The World of Science
by Peter Fairley
Atom chiefs warn: Leave these posts
LINE of rotten wooden posts, bending drunkenly over the shingle, gorse, foxgloves and thistle of Dungeness beach is to be preserved by order of the mighty Central Electricity Generating Board.
The posts are on the site of
THE CHINA' MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER
FAMINATES Paris
TODAY,
Paris.
one month
after the fashion shows of those whom it would be an exaggera. tion to describe as his rivals, Cristobal Balen- cinga unveils his Win ter collection. ·
1060.
The biggest name
in fashion-and
nobody knows him
As us it will be "the moment <H truth" for the fashion world. Some scientists belleve the international
even in the great the world's biggest atorn power giant ants choose brown con! It was so station, shortly to be bulli,
ms as building plots, because Christian Dior's day, and Dior's the material is a bad conductor death has only made it more p of hent. Thus they
keep the parent.
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has Who insides of
You their Jantes cool,
pre-eminence thestre plastering
this with enjyed the nutsides
for nearly 悲 efay to felleel the sun's rays."
quarter of fashionable homes. His name century, Follow the ant-his-and the bathed in the floodlights does not appear in any reference rul, is the herpes
publicity. remains completely books and his age is a matter unknown to all hot a hand of speculation-probably he is in ful of intimate trends and his early fifties. business associades,
They ALSO happen to be the favourite landing point for mil lions of insects which migrate each year from the to Britain Continent.
Exhausted, de bugs rest for a while befine' moving infand,
For entomologists, the posts are a unke museum. Anil ac
result of their ples, the Board is now warned its contracters: "Leave the posts completely
"
Mwenzer, the power.
ROCKET TRIPS
BOUT that second batch of Mr R% "bly splash Pacific twelted host. Professor Georg Pokrawsky, OR! ut Russia's leading explosives experts, as
incastre
and is never seen In
There is ant a head waiter in Three homes Paris who could recognise ilm
or a woman of fashion whose fitting he has ever flattered by IMMEDIATELY his presence.
Never received THE Chess
is completed
11
collection
and before it
CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA.
Eew smuld know him.
solid, erninigy
and In
» fh4. comfortable but
VOL
designer bert
by shewn, he takes off to one of his threp Spanish homes-on chiefs
in San Sebastian, another in have appointen a special warden. Pie vorkel tests stein to look after all the birds, indicate the
Madrid, third in Barcelona. Soviet Union is
++ flowers and tiny creatures that mangkly approaching the pointME
Windsor In France he has # shound this reanale tip of Kent, white mekets can be used not | ↓ dresses.
18th with it, but If 1 souple
century near Orleans, That is what I call good pale baily for space travel, art for may so put it, she never his babe De relations,
Pater-Pontinental manned fights been rercived by him.
Welt.
All the Rothschild women are without any ostentation 1114 ellents yet il
only WER
His servants, including his Givenchy who will also be show
·From: Rusia to Antarctica rendy in a foreign hotel that cooks, are all Spanish so, indeed, ing his collection, EEP down in an old mineral would only lake 45 to 50 two of them save him for the are most of his friends.
ale in the Mojave Deseri, minutes."
first time, when an owed hotel French friends number only six
are. seven and
with iw California, the US. Air Force is
fightser revealed the identity or Trying a new form of rady
of the sombre Spaniard dialling exceptions, people unknown to at an adjoining table.
the general public. in Parts he never
DEEP DOWN.
DEB
communication using "earth
currents
Instead of travelling up from point A and down to point B via the atmosphere., the gignals stay close to the grottari and Rol- low the contours of the country- side.
The idea was first hinted by
the Scottish physicist James
Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century.
It works
electromagnetic
tu;:1
pass
through dense material such as earth, then suddenly esurge into a lighter Rubstance such as air, they change direction and follow the line of the surfacnj with comparatively little loss of power.
U.S.A.F. scientists are beam- ing their signals etil along 11 underground, wire, pointlag in the direction of the revolver. Reception
good."
described
The disadvantage of the sys-
Is that a
tem
for
than for above-ground work,
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What kind wif rockri wondri an explosives expert be interested for?
(London Express Service).
goes to The two exceptions are the a restaurant, never attends the painter Bernard Buffet and the
Among us now
de
fellow Spaniard Plessen in the dignity of his detached with drawal from the world around him and his fierce perfection-m In his craft,
A nun without any intellectunt pretensions red little and his only hobbies are eocking and a mild interest in antiques-bis principal pride is that he is a first-rate needleworker and superb tailor.
