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Now the merry-go-round

PLASTIC HOUSE

P

EOPLE

Paris French Coal Board lent a will-

• A housewifo's

dream laughed ng hand-for the 14 varieties of when Henry Ford plastic used are all produced from

once said that one char everything would he made in plastic.

coal.

was

come trua. This It the house that Lionel built.

THE UHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1956.

Hundreds of plans and designs were drawn up and rejected- offcially accepted. This was last until at last the project Will his prophecy come Oelober, and they had only four true? People like Lionel and a half months to go before Schein, the young French the house was due to make 11s and shower are all moulded in the Paris Howarhold one piece. Splash in the bath architect, certainly think debut at

Exhibition.

heart's content-special to your Then the difficulti_started. channcis run the water away. The house necded flects of The kitchen at the end of the plastic up to 25ft. long made in corridor is a sheer joy for the No French factory housewife, with its gay colours ne rould! could cope with it.

and moulded fittings. Everything has been done to make things easy for her.

so, and the world will be able to judge for itself this week-end when the first-ever all-plastic house will be on show in Paris.

Nothing doubled, the pioneere This is the house of to- net to and assembled their own

A morrow.

marvel of in- workshop in a disused hangar. Workmen were specially trained is genuity and skill, it

for the job, and things began to plastic throughout, from

move fust. roof to floor. from

And Inventing

improvising, drainpipes to carpets, from working in the strictest secrecy armchairs to windows!

This is the housewife's dream came tru

Ceres take only a matter of minutes, and to kerg it clean you have only to sponge

It

The Arst astonishing thing about this unique hang is its shape. It looks like a cross be- tween spaceship and an ultra- modern merry-g»«round, The centerpivre is elreular and com- prises lounge, dining akove, and study In a diameter of 25ri.

every

As you might expect, modern device is there,

with the difference that they too are all-plastle and can be cleaned in a jiffy.

For

yung married couples

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by LIZ BODKINSON

12 hours a day, the house was who can't afford a big house at Anished ahead of schedule. The first, this is the Ideal home. dream had come true!

They don't have to move as the family increases. Extra bedrooms can be ordered and attached in Insurance, a matter of minutes. Conversely,

if mother-in-law threatens stay too long, you just remove a

Come with me into the house of the future. The house where you don't need fire

where nothing can be broken, cracked or sainedt

The main door upens into a bedroom! spacious lounge. The ceiling is sky-blue, and the walls are half of the circle leads gleaming white and yellow, like on to bedrooms, which can be the rays of the sun. In fact, it's added or removed at will. The H "Summer House" for all the a fortnight-on one niling

One

to

What are the other attractions of the plastic home? Well, for heating there is a new type of stove that burns unattended for

of

A very brighi one indeed, ne- cording

to the inventors. They claim it is per- feet for mass- production. It is light, unbreak- nbie, transport- able, unct រឿងក

in sembled couple of hours. From every

point of vles its the house

that's perfect for this new plastic nge. My guess 1 that it's only the first of many more to come.

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other half is a long sweep of year

coal, Hot sir is efrculated

སྙམ་ P'erspex window, with a Jow

A night hidden lighting is

is through hidden pipes to all the wall that baby can look over. softly dicused from the walis, rooms,

The

stove, being on How ild this revolutionary and may contemporary curtains wheels, con be

the out Dut start? From a plastic dishi cover the long windows, The garage during the summer. 31 small household artletes all-plastic furniture moulded in-

Then, from a technical point could be made in plastic, why to the floor collects no dust or not big ones? Why not the dirt. whole house in fact? That was

Ide

And it is the ideal homo for

what Lionel Schein thought. And children! Even if they paint on the idea was born.

the walls and dance un the

of view, the house weighs only 71⁄2 tons (in ordinary materials It would weigh 160 tons!). The

sula wer walls are only 22in. thick, but the stratified layers of plastic and glass fibre resist all cold,

IL የበዓ Mme, Anne-Marie furniture mather needn't worry, Raimond. of the women's A wipe with cloth and all hant, and water. magazine

Elle, who

supported traces of mischief are gone. him from the first and started

a (plastic)

me

in case you're thinking that And if you feel you must do

with all this plastic the place is the ball rolling She told me spring cleaning you'll

Ret

cheerless clinic, like a

let exciting story the

of the kick

reassure you. vut of using

The texture and world's first all-plastic house. Host in your own living-room colours of the cushions, carpets, The nucleus of "enthusiasts The water dralas away quickly curtains, walla and furniture who united to make this drezen down special channela,

have been carefully combined to Around the centrat room give un Intimate home

atmo- sweeps a curving corridar. First sphere. done on the right is the bath- Finally, what future is there

into reality were Schein himself, Raymond Camus, the French pre-fab expert, and Yws Mng nant, the plastics specialist. The

room. Tollet, bath washstand, for this plastic home?

