THE CHINA EMAIL,
MEN
THESE ATOM
FIGHT FOR LIFE
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By Les Armour
man It Is
Lead, concrete, and thick lead UT in the English verious harm. From Amersham,
the surround
PROCESSES to the für corner of glam they go the countryside, on
the earth, as fast as modem throughout the plant. No odge of the Chiltern transpeetation can take them. touches any of the matter.
All these and slozena more shipped in and out in thick load hills, a handful of men are
are in constant and growing pots and tanks. fighting an atomic war.
demund. And Britain is so far ahead of the rest of the world in research of this kind that thero is sle competition to face,
most fascinating Amersham's activities are hud- died together in a tiny cream- coloured building in une corner of the site.
But there are no bombs, no deadly flashes, no man- killing radiation. The war here is a war against disease ax a fight to wrest from nature some of her deepest secreta
fenec.
The battle feld is a collection of orinary looking single-storey trick buildings surrounded by u
A Low
single wire "security guard stands by the Kate
No che wears the "space imaginatively attribulet to mior scientists. No one looks particularly worried.
Yel
to
But te
Life Secrets
of
for
Every mechanical operation must be done by remote control. Every machine must be so eff- elent that it will work months without being touched-
machines are many and there
that radio-chemistry has now
business conducted on become a an International scale.
Men, too.
must be chocked and tested to see that no chance radiation has affected them, and buildings must be inspected re
ticking Gelger with
"T
18
that here
Dr
J
R.
gularly The
counters. But
Catch and a team of untiring researchers are probing
Amersham La forging secrets of life self.
Their activities are strange to
Hadionetive thead with giant strides, Four unpitiated!
with new the
new buildings filled algae fed o tobacco plants,
Te Werc opened the Atomic Energy
carbon machinery
Four more rently.
are in the Authority's Radio chemical solution of radioactive
isolopes, and even food for chic- Centre at Amersham come many at he
The atom nen who tight for vitel ingredients which kens with inte quantities of advanced planning stage.
kolapes are grown night,
other
radioactive circum-
life rather than death are losing and manufactured here.
Bo time. monces, have been parts of atom
fact, is quite The en. เก bombs--and here, pertips, 1%
knowledge
more simple. The activities of the raw Bicared valuable than the know-how for master of life, the tiny cells of 32 mystery. proglasin, are still puting together 11-bombs,
it could be more
valuable Exeily what goes in, how and mistici. and rowN more vilalberce when it is
เม stil! and
perhaps the work
wisleh le being done cells there may Due diy yield the mysteries
tools with which Mologists con rack the central secrets (? itself.
b
Sul, it goes on quietly and possibility of with little overi drama,
Earns Money
THE Radio-chemical
ᏗᏓ
LITU
Until they are unravelled, boll biology and medicine must con- tinus to stumble in the dark.
But the atom has brought the solution. An y quantity organisin fed on of radioactive substance will not But the radioactive Muller. motter can be traced every alage of s movement through the organism.
al
Dr Catch's business, then,
Wo
Centre. oddly, is also a business cor- poration- brushing concern produce "tracer" elements. That which shows
u profit un briance heet and ears money for Britain around the world.
Fundamentally, it is a pretty prosale business. matter
is not quite so simple as it seems. Carbon is the basic stuff
carbon But raw of all le much less the radioactive isotope Radioactive of carbon, carixən 14 is not very from Britain's atenue useful.
It has to be processed into the piles, most of it "waste matter,
or
organisins things comes here Lo be protesed kinds into usable producis.
actually proteins, starches, xigers and the like.
Strontium,
made
into
for instance, compounds which
will
become later
lumisous
Crestum
dials for watches
with
Giant Strides
is to Dr Cutch has worked out a
industrialista con
Bolution
here made into radioactive tools series of ingenious ways
which detect flaws in the fearts of effect the conversion. Algae fed of radioactive A on 2 vast metal castings. These are powerful elements, by-products carbon will utilize every
ntum of the stuff. Tobacco plants will do the same.
Inst
(IT even
of the separated nucleus of the uranium atom, which have
The whole plant or the whole "half-life" of more than 30
They will do their jobs algae can then be fed to the year.
