When beauty
wears
a built-in
smile...
by Michael Parkinson THE bathing beauties of Britain, the girls
whose smiles never fade and bathing suits never get wet, can now relax. We have just seen the unofficial end of their season.
From now until next May. they can relax their smiles, eurely forget their poise, and re- money, turn to the everyday busi- ness of being everything Trom bacteriologists to pel- roš-pump attendants,
Meanwhile, the promo- ters of beauty contests can pel down to golden tacks and
their
Through the profils.
get among the prize
The hard core of thu jainstry
dost 100 girl a group who, for four months of the Cat ther hopes, asuratats and talen into a bathing suit,
In the business they ary call- en elreiz, queens" They tour the казак Psoria al
fingers with left se puk nil
£1,000 in talent money,
ios kone of Britain's Jardasil – growing? tel most Iterative business. I IS anticipated, this season compares with the oitis then the gives torney will be between 000,000 and £23,000,000.
HUMAN
FOR KICKS
But the circus queens rarely 2.- win
These ntional tille
The wide structure of success of bathing bemnly contests is
a
neurly, always go to girls who
DAN
THE · CHINA MAIL,
FRIDAY, SETTEMBER 22, 1961.
**Add one of these to a little water every time the Russians add a million tons of THT to their atom tests."
London Expresa Bervice.
ANGER time in
Persia begins
seriously when the the industry, tosemary Frank- university term starts
have been but a short time in
land,
18-your-old medet
from Lancaster, is example.
typical
and stands a strance
again at the end of this month.
In her first year as a So puckish Ali Amini, Lased un two human failings compelikom, ale bas won appointed Premier by an
One is that side every, giv's £2,330
anxious Shah to head off berzan mirror there is of winning another £2,000 at beauty queen pleading
the Miss World contest to be revolution by reform from allowed to pirouette 1 ise het in London in Noveniet. the top, believes he must go judging rat-walk. The other Is Mus Prankland, a refresh on ruling without a Parlia that people will pay to see them. Inily frank beauty rement.
Morgenbe wis the first
of his
country's
told me that she entered her The Shah's worry is that resort In Britain first competition for Icicles. organise contests on a national
"1's all a big laugh, really, many bazin. This was in 1946. Imo, you just charge up akt16,500 students abroad tre 1: has since became an in- down 201 bulbing costune, picking up a strong taste dustry which attracts about sanile sweetly at the jauges, for radical politics, 15.000 tirk aged between 17 and and walk
away with ม งป
Almost every student returns 25 every year.
rach and some cush to put t
Persin with revolutionary she said.
Ideas. Some may
been have won over by persuasive "Look how fast we have progressed" pamphlets that Russin mails in
dividually 10 many Persian students in Europe and America.
The girts enter for different the bank' reasons, Sone do it for a dare, If one has lovely 2 Miss come for a ingele. These are Frankland, then the depa
willing amateur who tax-fies competitions are with
22
Woman with
a
£1 million mind on tap
in reacti.
Aix
These are: Miss International (America), £3,500 plus Alms core- tract: Miss Universe (America), £1,700 plus 13m contract; Miss U.K. (Blackpool), £1,050; Miss World (Landan), £2,500; Miss Great Britain (More- cambe) £100 plus extras: Miss Europe (Beirut) £2,500-£6,000,
NEW TITLE
For
*
Pricy
And the 15,000 stay-at-home students? They are clearly in- fected by the radical bug nny- way.
They see the sleek cars, Paris
dresses, Savlie-row sults of the
The country
next on
Kruschev's
ernment by riots for more pay cly to tag that the national kitty was empty.
American aid alone is saving Persia.
told me: What has happened An angry university professor to the £100 million a year in the huge dole of
oil revenue, American aid?
"Every Persian knows that great wads of it have been put away in Swiss banks against a CLAY. The souner the y rainy day comes the belter for our "people."
REVOLUTION THREATENS
PERSIA AS
THE STUDENTS RETURN
by STEPHEN HARPER
The Shah, a shrewd ruler, has taken the lid off the political evuldrun lo case of the pres 2.000 land-owning familles, They sure building up.
