1956-07-07 — Page 8

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY · 7,' 1956.

TODAY INSIDE HARWELL,

H.Q. OF ATOMIC POWER

CHAPMAN PINCHER

GOES BACK

FOR A LOOK AFTER TEN YEARS

T

This is his report:

HIS once sleepy used in the power turnares of

villag of Harwell the future. Berkshire

The Harwell

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belteve Harwell has 1277) grim Umes, of any more radioactive waste

but the sour menu Jessi art is too great, swamped by the sulld achieve- ment,

New

alummie stations with names like Winfrith in Dorset and Detareay in Scotland will

e coming into the 11.

Harwell, with a stuff of 1.500

they will be the first la the world to make this major step. is another stiji sceret bulla- W. Fry ing men led by Dr D ilre using

elodrical a word machine. ilkr

huge I

alues and bulging at the scams, doughnut, to lap the Halkiess now renther the limit of it

ol Lae 1-bomb ft

No

atomic Expanzon. The thick wall of protective power

will these homes and industry,

furnaces which

Shields Downs will go down leadá

Radiogeliv ty The rooms where the traitors trom the direct rays phure workers

Pontecorv Cost Fuchs thes

reached the splitting atoms

worked

reminders

and the difculty

the on

the ##

in history where more creative iclens were generated in the Inst 10 years than anywhere else on earth.

I say this with confidence

after meing almost all The secrets of this vast atom

about £20.000.

NO EATING

the laboratory

where the

explce ave metal pluitarian

le mahined the mutrue, Warn

station revealed in full for be eating as well as no smok the first time since it start- ed up in 1946.

ing. Plidom

that on prek is all a man van tolerate. (Thorough plaste soveting | hanaliath, ab

The astonishing muze of

of the violent mutat and founel uranium furnaces, "bot"

that et Was 3rd laboratories, atom-smushing hem the alan machines, and robot plants, doodle at which the scientists have

.

exploding

Machines which meske heavy set up behind the security water, cooling 35 News fence, explains the Govern than whisky,

ment's confidence in staking hundreds of millions pounds on their idens,

of

1113

produce

radicactive ga.. worth

L £50 bubble are fascinating, but the GOVERN who inventeri these Kaudgets are more astonishing,

the an Fr year many past up with ute in a precis hunty Town working for Woges and enduring stcurity dignite involving their families and friends.

For everylhurat have set st to do nchieved. The Americans and Russians Ithay have done as 21ce1 much, but with far more men working In lar mure laboratori s with far greater resources,

HARWEL

BEPO

TARWELL will be seth as the Isourer of all the major ideas which roade Britain front- rank atom Power and retained her industrial greatness,

The nutite of health checks with alom-ray detectors Cap- tantly reminds them of the danger under which they work without any danger pay,

The average age of these men on whom Britalis wili depend for solving her economie dif- feullies is only about 30.

Many of them have persin-

for

years

In one or building, where tently overworked

Inflated men work in

"space without strikes or stoppages of

kind the any

to achieve Light atomic schedules on time.

sults," scientists devised

plant which

weapons.

Using the

enlled "Bepo,"

provided

itom

they

ed the giant plant at

furnace dasgn- Calder

Hall Cumberland, which will

TALENT

e. T

art

0115

ان

marc

be built here,

Be air has

Hu penisable

of disposing

nows,

But there is every sign here next 10 that progress in the

will

years

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even

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more

(A) A technician in pro- tective overalls and shoe COVETS works with remote handling tongs through thick wall of lead

(B) Beauty inside Harweli? Certainly here's 19-year-old research worker Pita Keene,

IC) Here the danger is

great but $0 needed, and no chances are taken. Working in a trans- parent glove box

not

care

15

IDI. In heavy rubber suits, craftsmen work on radio. active material. Alt piped, to their helmets from out- side the sealed workshop. They will be hosed down Thoroughly before they take off the suits. And they have! | frequent medical checks.