"fest" organism. But even that is that length efficiently for
of not good enough. The biologists time without wearing down.
want it more relined. They want Then there is short-lived but
radioactive proteins phosphorous racis vital radioactive
constituents of protein anki radioactive lodine. The
(amin belds). from shipped elements
men have Dr Catch ank! his Amersham to the atomic piles, laboriously worked out separa-
done and
Jobs made radioactive, and brought
tion processes beck to be forged into the
most people would have thought modern impossible a few years, or even powerful weapons medicine.
a few weeks, ago. effectively have an
IL Is a doubly difficult job hecate, after all, radioactive ective life of Hittle more than a
That
Radiation means they can matter is dangerous. be planted in the human body kills as effectively as a bomb, root out anyone who gets too much of it cancerous growths, then vanish or before they
can go
They
week.
where they swiftly
of
relatively small
evon A on to do amount too often.
CHINESE
CREEDS
and CUSTOMS
by
V.R. BURKHARDT
ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR
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Montgomery ma be made Prime Minister of Britain right Baby and The most inredli his dear old pal Zhukov over for a recount of American
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Hungary is the first Iron Curtain country to open its frontiers to British tourists--and today Page Four takes you there on a pre-holiday trip
HUNGARIAN
Rhapsody
Ꮤ
in Blues
By RALPH HEWINS
is there to gree?
What
the are people wearing? What are they talking about?
for
dogma.
IT'S NOT d scene from an American film- it'sa photograph of a trio who sang for Hewins in Budapest...
once an anti- jazz Iron Cur
tain capital...
AMERICA COLUMN
A
from.
KEWELL ROGERS
PHONE
SPIES CAUGHT
New York, VAST spy-by-telephone network was smashed open in New York City. Police raided
1, luxury flat and found a complete wire-tapping exchange and
| recording equipment.
Detectives believe this may be
a clue to the killing of Serge
use
| Rubinstein on January 27,
It was the Russian financier's of wire-taps own illegal which led to the discovery.
Detectives on the rald found a man and woman "operators" eavesdropping on private phone tolls.
The flat, police said, was just "a pert" of an underworld sys- tem- "Wiretap Incorporated" a wholesale crime stranglehold.
In a cupboard were thousands of recorded phone talks.
Police wero
ploying
back
all the seized recordings In the hope that one may in- clude the last phone.call made by the murdered Rubinstein.
William J. Keating, of the Committee, city's Anti-Crime
"Under thle system
the city there are
them-could
prus
of
appe legal exchange
every
be
could
be used to get and supply In- formation for anything
from
divorces to the stock market.
| Big finance operates it."
CAPTAIN Virgil Daniels, 37- C
n
air
Q
ncar
year-old Negro in the force, was shocked when an official said he could not move Into block of flats on Government housing site his base at Waverley, Iowa.
"The
tenants other
(all white) will move out," he was told.
The residents are angry, but not with Daniela.
They have drawn up a pell- tion of welcome, presented to him by the mayor and the And what can Hungarians chamber of commerce, and the
And
A
I do not agree with a Western But
itself is The picture Budapest, trousers with loud American ties
"it diplomat in Budapest who con- look forward to instead of Com- keys to one of the flats. Because Why? banned. fur good measure. THAT is life like in
They have even paid his first siders: "Hungary today is a munism? They will certainly The woinen are mostly In ridicules jazz."
in which nothing never go back to Budapest? What
feudalism, month's rent $64. skirts and blouses of different What a resounding victory vast spillkin
Says Mayor Willard Osineup: rhythm DVUT Communist is sound and which only needs colour. Perhaps they wear aril-
never known "Weverley (pop. 5,214) is they have eno plece do fall
for the aut Belal pearls or carellps.
else except foreign friendly town and we welcome whole edifice to crumble. Of all anything I discussed this switch with the satellites Hungary in most occupation.
anyone who would like to be high-ups several
132 the ripe for Titoisin.
part of our community." and Government
But still Hungarian
But, One piece has moved.
the beat, beat, beat Communist Party and they all there are sliti three Rusalan of jazz has shown up a chink la admitted they had "completely divisions here.
Communist armour. judged youth and its passion
But there is a proportion of neat Htle black dresses, the English
traditional woman's Well, there is the girl stand-by shown here, Anny Olah. For smuggled copies of Vogue i never expected to find that and Harper's Bazaar have long But here been studied with fanaticism in much glamour here.
the Hungary, The drab workaday girl who is putting
style exalted by Soviet propa- "Och!" back in Budapest.