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HOW TO CATCH

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A REPORT BY A RUSSIAN "TALENT SPY THE SHATTERING PROOF OF

THE COLD WAR FIFTH COLUMN

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

London

OCUMENTARY proof that a widespread Communist conspiracy to induce British citizens to fice to Russia existed in 1951....when Burgess and Maclean disappeared.. came into the possession of Fleet Street this week.

has produced * number of The most probable oxplanations scientific

По instruments.

of his conduct are:- worked for The Admirally during the war and later was head of research for -- Though he loft the

Admiralty

of his own accord, he is not regarded by the authorities au a polluically reliable person. With him, working on a pro- Jeet, is, abou; whom I have written separately.

The documents include an actual report by A Com- munist talent-apy" on a X high-level London scientist, considered to be a likely in subject if "worked on" the right way. The

scientist was....and still is ...unaware that he was being spied on.

This report was inter- cepted on its way from the talent-spy....a top official in an important trado union .to the Soviet Embassy in London shortly after the diplomats vanished:-

Spy's report

in

AGE about 48. Bora

where his father was a farmer owning a medium-sized farm. BRANCH of Selenco: Physics, SPECIALISATION: Electronics

and Supersonics. the scientist's

name

and birthplace are hero deleled for obvious reasons] is an out standing man in his field and

1. He has no proper eraan of

the

2.

for

has Left-wing ideas many years and if he is not a Farty member now ti is for security reasons. He keeps in touch with Marxist thought and meets Marxist colleagues and frienda

116 frequently. has always been a very loyal supporter of the US.S.R. Then he lost his job at

expressed

he

ofter

the wish to his services to one of the new democracies. However, he was unable to make up his mini as to whether or not to fallow up this idea of going aboard and after considerable, period of hesitation decided to umu leave it over “for the being."

♫

his hesitation and

This

vacillation

is rather typical of the man. He gives on the impression is of bone quiie sound in idras about politics but able to decide at any moment how far he should commit himself to activity in regard to his ideas and convictions. This troubles his conscience,

but that is all.

SO TAKE IT FROM HERE

A BACHELOR

F you are determined

to exchange freedom And get a move on...you've only 4 days

of a bachelor girl for

1:lm

aware

of

the

wife,

subtly material benefits of don't think these will outweigh the sacrificing of his independ-

sponsibilities end the awful Anrlily of those words will...

the security of a left to corner him, says Carole Findlater ence, the acceptance of new re-

married woman, then start planning now.

M for Matrimony Day, is only four days ahead, and, if you are going to take the Jaw into your own hands and pop the question your self, haphazard strategy will get you nowhere except back to your one tin of baked beans.

Need I say that first you

I want to have the boiler with it when you are every time

drink with the boys"); equally. not around).

the strident no-nonsense tones

I strongly advise against They will have given you the of a capable woman ("Imagine popping the question in a rather recipes for dainty little dishes hearing that as I tiptoe up the fush restaurant or bar....bo is

which to tempt his stairs") with

far too likely to see extremely appetite and, on

My ideal setting would be at glamorous women wafting by

the with heart via his stomach principle hom

conventional and charply realise that he must усти will have invited him to a soft lights (he may see your put all those childish things cosy little dinner.

birth certificate sooner or later, behind him if he accepts you. but why hasten the moment?), sweet music avold "These THE APPROACH

the man's

They will have told you to Be A Good Listener: Be A Good Conversationalist: Be Hard

to Foolish Thingst always re- catch your bachelor? It is Got: Don't Be Hard to Get. minds him

concentrated fire, has

to

of his ex-girl How you phrase it? That's useless to dissipate your ener- They will have told you, How friend), and a full bottle by up to you. You may prefer the gics by simultaneously pursuing to Make the Most of Yourself his side (don't be ostentatious direct approach or the sideways

-but when it comes three possible candidates. One,

to the about this, but I suggest you tackle. I can't advise you o under

moment of How to Make Him stick

tomato juice-you the efficacy of either as I don't

what's Jest chance of escape than Tom, Say Yes they bow out grace need a clear head for

fully

know the man and you do. coming). Harry receiving an occasional volley of buckshot. by yourself:

I don't attach too much in- At least, I hope you do, If This, after all, is what it has portance to the meal that pre- you don't, has anyone got two been leading up to this is your codes the moment Although sixpences for a shilling?

Moment

Dick, and

You

A TOUGH JOB

have presumably been burrowing away like a little beaver for some time and are now suitably embedded in his affections. If you are not, all I con cay is you're going to have a tough job to maka up the leeway in the next four days!

and you're out on a limb

You

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.

fundamental Ilnos of werking-class Rativity and, liko many petit bourgeois persons. Is easily put off by polical difculü. At the same time he is always look ing for short cuts to our goal and becoming despondent when these prove illusory.

Insecure He probably feels oomomically and is, therefore, unwilling to identify himself very openly with working- clans activity. Et a doubtful whether he would admit this.

