› THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1987.
"WHAT CAN HE BE
that man
in the sea?”
asks ROBERT PITMAN
KHLE the summer crowds come flapping over the sand And, when he pleks a way
sear cleek, chair,
you can play in spite of everything.
Lie back and relax,
And have a shot of the game which the psychologists play all the year round. The Personality Game.
Here are the rules.
Look at that is not important. that tall man in the blue trunks play the Personality who is stepping so painfully veni'n soon know a lot across the shingle at the water's Thim, edge. What do you know about. his character, his temperament? You may never seen
Note his thin, low
If you
Game
careful look of his head tind face.
ASTHENIC
-NOW-WHICH ARE YOU?ANCIRAUDTEENPICIAN
Which of there nein of words do van find "non interesting to repeat?
(k) Life. Witte, tork, talk, Whik, work, tilby. ?bj Ore, thitte, furtrace; sterk. Thriory, skrå, var. (e) Heat, Hon, night, bear, beet, külght, hare.
2 How do you walk?
tai With euny, algo dich and your
head thrust forward.
th) JerkDy, with varying pace.
(e) Win measured step, with vintag
See it.
3 What attracts
tamil
A Which describes your handwritiky belt?
a chwing, large, with marked contrast bi
Menken. Tby Tečky, unevéh.
ie Nrat. with letters of even height.
6
you Most ubout *
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(15)
("")
5 Which of the faces given above tu mași
like yours? (Answers at foot of page.
tas The colours, thỳ The design, rel The
Kruerai eifert,
Ashenie Man bis ghoulders me the
psychologi: is Int particularly brand. But ATHLETIC MAN. ከኔ፡ neck is shent and thick. His body is podgy and his legs · anal mms are short,
val!
But don' Jelitke,
be misled Ly the The Acte Man is not always an athlete,
And a
Gume For t
the where the Personally
becomes tough to play. is the variation in muscle and bene that helps the piychologists put men into entres.. And women have much less of holh His hair is thick and coarse, If he comes close enough for great many atlete, are no. in
Athlete CHUS (Coul. Even so there are women who about Its talet, eyebrows el glisten you to see his hands, you will he
long-distance are clearly Pyknic. The Queen with water It's nose is quite notice that they are road and calculating,
finely sanped. His runner-ek, Bounliter, Pirk Mether for
examply. And legs. Note Prominent although his face is golt and
thin. Ard
brond fox and square, alten typical instances of Bis forehead is face is
quite a number of the slim, slender asinetly high. He is what pay and he mcbably i snub-nosed. As benie Man.)
cool medel girls are obviously chet. chologis call the ASTHENIC It's haw
going very thin.
The Athlene Man is usually Asthenic girls 100, And then, tall. lie has broad shoulders, what of the rmen who fall pering to narrow hips. His between two clasus? In Inet. legs are long and they re they are probably the majority. powered by big, tough muscles, But that doesn't mean that th
say that you have his long neck, his
him before, Hut shoulders, his narrow
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A!
"Why should Vivien log all the publicity? I'm going on a motor tour with my daughter and ex-husbands.”
·MAN" (from (atender*'),
the Greek for
PYKNIC
a man
And the psychologists. have fixed his range of temperament
He Is the PYKNIC MAN is neck is lung ton. and his paychologis's labels are useless, fairly exactly. At one end of (from the Greck for thigh). fact is well modelled. At his Far from JL, For the generat
he bus The Greek the reale, he might be éxremo- . ronie cares the Fyline Mon bet
god types remain, With them ng ly shy and consitive. Al the slow and dull. But usually progle.
