THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1955.
Interesting News Stories From All Parts Of The World
Plans To Solve Future Traffic Problems
Trams Should Go Underground'
Experts Say Zurich
Zurich
Six thick volumes packed with figures, draw- ings, maps and other data giving the solution to Zurich's future traffic problems are now being closely studied by town officials.
The information and recom-Kremer - Leibbrand, in order mendations crammed into these to eliminate all time-consuming books result from an extensive road-crossings, Le by the use
the of subways, three-year study made on spot by two groups of top-notch experts from Switzerland :Germany,
be
and
While differing in many de- tails of their recommendations, both groups do agree that mater traffic should not banned from the shop and office crowd ed centre of Switzerland's largest city, with a population of $20,- 000 (metropolitan area 500,000).
Departing from solutions found for other big towns all over the world, both groups are also against abolishing the use of streetcars considered by them to be a first rate mass trans- portation facility.
Professor Carl Pirath from Stuttgart. Germany and Dr Max-Erich Feuchtinger from
Germany,
in Ulm, Ger
who were charge of the second group, re- commend the construction of a 4-km-long super highway with.
crossings but easily- out any accessible from all parts of the town.
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New Roads
This north-south highway, they say, would drain most of the traffic away from the pre- sent main streets and thus faci- litate the flow of motor vehicles on them,
of
Not only should streetcars Both groups also recommend remain in circulation, they say, the construction of several new
and roada
broadening but means should be found. increase their
existing ones. frequency order to cope with the expected larger flow of passengers,
to
in
the
Normal Increase This larger flow of passengers travelling to and from centre of the town, in the opinion of the experts, is partly due to the normal increase in popula tion and partly to longer dis- tances between offices and homes created by new suburbs in the outskirta.
Trams however have to vanish
from the already overcrowded
streets, and should be confined
to specially constructed tunnels
The local papers are already
discussing the pros and cons of the two projects, but no final
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HIS GADGETS HELPED
POWS TO ESCAPE
May Not Be Telling The Truth!
New York.
When we look into mirrors what we see is not always a true reflection, and science now can give you an idea of how this works in girls.
When girls look into mirrors, į themselves, had some variety of they are likely to see narrower "negative feeling" about the waists and shoulders, shorter ankles or the bust or the waist noses, slimmeri, calves and which fell short of (or exceeded) adkies, and smaller feet than the ideal. are actually
reflected iq the glass.
But they're inclined to "eye-
Jourard and Second spoke of measure their busts on the
the tyrannical should the biggish side According to "hould" in regard to girls and Sidney M. Jourard and Paul
being
"Tyrannical Shoulds'
sub be five
F. Second of Emory University, their figures being "one should this is because girls
feet three inches, 122 In terms of pounds, 34.83 inches in the bast, think in
etc." When the poor female figure.
consciously
the ideal fanale
They, pick up these ideal can't see herself in any other measurements here and there, way than she is, it products "self
from
with
other girls who are hate, guilt, and insecurity." conspicuously successful
The scientists shied away from males and, most important, applying their scientific findings trom "Hollywood stars and to females in general, but they beauty queens," Then, when did say: "a tyrannical should they look into their mirrors, of this nature, it true, would they'll see themselves, if it is help account for the apparently at all possible, as they'd like wide-sprend efforts Amon
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to be rather than as they are. women in American society to The scientists tried out their mould and sculpture their theories on 60 college girls at bodies toward the ideal, Emory. They used question- corsetry, dieting, exercise, naires, also, in their words, camouflage.”—United Press. Hassorted "rulers, tare measures, calipers, and sealds for direct measurement."
Body-Cathexis The Farmers
decision is expected in the near Now He's After More Clever Ideas Student whose assistance.
future on this project for the forthcoming 25 years.-United Press
How Riots Start
Cairo.
London
Prospective enemies of Great Britain will be sorry to hear that Major Clayton Hutton is still around. He's still thinking up clever ideas to help prisoners of war
escape.
The Germans were all rushing to the doctor"
more
However, the measuring. was dome by Miss Fairlie Brown, a
Jourard and Second gratefully acknowledged in their report. to a technical journal of the American Psychological Asso- ciation
J
below the main roads, thus h&P | One Sunday evening recently. vented for British and American masticary, pen but the nib was shudder at it, we score
ing to ease the problems on the. surface.
