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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1958.

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WORLD'S CRAZIEST SUBWAY SYSTEM

One Line Took 16 Years To Build,

And Goes Nowhere

By ERNEST SAKLER

Rome.

THE eternal city has just added a new line to the world's craziest subway system last week. It proudly links downtown Rome with a new cemetery.

The first Hoe, originally the way of Pinzza” DI Spagna planned

Dictator by

Benita and Piazza Del Popolo and help. Mussolin End! continued Egj ing drain traßle from the narrow democratic governments, took streets of old Rome. Experts 10 years and US$20,000,000 to considered it the only hope of build and toes nowhere. The averting a disastrous Jam dur- Italian state is now amending ing the Olymples. Transport that new by building something Minister Armando Antelini told at is for end.

the Chamber of Deputies in October, 1955: "It is absolutely urgent that we finish this line

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The second line, opened January 14, is not connected with the Orst. It runs from a in time for the Olympic Games secondary railway station to a of 10GO". poverty-ridden suburb

where f Last year, Angelini admitted

authorities are likewise build that there was little hope of ing something—a remetery.

doing so. Political wrangles in have held up the Parlament A third line, conaceting

funds rt. of the the allocation railway station with Olympic Stadium, is deßnitely quired, and the chances are the scheduled for construction-bui] line will be completed only completed long after the 1900 when the Olympics are a thing Olymples of which the stadium of the past.United Press, will be the main site.

Metropolitana

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The first line of the "Metro- politana" - a marble - gleruming tube allowing the sky-blue ang mouse-grey trains speed of 40 mphopened оп February 0, 1955, a bure 13 years too late for a world fair

Look place.

over

that never

The line was started as

white elephant of Benito Mus-

OUT

The Rock IN Dixieland

London.

solini to connect the main rail-DOCK 'N' ROLL is

way station with the site where

he intended to stage a

World

rapidly losing

Fair in 1842—that is, until he favour with the 5,000,000 decided to embark on a WORLD WAR Instead,

Construction of the line was held up first by the war, then

B

by series of archaeological discoveries, The workers dig ging the tunnel in the history- laden underground of Rome

people who go dancing. replacement: the Its stomping, slower rhythm of Dixieland jazz..

kept bumping into valuable The big Dixieland revival ruins and mosaics, and every began with teenagers In Jazz Lime excited achaeologists clubs. Now it has caught on dered them to stop work and

as the new eraze from Mayfair took over the shovels.

proties to madcap. all-night When the line was completed, dance sessions. Romans were exceedingly proud

and relieved, in their

It is the rhythm most re- paying capacity. The subwayquested by Princess Margaret was beautiful, fast and cheap. when she goes to private parties.

Besides,

was idcal

for And now that the Princess has couples. It look you out in a set the style, it has been taken mere 11 muutes to a lovely up by young socialites. meadow, with only sparse focks

tax-

of grazing sheep in sight, and It is the rhythm that was the background of undnished played non-stop for nearly nine white palaces of the world fair hours emerging from the green coun- Albert Hall, tryaldo like dinosaur bones,

Beach Resort

Last niner,

tracks new

Kne a train rurging out to the beach resort of Ostia.

were added for

But although great for per- sons wishing to make love or go swimming, the subway als absolutely nothing to case the chaotic trame jam in downtown Romic.

the Government Now decided that the only thing to

hae

recently in London's the home of "long-hair music. And 3,500 cool cats lived to it.

Reasona for the revival? Dixieland is easier to dance to because the beat is bigger, Rock 'n' roll lost its "kick" when it was reduced spectable, slow jive,

to a re-

WHAT'S A NAGGING?

What's

д

Leudon, nagging? Justice

do to improve the traffic chaos Sir Henry G. Willmer defined it

Here's Mud In Your Eye! Is The Human Race Going Crazy?