لمة
A Soviet Embassy official in Paris: "Our only in
is to ensure the
Ferest
The most
sumptuous flat he He is a 60-year-old Armenian, Mouchegh Dilerdjian, who, after reserves for himself; 1 has
room Coft, by 18ft. suffering years of frustration reception
Socialist legislation la and there are five bedrooms. from
bathrooms and vasi France, has anally found proa three perily in the bencing, rep enter terraces.
DI, as I shall call him hence- prise air of Monaen,
forth, is married to an Austrian and has two sons.
He does not own a yacht yet and is clearly no immediate menace to Me Aristotle Onassis, but he is ulready
the biggest manufacturer of plastic lavalory sente south of the Loire.
Afler uti exploratory trip to Monier a few years ago, when
He leads a multi-lingual lie, nesking French in his factory German to his wife and his native Armenian to his two sons. Di has an Austrian passport. 1te leads a quiet life, being com- fetely absorbed by his rapidly
he found that every prosiect in expanding business. Congo's indopondence. Do the principality pleased him, he On weekends he escapes to his would set up his factory in the ravine 100-acre farm in the South of
you really think wo
be fools enough to think we under the bridge of St Romains, France, So far he has not been
exactly four yards Inside the sighted In the Casino, could make Communism with the Blacks?"
The friendship with Cavenly Finds prosperity
is a close one overflowing into their cornmen work and la
relationship is that MAN who manufactures
A which their
plastle lavatory seats of master and supil.
report, making Utterly impervious to Nattery, I am happy to Balenciago reminds one of his his mark in Monte Carlo,
WHEN THE
the signs that KISSING
ignited this
man's fury...
higher-"ONE word of warning-this book is not an enter- powered transmitter is needed |tainment except perhaps for those who are enter- The advantage is that storms, tained by the prospect of seeing their country de- And as he said this, Constantine Fitz- sunspots and all the other in-stroyed." ferruptions have practically no Gibbon looked out from his study on to the placid.
Tect. A useful stand-by in West Country fields.
times of emergency.
COAL - ANTS?
FitzGibbon was talking about his novel, "When The Kissing Had To Stop," a book that presents being England much as it is today, but degenerating into examined with new interest appalling complacency and immorality.
NT-HILLS
are
in South-West Africa. They may point to brown coal.
Indeed the reason which A lot of people regard this impelled him to write the simply as a spectacle, but don't novel was "first 1 was dis- realise that Pawers
was doing. what he did for us in Britain
HAD TO
STOP!
by JOHN CRUESEMANN
Is,
Tonceo Trontier.
He then went into Monaco's booming real estate business and
but filmselt one of Monte Carlo's
An
English woman visitor in Paris: "No,
most spectacular blocks no, we are not going to St of skyscraper flats.
me an-
This block now lowers over Tropes. It makes my hus- the port on the winding Boule band restless and vard d'Italie that leads from the viout." casino eastwards to Menion.
BOFFINS
-(London Express Service).
SAW 'ANGELS,' LEARNED ABOUT BIRDS
New facts from radar
By JAMES STUART a fresh approach to the old were pin-pointed as the centres ADAR scientists are problem of how a bird navigates, of sterling costs, and Trafalgar
evidence nev Square was one. Rearning a lot of new Substantiul cleanses seems
says
things about the flight of to prove that a blid makes use birds. It has
come of the sun by day and the stars all about through their efforts by night in order to fly with u
houding, constant
Dr to understand why what Eastwood. they call "angels" appear on radar screens.
Same of the things that have been discovered about birds are told in Shell Aviation News by Dr E. Enstword, of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Chelms- ford.
During the war eynics in the RAF used to say,
"Only birde Outside, as he finished talk and fools fly, and birds do not
My novel might besis possibly the hekle English sunshinelly by night." De Eastwood says
contemporary England.
And I wrote I." he adds, chiuded over. because 1 was terrified partly
that
time.
the
On airport screen Similar ring angels" have appeared on the radar screens at London Airport from the start- Ing roosts in Windsor. Great Park. But they do not interiers with radar operations.
But it has not yet learned how to correct for wind drift.
Measurements made from the Dr Eastwood says there are a strength of the rader echoes number of fixed points at which made it possible for them to that there were * starlings occupying a
-{London Express Servier).
radar echoes like ripples on calculate
scientists call them millon pand-the "ring angels" are observed on roost in Essex. radar,screens at sunrise.
M'
They
Just Fancy That
TEN aged over 60 in the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) will in future need special court permission to marry women under 30. A new law men-allowed breaks a centuries-old custom by which Four wives under Moslem law-often celebrated old aga by marrying teenage girls.
!
redarstudies 111 Marconi research -- station at flushy Hill Essex, have estab- ́by of the remarks I heard "itemember," prided
on some oral roma. We seem Gioon Quisling and Kadirlished the fallacy of ins
Fitz-
Systematic recordings have to be living on our comfortable, tre in
Watching. the crowd.
shown that the total volume of little island with no big internal waiting. Listening. looking. biru zálivity is very
much Issues to divide us and without They always have been.