I would name her, at 18, os ganda is on the way out. successor ame day to Zsa Zsa the Gabor and Eva Bartok, Hungarian
Hollywood
13 0
stars,
Cheeky Hats
She is oustanding in this You
scarves,
you will find on outbreak of cheeky hats perched on the gaurit, ceayed, and unpainted
top of the bead, colourful belts, hum Curtain capital.
unworkmanlike She wriggles in a grass skirt y
and openwork shoes, at the "Budapest,"
night club, gloves,
other accessories. tourista as known to pre-war
There is a rendy market for OF American is erammed British, French,
varnish, eyebrow the lipstick. nail
"Moulin Rouge."
The "Budapest"
from
10 at night to five in
morning.
The majority of patrons
иго
or face powder at £3 on the black market.
"Daring"
no worse dressed than people in
folbles like these
London nighteries. There are were reserved until recently for presentable lounge suits... artists from the entertainment sometimes fannels. And there industry, barmaids,
and dance
are plenty of crew haircuts and hostesses. Other women, includ drainpipe
"Teddy Boy" ing the wives of officials, strove
not
to make themselves con- spicuous. It was safer that way.
Bobbysoxers were, for years. roudly condemned
$0
by Press
Ameri-
were
and radio, and lampooned degenerate victims of
Some can propaganda given hard labour or deported
Into the wilderness,
But
$40 now you
main
is
no
for light entertainment.
For
ten
Communists years have been telling. all children from the age of six that jazz is ummoral and degenerate,
to
TOKAY! The golden
Captain Daniels, his heart warmed, can move in as soon as he likes, with his 27-year-old wife Inez and three children.
DICKIES STEADIES
فل
the newest
nickname for the teenage fad-brilliantly coloured matching slacks to show that a I emplid enough wine to be couple is "going stendy."
Tho
sunshine of a summer's day But still Hungarian boys and THAT'S what the song of the girls (and grown-ups) will have thirties called Tokay, one of able to tell British tourists that slacks begin, as white army twill
and there
are trousers; a pair for the boy, a is nothing the Hungarian wines. And Brl- Hungarian wine and beer rhythm, the Communists can do about 11 Uch
With each tourists, returning this pre-war in quality.
pair for the
girl, Millions of Hungarians listen summer after 15 years' separa- Sweet Tokays, by the way, are double lot is sold a packet of in
Western radio stations tion by war and Communism,
longer imperial" but dye, ranging from chartreuse to green, and peacock and evening instead of the strictly "cultural" wil and Tokay again.
"People's.
blue. and
Communist poiltical
Hungary will then be the first
bottle. The best ber is 10s. fron Curtain country to open. programmes
when G tourist rate Hungarian Foreign up to the West. Her wine vaults Bul Even the
full to bursting after exorange is introduced Office chauffeur who drove ine will be home alone tuned in to Vienna severni vintage years. The beer planned, drinking in Hungary packet includes a botile of dye
will not be bankrupting, dance music.
I'M
is excellent too.
10
JUST A GIRL
Just in case there is a break-
of up and couples would rather dio
ab than be seen dyed together, the
remover.
GIRL GUIDE
AT HEART. SHE SAYS
London.
TRIED; but I couldn't
By Logan Gourlay
actor
hallstand, into the high-ceilinged. Imingo.
I was asked to open a bottle
convince myself that the over her recent divorce from rulle two matrens who sat in of brandy for a night cap. lady I was taking to publisher Max Reinhardt. The the front row of the stalls at a She gave me a,key corkscrow, Audrey supper was a civil servant. grounds were misconduct with matings last week. They chat- presented to her at an opening
Laurence fored
British Liou whea loudly so loudly, that ceremony Hepburn fringes, horsetails, I could name two leading 20-year-old
Miss Leighton. ore slage, over- studios were enlarged before
the
It's and peodie hair styles all over Indies whom the description Harvey.
I asked if she and Harvey, treard one of their remarks:
Government took over. Budapest.
But not fits admirably.
who could not be described as "I deart think much of the an historie corkscrew, a symbol Tho
obstacle
a Boy Scout, were planning 19 Lelghfar woman. Not as young of the lusher days of British Longer
ideological but financial. Margaret Leighton, the chic,
as the used to be you know. films now replaced *by A cotton dress coating bgns, in the sophisticated, the ele- marry soon.
"No, we haven't fixed a date. But I like him. Eric....whats. emblem of (cautiously) crossed England is £15 here: a plastlegant.