At worst, his features guide, the psychologists can other, aloof, Inhuman, calculat- Det Usually be ts, a good re nicely defined and even.
explain why predominantly ing. At ng event the Asthenie mixer, a Kal talker,
athlete young man is miserable Man will always have a love who is impulsive and rat n
* his parents want him lo Cf logle-though in polities bustie The Pyknie Man is not
became a musical genits. They that loe will not extend to always fond of routine, but he
con tell an Asthenic why he h campromise. Fr the Aeole always has a ready eve for the
unlikely to maku #0 able will often he no idealist and important detail. He rotres
Personnel manager, sometimes a fanatic.
when other people are doing Sometimes he enters into their
and SPORTY
Who are the Asthenies? Well, Cinutions so completely that he they include T. S. Elliot, makes a brillant inimicorn Somerset Maughan, Bertrand blant leader..
Foster Bussell, Jchin Lerd Sallsbiny, and the Dean, Hewlet: John on,
What sort of character is the Athletic Mari's? Rellable. serious, loyal. He is u good
But, of course, there is some- cise on The bench who raiser. Except at the top. cine most levels, where his poor sa
be forgotten. The Imagination is a drawback. person in the deck-chair, Your- SOX. If you sit don't know He talks slowly and rarely Dulles,
which group is
Tun yours. Among the Pyknie Man are reaches the intellectual heights through the quiz. Red Sir
Winston Churchill, Ernest He makes a good soldier, J Hemingway, Al Real, Kruch- disappointing statesman.
Or, even better, consult A chev, Aururin Bevan,
Now look along the beach ngain. Look for Type No. 2. Look, 10% example. at that sincky man who is rearing with mock-tem s his children splash
with
him.
As
the
Then Anally take a glance at Type No. 3. There he is, with hand, in front of en improvised
ticket bat
tho wicket on pebbles. Which is not entirely coincidence, for he is what
Some instances of the Athletle jury of your friends. Man-Peter Haigh, Lord Alexander of Tunis, Earl Mountbat'en, Jim Laker,
But what about the on the beach”
Woman
Ah, that
ts
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LEADERS OF INDUSTRY
FOR HARWELL COURSE
A new authority on life in Communist Europe (ho spent 24 hours there) presents his report
I'm the odd man out in Tito-land
DRING me, I said to the waiter, one of your national dishes! Quelque B chose muture au pays etwas sehr spiral eie digte mi
tionale. You know how one goes on abroad.
After a time the waiter went away muttering to himself and came back with a cold fried chop and some doubtful salad.
I don't know whether this i indeed a Yugeavian national dish, 1 was only in Split for 24 hours, and never wish lo go back to find out.
Up to now I have always hal soft spot in my heart by Marshal Tite. Life, I told my- self, haya't been all hungy ad flowers for hin. All the Russians waiting to pounce, S this year thought Fd 16 1 Kr bathe in his bit of น Advinti, cat † few deliciou incats, listen to the band, Day
jew
souvenirs and generally FIVE him a helping herd and, some British travellers chetnes
Besides, the of my reliven used to be always popping over to Yaguzlavin to build a rout When she was a student,
1 queued.....
NEVER saw her road...out of finity loyalty I refuse to be- lieve it was the me over which we Sumped from the airport, but then i saw very little of the country during my twenty-four hour visit. Most the the wea taken o queueing to get away In any case 1 would have bad in join queue whatever Iract planned to do, and the 'one at the travel agency seemed the most rewarding at the pie.
I could have joined the queue (OT the pos Mec, the queur for the bank, the queue for the theatre (outdoor, incomprehen- sible, id on the night 1 was there cancelled), the queas for the railway station....
As you will have, gathered, 'there were a good many other people u Split besides myschi, and it is only fair to point out that most of them seemed to be
enjoying themselves hugely.
by ROBERT MORLEY
passport away as som as the lane touched down, then having serainble:t them and collected the passengers together in dingy azalting.rzem, encourageri them to fight each other in a wild struggle to get them back.
Passports become like drugs on these occźslons, and is a matter of life and death for their owners to possess them aguiu as soon as possible
We put up quite a good fight and 1 think even the poltecarin was anused when in elderly American lady had her hat knocked off and her glass broken la the melee.
The 43-
The drive to the city from the airport was standard. minute journey it always seems to take 45 minutes no matter where you land) was made. Jer
the usual enormous bus driven, too fast and on the wrong side of the road.
