THE CHINA MAIT, MONDAY, JULY 4, 1960.
WRONG NUMBER
BY JAK
Patricia Lewis
I needed
a pick-me-up, so I put my problem to these four men
Riddle: "When is a woman
not a woman?"
Answer: "When she's
type.
'II admit I'm preju
I'u
D
diced. You see, with
out the aid of one hair- dresser, 50,000 pins, and clouds of lacquer my hair simply refuses to be put up all sleek yet bouffant and beautiful.
(Which I suppose only goes to show you can't make a beehive oul of a birdnest.)
And, as I seldom have the
BAKER
NIVEN
that
PECK
time to go through the one-hair- This I could not allow with- CARY GRANT: Yes, Blondes Veronique. Is a Parision and dresser fifty-thousand-pins- out analysis, so I took my look different from brunettes, I guess I'm just a startlingly and-clouds-of-lacquer lark, I problem (lightly disguised) to and plumples look different happily married man. have been feeling out of it ever four of the world's most famous, from bean-poles, but all that
Intelligent, desir- really matters to me is since beehives-like IONESCO'S attractive, "Rhinoceros" struck down able men: nazely Messrs. women are women, every fashionable female in the CARY GRANT, DAVID NIVEN, country.
GREGORY PECK and STAN.. LEY BAKER,
It's been no good telling my- self I'm an individualist either.
MK BAKER: I like a woman to look pretty, to look feminine --and this has nothing to do DAVID NIVEN: Well, some with whether or not she should people like tall girls-which I have a career because it's only do but it doesn't make any right that the man should feel
To each, separately, I put disguised in swathed, chiffon is as long as past few months has shown me seart)
sat by with note-book expression. that a flat head clearly Jacks to record the average of their panache.
opinions on women-types--and hoping that this average would not prove too mean.
Every room I've entered in the three questions while I theavily difference what type a woman the more dominant party.
Faithful friends have assured me there's no need to camou lage my low-down hair-do with an over-risen net souftic-bin 1 have remained unconvinced and utterly miserable.
Until last week, that is By last week
my self-have
Question
No. 1
had grown to Quatermass pre- Do you believe women fall was in danger into definite types....and
if so, what types?
portions and I of developing complex.
an inferiority
.and charge the mink too."
"What's eating you, after twenty-two years?"
"And one spet behind the post.
she has a nice
SIMPLE
GREGORY PECK: There's always one type that's the front- But this doesn't mean she runner of the moment, Isn't' shouldn't have a point of view there? Right now it seems and be able to express it strongly they're all polished-up. Left- and well, Bank BARDOTS with puffed-up hair, feline eyes, and short skirts to make their legs look Jong. It's a theatrical look but I must say I approve of it.
STANLEY BAKER: 'The birds. Lypes are very distinct. Every
into woman falls
a typu particularly in show-business.
Question
Do
No. 2
Anyway. I usually find women far the most interesting com- All this any at any party.
get together, chaps, for
"Let's a chat" stuff is strictly for the
So what did I learn from my quiz?
"Poke him with your brolly, Beatrice. I reckon the blighters have done it again.”
London, Ragesan -„barmies.
THE BIRTH
BIRTH OF A CAPITAL...
VICE, SQUALOR AND VIOLENCE, BUT I PREDICT
A GREAT FUTURE FOR THIS CITY IN THE SUN
SAO PAULO,
finished-and they are mainly from the bush; it is their first been pushed through the jungle unoccupied. Brazil.
job in civilisation. Many carro, se link it with Belem on the gums and blackjacks.
Atlantic coast.
Ministers and civil servants
have had to be driven, alle at up residence there practically at bayonet point. There is accom- modation for fewer than 10,000 enter- people.
HAVE just returned from a visit to what Enough to remove that is perhaps the most spe chiffon scarf by the end of the tacular human day and more important to cancel my order for a beehive prise of the 20th century wis. Now I'm concerned only-Brasilja, the with being the right companion for Mr Grant, nicely expres capital of Brazil. sioned for Mr Niven, a country joy in tweeds for Mr Peck, and
man, a outle from Caernarvonshire with the oratory of Nye Bevan for Mr Baker.
you think throughout his life, is in variably attracted to one type of woman?
