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DARING IDEAS ABOUT

I

LIVING LONGER

Basle THINK:

HAVE been listening

By 1971 more than one person in

Nervous breakdowns were tar less comиnon among the success- even though they were

to daring and exciting every five in Britain will be an old age lui,

overworked.

ideas from more than pensioner

nine and a half million men

100 European doctors and over 65 and women over 60. Fifty years threaten re

Maybe frustration and failure

scientists meeting here in

symptoms of old age at 70 or

ΙΕΡΟΥΓΙΣ

SUCCER.

What about the SCOTUS of who seem to be collapsing with coronary throm-

the misfortune more to

executives

There mental burdens Switzerland to find the ago only six percent were over 60. secret of prolonging life far are SOME vital and dynamic men still work- beyond present expectations, ing long after 60: but unless science finds These experts believe that a method of keeping MOST people over even at 80 are really premature 60 vital enough to carry on work, then by begins to poison itself from the the 1970's the burden on the younger

are community may become intolerable.

science do it? Here is hopeful news

-brought on because the body

moment of its birth. We our own executioners.

There is clear-cut eviderwe that the blood of old people Is poleonotis. Living cells which will grow and multiply rapidly test-tube containing quid quickly die of blood few drops

person from an old

19

jn

nutritious after

rum added.

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

be specialty dangerous for the The conference was told that middle-aged and the elderly.

Dy

un attempt to extend the fe opan of live old people rejuvenating their blood has been made by doctors at a hos pital in Sunderland,

The experiments, carried out by Dr Óscar Olbrich and Dr Eluned Woodford-Williams, in- volved injecting large amounts of salt solution into the blood- stream for several days.

Can

animals do. (Until then volun- tary control in the form of diet- ing is the only answer."

owe

HE STROLLED BACK TO STALAG VIIIB

XAN FIELDING·

who was himself captured by the Goitopo, writes about à book on life in a Gorman prison comp... a book which, he says, does little increoso 'one's faith in human nature

fo

But the inmates of

and did

MUSICAL comedy than that. based on a prisoner-of-Stalag VIIIB could,

Though the work they were war book? What an given was for from arduous Ideal Yot it is not so far again we have Vincent's

word fetched as it sounds. Take for this-they made every effort Adrian Vincent's The Long and excuse to avoid it. But not from any patriotle motive, not Road Home". Set it to with any intention of sabotaging music, change the title to the German war effort. No, "The P.o.W. Game," and the simply in order to make their

own lives easter. thing's as good as done.

Some went so far as to cut off

the

For this alap-happy, sleazy account of life in Stalag VIIB their little fingers so as to gain admission to the sick-bay, and a has all that is needed for П

tough

Australian did a thriving profitable West End run: trade in smashing the hands of ilimsy plot, Improbable charac- prisoners who were too squeam- ters, vintage jokes, corny site ish to do the job for themselves, tions, a knockabout turn or two Meanwhile, Thanks to And yes, believe it or not clivity of these self-mutilated oven a bevy of girls. Not very malingerers, the genuinely ill lovely girls, admittedly, but had to go out to work to mako good impresario could soon put up the daily quota of manpower that right.

required. And, on top of it all, there is Vincent himself made a plan an alarming ring of truth about to break his own foot by getting It. Alarming, because it shows someone to drop a large pit log

soldier up the average British

on to it, but didn't have the guts in the worst possible light; as u to go through with it. He also whining "wide" boy, a selfish did his best to learn German, In ally-livered lend- case It should come in useful if scrounger, swinger with one eye on the he ever escaped? Not a bit of main chance and the other on ft. Just to get himself a cushy the bread ration.

Job as cump interpretert CO-OPERATIVE

2

During his first days "In the bag" Vincent came (UCTOSS

Escape, indeed, seems hardly fellow Pow reading a book. I to have entered his thoughts, was the only book in the whole although there was any amount camp at that ume, d the man of opportunity. A co-operative was just finishing it.