He has replaced police re- Premier Amini, a rich land- consideritut see shop windows stuffed with Birl
Premier owner himself, has been plead- backing to carry ing to be given a year to clean beyond their with his
reforms. p corruption деств put th
economy, on
a sound basis.
jumping Un the merry-go- | pricy wares of Europe and presion by
round next season the require- | Amèrica as far
beral
ments for success are 30-23-38, reach as the diamond necklaces But the signs are that he is too diaotle
through revolutionary
at least four inllored swimaults, of Hond-street to most house- a dozen pairs of shoes, and wives in England. built-in nile.
They see glering new build- Always remember Missings rising 15 storeys and more Frankland's advice that It's above the medieval open draina thut mark the eye of every For potential promoters the road in the capital. difeally
really all a bit giggle.
title. to
is in finding new Already we are reduced
National Miss
Postbull
BY DAVID ASH League and Miss Switchboard.
Perhaps I won't be long be- fore we follow the American
Empty
Everywhere there is evidence
late.
Iran,
A purge
And always Russia euzes at was picked out by Mr. Kruscher in day-long talk with American reporter Walter Lippmann as a State which was "surely producing a revolution.".
It is certain ho
needs that Lippmann's Impression; Iran time. It la almost certain he is the most hamediate example will not get it.
of the Inevitable movement of Popular feeling Is that the history in which Mr K believes Government needs A clean so eompletely.
sweep, a purge of the old gank
Though Russla may not con- like those which followed the
Turkey
Mrs Lukjanow pressed one example and have a Miss End of big spending and huge prl-
of the scores of buttons of the World, Miss Frozen vate investment, while 90 per template military intervention, army coups in on a console where lights Rabbit Meat, and Miss Cor-cent of Parland live on ditte Lippmano was convinced that South Korea winked knowingly. like rugated Fittings.
and
more Chart stale rend and the Soviet leader will do all he
One of Amint's main handi- Frankland on lens.
can by propaganda and indirect caps is that some of the Shah's Four months ago underpaid intervention to bring down the closest relatives are among the
overthrow the Gov- Shub.
the most guilty. For years they
those оп # fairground juke box,
Bat
Miss as
Guys
London Express Service).
She wasn't selecting it pop record. She Was
operating
an electronic cumputer translat- ing an article from Pravda, the Soviet newspaper, into English. The words fed on to the con- puter's magnetic tapes from punched
looked eards
like: "Vuraline chto dokument 103- viasoen voprosiť u rossoed benit Germanit....
Making about 80,000 calcula- tions A second, The computer sorted them cut into alpha- betical order, consulted ity built-in Hurrian and English dictionaries, selected ibe right
in the words
right context, sorted them into sentence order, and printed them:-
"Outwardly this document is devoted to the question concern- ing the reunification of Ger-
TENIS....
Just HOW it does this al 60,000 wordin an hnur -- I really Jon't understand.
Mrs
Diat
Artane Lukjanow, whose com- ponty in demonstrating it in London, seems to do so. It is inore or less her brain-child.
Her company began mainly because Romeone told herl wasn't possible.
Homely but still ambitious al 40, hervan htt determined, Russian-born and still using a. Vindivostok acceni and her malden name. Mrs Lukjanow had degrees in innigungen and mathematics when she Jett 1 Micow for bit Amerfonn univeralty in 1843 benite the disliked Communism.
Now she hopes that her trans- lating innekline will help to provide the West with more information from And About Ruasin.
-¿London Expres forples).
VILM
teachers
ut
"AH, JUST A LITTLE JOKE" IN VERY BAD TASTE.”
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have taken cuts on Government contracts and buld monopolies.
trading
Caspan
RESSIA:
Teherad
PERSIA
list
0 200
Filles
is still pre-
lex collector. He sented with petlilons from pea- sants with grievatices where le goes.
Dispelled
every-
That reverence has been die-
MR BUGGINS CLOCKS ON
-WITH
BIG BEN'S
BROTHER
By
JANE GASKELL
I'VE been clock-enchanted since I was a little girl, listening to Hickory Dickory Dock and that lovely song pelled among clly intellectuals about Grandfather's Clock by the Shah's active participa- and how it stopped short tion in Government.
(never to go-o agen) the Western diplomats shrug off instant the old man died, In Persia there is corruption unparalleled even in the Middle the dangers. They say: "The There are those little num- East, indation that slashes the army is with the Shah," Butlers Louis XIV used to send belly earnings of a monster the point is that the Shah could he fancy prices in fancy gold- Civil Servies, shortage of find himself the front man for encrusted Easter eggs, foreign exchange ali the an army coup.