Object To Uranium Hunters
Washington.
The ramifentions were some- what complex. When we look into the mirror, our attitude At the moment, Major Hutton
toward what we see is body- cathexia.
If we are delighted is writing a book. It will be
we sec, then we called "The Hidden Catch" and Another fountain-pen Major by what
Members of the Nations! will contain as much as security Hutton designed bad
score quite high on the body Grazing Board, representing
and if we allows him to say about the serious mission. It looked like cathexis scale
very 10 Western states, declared do-it-yourself schemes he in- an
that prospectors for uranium and attached to an low. everything
The Emory girls were asked was quiet in the prisoners of war during World invisible piece of cork. The rib
and other minerals are main street of Daher, an old | War II.
could be faken out and floated to give their reactions to their
own height, weight, nose leage lands.
tearing up valuable grazing in water to become a compass Calro district. Replacing trams by buses
"Do you realise that the
Then the
of the and the circumferences of inner trally-buses, say the experts, Two women, whose husbands 230,000 men who were captured
to busts, wrists, calves, and A discussion possible but not advisable, as it
arrested the
previous at Dunkirk had never been form a map, Also, the pen can ankles. They could put down developed after Mr Felix E. would only create additional ),
day for smuggling narcotics, trained in ways to escape?" tained not only in but enough that they had felt one of the Wormser, Assistant Secretary traffic jams.
were sitting together quietly asked the Major, We had to bleach to whiten a Navy blue following: strong positive feel for Mineral Resources, told the lameriting their fate.
tram Royal Air Force crews 30 | uniform and enough dye to turning, positive feeling. slight group the nation urgently needed that if any of them were shot it brown, five tiny food tablets positive feeling, no down they could teach others."
ori
Even an underground railway
to service the centre of the town would not be recom- mendable solution, due to the stations distance between the that could only be overcome by. additional buses.
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The
"Traffic Hub"'
group under Professor Kurt Leibbrand of Zurich and Philipp Kremer from Hanover, Germany, wants to make the Zurich
main station the hub
traffic.
suburbs.
of this city's future
10 the distant
The
station roof
should also be put in use by turning it inte parking lots, a bus terminal and a heliport---
The present traffic centre Zurich, the Bellevue Square, needs complete remodelling, say
*
were
Then suddenly one suggested the other's husband had given her own away. Suspicion led to accusations.
Hulton,
could be stroke It
and way
the were also hidden inside,
the secret chamber was closedi
spare,
it tighter.
Ingenious Models
by a cap with opposite threads Major Bedour and Hamida were soon nervous man who was a movieforts to open it only closed press agent before the war, bean. rolling on the street, tugging a path between Army intelli- at each other's hair, biling, gence and private industry kicking and screaming, get his escape gadgets into Groups of neighbourhood
production. women circled them, cheering for their favourite fighter and breathlessly calling bad;
names,
When they too went into action, "their men" came running from the coffee houses Bining. the street.
NEW YORK GREAT WORLD
to
who
the Or
the matter
minerals, He urged other one more
slight ranchers to carry uranium gative feeling negative feel-detecting Geiger Counters and
picks in their saddlebags. ing, strong negative feeling."
All the results turned up the Mr Wormer drew a big laugh existence of an "ideal female from the grazing board member figure" shared by most if not all. when he said, "We don't have It showed that those girls who enough prospectors in the hills could, saw themselves as the these days.”** ideal, more dr less. It showed
Board member Mr Flayd W.
Major Hutton picked up a cigarette holder from his desk It opened into a small telescope. that those who couldn't kid Lee, San Mateo, replied ther
razor blades "I had all the sold in Britain magnetised," he But the Major is proudest of recalled, "You could tie one to this devices from aerial photo- a string and -. It would point 2
he constricted exact every man
of prisoner of war North So
cos The models were re shaved had a compass."
the to
the
'Fountain-pen Gun
Bin colensile plastic.
seen
Leading American. Expert Says:
the
OF
His New Fan
Has Paper Blades!
