CUPID SKI
THE CHINA MAIL, · THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1980.
Cummings
"Bah! My peace propaganda's worked-I've united the British and the Germans!"
London Express Service
watch
'Big Brother'
for building sites
MOSCOW HAS GIANT COMPUTER
RUSSIAN scientists are piecing together a giant computer, to take over control of the entire building programme for Moscow. Every construc- tion site in the city will be linked to it by radio-telephone. So will the fac- tories turning out bricks, concrete, prefabricated materials and timber.
Each morning, engineers will feed into the muthine the hourly schedules Kur the sites and factories.
It will remarise" the time at which every terry leaves a factory and arrives Al
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site, what materials are sent
and reculved.
At the end of the day. The
Russians say, the robot will
The World of Science
by Peter Fairley
They have come to light supply the feels for another com- puler to use in calculating the concern at the Royal Col- during the last six months,
sum up the work done and mental disorders, is causing
wages workers,
aft of
the
1
building loge of Nursing. A number of nurses have been found to be sensitive to it. "On the basis of its 'experi- ence, the machine will also
Hashes have followed, and able to undertake planning of
up. The work and dieate more rational frees have swollen
material allotment of
drug is swallowed on mugor couted pill. But reaction in i machines," they add.
allergie nurse ean be triggered Big Brother is quite definitely by contact with the pallent's
watching.
AID FOR BLIND
A
and
breath or persipiration.
*
4 SMILE
FROM ANY ONE OF THE 'UMBMILING FIVE MEANE YOU'VE ARRIVED-IN HOLLYWOOD
THE RAT PACK
first picture
AS SHIRLEY MACLAINE ARRIVES IN
HERE, for the first
time in one remark- able picture, is Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack, otherwise known as The Clan. Scowling from left Joey to right: comic Bishop; Sammy Davis
Frank
Sinatra, jun., Dean Martin, and Peter Lawford.
monaroky.
YOU-ARE-IN.
simply
one
BRITAIN
group.
one night after we came back inner elrele, is still without 藕 from a Judy Garland opening. tio. 'There was Bogey, his wife Outside their own Lauren Bacall, John Huston the which. extenda to part-time. director, Frank, and me.
Clan member's Tony Curtis, "Then in a moment of idlovy Jenet Leigh, Natalie Wood, somebody suggested we formed Bob Wagner, Judy Garland, and-
it the Rat Pack, It's the sort
of
a club and someone else called director Hilly Wilder-Clan
members rarely entertain. thing children and idiot Although the Big Five are, grown-ups do.
with the exception of Poter top night-club
"Anyway we all drank to it Lawford, and gave....each other tiles,, entertainers they never throw Bogey was Director of Public the kind of lavish purties Relations and Betty Bacall was associated with big star names... Den Mother. It was all quite
Parties Juvenile."
at
go
Hollywood's now social club The Sands-in which ho
Instead, the soclul monarchy of Hollywood 1960 preters to' has a 500,000 dollar share.
A tradition
entertain well but privately A small smile from any
Although He also persuaded the Pack's
when Bogart died informal gatherings at home, of them-especially Sinatra, favourite lady Shirley Mac- Becall and Niven let the Pack, But once a party begins it is sometimes kow:1 - as The Laine, who arrived In Britain the title tradition lived on. To- likely to last through the night
The for the first time the General or mure
other day Dean Martin, who is and it is not easy to pass the Leader and you are In, daddy- night. to make a two-minute Sinatra's deputy, is called The physical examination to be
guest appearance,
Admiral, or The Secretary of Clan member because some -Now the Alm is chalking up the Navy. Because it is said, people have to get up and And soon the impact of this the biggest business In America he likes to be
Bear water, to work in the mornings. curious cult of The Clari will today. So now is the moment, especially if it has some Scolch As David Niven said, it is all, be felt in London. Soon a new I feel, to take a closer
im called "Ocean's
rather juvenile. But, my word." 11." in Sinatra and his friends they call, Peter Lawford, who udds a how it rattles those would-be which they all appear, opens in sometimes with and sometimes dash of class to the Rat Pack sociailles who haven't yet felt without affection the Rat Pack, This wife Pat is the sister of the warmth of a Sinatra smlle The nun who put the Pack The other night I talked to presidential candidate John to welcome. them IN, daddy-o on parade together for the Orst David Niven, a former member Kennedy) is known as The time Is Sinatra himself. He of the original Rat Puck formed Snob. Look at them well, for these produced and financed the pie five men without a smile be ture. He med much of it in tween them are the inner circle.: his favourite Las Vegas night
-Curious-cult
London.
look at in' H..
by the late Humphrey Bogart, Sammy Davis jun. is The He told me: "Frank is really Jester. And Joey Bishop. the Bogey's heir. It first started newest member to The Clan's
-Peter Evans
-(London Express Service).
TALK, TALK, TALK!
IN
It
No wonder this policeman
can't stop thie ves!
the lofty hall of the United Nations building in New York, which looks like an upended glass cigarette packet, there is a huge pendulum. moves, they tell you, by the rotation of the earth and it ticks away the time to the end of the world. United Nations officials must be watching that : pendulum uneasily today. Their air-conditioned on the first danger was glass-walled world is in danger of tinkling to pieces him about their ears.
They appear to be related to the bacilli which causes tuber- culosis, yet resist normal treat-skjold, ment with anti-TB drugs.
They may be a "local strain." il now unrecognised. More ominous they may be another sign that turbecule bacili are changing their guise and becom- ing resistant to drugs, as some
have built staphylococci
resistance to penicillin.
up
The issue, said Mr Hammut- when he sought per- mlsion to go into Katunga; is+ one of pooce or war.
