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I know how the world will end

SAYS MR. HOYLE, THE SO-SERIOUS SCIENTIST

WHO WRITES FICTION FOR FUN.

ARED HOYLE stirred his coffee placidly and said:

this planet will come to an end." Cambridge's newest professor, and prime authority on Outer Space, was sitting with mo in a peaceful room in the university Senate House. An elderly don at a nearby table looked up sharply at his words.

"The sun will get bigger and bigger," went on Hoyle, "and we will get hotter and hotter, and eventually the sen will boil and the earth will just melt."

I sympathised with the elder-

ly don's uneasiness. A predle-

tion like this takes on an extra dimension of alarm When Fred Hoyle utters 11.

He is the sort of short, com- fortable fellow who what

anything nover, you feel, any

Just for effect. You remember that his father worked in the Bradford cloth trade, where the atmosphere discourages Bam- boyant talk. Ils own brillant an astronomer has career on never disturbed his level, steady Yorkshire necent,

He suon makes it plan that the modern astronomer has no need of flamboyance. And Hoy!c. who at 42 has just been appointed Professor of Astro- nomy

FRED HOYLE

Mare fiction if it rains

CHAPTER 1:

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1958.

Who is the world's most attractive man?

BUT FIRST LET'S CLEAR

A FEW OUT

OF THE WAY

S

INCE I began this delicious as- signment of track-

BEGINNING A THREE-PART INVESTIGATION

by Anne Edwards

So

much

attractive just more

went around, cocked an rough, rude, rye-on the-water- because he in lonely, exiled, and eyebrow at a girl and said front school of lovers.

ing down the world's

tentable egotism of men. When- most attractive men, I

over I put to a man the question have made several dis- "Who is the Most Attractive, coveries.

Man in the world?" nine out of equited than if (like most of "Well...."

the Rejected Suitors I've 10 of them answered with

known) focular assurance, "Me."

Immediately

I have found that high on other women's lists of charmers are dukes, Latin lovers and millionaires.

MY FIELD Purely personal

But not on nine. Among the ones I've met the Latin

are a shade too profes- HERE, then, is my field of luvers

onal, the millionaires are too contestants, selected from busy making money, and the famous men, assessed on their dukes are too damn dukely. public faces, rated on purely

personal reasons,

I have discovered that when I ask a girl who is the worki's most attractive man, a certain

he had settled down and happily with acother girl and become bis cx- girl friend's new boy friend's best buddy.

а

"Maybe he'll strike you" as Hlanche says in "Streetcar** "or maybe he'll grunt and kiss you."

I

BUSH ADONIS Mad about him

For me their attraction (and lack of it) is summed up in this

I

Drawa

by

ROBB

enormous

aperch made by Brando in the me. "is a combination of intelli- gence, humour, humility, senal- "I don't go in for tivity. And he has 'EITH MILLER (cricketer) same piny: ΚΕΙ

....devil-may-care, Peter Sellers. Included on my

virile, that stuff....complimenta

virniity.

terrific Ho has a list of seeded players because uu-bronzed Adonis from the women about their looks.

never met a woman that didn't variety of interests. He is never

dull. When he is bored he is. Included in my "at be- he has the golden gift of making bush.

Because he did Ave cause 99 girls

know if she was good looking or emetimes withdrawn, Boma- out of 100 are me laugh,

nut without being told....and mes pallte, sometimes elegant 30- swift impersonations in

some of them give themselves

Ky tuch.” ininute interview. Because he mud about him. blushed when told he was on

credit for more than they've got. Counted out, because I am the once went out with a dame the list, but recovered quickly,

profile, hundredth

who said, 'I am the glamorous turned a Humlet-like

"Milligan will

typa, I am the glamorous type and remarked:

Nye Bevin. Magnette. Mag- I said, 'So what? » be mad when he hears about

shade 100 nificent. Maybe a this."

portly..

Oh, dear. With this paragon around L suspect I'd spend all my time being withdrawn, palke or elegantly rude.

ut Cambridge, is the beginning to get scientific sanc- modern astronotnor in essence: a tion. Hoyle knows about science; working-clues boy who, power- netion; he passed a recent wel ed only by his own brains, has

Group Captain Peter Towns by writing u soared to the scientiße strato. summer holiday

end. Every woman's romantic scientific thriller called The handful of famous nunes crops ideal of the Rejected

Suitor. sphere.

Black Cloud. It was full of

up every time.

A couple of weeks of these

I'd Dominle you know who, Gay, "Perhaps by the time life dramo and

had Impenetrably But when it comes to the Handsome, debonair, suff upper

covemen passionate

But Impossible here," he learned

Regretfully I disqualified him bccamen

footnotes containing runners-up,

is lipped one girl's man

and reticent, he utters

Marlon Brando, He's on my be falling for....Cary Grant, good looking, determined.

