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The debate continues—and the subject is: Your chances of living to be a hundred

EAT AS YOU GROW OLD

M

By Chapman Pincher

ANY old-age pen- stoners may

•Tral and agri simply been, they are not getting enough to fat, according to scientific findings revealed 600 of at the congress

re- specialists in old-age search in London.

The seientists found that a look hungry elderly man calls on his res ve stores of fat and protein in exclly the same way or any the Lungry but younger adult. Surveys in Britain have shown. old people in poor that many areas cannot afford enough food to keep them property nourishedi, Many go short of milk, which ta so good for old people that it reca to have the power to in- crease thely life-span, Becording to speriments reported by Dr

McCay M

of Cornel Uni- versity, US.

Tegis

In Germany have shown that men in their have 1322- 70's and 80's mous appetites when allow- ed all the food they can eal. They put on weight younger because they recover body fat which All in their wrinkles,

and

C

stemed

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MAN.

Jould 24 y

younger after i

lo one Erst, under peqarisha ok

eldeniy men stebly

ate twice

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much us un average, middle-aged mah over a persent of two months and would have

un thing s

gone

Els

Widdowson of Cambridge

University

331

PUE 2100 vich 1834-05 average of nearly two stone

as much as onder- Wright rach Frou-shed young men dağ when

convinced McCay 1 that old ple would live longer if they had plenty of milk that

in

be recommends putting bad, on which mang penalente ess

only depend.

Though under-feeding is the 17 15 main danger in old age

thous the which Operating damage ki middle age between the years of 30 and 55

Good

AFTER of this ixrly is fighting

Fore withou

nourishing

battle with ging forces which are tending to break it

Plenty Thown.

these combat il lo feel helps

merrasing the dy-weight beyond normal, Bat in midel uite excess fund is automatically sheet as exit weight, which puts a dangerotes strogi on the whole system

When Damselys 1 outle

hat vis " Ket lat at intelle

life-expectation shorter 121413

14 restricted let thethan those who stay slimm.

of xford Un- and began Hugh Selao lost weight

erweight not only treases susceptibility to heal to Kiry come ailments at plants, ukhtin, dubetes, varie C. Hartures, and gull

Klyen the

When they

normal.

rajpate

unlimited food.

returned

their

to look old again

For beer

THESE Andings explate the

common benef that elderly, an active people do not need nineti food.

The aged only reacts to luck of enough timeck in exactly the same way as the txxly of a young or middle-aged adult, ar- cords to further experiments mude at Cambridge.

Six oki man voluntarily went

Food

without

any

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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1954.

NO DEPOSIT

Suck

"All you do is sign a form

', mor you Dud's name and address

and you get one for nothing."'

London Express Service

The Abadan Old Boy

Is Four Months Ahead

S the regolar Friday

connection nirline from London swept in over the sand and Aden a few days of its passengers. looked through the window and saw how much he has land. done to change the scape below.

fur Bant

the Late

rock of an onl

much fat in the diet in middle age help to cause the heart dis- order rilled coronary thrombosis came from Dr . Rovn, of Les Angoles.

He has been keeping heurt patients of a diet low in fatty Inods for us to tous years, and

His name is Mr Stan- B1- worth ("Buck") Adey.

days so that Dr Widdows and is satisfied that this has done spectacled, tall, and 52 years Professor R. A. Mennee could them a lot of good.

study their reactions

ducement 1009

acperat bottles of

.

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CORONARY trouble is believed to be partly due to certain cireulating in fully substances the bloodstream. After curryng Sut blood bests on his patients, Dr Roti is convinced that a det low in fut decreases the amount of these dangerous substances a many individuals, though not in ป!

The announerments arguments

and the

about Lie process of growing old are to continue for three muse days, but there is one point an which the experts are alivady agreed.

Dr Henry Sims, of New York. summarised it this way:

a

"Death from old age is more of legal fiction than a medical fact. Age dors not cause death but simply makes the body more

some dispares- susceptible to

discans which can almost cer- tainly be prevented when more te known about them."

So your chances of living to be 100 are growing with each new scientific Anding in the Beld of preventive medicine.

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FREEDOM KNITTING FACTORY, HK

old. Adey b Anglo-Iranian's Middle East refinery boss.

He has played a key part in new £50 the bunking of their million refinery at Aden which, Apex hing over 900 acres, is now almost complete. In the th huge

15 refinery "Adey's baby.”

"Buck" Adey new-style Columbus

}

2,000

HIS JOB was to build an oil refinery. But where?

