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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, AUGU
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ABOVE: IE is. moving day at 10 Downing Street. Out goes the furniture in pre- paration for the £1,250,000 reconstruction work that started last week in the Prime Minister's home. Mr Macmillan's temporary quarters are in Admiralty House, just across Horse Guards Parade,
RIGHT: A party, of five-offi- cials from, Höngkon spending a month ✨ in the United Kingdom, as guests' of: the Colonial Office and under arrangements made by the Central Office of Informa”” tion. They are accompanied by Mr H. F. Chauvin, Labour Officer, Hongkong. The party comprises: Mr Solomon RaFook, Vice - Chairman, Executive Committee, Happy Valley and Canal Road Kal- fong Association; Ar Chou
·Yau, ` Exécutive Committen, Central District Kaifong Asso- ciation; Mr Mr Cheung Kam- Him, President, Shaukiwan Kaifong Association; Mr Léa Wan-yuen, Chairman, Exocu- tive Committee, Wanchai Kai- fong Association; and Mi Gan Geok-eng, Vice-President, North Point Kaifong' Associa tion.
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ABOVE: Off to Moscow from London recently went seven people-by toxi. Six of the travellers are American-four of them women - and the seventh is the driver, former wing commander Patrick Barthropp, owner of a hire car firm in West- minster. The 27-day trip which will cost. £1,000 is being made in a Rolls Royce. Outward route is via Harwich, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, Leningrad and · Morcow. They are coming back by way of Minsk, Warsaw, Prague and Cologne, and will pass the prison comp in Paland where Mr Barthropp was held for three years during the war. Picture shows taxi and travellers just before departure.
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LEFT: Portraits of royalty and world statesmen, who have been visitors to the house are seen crowding,¤, table in an ante room to the Prime Minister's" study at No. 10, Downing Street. In the back row ore, left to right: The Queen, "the Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Walter Nash, and King Bhumipal of Thailand. In centre row are Mr Robert Menzies, Dr. Konrad Adenauer and Signor Antonio Segni. Foreground are seen President Eisen- hower with Mr "Harold Macmillan, Pandit Jawa- harlal Nehru and Mr John Diefenbaker of Canada,
RIGHT: Remarkable and unexpected agreement on a new constitution for Nyasaland was reached at the Conference at Lancaster House, London, last week. The whole thing was a triumph for Colonial Secretary lain Macleod, widely tipped as the next Conservative Prime Minister. In: 10 days of hard bargoining he extracted big concessions from Dr Hastings Banda, African leader of the Malawi party, and Mr A., C. W. Dixon, head of the European-led United Federal party, Picture shows After the conference: Dixon (left), Macleod (centre) and Dr Banda (right),
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ABOVE; Secombe, Sellers and Milligan promise the mixture much as before in the new series of Goon Shows on Radio Hongkong which began last week.,· But where would the Goons themselves be without their Noises, the responsibility of the studio managers seen below producing the right "effects for a typical Goon sounda 16-ton, 11⁄2 horsepower, 6 litre brassband electric racing organ. fitted with a cardboard warhead?
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ABOVE: Some remarkable 12th and 13th-century wall paintings are being restored of St Albans Abbey in Hertfordshire, The work has been going on for a year and now a series of representations of the crucifixion down six pises of the north, nhye arcadé show what the church must have looked like when the decorations formed on integral port of the architecture. The work is being directed by Professor R. W. Baker, who was until last your Professor of Ceramice at the Royal College of Art, and Mrs Baker, Picture shows Mrs Baker working on the second pier with on useistant.
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