1956-12-22 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1956.

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U.S. ON THE PUSH-BUTTON-CAR Get in the right spirit

STANDARD FOR CHRISTMAS

Now York

it is

UDDENLY

Christmas. A little premature, perhaps, but then Americans like to be ahead in every- thing.

The long line of Christ- MRA trees which marches down Park Avenue was lit this week as the master switch was pressed, and choristers sang outside the famous Red Brick Church. Appropriately, anow begun to tall just before the ceremony, and the city is garlanded white.

in

THERE'S PLENTY OF PETROL AND FREE SERVICE. TOO

* DON

125. rear

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The laicst Detroit model longer, wider, lower, and cost- liar. It has even more chromium plating than before and spe1 İN Europen s Jel-type

the might consider some of models in doubtful taste,

Almost everything is push-

There bution controlled electrically operated door locks.

windows. xower-vented

IDDON'S

eral Motors, ficnry Ford, and Walter Chrysler, expect to sell 6,000,000 vehicles more than

next year'.

the to

sleres the shoppiet consisten: Bad PUS- beam

the tained: but

sunt last- minute rush is expected.

Women eudiomers outnumber Une men by about six to one.

there six- although

special shopping depar- "men only" ments.

arc

The lights are being left on

offices

way power seala, and, of course. to furm in skyscraper

push-bution transmisi10. and all the de-

huge crosses,

partment

FLOT VA

have

elves,

been

and

decked with Christmas wreathe, figurines, angela,

goblins.

The most spectacular Christ- mas show is as usual in Rocke-

feller Plaza.

The promenade is lined with

giant red cartes

And

ان

white candy- built On

a carpet coloured lights and leading 19 the mammoth tree, which looks as if it is decorated with year's rainbow balloons,

1957 models

last

The symbol

"THE motor car is the bulge- THE

backbone ol bearer and America's Industrial civilise- tion,

The L

symbol of American affluence und never has

and power

it been glossier

and more dazzling.

On the first day of the show

of cars £125,000 worth

There is,

Wha

sold.

probably 19 you know, no petiol shortage bere, The highest gasolene price is around 2. 3d a gallon. In New

Jersey and in Texus it's a low as 1. d

THIS is the "Grent Automo York it is only 1s. 10d., In New

bile Christorða,“ After 10 years the National Automobile Show has returned.

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and the new auditorium here, tho Coliseum ai Columbus Curele, a packed with people looking the 1957 cara parade.

Tho power-steered.

show

two-toned, power braked, and power-uirconditioned. There are 124 examples of U.S.-made molor cars on display.

I went there and found the Collecum mare crowded than any of the great Fifth Aventie

Fith stores - Sales

Avenue Bonwit Teller, Bergdorf Good- man, Bests, Lord and Taylor.

There's so much petrol

arc

At some stores you can hire n girl to do all your shopping ihen deliver The for you and Unsel-wrapped prosents to your apartment or hotel room.

three- BQ W (n a tra

chinchilla coats quarter-length

costing from

from

Dr

tay

Maximian £2,054, mansea of minks £1,071 to £3,213.

There

flagons ns much perfume costing

30; ritinstone-trimmed cash- poodles and for ntert

Jewellery that duchghunde: renges from £33,000 star dia- moods to 3s. "junk" gems.

A

Spectacular

DIARY

★

The whole elly

and alows gleams. It is shot with colour. it is very, very rich.

Thun ever

New York merchants tel me more money is in the hands of Christmas shoppers before.

the public

in diving And

In- deeply into hire-purchase. stalment credit this year has risen almost $2,000,000,000.

From all over the country-

Pittsburgh. Chiengo, Cleveland, Denver. Los Angeles-Christ-

mas business is booming.

Bonuses will be even bigger, particularly in Wall Street, than an last year. It is routine for American drm to give its eme ployees a month's extra salory as a Christmas bonus, Broker- age Arms are giving as much us three months' exira salary.

of

1.5

on giving.

all send that there has tree ist zametacute jewil of

In

a price war in Texas. outer areas of New York State manny Karages uffer free lubilen tion atx wasting 10 the cus- tumer who buys ten gallons of petrol.

America will be on wheels this Chaustinus as never before There are 32,000,000 cars American roads this year. und every one in three people, ins cluding children, owns a t mobile,

un

mammoth diamond angel in the bed by a polden wet dow of Tiffany',

The cuts melodious with The from soud of rattis pealing

the department ampilfers in stes, and the chimes of church bells.

St Patck's Cathedral and St are drawing Thomas Church erta die I base any of the stines along Fifth Avenue, now known as the platinum-plated The moguls of the motor car trade, Harlow Curtice of Gen- Midway.

ACROSS ANTARCTICA:

U

THE SECOND PHASE

By Christine Ross

NDER the leadership

of Dr Vivian Fuchs, the main party uf the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition is now On the high seas in the motor vessel Magga Dun, hended for Vuhsel Bay.

This marks the beginning of the second stage of the three-year programme for crossing the Antarctic con- tinent from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sen via the South Pole.