Before him stretched volcanic rock and desert sand.

docks

No But the not even water. and British

American engineers moved in. With them they brought 10,000 Arabs and Indians. Today it is NOT just volcanic rock and desert sand

By JOHN

He arrived in Aden m Septem

At the same time r. 1951 Angio's refinery chief, 54-yem-

was fresh water 422-2

dechtled Trade Called

1st weekend Adey watch- of shipload th vit crude oil pumped ashore for jelining, and between now and August 1 will supervise the lust- minute details before the re Anery goes on stream"-- four months ahead of schedule.

That is a giant achievement, and ore 157 which Adey has played a big part. But he does not larm kudos for himself, Nor does he look the part of the boune ng dynamic oilman,

Saved Millions

TN a well-pressed grey sult, with semi-stiff white collar and silk

IN

tle he appears a little donnish.

He smokes pipe (4oz, of lobacco

Mr Colin Speering-another nun who has had a vital part in Aden's construction was flying 11e westward to San Francisco. enrried a contract for several mulin dellars for an American Arm to build the refinery whose site Adey had not yet found.

With his four-in.in prospecting team Adry Loods a fight over Aden. Tiky saw an outerop of volcanic rock und bare sund which looked like a moon land- Adey sensed that they Scape. led found the right place,

20 arten.

Steamer

In

visited The They

froz across mules Point, the port of Aden,

called local boat

WATERMAN

Neither was

W

s

2!!

the whole project Now almost complete, spreading over DEN Acres, ready to use up

town much electric power as 44 the size of Cambridge, ready to

water as us uch

consum

Adry and his colleagues overs ense them quite simply. They

to build a whole por and to get the firm's drill- ing staff to sink wells. So 275 acres of land were reclaimed city he size of Glasgow, and to from the sea. 6,000,000 ton of use enough steam in an hour to an express train 1,200 st were dredged, harbour walls

buildings, miles. built,

cays, loads and storage tanks.

10.000 well produced the first gallons of fresh water an hour.

were

900 Acres

BUILDING staff of Ceel B. de Mille proportions moved over the former ingon sandscape.

Bruish 2,000 American and technictans. Ten thousand Arabs and Indians.

"dory." Adey, with while drill trousers rolled up. and taking the rule Columbus, ollman's an

the paddled ashore basking sharks and claimed the cd, spol.

of

Binung

proh- There were two big

First was dock-

a wick) and looks down at the lens," he says.

red Persion-style rug on his office ng facilities for tankers. Second floor as he explains how they

have clipped the schedule.

American

Says Adey: "The contractors (the job was shared between American and British called firm) used a method expediting their contracts for equipment... that is chasing up every erder continually."

It got results, and allied with smooth relations between Adey and the nuthorities resulted in the time-clip which has brought a saving of ten million dollars.

A

JUMPED

To

inve

course, to product And, of those five million tons of oil a year.

will be a great saving," says Adey, pulling at his pipe.

East crude "A present Middle oll has to go back to Britain for refining. Now it can be deali with on the spot."

And you

I FIND OUT THAT CANARIES ARE

CIVIL SERVANTS

By Bernard

Wicksteed

firo

the

Neath, Glamorgan. aid he was just going to HAD some, Fan Flud- ce explosive charges in ing Out in a coal mine coal and would we crawl some-

where else, please. - the other chy. The

With the manager's boot in ray face wriggled after him

1

first thing they told me wan that canaries are civil ser- along Die cont face till he

vants now.

erds we

would be safe. Than we lay on our backs with the roof few inches from Qui

There was one of those bureaucrats in the mana- tacts and walled for the CX- ger'a oflice singing away plosion. 1 would rather have

been like mad.

any where eise in 11 "Funny thing" said the world just then.

The Bight from my helmet at "He never manager.

Bank up the fusils in the roof. Every a noté till last Friday. Then inch was covered with delicate his wife died and he has impresions of ferns and strange.

Ut had lived and been singing ever since."

The law says every cont mine must have a canary in case of

coldent. They can delect the presence of the deadly gas car- bon monoxide more surely than Instruments.

Of mice

MICE

word say another about Adey's personal stake in switchen But he Adey had that saving. house then.

the subject to fly-ashing, to the £250,000 worth of prefabricat-

air-conditioned buildings books he reads about the Middle shipped from England, including East, to the Persion language he Two writes and speaks, to his wile 100-bed hospital.

family at Warlingham thousand tons of food, including und the Julciest of steaks, were sent anything, in fact, except Adey's

pride in Adey's bouncing baby. there.