There are clocks supported by Politicians like Mr Kruschev Old symptons that brought down
Father Time, who Menderes' Turkey and Syngman have been crying wolf for years moronely surrounded by pranc- about the Shah's shaky throne.ing cherubim; church clocks, Rhee's South Korea.
Bul the danger is not only ancient lantern clocks, mass- Communist subversion.
shaded sutalais, plastic 488- Change must come to Persia Umers.
In both countstes student riots were followed by coups and rufe by army juntas,
from its people, driven beyond So I got quite a good feeling, It is true that the Persian puttence by + ruling clique walking over all the glitterin Army and the vast majority of which has learned none of the dust, the little siivery metal the people are for the Shab. sucial lessons of the modern prints and the shavings in Mr
Geoffrey Bugghus's -(London Express Serilee) the other doy,
Every pensant looks upon the world. Shah as his protector against the
Anita in
Fairy
Land
By Ann Kenny
workroom
Whirring
Mr Burring is the managing dirtelor of Thwaltes & Reed Ltd founted in 1740 and Bourishing Ja a whirring Len- don back-twist called Bowling Green-lane, where they are now making their largest clock since the thirties.
And Mr Buggins is cft for a sweltering time in Riodesia, Is Arm's latest clock is to be Rhodesdale Big Ben. From the spire of Salisbury Cathedral- Salisbury, Rhodels the clock will chine cut, with abell
IT is, as 11-year-old ballet-mad Anita Desmarais weigh 3,
said, a fairy story,
Anita is one of the world's natural ballet dancers. She lived on an island, Mauritius, in the Indian Ocean,
And there she learned ballet
and whispered: and ved ballet and loved baile, this is a fairy atory." until the best teacher on the
Then her island said: "I can teach her no there!
Her father George Desmarais, a lawyer, and his wife Darbara spent all their savings to bring Antia to England.
But because she had not lived in this country she could not get a grant to pay for her place at the Huyal Ballet School.
Without that grant it would cost her £700, for the first year. Top nucli for family to find.
the Hesmarais
Then caine A anonymous offer to pay the £700.
Waif-like
For Mr Bugglım, fale and sight pad an ardent clock lover, this win be his arst trip beyond Europu. He is to apend 10 days
up the spire to supervise the assembly and installation of two tens of elexic.
Mr
"My grandfather," says "Ob, Moman,. th simple pride, "made.
the clock bell of Westminster enormous brown Abbey, This Rhodesia Big Ben eyes Bt up as she talked about is about comparabki in size." her favourite kallet.
"I love Coppelia.' always the doll.”
can
I
#in
All big
The Rhodesia clock cost about
it,
She clutched her doll and ching "I try to leach my doll the steps but she is stupid.”
Then impatiently asked her £2,000. I was ordered In 1959, wn to and two mem-one 21, one 28- mother-"Whon shopping for my
uniform
worked
By hand, of coume, pink tights?"
Mr Buggins' firm concen trains on the big slum. All ́hand made by the eight man in the workshop,
Mischief
The telephone rang, and Anita went to answer it. Her mother Inughest
"Look how she walks... Hike a to duck. Alt bailet dancers look funny when they wolk, to safd.
You'd expect that building a clock for Rhodesin would ins volve problems of climate, It didn't sald Mr Buggins. What dil affect it was gravity,
"The force of gravity isn't quite the same in bodesia as it in ncarer home, so we had to make the thread on the regula- She has all the grace and poised cut put on such an act.
"Sometimes_abo comes to motor a bit longer." of ballet dancer. But she has weeping and I yok; "What's the Graylly, however, wil still do
Anita Dezmarala is frail, amali boned, with large eyex; a walf- "She is very temperamental
the face.
all the interest in clothes of an matter, and then I find the mu wak, like any grandfather ordinary small giri.
Bhe rarely stilles and seems to be in a dream world, under- alundably. Buddenly she dropped her doll and ran to her mother, jjut her arms around 'ter theok
Hile monkey has been tooling clock, or come to that like any me. She in full of mischief. cheap cuckoo clock, the grat "Bho adores being on the Selbury clock will be worked stage. - I get sick with herved | by "woldsta, oven is tlies' foN- for her but she just latightờ, plicated times. T
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(London Exprem Serviço).")