because of the similar to those on earth because evidence that the entire universe the arrangements of atoms
is composed of the same types of capable of producing life are earth atoms.
restricted. This suggests that Laboratory experiments suggest any creatures intelligent enough to communicate with us are more kely to be near-humans than |bug-eyed monsters.
PILOT SAYS FLIGHTS BEGAN IN 1951
Washington.
A FORMER "spy plane" pilot, who flew over the Soviet Union as early
as 1951, has revealed that his briefing instructions then were: "If you're caught, you have no Uncle Sam ... see the British consul' in Vladivostok." In an interview published in the Miami Herald, the pilot disputed former President Truman's announcement that he had once vetoed such flights.
THE TREMENDOUS advances in space-fight have proved the feasibility of robot and even manned, travel to and from other worlds. The Jodrell Bank radio telescope has shown that communication across mil- lions of miles of space is possible. Shattering
In spite of all these develop- ments reputable scientists give no credence to the claims of
people who insist they have al- ready seen flying saucers, even falked with their plots.
No authentic physical evidence to support the existence of worlds
Mr Truman claimed to have Russians knew about them, He also revealed that pilots spaceships from other rejected spy missions on the "but the fights wone kept were briefed regularly on has yet been established. ground that they were "a lot of secret to keep the American Busian, targets so they could go.. It is untrue that any Govern- bunk."
people from demanding that directly to their planes in unment Department, here or lo But in fact, said the pilot --they op
emergency and take off for pre- the U.S., has clamped down on who asked for his name to be But briefing Instructions to ell determined destination-with-information about "saucer" kept secret the fights began secret-midon fliers emphasised put any last-minute bresting, sightings for security reasons. during Truman'a administration, that if they were forced dan
The scientists simply suggest "about the time of the Korean and caused the State Depart still a member of the UB, erard and means now exist for delect-
The former soy plot, who is that "fying saucers" are possible: ment word dirtain any know forces said that lights made ing them. were told that the ledge of them. State Department knew about The nice were ordened to tell before 1964 were carried OKE ES It," the pilot declared, and I the Hang that they had fein RB-20/g -- reconnelance, bow- imagine if the State Depart- on routine weather recuinats, best.
War
We
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over the Fan 12 Japan
ment know it. Me Truman did since fights, and bed wandered ta bellaose that the "dunarfon
off corre Elsa “mery - Mahdin moure, lat We were told that if shy-) ha
850 bomber shot down best kept secret of the U.S. thing haabhad to me, the Air Earpe, in the opinion of British cones), in Viadrostak, the my ullat, who mid the the pöct was sucted na muring.
¡An", suthentic message. From another for whether deliver
ed by radio or spaceships. would be the most shakeing avant In
an history.
"It might even shälter Dr.
Chanman Pincha
Why this rush from the lecture room to the barricadest And could it happen in Britain? There have been signs lately that it might.
Every year Oxford under- graduates are presented with pamphlets inviting them to join in a Day for Showing Solidarity with Colonial Students Struggling for Independence.
Separate
Horrible
And this is a bad thing. I have no doubt of it at all. So are the marches and the banners and the slogans and the pati tions, they are all bad things,
They are bad for the students, because they betray the very things which a university is supposed to teach: individuality in a herd-age, rational thought in an age of slogans.
The anti-nuclear bomb
They are bad for the univer- marches and the anti-apartheid slty, because they split it with demonstrations are made up partisan quarrels and hatreds chiefly of students. One univer- which have nothing to do with sily Labour club organises its real business. regular protest marches in which everyone is invited to jon. Bring your swn banner and protest against anything you like.
They are bad for the political life of the country, because they introduce } new and quite artificial pressure-group.
Dons too have been taking part. A. J. P. Taylor headed, Suez. It was the only time when I remember Oxford during
bave ever thought Oxford
the march from Aldermaston, Several shabby rather shame faced young dons carried horrible place. placards at Oxford while the South Africans" were playing cricket there..
Undergraduates when demons strating always refer to them
There were marcher and counter-marches. petitions
protests
and rallies.
and mass
It was headed "Petition Against Petilions." I signed It then, I want to sign:it again whenever I read the news from Tokyo or Korea or Cuba.
And I want to sign it most of all when I meet people in this country who are trying to turn our undergraduates into the sort of students who have be come such a very real menace in so many parts of the world.
-London Express Service),
TALKING
POINTS
The wise man does not lay up treasure.
-LAO-TSE.
It is only people of small moral stature who have to stand on their dignity,
-ARNOLD- BENNETT.
The only things we ever An officer of the Union was keep are what we give away. attacked outside his lodging
-LOUIS GINSBERG.
AIR SECRETS SWAPPED
TWO top-love! Russian
scientists are visiting Britain to exchange in- formation about the problems of protecting air-- craft from ica in the air. It is the first time Russians have discussed technical
aviation in Britain. -
Visiting
tell
Russians
of success
in de-icing tests
As a result of the trip British deals with various experiments of the Air Registration Board, experts say they now know on Russia's giant TU104 Russian de-icing techniques and Ilyushin airliners.
research have progressed about
On show
2nd said: "The Russian report and comments have given scient detail for technologists to realise the Russian programme of de- leing research, their aims sad Coples of the report are to be achievements, are more or less development for the Soviet sent to aircraft firms and service the same as our
as far as in Nato countries.
The visitors are Mr O. K. Trumov, head of
civil air feet, and
de-icing
his deputy chiefs throughout the Western
Mr M. S. Egorov. For most world.
"We know they are at about
of their stay they have been At Luton the Russians have the same level of progress s based at Tarion Airport, home studied Napler's most successfut ourselves.
They have submitted
mat.
30+
of the . Napier and Sim ice- de-icing method called Spray- "It's interesting to learn they research programme.
have met the same difficulties This system passes an electric and decided on the same solp- page English-language report current along the wings of air- tions," on their own work at labora- craft to melt fce as it forms, Said Mr Trungy "The visit tories outside Moscow.
and will be exhibited in Moscow has been very useful and inter- Although short of detail about next year.
esting from a practical point of the actual systems used to keep Mr Trunoy's opposite number view altcraft Ice-free, their analysis in Britain, Mr Herbert LeSueur,
-(London Express Service).
ON PARADE
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