They world always will be,
It is not a greater at night than in the day the awareness of the
anestion of trusting to luck that around us.
anything unpleasant will some-
High fliers how Dass us by but trying to spot the danger in our midst. that seeps through life to countrymen,"
there sound to
down day.
FitzGibbon recalled how, in pompous but I wrote the book.always willing to run a slave "Once you get to a state the Germany of the 1920's public in the hope that it might help camp, To whip and to debase. birds to operate at 10,000 feet, his box when the heavy lever came away in his hands. in which sex and strip tease morality had almost ceased to prevent the horrors and dangers The phrase 'I can't happen but most probably such flights Points were changed by hand for three hours, delaying ure bought for money as exist and scandal and perver. It envisages, This is not fletion here is only true if we watch ore at about 4.000" feel.
sion were openly flaunted. With at all. It could be near fact," out that it doesn't happen here." "Radar studies are permitting grantly as they are now Hitler as the result. [objects, then it is only
VALENTINO WINS gusted by all the dingy sex quite as much
NEW FANS
ON TELEVISION and bodies become just
D
New York. America has discovered
new television personality
Rudolph Valentino.
ay for his own
And as if to encourage Hitler. little step to locking those Britain
the Peace Pledge Union in guve the impression bodies Up. And finally, however well intentioned some bodies that can be bought participants were) that this
country was soft and decadent, can be burned."
The book shows Britain
Once again the situation ts
as a country in which not dissimilar over here. Only Thirty-four years after his surge of maak emotion this time instead of the Peace
death the former
is winning new fons and new indistinct hearts os his silent pletures are
sereen idol generated by a few not-too-edge Union there Aldermaston marches.
shown on TV.
rapp
public figures
(and ANITIE well in the
are
the
"No one denies the sincerely, held views of some of these men
An independent rating service background) has swayed a and women." FitzGibbon - says that thousands of teen-great nujority and aver- phasised. "But what we have to agers and middle-aged women turned the Government, fear is not atomic analbillation, wern "wide-oyed and
sweeping to power a Ca- but the folly brought about by when, his most famous Aim, Son of the Shelk, was shown inet intent on a policy of the fear of that annihilation. in New York the other night. nuclear disarmament.
Sponsors are now bidding "sky-high prices for the use of the films.
Among other developments: A national "Rudolph Valenting Fan Club" has been formed. with members wearing buttons Yoading. "We Rate Rudy1"
A contest
A contest to disenver a new Rudolph Valentino is to be held
'Stupidity'
"Have you ever asked your-
on Hiro-
elf would the Americans have dropped the bomb #hima and Nagasaki if the Japanese had been in a position The next stage is in- to retaliate Now the balance evitable the
of terror is so poised that it is Russians move in. Without opposi-
better than no balance at all," tion. Equally inevitable, Britain becomes a satellite. And liberty is at an end.
—
Anger
FitzGibbon wrote this book,
The trouble today," very fast in three monks Inst at Allanile City, New Jerney
FitzGibbon pointed -out, summer and in a mood of cold, Says Press agent Birt Biken, the organizer: "The
people sustained anger. rublies that so many response to Valentino hos bei here regard the American- He had in the past few years overwhelming. If I enn ånd a Russian conflict, for Buch boen much occupied on a writer look-alike I've found a new it is, as if the whole tent with the Nazl camps star."
Valentino hair-cute-air of strength were a sport with the whole horror of tofall-
tarianism. well-alled and pressed steekly ing event which they are
People reading "When The
almost inevitably compared It
to the head-are being demand-watching from the grand-
and No
ed by the youth of America, re- stand with nothing to Kiming Had To Stop have ports the Federation of Barban. worry about but bet on the with George Orwell's "1994." Said Mr Paul Kliam, Bro- ducer of the serica featuring result,
1
But Fitzgibbon says "That Valentino: "Ie rather Over- whelming. And to think we The picture of stupidity and book, brilliant ce if Is, deals some with an England of a gener(A =, just thought the dilent movina Unreality displayed by would provide a quiet evening British politicians and leaders tion ahead, with a concentratio
Fle appalling. Just look at the camp England which it needs a London Express Service). U-Z fight and the Powace trial, lowp of logination to pleture,
of TV...
J
זיי
The danger
don't
want
"Somerne
18
that
Radar has discovered individual birds fly as high as is 20,000ft.
It is comman for migrating
CIGNALMAN BILL BANKS pulled the 4ft. 6 in. lever that controls the points outside Liverpool's Central Station recently--and was sent reeling across
trains.
---{London Express Service).
"Well, they're not down in the official entries list.”
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