Mr Frank Edwards of Morden, Surrey, went through the centuries old initiation ceremony of be coming a Cooper at the Copperage, Anchor Brewhouse, Horsely Down, last week. The ceremony included being rolled in a barrel and being pelted with soot and ' mud by his workmates, who are seen hammering hoops into position.—Keystone,

Even The Birds

And The Beasts

Have Gone Mad

By ROBERT MUSEL

London.

Why should field mice ent the black keys of the church organ at Louth and not the white keys? For that matter why should the little feathered babbler of India fly around attacking the hub caps of automobiles?

The human race with its by the sparrows who merely Sputniks and inter-continental whip the head off the stalk and missiles has no monopoly on toss it contemptuously away.

the madness there days. Even lesser birds and beasts seem to have developed occentricities of their own, though weary of setting a good example for the lords of creation.

No Chords! Consider the

Case of AM Saints #orch et Louth Lincolnshire, Seated one day at the organ weary, as the old rong says, and ill at ease organist found himself striking not the "lost chord" but по chord at all. The black keys had been nibbled away.

the

It is so rore for birds to de- velop traits which seem to have no survival value that ornitho- logiste tre frank to call the flower ploking a "mystery": They are los baffled by the fact the Tit-lak has learned to recognise the milkman and will (10)

bottle top to gel Feck through at the cream if it is left within reach.

Milk, of course, Is a food. But why, say the ornithologists, should the Indian Babbler, the European Chanch and the African Wagtail attack suto- mobile hub. caps? There pre plenty of thearing, but no firm conclusion yet.

Intriguing

Food certainly isn't one of the reasoTIS,

Rov. J. LA Day was still wondering

tho at

peculiar palate of the local field mice when a letter arrived from King's Lynn in Norfolk porting that fleld mice there

"Anting" is another intriguing als were feasting on black or- gana keys. Now zoologists are bird practice. Normally certain trying to figure out what field birds roll in ant heaps or drop

anta

with on their plumage mice have against organ kay their beaks. This has been re- black onoa

to preening, or an effort la got garded in the past as an

rid of minuto

parasites,

While they are busy on this

Like A Duodenal. Ulcer Or A Bile-duct? intriguing study withologists

JEWELLERY GOES

ANATOMICAL

Monroe, Wis.

A company here makes jewellery that

is downright physical.

Dr Robert G. Zach of the he can't do too much work. He Medical Jewellery Co. turns out doesn't want to expand. cuff-links, le-bars and earrings Most of his customary are by hand, with designs of anato-medical men and his designs mical parts on them. The have to be up to smak. То hottest seller is the "gastro-meet the demands of persons Intestinal series with duodenal outside the medical profession, ulcer."

Available

Or, if you fancy bio-ducts and gall bladder, you can have them with or without stones. A red hot appendix, fractured femur, molar tooth with cavily and artificial

also are available.

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Dr Zach is a radiologist at the Monroe Clinic and he works continually with X-rays of common disorders. Kis designs are cut in plastic with a drill like that of a dentist and are almost anatomically perfect.

He has been at it so long that he now can cut out a Fornach on plastic without an X-ray model, but he usually has become hallowed in this works with an X-ray for the

IB muve the headquarters of in a divorce case last week. Government Ministries from the narrow downtown

streets

to the cuburban, fair grounds,

a word "Nogging La

and the subway finally looks court," he said.

which

Dr Zach has set up a company called, the Executive Club to make jewellery with company emblems and the like.

Popular Item

of

Another popular item jewellery in Dr Zach's stock is an artifcial eye key chain tie-clasp.

or

Dr Zach has an iden a day. Some of his most recent are n rabbit tle-clasp who want hare on their chest.

for persona

The work is every satisfying the doctor. All he hopes in Bat he doesn't get more business. He couldn't handle it-United Press,

Stunt Driver

Southend. Keith Prugneil, 33, was fined £25 and disqualified from

"It describes rake of art, He colours the consient criticism, complaints, jewellery, with white for the like serving an useful purpose, bickering, picking quarrels day main design and perhaps red The Foreign Trade Ministry

to the fair in, day out, month after month. for the ulcer or the appendia driving for a year after pollee has already moved

is jet black testified he had driven a car grounds, ard. five more minis. year after year, until the victim The background

tles are due to follow.