Somehow I'd never get it sold,

win be equations. He means, to write another girl's

recriminating word, because he says "I used to send human beings

polson-as you nut

of seeded

clean, contestants Courtly,

impeccably no. nukes not one indiscreet flowers and go down on my lirt able to migrate to another part some more, probably when the will soon see,

and dressed. "My out of my head that if he cared But I've given it up because he's a splendid exponent mamered

me All that much hò of the solar system. They may holiday weather 19 Gullable

And I have discovered afresh remark, and pushes off to shoot knees.

because I noticed that other men (ke Frank Sinatra) of the husband," Mrs Cary Grant toid for

wouldn't have put me through aliandon the earth, and live on again,

the limitless, denied, but un- lions.

the hoop. an artificial planet,"

Well, if the world is to end,

Hoyle's wife, in a fluffy bluc hat, joined us with an armful

not with a bang, or a whimper, of shopping and news of their but a

colossal bendre, what 18-year-old son, at school at

on other planets? Bryanston about life

"He's just got into Modern astronomy Is in step the second boat," she reported," with science fiction hoce. "I "which is a great thing.""

think it would be extraor-

dinarily surprising If there The

professor registered

were no other planets with the approval, then switched back to

on them." There may

even be his

milions of them.

own form of transpori, vehicles "There will be little sniffing around in space within

"That

As for the form of life that 10 years," he predicted. Not though, means, most probably, creatures with people in them,

human beings. rather like

150, may take 50, or don't think it is possible

Mrs Boyle began to call years." produce the thing we call study the trapeze tine In n intelligence without a nerve newspaper.

sald system,"

Hoyle. "That a head, or something means like it, to protect the nervous Eystem. Eyes confer such pu advantage that you can't leave thers out, And already you ore beginning to get close to what we are like."

Hoyle's "tle space vehicles") will be a big advance en w Sputniks, They will be able to cruise where directed and railo

accounts of back

what they find.

at least the Bug-eyed John Thompson

Or Monsters of

lurid Action

are

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AUDI ARABIA to- day is a country in delirium the de- of vast riches, lirium newly won prosperity, growing prestige, and the heady prospect of a future in which "nothing can stop us."

French

by René MacColl

REPORT ON HIS STAY WITH FABULOUS KING SAUD

desert people

and

there aro Bo taxes J my £200,000 In his Riyadh palace kind. An uncilled work is accepted without comment by man gots £1 a day. A sidlled his subjects, man starts at 28 daily.

Petrol for that air-conditioned, two-tone Cadillac is about 10d. # galloo. And the trains, oh traveller from afar! To the Saudis planes are boring neces- sities. But trains are a gleaming glampoo of real luxury.

The train runs from Riyadh for seven hours over to Dahrun, across the all centre. I

Restless

Orson Welle.. Magnetie, Mag- n19cent. Maybe a shade too purtly.

Fuches and Hillary --the intrepid explorere, the strong, silent leaders, the unemotional monosyllable heroes.

Yes, yes, I know. But all that controlled feeling can be a bit bleak. Listen to their words at moments of high emotion, At the meeting in the Aretle wastes

"Damn glad to see you, Ed," "Hullo, Bunny" At the moment of conquering Everest. "Hurray:"

They even get their women- Sold folk doing it in the end, Sir John Hunt's wife at her, Arst

meeling with her husband after four dangerous months away: "Darling; your nose is peeling." Sir Robert Boothby, Magnetic. Magnificent. Maybe a shade too portly.

Jack Hawkins. His kind of man is tummed up in this sen- "He is good in the tence: clean-living Englishman tradi- tion--they keep in training, wash hehind the cars, never hit below the belt."

But alas, this sentence wAI by George Orwell wheeling, frco-spending, sucking the schoolboy heroes

the midst of this froe-

at-nothing whoopdedo, two things are giving a amount of pause.

•

of the Gem and Magnet, and certain that's exactly why this type is

not for me.

First of all, the Nasser-Syria received is an hook-up, which was

the

печу broke

englucers have dia thrust a a water deposit. 1,500 ecveral nturies in 10 years you aluminium diesel-powered job. with obviously mixed feelings Ten short years ago the covered most precious gift which yards beneath the sand which obviously find yourself a bit And it costa you only £3 10s, when

is popularly reputed to be "six short of civil servants, Umes as great us Lake Geneva."

you

21 could present to

in friend here

Jeddah (population 200,000

and still rising) was a jar of

drinking water.