MR GRANT: No man is attractive to all women just as no woman is attractive to all men-except in the very deep
the layers of
sub-conscious, which is basically
Life gets simpler, don't it? ☆A TYCOON'S
There are no police to be seen. Another will strike to Manso German traders sell kong-leads in the heart of the Amazon of gaúcho Boola, worn, proudly country. In a few decades, the by Negroes who are getting big new capital will be the centre wages for the first time in their of a giant industrial conir- lives. There are brothels every bation, maintaining perhaps· 20 where advertised by
million people. gaudy signs.
Unsafe
The only proper hotel, a low new lying ritzy structure on the edge of a lake, is the scene of nightly squabbles between senior officials Four years ago it did not and top military brass, scrum- exist. I was simply a com- bling to claim its 180 rooms. pass-point on the map, 600 miles The evening I left Brasilia, inland from Rio de Janeiro, in a fight broke out the midst of virgin territory, bunch of deputies, who had scarcely explored and never failed to get on the last plane flyovers and clover-lear interene inhabited by man.
Now it is a sprawling, boom-
DREAM OF COLD ing metropolis, with nearly a
It isn't wholly out of character
thousand miles of roads, setres of glass-and-chromium
animalistic for the owner of three casinos skyscrapers, and a population of But the usual procedure with and a couple of hotels to dream 140,000. In five years time, half most men is to start off with the of gold. In this respect, M.
a million people will live there. Nellens of Belgium type furthest away from their Gustave mother.
doesn't disappoint
Last.
Yet, as he walks through the Blank cheque
ME NIVEN: I think men change from their early days banks of gamblers in Knokke- when they probably fall for the le-Zoute, his mind is not con- little blonde, blue-eyed, helpless cerned with the gleam of bullion oréature to women with the but with the gold of sand, skins, sort of bone structure that will and sunshine in a different land. I met 53-year-old M. Nellens MR PECK: If a man has had in Knokke the other day and a rin of luck with a certain when I asked him how things going meaning at the type then I think he's inclined were to full for the same type again. casino he told me everything But if he's bad rough saking was fine and it was coming out with, say. a blonde, then he next week.
might go for the complete neverse in 4 tall. classical brimette,
a
ME BAKER: I married blonde, but Tm terribly attracted by brunettes!
Question
No. 3
What is your woman?
"It" turned out to be a book
Brasilia is the almost unaided work of Kubitschek, Brazil's hard-hitten, one man Juscelino
controversial President.
For more than 150 years, Brazilians have dreamed of an inland Federal capital, a centre for the opening up of their vast, unexploited interior. Kubitschek was the first mau to do anything about it.
He picked a leading business- man, Israel Pinheiro, and
B
of poems on Morocco-the first verse he has had published,
"During the war I wrote, a book on the history of garn-brilliant architect., Oscar Nie-
them meyer, gave bling." he told me,
plenary, pwers, a blank cheque, and sei a three-year deadline.
"But my real ambition has olways been to write poetry. However I fast worked at being a solleitor and then, when my father died, I had to take over the business and there was type of never any time....
"One day, though, I went to Tangier and then to Fez, Rabat, MR GRANT: Civilisation has and Marrakesh. Every day categorised women 90
The result has become the biggest
In Brazilian politics. So far, Brasilis has cost over 50 million dollars, and absorbed three-quarters af Brazil's considerable build»
·ing 'Industry,
much there was the sun and every day Collapsed.
that it has limited man's field. A was touched with gold. It gave man may sec a girl in a black me new life, a new philosophy. sweater and say to himself, ""But
"When I came back to Bel-
write
I can't stand girls in black gium I began to
sweaters and so miss meeting impressions in verse." someone who is really his Ideal.
I suppose my type depends on how she sults me as a com- panion-and also on how I suit
her....
TRUE JOY
Some 60,000
construction
my workers have toiled on
Was it not difficult. I asked M. Nellens, to turn one's mind "MR NIVEN: I can't think of to a lofty poetic plans when anything more dreadful than a one's environment is the purult yes-wanan. Just because I go of pleasure and its profits? surf-boarding I don't expect my
..
(or
the-clock shifts to set it up, and wages and raw material costs
out the country.
have spiraled upwards through
back to Rio,
Sleep out
Brasilia is dangerous in other among a ways, too. Along the superb new highways, weaving in and out of tions, construction lorries pound along at 60 m.p.h..