Miss de HENRIQUEZ

DESIGNS HER DREAM CITY

The Chic Centre from obova z 1. Entrance and #ila; 7, Offices-eine story high; 2, 3totum of Red Indian; 4. Fresain; 5, Statom of Huntington Horford; 6, Sculpture gallary; 7, Plc ture petlery; %, One of tour end- mental pouts; 2, Gallary toe drowings; 10, Concert hall; 15, Library i 12, Restaurant,

With Medici munificence

Hartford

bo

his

ANNA LANDAU

Mr Hartford has also built

Flore de Henri- quez at work on

a commission in her studio,

the properly of John He McCormack, the singer

How much will she receive? no Leo has been

n theatre in Hollywood. His wife is 'Marjorio Steel, the actress, whom London has unce seen in Sabrina Fail. was previously married to Mary Elizabeth Epling, now the wife of Douglas Fair- Lanks, inr.

So far Miss do Henriquez has

decided yet.

seems "We did not even discuss it. Mr Hartford is a

dreamer. I am also a dreamer."

a$

PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAMWHITE

A son for the man who escaped

a massacre

-AND THE MOTHER IS MANON

Faris. VIYWENTY - FIVE-YEAR-OLD

TENTA UN CUES Cecil

The

Aubry who starred in Manon- has given birth to a baby boy. This follows

revelation recently of her secrot marriage teme time ago to Caid Brahim. the videst son of El Giroud, the late Pesha of Marrakesh.

Mile. Aubry's husband >wcs his life to a remarkable piece of politeial foresight on her part, She had got to know Mirocco well white Dining there, und had kept in touch with event, leading up to the reito ation by the French of the Glacul's enemy, the Sultan of Mor.co.

As a result of her warning Brahim reaped one of the must barbaris musicres modcin times. This occurred on May 2 and this year at Marrakesh, when 37 of the late Pasha's closest friends were slaughtered. Brahim left Marrakesh enly a few days before the massacre.

Ni w

Bratle return to

Unlikely

It seems unlikely fiel

will ever be able

Marrakesh to take up his title of "Guardian or the Atlas Mountains and 1. vd of the Caravans,” which TVAK 10% father's.

Nevertheless, Brahim herited Jarge part of

bn 1- He ef

the greatest personul fortunts in the world.

First trip LADY IRIS MOUNT Best

MOUNTBATTEN

to Europe for seven years. She will be going to London to be re-united with her parents. At the moment. she is acting as companion to 1677 American business woman, who is on u European tour. She locks

matronly almost and appears to be com-

with an

pictely Americmised. She talks

American accent, and her conversation is spattered with Americanlans.

"I am a complete New Yorker

hava to work for

yg It Was New York which majst po-site for mỹ to d: ro. All the phopgels and others with whom I worked were simply swell, made when they might have

thing difficult for ።ነቲ And when you've lived in a city that long you when to sort cut your frent.-the fair-weather cues from the real ones,"

CECILE AUBRY

Her warning saved the Pasha's son.

of Laddlebrity in New Yomething told me that recently she quur- rolled with an Italian restaurant proprietor in New York because he refused to give her a detail- ed bill. Next day a New York newspaper headlined: "Salome Wen't Pay For Her Polany."

A theatre

TUNANCIAL Notes: Millionaire

Canos Bestigui has built himself a private theatre in the grounds of his country house near Parle. It is lavishly equipped and seats 200. Pro- she

and add me,

fessional companies,; Including wouldn't live anywhere else.

the Comedie Francaise, "Wir be After all, it Was New York hired to perform there on their which Zave me my chance. nights off. Where I realised that I would

now,"

in

saw somENSTVO

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will be milltary headquarters, she was already well establish- From it Huntington Hartford ed in Italy? With her expima, plans to fight modern abstract tion, her anger upirts, ' - art.