Kuard would actually keep watch for him whenever ha visited his Polish girl friend in the village; and when the Kom- mandant heard of it and put his toot down-for even this corrupt ofcial had to drow the line

THE ANSWER

"I suppose you wouldn't like to lend It lo me," Vincent ventured

A reasonable request, surely, But this was the answer:

"You've got a hopel I'll sell

you, though."

it

somewhere he decided to make

break unescorted.

all

comrade- A nice example of

Late one Saturday evening, after Anishing hia than

ship in adversity! But Vincent therefore, The necessary for got his own back by persuading clerical duties-yes, by then ha

a light-Angered

ered pal to pinch the had wangled his cushy job book for him— minor mis- right-he walked out of his demeanour

in office compared to

the German quarters general crookedness of the rest and, instead of going through of the captive community. the gate as he was meant to do,

The

morale of the prisoners simply sidled round the build- Improved with the arrival of the ing and disappeared into first Red Cross parcels, but not, darkness. It was as easy as apparently, their mornis.

"No one saw For that," he admits. the more ingenious rocketeers me go."

A determined Inan would among them were soon roaming

with such the compound hawking packets have got away of tea halt-filled with sawdust heaven-sent chance-after all,

escaped from or tins of condensed milk from people even which the 'mlik had been regular fortress like Colditz-but

bosis? The odds are that they overeating than to work, the doctors say. It is cosy for the they neod.

desk-bound to eat more thon

"The Sagrs Korenchevsky: moro we cat the more polsons we set dree in our systems. It is an simple

So the us that

until obv tous

we precaution know more in to eat ices."

Korenchevaky, lean At 77,

O active and spry and almost

montally as he was at 40, is a advertisement for convincing his beliefs.

THE SECRET

tho

a

After four siphoned out and replaced with not our Vincent. water before being resealed days of amorous dalliance he stopped meekly reported back to campt Though they never

EASY CONDITIONS grousing, Vincent and his com-

in panions were

mary ways Had he made a clean break better off than they would have then, he might have avoided

been been had they not

merch cap the nightmare

across himself. Germany tured He saya BO

and Czechoslovakin For thanks to the venal charac- which captors and captives aliko ter of the German Kommandant, eventually had to make in order who was prepared to agree to to avoid being "liberated by the anything for a tin of sardines or Russians advancing from the a handful of English cigarettes, cast. Softened by the relative

in the the prisoners were in no state anything they wanted way of extra comforts, such as for the rigours of the road end fresh contraband food or a lady quickly reverted to their ald of easy virtue.

delegate has raised after listening to these they were able to smuggle in ly eney conditions of camp te,

of

Dr Reginald Fisher. of Oxford University, thinks

The latest findings all seem to that certain food ingredients, focus on fatty feeding us the called amino-acids, which jare chief danger of modern living. needed in large amounts when tire body is young,

be Not one moy

Rhine experts in this old Poisonous in later life.

the theory that the pace of town, where the well-preserved civilised life is itself a killer.

medieval houses show up the Professor W. J. Jessop. Di

frailty of man's construction, 1 Dublin, has found that many

Nobody I have questioned con senso pnother potent old people cannot tolerate large here

can produce

robustness any trust. reason for the quantities of sugar or starchy

for the com- men like Korenchevsky. foods which would be harmless worthy evidence

mon belief that business bosses They were stopped for safely for younger adults. The doctors

and executives оте

the secret killing They trave found But their search for seem reasons.

unanimouts that DTC sefør methods is to be intensi- constituent of food

themselves oft by overwork and of old ago that needs no selen- is un-

tile discovery that it is pos- fed as a result of this meeting.

doubtedly dangerous to adults worry.

aible to come to terms with the in excessive amounts--FAT.

their life twilight years, to enjoy Indeed, a study of the Though some self-intoxication

and

their ignore is inevitable, experts believe "The main cause of food span of 10,000 Americans has advantages de- shown that on average those who drawbacks. there must be ways of slowing intoxication lies in dat"

Belgium's Professor distinguished themselves in the process so that the average clared

Much, maybe most, of their be human life-span can

ex- Lucken Brull. "Civilised man ways which involved hard work

sub- alertness and activity is due to tended to 100 and beyond. may one day develop an auto- and responsibility-lived

determination to stay the their longer tiran matic way of keeping his weight stantially

young and keep on working. They are confident that this down to a healthy level as the plodders. may happen in such a way that all the frontlers of aging will be pushed further uff 80 "middle-age" will not begin be- fore the sixties, and people will not be "elderly" before they ore 80.