★ ✰

There is no doubt that he has

scientifis Іделя many

tlint would be very valuable and that he is very capable, given the facilities, of putting his idens into practice.

Ho would like to have the op- portunity of develbying “his ideas under conditions where they would be of benefit to the people and

their contribution towards Socilallent.

After

ninke

New dangor

this report wns inter- cepted, the talent-spy who had abused his union position was forced to resign.

The security authorities, in- formed at the time, could take no netion against him because he had broken no law,

The scientist is still in Lon- don, working for a private firra.

This is only one of at least 20 reports

different people known to have been submitted to Moscow by this talent spy. And he is only · one many Communist conspirators

de-

dicated to serve Russin in this Cold-War Fifth Column under our noses.

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POCKET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"You can tell Mr. Nehru Ppa tried him with the Red Flag: the Song of the Volga Boatmen, and Tchar kovski, but with him it'

Annie Laurie' or nothing."

FRANCO FACES CRISIS

sticking your neck out, offering you have probably been making your heart on a plate, putting your pride in pawn. If he says "No" that will be the biggest dap in the face you will ever have to take. It he says "Yes" will you

ever wonder, in the night, dark stillness of the whether it was only because he couldn't bear to hurt your feel- ings?

So I'l assume that your real problem is how to cement This is o chance you take,

RECEPTIVE MOOD

From TOM POCOCK .....

Madrid. Important facts are known.

wants to crown the grandson of

the

Wally the most explosive crisis leaders, is more ruthless in 17 years as a dictator. Mom- more cocksure than it has been Academy. bers of bis own blue-shirted for years. Falange Party Aro suspected

Already France's king-making plans have split his own Bup- porters.

SIXTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD One to that the Falange Party, King Alfonso XIII, the 18-year- General Franco faces the since it has purged its ranks of old Prince Juan Carlos, a hand- thoro Liberal minded some, wavy-haired youth now the bubble gum of romance into but, if you're prepared to take most deep-seated and poten. the

and

and at the rock of matrimony,

Saragossa Military und it, here we go. sure that, when mulon

you assure him that your intentions are strictly honourable, he will not reach for his hat and catch Make sure he is in a recop- the next plane to Venezuela. tive mood, preferably comatose,

has been warned that a

The Falango wants no king The other fact is that Franco The unrepresented

MASSES of Perhaps you have been taking You don't want him in a clear pawerful Junta of army gentrals

commanda the battio orders

the headed from

business executive who have no love for the blue personally

Liberals, Socialists, and Com- support of the Army munists went no king. women's magazines. They will frame of mind ("Allowance for attempted Falange coup as being tion as Head of State, Prime for more power.

shirt bosses would welcome an High Command. So his post- The army is becoming restivo have assured you that it's the wife, good for Income tax; sufficient provocation for them Minister and

your

You

little things that count, from larger flat, bad for income.") straight stocking seam to those

want to Avold the touches of while (freshly laun moment when he has just dered each day, of course) travelled up to town with

you wear so discrectly. tiny,

ny, tow-haired monster who

A will have coaxed you smeared Jam over his new suit

Yout

knitting him a pullover ("Goodness, we might have a

were not on intimate family!").

of plotting his overthrow.

"Не

to use force in his support.

staunch

thiet of the

The ordinary Spaniard is not

He has been warned that his Falange remains strong.... yet willing to fight at the barfi- present suppression of freedom But Franco is worried. He endea for or against the present of expression in the universities sees the internal security of his regime. Bat Franco must set can only lead to .more unrest country less sectire than at any wiftly. Under the present and disturbances among Spanish time since 1939 in spite of in- Constitution Prince Juan Carlos students.

creasing prosperity,

cannot become king unill hp is And he has one further ambl- 30—and by that time it may be

He wants to see a king too late.

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In Madrid amid the rumours chòugh terms to take his chest - You want to evold a plaintive | in" the cafes and the political. tion. measurements and he now lags Hitle appeal · ("I'll get that 'turmoil behind the scenes, two

JOHNNY HAZARD

AGAMI I MUST STRES 9, MISS HAVEN ... THE SUCCESS OF THIS SWTECH PEPENDS ON THE CASUALNESS OF YOUR ACTIONSI YOU MUST NOT LOCK THE SUITCASE IN THE

-TRUNK OF YOUR CAR .....

YOU MUST TOSS IT [CARELESSLY ON THE

SEAT! ANY FURTIVENESS ON YOUR PART MAY DRAW THE ATTENTION WE FEAR

MOSTJ

I UNDERSTAND, FÅR - WINFIELD ..... I WILL GET THE DOCUMENTS

THROUGH SAFELYŹ

od

By Frank Robbins

| A SHORT TIME LATERA

| QUITE PUNCTUALÍ AKO IP JOUSE TIMING IS ACCURATE, BRINKAWE SHALL HAVE

THE "PAPERS SOON!

NEVER FEAR, STEFFI ALL IS IN READINESS

this situation

calls for

San Miguel