U

JOHN WREN has

DATE WITH

Rome.

on a No. 77 bus and went to see

Not only that, but when the the Pope. Brs of Adey's five million tons of el a year flow from the refinery next month the gap at torn in production by the loss of Pope Pius Abadan will be nearly closed.

The

Inside

over

the

cilen

250 milen years ago.

The maunger said: "Beautiful, Every day down. gren't they? here we uncover stories wonderful than all the ever

mo" book

written." Then he chipped a Bliver of

oniuracite From the giten- ing wall at our side and, break-

can do the job too. So De it in his fingers, said: "Be- cause of some unitnową happen- ing

in that forest millions of

can ary

warm

blooded

44 cwiary 1s

creature if 11 is small enough The trouble with mice is they are so nervous. You cannot tell If they have passed out through gas or sheer tright. It is not flen

A! the Cefn Coed needed. anthracite mine that visited a canary only they have used once in the 27 years it has bern open,

There IA

Civil Service entrance

exams

for canaries. When a manager wants a new one he requisitions it from the National Coal Board as he would

по

A pick or a shovel.

years ago the anthrache troin this seam

cannot be used this roasting mall. There is 100 much

rerne in 1,”

Just then there was a loud bang and Wicksteed, with ubout coal dust ctaws half a ton of the back of his neck, thought the end of the world had coine.

shot It was only the

flrer En but in those work,

crumped thi quark it wounded crack of doom-

like

No wonder mice are no good down the mine. 1 practically died myself, and I don't think

The Cefn Coed it in pro- I will ever be clean again, nounced Kron Koid and means

wood" is

the

behind deepest anthracite mine in the world. The manager said tho depth of mines was measured in fathoms, like the sea. The shaf at Cafn Coed is 352% fathoms (2,115.), which is deeper than anywhere in the North Sea. and men

YOUR cars pop as you go down

You

but if you are used to flying. it does not affect your tummy. The colliers, looking like nigger minstrels, were sitting around having lunch by the light of the their plastic lamps placed in safety helmets,

1

The steel supporta for the roof were twisted like writhing snake by the fearful pressure of the earth above. At the depth the weight of rock above our heads was about a ton per square inch. Only one shift a day can be used for getting the coal out. The other two are needed for repair work to keep the mine safe and for getting the coal face ready for the miners to work on it next day.

Alewyn Davies, the manager, cracked a few jokes with the men in Welsh and then we got down on our hands and knees

to the to crawl our way seam. It was no place for any- one with claustrophobia.

coal

The roof was only two and a hall feet from the door! If you raised your head you hit the roof and if you kept it down you rubbed your face in wel coal on the floor.

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

The Orchid Goes On The Menu

NEW YORK. THE MENU #t New

Tork's exclusive Colony restaurant offers something new: Orchid Salad,

Sounds weird. doesn': But it's just lettuce with

This, grown difference.

gardener, some

proud purple-tinged leaves.

AFTER OB

by has

all-night polico guard, the combination of the main safe at New York's plush Waldorf Astorin Hotel has been changed.

Three gunmen had gone to the flat of elderly chief cashier Jands Doyle and held him and Iris brother

prisoner under threat

uf torture ill be re- vesled the combination.

Two of the gunmen set off for the hotel while one guarded the "This is called the 18-foot

two men. But the hotel wun so seam," said the manager cheer- busy that the would-be robbers fully. That is the thickness could not get to the safe on the they thought it was before they second floor undetected, So the found It and they have never robbery plan collapsed. changed the name!"

Doyle and his brother Inter We crawled 01 till we met wriggled, out of the bonds and another human Wor who the pillow cases that had been tied over their heads; then phoned warning to the hotel.

THE POPE

THE poor man's Kon Tikla raft made of a wire frame and 100 car inner.tubes has set off with

five young mon aboard to drift 20 infles from Ventura, California, to Catalina Island.

22-year-old Johnny Strobel,. Icader of the expedition, said confidently as he cast off:

But his members expect no trouble,"

ot pretty young wife, mother four children, burst into tongs,

Only equipment the raft his amall tento keep got is a the beer tool,"

alr-conditiones than one in five one magnificent square was

gaudy car-park-cum- study. I knew, the Pope would of his church. a noisy, market-place. Some fifty huge be at his desk. Perhaps speak- Twelve o'clock. The middav glittering tourist coaches were

Ivory-coloured hour is tolled by a his

hundred lined up, and carn with a dozen ink different

typing on his church belts. Every eye now national number telephone, or plates, radios blaring Jazz hits white personal portable. Earlier on the top floor, second window

he would have shaved with his from the right. Souvenir vendors, hawking white electric razor and listered over 1 white cheap metal mantleplece models to the news

a midget radio. For Pope of St Peter's, were having

and the photographers neid day. So were the street XII is a man of the 20th

pick fury. pockets.