Feverish

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almost

Shadow

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for the 500-mile trip in air Rlyndh conditioned, one-class, deep- cushioned coaches

Propaganda

from

Mike Todd. Rich, dynamic, brash, tasteless. Like all good American husbands ha is lavish

in with his money and mean with

his time. He'll neglect you- and load you with diamonds. For hours on end the radio carried the triumphantly He'd buy you the world, and it hystorical broadcasts of the would be the wrong colour. "anschluss"

Cairo, strident-voiced orators, crowd- It's a good fault, mind. I like man who says: "I didn't I WARMLY respond to two

know there was any other fur about the Saudi thboga

"hymn of but mink," I'd like him more if Arabiano-1. Their pride in victory," sung apparently by a he stopped to think that subles achievement,

2. Their mixed Egypuan-Syrian cholr. sult me better. enthusiasm.

Saudi officials seemed restless Right now they are full of and their

now radio alation,

and

a background sounds, and all

Then came

T

reassurances

10

And although money › con-

DEBONAIR And arrogant

That is how it came about that when the other day, I sat chatting with four men in the office of one of Saudi Arablo's top public health officials, to found myself talking Ten years ago mud-walled A unimaginably

Indian Palestiniani, Jeddah and mud-walled Arabia, suddenly bestowing on

so many Egyption, and a Syrian. were this land, which for Riyadh, the capital.

sullenly practically as they were in the silent centuries was a

Syrians and Egyptians are days when King John reigned in unattractive siding of history.

the twin blessings of oil and everywhere in the more desir England.

able jobs. And in the working water.

of thes

It picamure. at the now БУСТО force you

find scores

be ready in about two unconvincing. But as you talk to your Arab thousands of Yemenis, who are will

pass yeare time and will be able to friends in the midst of the welcomed here without

rench all parts of the world- Britain Included It will be tinues to pour out from the POSTSCRIPT from Kingsley

Amis, NOW the country is going blading blage of spending that ports or fuss.

called "Radio Mecca," a pro American-run ofields, all is not Jini," and an expert like his author of "Lucky roars ahead so turlously, there modern at an

paranda touch of unmatched too well with Saudi desperate pace a feverishe just one thing that you must

It is never say.

altraction for the Moslem Anances.

hero at pulling funny-faces. swoop to do everything, be

The most attractive man in- everything, and get everything beginning: "But If...

around Jeddah at that other nations have and are, Undoubtedly

Arab DRIVE your

the world," he said. "must he night it is a weird ex-

а and imperturbable. in a Germana and overy task dotull

md: my. When the Americans' hit ail friends will have thought of it

for themselves. It is not a sub- perience. You seem to be

is de being broodingly taken care

arrogant, debonair near Dobran,

ject on which I wish to dwell badly bombed town which Persian Gulf coast, the country a tiny shadow creeping across being rebuilt at maniac spood, of (including special advisers YES, too much has been when he mecis a girl he must The give the Impression that ba is has over-extended running the whole shoot. Ho stantly took off on a swelling the present sunlit scene of un- Here and there cloaked figures from every one of the various attempted flood of black gold. And today limited well-being. No, let us sit at pavement tables sipping Mostem countries, to ensure that country

soft all is tactful and all dialects are itself, and the king is rumoured takes her away from the party refrigerated

to be one or two years ahead of by saying: other our attention to turn

entored for).

We're going now?? drinks.

bis oil royaltics. mafters.

She says: "Where" He says; Nobody makes too much of Detroit's fucst 'cars filter past this point out loud, but

You'll see [algnificant pause). And that brings us back to the you'll like it." when As you drive away from Riyadh Airport you are bowling in the dust and debris-Cadil Radio Mecca gets into action it little shadow his along a four-laned super-high lacs, Buicks; Chevvice, Fords, will completely blanket Nasor's munsidine and that, "but it." way which thrusts proudly Studebakers, and Dodges.

Voice of the Arabe programmie acroce 15 miles of former desori.

from Calro..

the

waler lows from tops in Jeddah, and Over

in Riyadh

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"

Weird

American

Beautiful jobs, if a irido-large

Budience.

the It is being built by

But if...

et

Arabia's

Doc.

the desert

shnde

Then Mr Amis pulled his Ith another 10 or 20 years Must Attractive Man in the nuclear eneČKY developments World Face Imperturbable and On each side of this boulevard for the "soul" most of the The now radio station will be start making back numbers of a shado arrogant, debonair and hugo now buildings are rearing core are alr-conditioned too, owned by King Saud as in the world's great ofifolds.... up to completion the Govern- But, impeding these glittering everything else is this coumlay. ment Ministries of tomorrOW.

I tint pocket of water dia- anomaleem as Overy turn are the The king, who, is approachable reminders of yesterday. Henna by the humbirst of his subjects covered under Ilyadh petora But straightaway a problem is dyad donkeys, Backs of gosta when her mis in, the maket out and, no more fa found. posed big Deva, Yes, you have scrawny paltio, and. pack of place to listen to complaints, What thent ample funds for pulling up ugly-gyod dogs, wailing moun- owna ovkyihing la mette glorious now buildings. But who fully. lig going to a stati

guy.

thoma

Ministries? How many qualified 'HospitalearO mus have you gott for it you boya ang pald

Today Saudi ⠀ Atabla : ridon "king, bigh ́und handsome, The fact that the free, school installed a multi-toned air

conditioning willis cost'n rugsİNCİ

But tomorrow?

"It's not me," he said.

TOMORROW

The short