The vast majority of the
workers Negroes, multo Indians, Chinese, half-castes of every complexion - slogo
iron.
Already the Brazilian (south 1 swinging into a U.S.-style momentum of industrial pro- gress, Sao Paulo, the world's fastest-growing city, has now passed the 8,500,000-mark
With its 30-storey blocks, maniacal traffic and cosmopoli tan population, it is an electri- fying city-a new Chicago, with an even more promising future. Echinan? The Summit? The "We have no minor accidents Sao Paulistas do not care a here," I was told. "Which is damn. They are too busy mako- just as well. There are only two log money to notice. ........... ambulances and the hospitals
mouldn't cope. We just put the 'Not interested'. bodies in the morgue."
out On streets, or sprawl, Frankly I was glad to leave By the end of the century. 50 to a room, in shocks made of Brasilia, Though 3,800ft up is Brazit: wil be a county of 180 packing-cases and corrugated soarched by a violent, sub million, and a major world equatorial sim. Dust from its Industrial powers American, rich, bright-red earth, chimed German, French-Italion indus up by 5,000 mechanical excava- try is moving in with speed and eyes and hair, tors, clogs your clothes, lunga,
determination.
I toured the vast shanty-town, grown up in the shadow of the housing 50,000 people, which has
new skyscrapers. It was like the Yukon at the height of the gold- rush.
You are liable to be pushed Into the gutter by drunken havvies. It is not safe to be on Goats, horses, pigs and human the streets at night.
But Brasilia, with all its cor- beings mingle together in a noisy, slinking melee of unbe- ruption and violence, โร lievable squalor, without saul- undoubtedly what this vast, tation of any kind. Many of the promising country. needs. workers have come straight in. Already, a 1,000-mile road has
And what about the British? sources, I got the sme reply: From half a dozen direrent
They just don't seem to be Interested.
It's all rather a pity, im't it?
H
-Paul Johnson
London Express-Service),
Tanks get a
a robot
anti-aircraft brain
IT FIXES AND FIRES IN SECONDS
Science Reporter PETER FAIRLEY
into the turret of a tank and automatically controls the defence of PRITISH scientists have developed a midget robot "brain" which fits troops against air attack. The device is regarded as the answer to "hedge- |hopping" jet bombers and fighters.
The currency has virtually It consists of a radar set link Coast range and later in Ang Grantham, a subsidiary of collapsed: it is now worth onlyod to a small computer. As lesey
famous Swiss armaments Alrún. a third of is 156 value, and soon as the radar beam picks up
Hispano-Suiza, kur falling daily.
an airplane it "locks" on to it. It will first be atted to a-15-
The computer then works out ton German Ught anti-aircraft The miniature computer- wife, HJORDIS, jo come along He shrugged a Gallie
dozen businessmen height, range, speed, predicis tank armed with twin 30-milli, measures only 211 by t -In fact, I can think of nothing would it be Flemish?) shrug, roozeover, have made fortunes the aircraft's course aimg the maire quick-firing guns, The 10n, smaller than the more depressing than seeing her "I know it is rather late to out of government contracts. guns ahead and fired them all system is said to be capable of tank wireless set-as
been siting on the beach as I come start something new like this Wild accusations are made in 11⁄2" Reconds,
shooting, okwn fighters travelling developed by : Filiott Brothers, sailing in on n wave. But then but it is, my true joy, Wat you against Kubfischek and his
at the speed of sound anywhere. of Borehamwood, Heria I'm married to someone who is belleve me when I my that In Rio, a dozen scandal-
between 10011, and 6,0008, up, incredibly beautiful.
A spokesragn for Elliott's Today it is more important foron stories of gross corruption in sheets exist almost exclusively
toputer can ~MB PECK: Puregoner for me to write nostry Lan, fokado The girl who can look wonderful rollion francst"
in the country with the mini-
Amazing id, what touchs mum of make-up. Cashmere of the sun can do? Even, to a sweater, tweeds, and dat heeled
Italian shoes. But then may wikia.
Up to 5000ft.
The robot turret has been The Germans are already de- developed for Nato forces and signing a 25-ton
will first go into use in the West with more guns, to welt, there is | German army. But senior Brle same systerz, or
Coman Army officers are keenly principal interested and will attend field have been - Misis of the weapon on stewart bolni
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