IN FOOD

腑

SOME of the experts, led by Dr Vindimir Korenchevsky, of London, suspect that the polsons which eventually age us are partly-possibly malñly — derived from our food.

When we are young the effect of these poisons is small be- cause dertain mechanisms in the body cam neutralise them.

Peking Timidly Joins In

HE Chinese Communists covered pamphlet

Thave joined in the poing, presented by

A bookcase.

my

this

on":

"Comrade

from

Teste Bouvenir of Mao Tse-tung ....Stalin's out- оле of standing disciple and has been verbal assault on Stalin. A those cocksure young men who rble to lead China's revolution suddenly found, Casy to victory because his method little late, perhaps; it takes have

for all the world's of work and his way of cason- time for something av re- an volutionary to filter through problems

Ing are those of Stalin's....'

Another, at random: "Stalin's Title "Stalin and the Chines the trans-Siberian telegraph.

Revolution, The date 1952. ideas and teachings retain their full, living, revolutionary nt But here they are, last Author-Doctor Chen Po-ta, a toeing the new Party line, pro- member of the Central Com- strength when they come into Mao Tre-tung's ciniming that the late, once mailee of the Communist Party Comrado

hands...." lamented leader of world Com of China and Vice-President of

committed "several the munism

of Institute

Marxism- Leninism in Peking.

gross errors,"

Later, no the protective True, there is a certain mechanisms weaken, the intimidity in the attack. Lauding Jurious agents In the diat "collective leadership" isn't easy attack the heart, blood vessels, when China is still ruled by nervous system. and kidneys, "the cult of the individual." Korenchevsky claims.

They lower the body's resist ance to disease and reduce power to withstandi heat cold.

three ways:-

No matter what the Chinese Pollibure may now say about its Stalin, every blue boller-suited. one of them is firmly under the | Thumb of a single man,

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***BY *****

RUSSELL SPURR

Doctor Chen is off on the old task of proving Stalin was al- ways right. In this case," right about China. The poor doctor wasn't to know, sich devoted work would get suddenly, un- fashionable.

But, of course, Stalin nover His I fup open the first page. ' was right, about China. There, in celebration of Stalin's attempla to tinker with a birthday, is a quotation by Mao revlying revolution thousands of

Tee tung

miles away nearly destroyed "Stalin is the leader of world Communism's chanco.of victory. The doctors are tackling this He rules them from Byzantine revolution,,, It is a great event It's an old and almost for- food intoxication" problem in isolation deep in the forbidden that mankind is bloused with götten story.. How.

the palaces of the former. Son of Stalin. As you all know, Marx struggling young dictator Josephi Heaven His portrait, wart and la dead and so are Engels and Stain tried to push the Com Dy soarching for... · Home 1 "detergem

all, is everywhere revered. His Lenin," Had there been no munist Party to power in China which could exfely be given to woels cwpy words are texts for worship. Stalin, who would be there to 29 years ago,

give directions? But having the accumulated poisons of the

Yes, this now twist to Com him- this is really a bicing. He blundered, ho was out- years.

muntet poliey may ult the up

smarted. The Chinese Com- "Now there exist in the world munists were almost destroyed. 2 Dy trying to find ways of and-coming oneration. In the

But not the still a Soviet Union, a Communist It, took them 23 years, to staĝe strengthening the interval Kremlin. mecimatome which neutralise struggling old guard la scarcely Party, and also a Stalin. Thus a comeback.

the affairs of the world can go proletarian Peking....

well,"

the poisons.

By devising diels tres from It is with a grim senile, then And so on and so on, food materiale which may thai I dig out a tadered yellow-

Perhaps that is how the story will be written: how. It an been so fara

system himself.

of

every-man-form PAIR OF SOCKS

When Vincent lost The latter plied her trade in own hard rations and hopefully

the The camp bathhouse,

fee approached some pals who were being a pair of socks or a bar cooking theirs he was told-in first of chocolate. But she soon shut so many words, only the up shop on discovering that the one is unprintable to "clear chocolate wrapping contained a off."

"No, "The Long Road Home" the socks piece of slate and

doca lie to increase one's were full of holes.

But I Not many man, I should have faith in human nature. thought, could sink much lower still think It could be turned musical successful Or at the very least a rather shameful farce.

into

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