The first stage began in November 1966 when the

Expedition sailed for the Antarctic in the Theron, and established a base near Vahsel Bay which Dr Fuchs named "Shackleton,” memory of the explorer

in

Dr Vivian Fuchs (right) and Sir Edmund Hillary discuss

the route to be taken by the Commonwealth Trans- Antarctic Expedition.

who, as early as 1914, made

herole but unsuccessful after them, for they are housed completely isolated, except for

in snow tunnels welt below the rudo communication. surface, where the temperature

다

attempt on the 2,000-mile crossing.

When the rest of the Ex- pedition returned to London

prepare for the

to

stage in the long and ar- duous programme, in which everything foresecabla must to the be planned down last detail, eight men re- mained behind to prepare the base for the return of

fairly remains degrees Fahrenheit,

The rest of the Expedition steady at 10 winter at Shackleton, pre-. tho 2,000-mile paring

Three Stages be fitted.

DUT in spite of all these hard-

for

com-

On May 4 the sun set for the journey straight across the con- of the South dreary Antarctic winter, not to nent by way next

must be accom- again undil mid-Augus, Pole. This

four months t they and caselessly the wind blew, plished sweeping great drifts of snow are to get clear of the Ross Se over their improvised hut, and before another winter closes in. attering the face of the land- And into this c01 too short in- intensive scientific scape almost nightly.

period

must vestigations and restrach

Meanwhile, the New Zealand the main party in the new ships, the eight men have support party, led by Sir Ed

muzad Hillary, left Wellington year of 1957. In addition, succeded in accomplishing much this week in the New Zealand they had En exacting of what they set out in do, and naval vessel Endeavour for the Rous meteorological programme, Dr Fuchs has recently said that McMurdo Sound on the radio

if the Expedition is successful Sea. There they will establish communications to in crossing the Antarctic

Scott Base, and another depot Polo, maintain, ground and air tinent the men of the advance 300 miles nearer to the reconnaissance to carry out, party will have made

Thus, the crossing party will imve depots bovering the and the huskies to feed and possible.

The second phase of the en- and last 300 miles of the tend.

terprise will begin when the journey, But for the rest of the self- Murga Dan reaches Shackleton 2,000 miles they must be

about the middle. of sufficient. base

A Storm

BUT before they had time to Jentesey 1937. Time la alt a

'It o' tractor, much

All the cool and 148

Doral wad

tort

Joining Up

A party and

first

aemove all the stores and portant in the Antarctic la between equipment to the base, site, a the norm broke up the sea-ice so winter and winter. That is TT is hoped that Dr Fuchs

crossing that it drifted away, taking with who is being done in thece Hillary will meet somewher

that of Sir Edmunt. of the con Unent Is

spread over three yours, in the region of Mount Albert The main rat and the huge. Markham on or about Now The lous of the fuel left the transmitter will probably, have Your Day 1058. After that and travel eight men very,

much at

at the boes built before the arrival of they will join up sme and tón » first Intense cold which the Magen Donoho mercy of the

together on at Jenet ono occasion, reached purch

of the routo

Routh reconnoltred by arian minus: 635 thegrees Fahrenholt.

miriando New

dog <denty Their long vigil has been spent stedges. The dext step will be weak in February, if all

· đây-in-hing Intyre, kebbverted to natablishunnediyor, briso. 300, inecording sa igrwiildembark Puding: dome, 20 ya + miles to the southDéput

by

100

w

about the

plan. There the

on the fast jumping-off place without delay for New Zeala

which the for the crossinu u Here, threa [which]

for the final stage could four men, will be left for the departure and returns for depend do not share the dia- wicker, to...: muriy out” metagro-entary box

of the men who look touted work, They willy

Everywhere the emphasis

is

The Elgenhower-Dulles policy of being cool to Britain, and France from been abandoned after alx weeks, and thêre is positive compulsion herb to pour. out several million dollars to Europe.

Some Americans

say: "Per- haps it is to salve our con- science."

Elenhower wanis 10 give. Nixon wants to give. Dulles

lend: wants to give-or

but Secretary of the Trocsury George Humphrey would like to balanco his budget,

Pickets out

ot the United

ONLY OVER

Nations, known sardonical-

ly as the divided nations, have I found the Christmas epirit lacking.

the Rusalan, and Egyptian head- quartery 'on' Park Avenue.

of

The outstanding feature the U.N, today Is that it in runbig brown. The Coloured in the General Assembly of the 70 nations. outnumber White.

the

The delegates of the West the big and handsome Cabo Lodge Junior, the elim Sir Plerson Dixon, who looks like the the late Leslie Howard,

from burly Sir Leslie Munro New Zealand, Sir Percy Spen- der of Australia, and their cd- visers, are swamped by tide from Asia and Africa- and South America.

the

I find Broadway much more stimulating

UN. than the dower. Times Square is 30 bright you would think it was on fire, and 42nd Street blazing like the Strip at Las Vegas.

A

Ethel Merman, who belts out There are no Christmas a song like a stevedore, is the decorations so far in the big latest hit in "Happy Hunting."

I don't think Ethel has had glass building. Because of the diverally

among flop in a quarter of a century, of religions the delegations no formal cele at least in comedy. bration of the birth of Christ is planned.

There are groups .of angry pickets outside the UN. head- us there are outside quarters,

The Old Vic company is play- and ing to packed audiences, "My Fair Lady" will probably run for ever.

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