Dilapidated
that he just sat behind the desk becaus in Split that's the most comfortable place to be. In front of the desk you have to stand.
Long enough
TWENTY-FOUR hours is not very long to slay in a coun- try you want to get to know a valy well and be able to write about it. On the other havid I never understand pogle who pride themselves on not judging by appearances or not trusting their first impressions,
Nor 20 I subscribe to the theory that travel broadens the mind, it does, however, in my case loose the tongu
J ence stayed 98 hours in Bombay and occasionally sur- prise myself when 1 cm asked out to dinner and have had a
low drinks, by my grasp of India and all her problems.
This winter I shall expect to be asked out a good deal by those of my friends who are in- lerested in the Balkans and their problems, I am, alas no longe interested myself but shall do my best to satisfy their curiosity whenever D suitable full occurs in the conversation.
Wonderful
the way home from a wonderful holiday in Venice
I stopped for a day in Vienna. In the lobby of the hotel stood Bob Hope, "Come with me to the desk," I begged him, “while I try to get a room. Tell them T the alde of the road slot that I am a friend of yours." A the standard farm werkers. Mr. Hore agreed. Nearly all the balldings were dilapidated, and bore the single ception clerk, a room in your "Have you," I asked the re- legend Tito in white paint.
beautiful hotel?, I understand 'The land incked barren. In that my friend Mr Hope is host were no gipsies, no flowers, ne out at their meagre kick and "Is : Pentleman à friend of bands. On the other hand, there wondering presumably witcre You?" he replied, looking at were a great many pictures of their next Hatt was coming Mr Lope.
They will learn about isotopes HE directors and senior executives of ninny industrial
firms will be going back to clasaroom "lessons" from mult, but I was not one
I In sure it Was my own September 25-27 to learn about the uses of radio-isotopes. wan ali so very different from
T
them,
A special course has been arranged for them in the what I had tugined. There the fields old women sat staring comfortable here.". Isotope School at Harwell.
During the visit, the execu- elves will see the latest Hor- well reactors, including
Dido. where hundred of powerful Isotopes are produced for use by hospitals and industry.
The executives will also heår
Tito.
from.
All I know about him is that he cooks in his bedroom," said Mr Hope.
A foolish joice for which, he paid dearly, It was after two 'clock in the morning whide I
a talk on the economies of con- I found so peny identical
When we arrived in Split X verting an ordinary laboratory pictures curiously depremalog and was raining, and there were no so that it κάτι handle the longed to come across cic on taxls. It was bill raining when dangerous waste products of the which someone had seribled a 1 reached my Hotel bedroom, as atomic Industry,
moustache.
the lady upstairs, had let her finished telling him about Split.
They will tour the radiation Jaboratories at Wantoge 10 After viewing the latest f Because all men are equal bath water overflow and the watch experiments in the tise
experts except, suppose, the Marshal water wes pouring through the of highly radio-active materials handling equipment, for the
will ruswer questions from the the hall porter of iny hole was ceiling. irradiation of food, manufac- chemicals and other
executives on the best methods not in uniform but dressed like to use in their own businessES. trul nrttela
Safety precautions
In the Isotope School, lectures
in
will be, glyen ön safety precau- tlong which, are necessary handling isotope.
everyone.
Quiz Answers
else in singlet and The next morning there was He spoke irausera.
only one a large steamer in the harbour The course will close with a word of English and that word bound for Venice. It took some A's then say the expert you If your answers are, mainly full-scale discussion intó some
time to get my passport back are was naturally passport
Pylnic. of industry's problems and
predominantly the
collect ways In
Yugoslavs which Harwell's
passports from the hall potter, but Molnlý D'a-Asthenie. Mainly restarch
while most of their neighbours finally managed it. Ti decurred| CEZAthlette. meeting
The word test Teema, arè them.
collect hard cårrency. At the to me uter that perhaps he is based on vesearch Inia the —London Expreu Service).
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