The issue now, since he re- urned indignantly to Now York from a Congo which has scorned his efforts, is one of le UF death for UNO itself.
Hy blue-helmeted torecs. have been refuctantly accepted in Kalanga. But Mr Lumumba,
by howling
telling them
for
"We do not want to suggest this is anything but an excellent If this is 50. it is important who started DEVICE to help blind drug." says the College, but a for Britalo-with TB at an all-UNO help, is now people to operate nurse cannot find out if she has lime low-to be able to recognise to get out of his part of the
So we there "new look" Infections at Congo, this allergy in advance. offies or factory telephone want hospitale to take extra onee. If they suddenly pop up
THE CRACKS switchboards has been do- pricuations." veloped by two scientists at
the Mullard Research Labo- NEW BACTERIA
ratorias.
It scans
the Baling lights which indicates that
THE
fenaton la culing and "buZZES"
the blind operator.
at home.
New drugs or new com binations of the old set, can be Medical Research prepared to meet them.
extremely Council is
So the Counell, and the World concerned at the discovery Health Organisation, are send- ing teams of doctors to India to bacteria in investigate further.
-London Express Service).
of some new
It consists of a photo-electric India. cell, mounted on carriage.
which the operator slides across
the switchboard.
The whole device is no bigger than a cigarette packet.
It is FLOW
undergoing held trials with the Royal National Institute for the Bind.
CONCERN OVER DRUG
Chydrochloride, a tran-
HLORPR O MAZINE
quiiliser now used to
treat
TALKING
POINTS
All women become like
their mothers.
-WILDE.
Illusion in the first of all plessures.
-VOLTAIRE.
A man never tells you anything until you contra- dilet Alat.
MA#.
STRIKS
by
ANTHONY
LEJEUNE
Mr
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оп The wishes of a handful of because the Russians had walk- black politicians from F tiny ed out a few months earlier. People were entitled to ask: State which was enfranchised The plain fact is that Mr is UNO an organisation which recently carry equal weight Hammarskjold is not the supports Nusser but abandons with the decisions of Britain or work's chief constible with an Hungary, which backs. Lumum- Canada or the United States or international police force under ba but rejects Tibet? But as the Soviet Union.
bim. He has no authority soon as Mr Hammarskjold tries The prejudices, the jingoism, above and beyond the selfsh to use the United Nations in any the ambitions of a hundred petty strategies of the nations which other way, the structure begins nationalisms are thus built into make up the General Assembly: to break under him. If UNO the structure of the United he has no agreed lows to ad- troops do not simply support Nations.
minister. Lumumba, Lumumba wants no part of them. And the black African nations
with him.
United
from Chata
other
agree
are been
SELFISH
Colonel Nasser stole the Suez Canal. Fidel Castro stole ali
What of the Security Council, the American property in Cuba. Nations contingents where the Great Powers have There are ominous signs that
Guinea and
Dr Sukarno will soon be steal- realistically A
FALLACIES
given
RESOLUTIONS
In
What has Mr Hammarskjold offered to Mr Lumumba as his superior position? The Security ing all Dutch property in
10 the Council is the most unrealistic doarsla. But Mr Hammar Lumumba's Ogents: their loyalty
Dr Action of all.
skjeld's police do not move done to lose friendship? He has refused to Unlied Nations is sreondary
the drainst All
thieves....They *back into non-existent, drug Katanga
dangerous potentially And Lumumba's shaky power.
situations are likely to involve cannot, оле от other of the Great some of his troops have white
Cra Mr Hammarskjald `do` Powers, but by using the veto UNO communications meri faces.
So the cracks which were anything about it? When the ony of these Powers can pre- have been beaten up by Congo-
are down, probably vent the Security Council from lege troops Leupoldville always latent in the structure chips
acting. of the United Natione are be nothing.
bencalh For the United Nations suffers airport.
UNO officials have been man- ginning to break upon
from two deadly fallacies. on the the African sun.. handled and searched
As soon as Mr Hammarskjold the General Assembly they might be pretext that
intervened in the Congo situa- nation has an equal vote. Belgian spies in disguise.
Bure everybody's get their. fse before"
ات
The Russians were condemn-
ed over Hungary. The Chinese United have been convicted not merely Only once has the In Nations taken quick and effec- of murder in Tibel, but of every tive action. That was in Korea, genocide. And where is
Nations? At home, and I was possible
simply United
passing resolutions.
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štidon Meóriás
the
The Congo has seen a breach
of the peace on the most massive scale, If Mr Hammarskjold were really a, sort of' global policeman. he would have Lakati over and restored order in the name of all civilised men, whee ther Mr Lumumba liked it or not.
But he cannot. The United Nations in not that kind of or ganisation.
MONUMENT.·.
So what kind of organisation is it? Can it ever act when, it le really needed? As há xits In his glas palace today. Mr. Hammarskjold must know that this is the moment of declalon; the point of no retumi,
Unless the United Nations can show. that It is Lamiamba's master, not his servant, not only will it never became the world organisation in which soŇ MADY people have sot their hopes, bit it will lose what litle credit it bas
Like the old League of Nations, it will become, merely adrileable....humanitarian,
an
body, which runs-such inciden tal good worka ́us narvotik “Fons trol extremely well, okr.
The League of Nations bullā- ing in Geneva. is an elephan« tine monument to man's fölly.
Unlead Mr. Hamarskjöld ca arrest the proc9ES NOW, WI MED, they upendes glass KINAI VIS TIE In New Xxl wil dions 19 ADM