We'll probably decide He's nice......
elvil servants' teaspoons. handbag obtainable for £2 in Sul, she is one of the six yet,
Miss Leighton also has to For the moment the Govern
Immediate film London costs £10: a 3 par stars under contract to British suddenly to do it one day. It's of dry or evening shoes, £12. Lion, the company which went impossible to arrange anything contend with dressing-room ment has no
plane for Miss Leighton. But Wages
those Into liquidation
at the moment because Larry is viskrs who say: do not match
and has just
" think your make-up in uso he is available for borrowing prices. Nor do the ant-like been taken over by the Govern- away in Africa aiming. I often
which second-play is wonderful. Makes by Independent film producers the profession conditions on trams and buses ment. (It has been
suggested curse
for two you look so old." people to be together.
Miss Leighton wears no make-with, acomptable, scripts, up in the soccer play,
A Present Sho A Sideline?
still young enough,
or the filthy strcola. You are that it should be renamed The makes it to difficult
constantly washing in Budapest. Gay strict sense she is a
It is worse London there has been no price
over soap flakes.
The Toast
war
1976
and So In
civil servant. She is also an
tell stories like this against CHS has no definite pre employce of
According a tax-payer like
to the ference for fun or stage myself. But, much as I'd like TN a way I'm tempersunen, hærself. to feel proprietorial about her. "I
books reference
she was wote. "As Álce. Guinness says, tally unsuited to the pro-
celebrating her 33rd on the 20th I prefer the one failed to convince myself of that fession.
I told her my at the moment,” tim not doing 100,
I often wish I were a bust of this month. And I would certainly never mess
of those birthday fall on the same date. But since she bigred her first wernanono
Then we're both Pisces, the film contract in 1018, for "Bon thinks of calling her a Girl
smooth, successful ones you seu
Prince Charile" she has Guide. Yet that's how the de- sitting in beautiful offers in not, you know.
"But, I don't believe in all never boos scribed herself over a prestupper American films.
away from the cameras. for, very loz glass of champagne. Her exact "I never will be, of course, but that astrology stuff!!
She restod her head on the In banning Werlein words were: "I'm really a Girl I'm seriously thinking about in
the past.?"
Guide at heart."! reception tumultuous given to Britain's
ain's figure-skating Erica Batchelor in the European championships help
AN allicial said to me: A still want to exalt the work Ing women because work is the main purpose in life. But we admit
havo been
ideas
star
WO
ed to show the officials
600
7
Neat, Tidy
a tle business sidekoe
Night Cap
hant with the large, com
ring (aprenent from
∙to acting a coffee and tea T: HAD now taken her back to and saky
littleadly: "Süli,
bar for civil servants. Or a West the Albany, that quiet res I've never been really succem- CHE adjusted the fur-trimmed, End dining club like the one I desilal oasis just off Piccadilly. ful in films. Never become a big Just clanaman-coloured fwscot, he had balcon, her to for supper. I followed her up the 70 while star. My own fault I suppose how wrong they went,
were over a matching pencil owned by notice Jobs Mills and, stone tours to her flat, through I supposed not. She has been thefumbling #Thousands, scrambled 10 sec allm dress, and explained: Richard Attenborough, in on the hill with the mave wall- the victim of her dance on ice;. She was what I mean is, I'm method!~· But I doubt if she will have paper and, the clothes brush reptitude of the British bowled over by fons and had cal, neat, and tidy file all my much time for other interest is shaped lige, a cricket bat on the date which never adren wir building policy and never rescued by the pollos otter and papers away care two near Kurtune, She is fully
-
fully exploited har beauty) Having appeared, sa
[*|{I agree tokdlibējieve aftër tëllimenon and talents/RS TEARS Cover hilly in my desk Always put occupied, married with Eric girl of the aporte magazines, the cap back on the toothpaste Portman in Terenas Rattigan's The had become the toast of the tube, 1 biss about good man double bill Separate Tables" consulting a feat book on detro-
for logy which says that Pisceans · Eke nothing like her for years, suppose it's the same as the civil may menthu
Xand tha Budape
farsi crazy servant outlocker N She contributes, I think, about ver, rifless Variety, sola, like the one in the That Girly Guide in civil war
umbration, of seling they titibe
on view in Long monger), PILION wewere, offcally.
Town The mace had sonners and proper behaviour which will not be folding for loud peaceful", domestic“
best happy about, the publicly c
late
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