is physically worn out to the for contrast. detriment of his or her health."

with only three wheels more than 12 iller down busy

The second "ubway" line

Dr Zach started the work as highway. Inaugurated last Weck Was Willmer granted a divorce to a hobby during the war and created by simply widening at Conservative Party official, now employs nino personis at Pragnell, who pleaded guilty. existing long railway tunnel James Hankey on grounds his the jewellery company. All said he was drunk at the time rumming from the foot of the wife wouldn't stop nagging him. the work must be done by and hadn't notice the Pincio Hill, near Plazza Dc She denied it-United Prc89, hond to meet his standards, so wheel fall off-United Press. Popolo, under the swanky Paribi District and north to

is

the poor suburb of Prima Porta.

where the City of Rome building its now cemetery.

The cost of widening the tunnel, and building an in- termediate station in Parioli *was 500,000,000 ire. The "sub- way" servico- on this strictly local

12 temporarily operated by railroad trains.

FRANCI

lino

A Subway

The now and the old tines are about two miles apart

across

the busiest section of Rome. They will be lakes eventually.

‘THE INFANT HERCULES”

front

He Broke Out Of Two Strait-Jackets

Birmingham. Noah Turner, described in court as an "infant Hercules", was awarded £450 damages for being scalded in a hospital where doctors said he was so tough bo broke out of two strali-Jaskote.

Noah, now fivo, was 231⁄2 years old when he was

Soulded by boiling water after he kupoked over a steam kolila used to cam a bronchial condition.

His mother won an argument in court that the komedial stag should have, taken more care.

when the third, and only tho- | But She DonIIAI SIKIT SIgned that if anyone

portant, Ene of the subway. system is built.

T

The third line is scheduled to connect the railway station with Ân. Tr the Olymple Stadium north of the sky, passing byg

needed help, they àld.

Dr Joan Wright tesitñed that Nosh, “an- Infant

Meroutes and a terrible handful.””: difa's Lilon the lion of staying in a hospital vot. Ho ̈was so "restless" that he was Bus in a WÉOSICMI- ...ing bodies" and 13 was alespped to the bed.

The two-year-old. "holy terror" objected. A nurwo who left Nosh for a few minutes re- turned and found the jacket hanging empty from the oot. Noah was running around the hospital sorridors,

When he was caught he was given a medalive and put in a new restesiace. Nosh flaxed hly muscles and brako it, too.

That time, ha knocked over the stesen keitio

and sohlded himmel. D

Doctors bandaged bia wosida ami put him in splinta. But he didn't take kindly to that [ellhdr

*

He wriggled wuuf of the apƐlata kod polind mit the

“Thisɗagus.

Mirs Turner (MIR NAAN Bull's Senin Skreefing hin weight around in fauch, stnou hlasitos. When hill erwin up, he wasla ta deter )

are puzzling over the activities of the usually well-behaved English sparrow. Last summer the sparrow suddenly developed the habit of nipping the heads off flowers, mostly yellow ones.

No Method

Did

whitaker, an ornithologist, com- But recently Mrs L. M. plied all the reports the could and on the habit and it turned out, that binds not only use ente but sometimes cover them- selves with such odd items onion, mothballs, mustard, vine- gar, and hot chocolate,

There seems to be no method to the flower-picking. CroGERBS, Polyanthuses, Dandelions and

And one bird even dropped some hair tonic on his head.- Primueros have all been among the blooms plucked untimely United Press.

BEST LSmall

RESTAURANT

100 QUAER SURRE «CONDIT OKED

LADY BIRD NICHT CLUB

Open from 11.30 pm-2 kJ. Music by

FRANCIS & HIS TRIO

Arreando Santos (guitar) Brian Skinner (Bass)