were prospectors everywhere in the hill country. "They make a
好
long tine claim, then take out
and bulldozer
tear up tremendous boles," he said. Grass will not grow in these areas for many years, he said. He suggested that core boring might be a solution, He said this type of mineral explocation does tot demage grazing landy, "We have spent millions to develop these ranges and don't believe it is right to let somÝ man come in with a bulldozer ahi tear it up," he said,
Two rapid underground rail- way lines crossing beneath the
were spirited station building, should provide
campa by secret routes
Prisoners could inflate the traffic hub" with a fast Fifteen minutes later ambu He also cornered the market connection
Jances collected 14 people in gramophons needles. Thou- model, and by using a match or seriously injured and 32 with sands were smuggled Into Hashlight Bgure out exactly minor injuries. More than 50 France to be used as ammuni- what shadows the moon
fights would cast. Then people were arrested for using tion for a fountain pen gun
Saip marble-topped tables, chairs, A German would be walk- escapes could be plotted, taking
New York. when advantage of shadowed sons in heavy sticks, knives, bottles ing with a French girl
Dr Peter Schlumbohm and bricks in the battle, 'pop'-right in the rump. Then parts of the camp prisoners had
we spread a rumour that the never United Press,
before. United has produced a new inven Mr John W. Hay, Jr., Rock Deedles were tipped with poison Press.
tion an electric fan with Springs, Wyoming, said pro- paper blades.
pectora were "destroying the Dr. Schlumbolum, German- forests and what litle forage born physicist, chemist and we
Utah. inventor, has designed more Mexico, and seming, New The Secretary of Interior, Mir than 1,000 gadgets, ranging from a refrigerated truck to a Douglas McKay, told the board cork eyeshade, but he thinks that his department was on re- the fan may be his master cord before Congress in favour of changing mining laws to piece.
*We're It is safe enough for any prevent such abuses.
under present
laws child to stick his fingers ine
said. and the blades may be replaced Senator Joseph C. O'Mahonc when dirty.
called for "scrapping" the pre circular pieces of porous plastic sent mining lay and passing a J. Reuel Interior Solicitor paper, separated by small round mineral leasing act. may
of cork and bolted to pieces
Armstrong said an agreement the
motor in the centre. When idle, the blades are must be reached between the He ranchers and the miners. draped
the motor like COVET
said the law provides that a inmpshade hanging Emply over
prospector must make a valu-
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Old-fashioned styles of, annecessary and messy evils. architecture and furniture are Then he visited friends toast- much more to the public taste, Ing their toes over a hot fre he said N
astowy night, and he Mr. Morris Lapidus, architect began to feel out in the cold its base. But with a flick of able discovery before he is en-
the lavish new hotel Fontaine, in his own living room Now!
the switch the paper becomes tiled to valid entry-United Miami Beach, a be's ~ building a house will a
75 right, and the fan begins to press. doughnut shaped Florida house "jumbo-sized replace,,. spla and a post hotel in Nevada, sald he had given up a 25-year Triumph of Petromlining
Mr Lapidus said he thought
modernists had served a product is a coffee maker with People just don't want to live the and work in houses of glass useful purpose by Mcleaning an hour-glass shape, and paper filled will liver-shaper chairs out the jurk and airing out the filter. He has also designed an and marble slabs, he said, house New people want to oval-shaped car with the motor * "Modernistic styles
imply clutter their houses up again under the passenger comparten This Town should not ment, ofing equipment viralise air conditioning and room there is something wrong with and the architects
Berlin the designers, not the people try to stop them, he said
***After all these years we "I am etemping
The town of Gergweiler passenger
car as if I had Fireplaces Vindicated and the latest modernistica
Bavaria has a peculiar, disting See one he sold office building with Georgian never
favourite has more dogs then ""We must drop the doctrine interiors. In the board - room."-
Schlumbohm... of you may not like it, but it's he sld. There are Geordian gadget if his fan, however, he people
The moman populations de 1,300 good for you. We have to give desk and Chippendale chairs thinks it is the most revelation people what they woul
In that modern building
By There are randets ranging while the canes number over 2,400. The reason is that 200 Lapidus said he now "Here you have a man from two to 30 Inches
horl-emed og breeders operate in scorns the picture windowsing for the m
Indirect lighting and office bunding
totaled mor
The inventor's most famous More Dogs Than PIANO RECITAL by
chairs with pipestem
but when it comes to his ONT One model can be plugged into
Better in a cue to: office he rants
used to cute windows are good tradit
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