The town of Salerno hold n "Of course I agree with him competition for a statue for the I loathe abstract art," says main square. The winner was Miss de Heniquez as she strides Flore do Henriquez "But between the pedestals on which other were jealous. I was a

heads N American visitor to

With a voice that, grips words stand half-sculpted

woman, didn't belong to the her hands Britain walker one Mr

strongly ha

do plastic hoods. is prepared signed three contracts for each

place. Two weeks after tho clay, with tight trousers and day into the Knights- to spend anything up

Flore de Henriquez was born unvelling, my statue was blown stage of the work, and made loose jerkin, black hair cropped bridge home of Miss Fiore ten million dollars on

to jagged arrows on her brow, 35 years ago in Trieste.. At the up with dynamite. two trips to Hollywood ("where He has the churches look like butchers' de Henriquez, an Italian cultural buildings.

Fiore de Henriquez might well age of 17 she n already

started a £200,000 shops, and the butchers shops have been employed by Holly, working in clay. "I fell in love

with it, and ran away. full-scale spile of repeated screenings sculptress, and gave her

wood in a remake of Si Joan, and security drivos they commission that, she says, foundation to support rest- like churches") In order to see

home to art school." have never lost their sense of "made my knees tremble ing actors, artists, musicians the setting-a 200-acre canyon But a new battle is starting, humour. (Remember how the In a new furnace called Zeus

awake for and writers. from and kept ̈me

in the heart of the film world, and the glass-roofed civic centre pennant Wha whipped the scientists have found out

Bulganin and Krushchev's car weeks." how to breed" alomic fuel. This is the nearest thing yet to under the noses of the security

guards when the Russians The American was Mr perpetual motion means

has the power stations of the visited Harwell in April),

Huntington Hartford, mil- future will create fuel as fast

of the Though Harwell has yielded Honaire grandson as they put it.

mome of its finest brains to the founder of chain of firm now entering the ptom grocery stores. The com- industry, It. zu bulges with mission was to design, in talent and buzzes with ideas.

collaboration with an archi-

be the world's first

atom power station,

Peering down into the tem porarily beatless heat of Zeus, I learned that it contains about 800lb, of uranium 235-enough,

In one laboratory a team led teot, a civic centre for uned "ne explosive, to make 50 by Fotor Fortescue is for ad- Hollywood with a concert atom bombs.

vanced on a power project

But the safely preomutions De no ingenious that, if Zeus A trickio generates more than

of heat, robots immediately

make it powerlons

which was recently thought to hall, library, and galleries

for paintings" and sculp ture.

be Imposible.

In all the alom

furnacea

built so far the rots of uranium Miss de Honriquez and

fuel have it to be encased in

a proteolivo motal can If the architect Claude Phillimono

In one email corrugated iron can could be eliminated with have been working on the

building en in special proféo-, out leacting to the escapo project for the last year) tive clothing aki hugs over" alangasTUDI fumes the furnace boots are using + taleyicioni yoki un run much hotter and and

half. Now thoir

cantábor to examine the aper would produce fat cheaper model has reached America Wing sorunlu which will bo

・

for the patron'a approval.

JOHNNY HAZARD

ENOUGH FOR TODAY, BOYSI PEFLATING SUITS NOW AWAIT MY WORD BEFORE YOU REMOVE

YOUR HELMETS

PHEW! SURE GLAD [TO GET OUT'F THIS |GOLD-FISH BOWLI

from

But what brought her to England seven years ago, when

SURE FEELS LIKE IT, ↑ AFTER DINNER **** GUSTYĮ LET'S RUN INTO

DAYTON AND GET A

I KNOW A HONEY OF

|*RÈVERSE!=BREATHINGS-SQUARE MEAL BEFORE

|"BLOW-UP" GUITSI TOLD YOU, JOHNNY TOMORROW THE MOON!

THEY START FEEDING US ROUND PYLLS!

A JOINTE LOW-DOWN. | JAZZZ WE GRAB A

CAB

By Frank Robbins

YOU'RIS SOLO, PALI GONNA TAKE A WALK; THEN TURN IN EARLY”,

'LONG!!!

"And" that”, “Saya Miss do

in the Indignart. Henriquez idiom of her adopted country, "was the last straw,'t (COPYRIGHT)

this situation

calls for a

San Miguel