A

HELICOPTERS, Aroboats, and Twelve-one. An Italian

other craft welcomed Turkey's Piumotorist puts his thumb on his new 9,345-ton liner Tarsus on Visit to Neww cor hooter, and keeps it there her first offolal Another joing then another. York. Twenty Turkish beauties striking red and whlio Now the fifty coaches join, with, In

મ

CME-

At their brassy klaxons. The noise dresses lined the rails as the

da cor-splitting.

Vessel cropt out of the fog.

Every morning, exactly midday, convalescing XII, aged 78, appears at his study window That is highly appropriate. to bless the crowds in St For Adey is an Abadan "old Peter's Square, boy" himself. He went there at

The Pope's daily two-minute the age of 20, as soon as he had

A score of tongues could be hls London appearance is currently one of

from graduated with

perspiring, sur University B.Sc. He has quite a the big attractions of Rome. I heard nostalgia for the old place, and decided to go and watch it burnt tourists, wearing strange, the church's great fight agains: Hundreds of others had the floppy-brimmed straw hats they

be seen Idea. The street lending would not

wearing same from the bus stop to St Peter's, even in the garden at home."

the walls of Vatican niong City, was a stream of people.

there "My 21st birthday says: nearly stopped the refinery- they'd never had one there be fore." He stayed in Abudna un- til 1937, by which time he was works manager.

Right Place

Kerbside vendors sold sun- glasses, peaches, peanuts and postcards, and those holiday- maker hats which, when'

sold

One Window

་

One thing was certain,

the Pope this moment again in commend-efter long, grave Illness-directing

WAS

hla

Communism. ・・・

Smiling Figure

New York's official greeter, Vincent

Commis- O'Connor, sloner of Marine and Aviation, went out In à cutter. As he

Rinor's

A

Twelve-theo. The double stepped forward 40 the windows are opened, A frail, gangway the cutter lurched, Eleven-fifty-five. I spoke to thin but smiling figure in whale wave spouted, and Immaculato- a Briton, "You're a Catholic. I robes and white skullcap ap-Mr O'Connor was soaked to the presumctt. 1

The beauties cheered.. enquired. "No. pears. The crowd cheers, clape, akin. Matter of fact, C of E Dat I waves crumpled, handkerchiefs. felt I'd like to see the Pope. The heating increases.,

A SCAROTTY of Scotch has Eleven fly. Already every Rather admire the way. ha

As the Pope gives a brief brought back an old wartime second fought back from that illness.": at Blackpool, usually bear such eye is on the window

benediction, through loud plague the "package deal" To from the right of the top floor slogans as Kiss Me Kate.

Eleven-fly-eight, I spoke to epeakers, about one-fifth of the Already some 2,000 to 3,000 of the Vatican Pakice, on the

New Yorkers now have to take good Catholics. The rest of us several boitles of little-known had gathered in the right far of St Peter's Square a German, Catholio. Nein. But quare fell to its knees. The got a bottle of good whisky, IT is also appropriate because persone

square. The gilt overloolding the huge, cobbled wo German, liku the way

had come to fix ouT . respecla Firanda, for bottles of rum

and at the time of the big pull-out un-baked

fighte CommuniamA on the Basilica fountat-studied square self. Pope f1cm Abadan,

Anglo-figured clock when

Europe heads mòrè men like to one of the world's forw regin, which they may not need."

**** maining great and good men. More Beotch /la-comingt Iranian were thinking of new read 11.40.

Every other window in the him,”

takt Twelve-five, Uths,twindowe America than ever before, In the shade of the square's sites for refineries to replace the

27s as one of the surprises

cent over, last year, hence the the demand has shot up it per lose, Adey was sent out to the vast colonnades hundreds more Vation Palace, where the Pope

rexting

quarters, was weery foot, has his private

Pope's morning ap- Middle East to prospect. On his were

salami sandwiches, sivustegett against the blazing of the

The trade, way to Aden he met the best eating

Finis likely to last all fals yUKENA WEVE

of Abadan colleagues chocolate-coated ico-cream, sad ruminée: atinshine, except this pearmond, which dowy, regular a No. 77 bu, one hand on my shontagemwhich, wayU

Pokimining andwda. Not more wallet. watching the clock. travelling home

tho

Into

but