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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1958,

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The men at the top need a month off a year

46CMOKED salmon - to start with, of course. Then what about. the mixed grill? They, do an absolutely enormous one in Britain. Crepe suzette? Any particular kind of brandy old boy? And a elgar?"

-SAYS THE PROFESSOR WHO IS FINDING OUT WHY BUSINESSMEN BREAK DOWN:

ant factor in causing strain on themselves and others.

Some mea are well able to work at a tremendous rate. They are lucky. But they set a pack which their fellow executives cannot maintain. These, in turn, feet that if they do not keep up they are letting the.frm down- and this causes worry.

Thus the sound, heard in expensive restaurants through out the land, of the Business Executive in action for the greater glory of his firm, and hia expenses Account. Tho business lunch has became as Some do their best work just Indispensable to commerce after waking up. They find the typewriter, and telephone, creative activity comes eaully in It is an acknowledged recipe for the morning, and purely routine saccess,

businem, ke answering letters 14 best left Ell later.

WORST HIT What is not so often realised by the participants, however, is thal il may sometimes be an Ingredient 122 the recipe er coronary thrombosis,

Up Manchester University, Professor Ronald Lane is groutly concerned not only with the effect of the business tunch bui the entire mode of living and working conditions of business ; executives, and their effect on tealth.

He points to statistics which suggest that the incidence of enronary diseuse among men in top jobs is greater than that of their wives and other males.

By JOHN WATERMAN

Other men are the reverse. And some like to do all their "thinking" at home and leave routine to the offter.

Professor Lane thus lays butu a disturbing bituation in in- dustry. What are his remedies? He says the, executive should; Avoid over-eating, over-enter *It Important," says Pro-taining, and getting overweight, fessor Lane, "to shake allowances Take regulae, gontie exercise. for these differences, No one Have

interest outside jus should force himself to try to work.

himsolí work in a way that la suil Know

and regulate habits of work in relation to himself and others,

E personally." says Pro- fessor Lane, "And that I tend to get slower as the day P:D- able, Above all he should not Bresses."

drive himself when fired."

NENU

The business lunch is it killer

Avold driving himsel

overtired,

when

And firms should: Lay down rules for travel und Inist on them being observed. If att executive. Illex 10 America. ho should return by sea or take the equivalent time off immediately. Give at least a month's holiday

to management.

Why be surprised if a

IT'S

T'S happened-ne it was bound to happen in the end. Prime Minister. Noon of Pakistan has launched a bitter, angry attack upon Britain,

Professor Lane says that various fuels imply but the difference is due to the way of What has made this devoted Ife of men In this important { friend of Britain, who has re- group. For the past two years (mained loyal for so long, sud- at the Nuffleld Department et derly swing round. Love, they Occupational Health he ho say, is very near, to hate. We been studying the problems of have given Mallie Firoz Khan executives' health, to find how Noon. much for which to best it can be looked after, hate us and very little for

zobering and which to love us. He hus some provocative observations make on the subject..

friend FINALLY loses patience

Time and gain Noor has Kashmir. cume to London to ask one ting in his

AND HITS BACK?

I remember him alt- manner-everythlog about him has

sulte at Claridge's is allen to passionate violence.

"We have held this position de long no we can--but the prople will not stand it for much longer. If we do try to hold it for much longer we shall- risk our lives,"

phrases

beers sencing formidable supplies of arms to Nehru,

soon have no friends at all,

So little is asked and It is in

Sitting back at his desk in the Clinical Sciences Building' mens- Manchester Royal In3rmary Pro- faced, silver-haired figure, look- fessor Lane is a handsome, pink- ing forward, after the affice to gardening, golf And the net fishing holiday in Derbyshire.

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"Too many senior people," De says, have to ent and drink thung--that Britain should sup- and aoying with passion: "Your their way to success. They have port the undoubtedly Just Government Just does not It has taken the indifference The only power against whom ONE could go on through the Coronation Glory to entertain too much-certainly claims of Pakistan in the Kash- understand-this is, a matter of of successive British Covers. those arms could conceivably be ference, and fally culminating in it's Fun Finding Out 2nd, series:

long list of neglect, indif-King George VI.. this applies to the smaller of mir dispute. Each time the life and death for us, And I ments lo tur this man to used is Pakistan. our industries-to have lunches British Government has adopted mean just life and death,

that might well be

the fantastic stupidity of the (Bernard Wicksteed). and dinners they don't wont.un attitude of chilly indifference

The lesson is obvious. Unless European Free Trade area plan. Express Annual (1957) expected from Nasser "the Britain makes it really worth If this process continues, then. They over-ent- and get over-holding that in a dispute he-

called Commonwealth which is while to be her friend she will intleed the whole Commonwealth Report Annual 1957-8 weight,

tween members of the Com-

hended by Britain.

and Empire will disintegrate. Rupert Magazines monwealth Britain cannot joke

Ten Points About Pearls sicles.

Prime Minister- Macmillan our own interests lo give so has toured the Commonwealth. Peints on Judging Jade.. much.

Outline Reflof Map of China'

.. Asia. As he spoke those last words THE story of Hashmir is long

Onc

senior member of the tospired by what he found,

S.E. Asia Noon drew one of his square, and complicated. It was a present Government onco powerful

Giles Annual (1957)' across his State that was ruled by Hindus sneered at

"It is no. usc me: throat. And High Commissioner though the vast majority of the the Beaverbrook Press being He should turn that inspira Hong Kong Business Symposium: Jkramullah nodded agreement. prople are Moslems,

mare. Empire-minded than the tion into deeds, before other

On' Sale At. Empire."

good friends, become as em-

"Many of them, in addition, are completely without exercise, and one thing we do know about coronary is that lack of exer- cise plays a definite part.

. But as Noon asked angrily time after time yhat .was "Too often a man's day con-India's contribution 10 the sists of this: he creeps out of Commonwealth cause? hed. has breakfast and gets straight into his car which in During the great Suca crisia all probability is in a garage in the United Nations who fermented trouble for attached to the house. To actually

Protessor

Lane is a cons cerned with the mental as with the physical strains that make executives candidates

nervous breakdowns,

for

Let down

hands

Let down

+

over the partition of

Ife reported back that he was

drives to the offles, is chair-Britain among the Afro-Asian The comfort of Claridge's When Lord Mountbatten pres borne there all day, and drives bloc members? Krishna Menon, seemed strangely Inappropriate sided

It is true, of course, that as Noon, back. It is just nsking for India's representative and a as a buckground for this flash India, Kashmir wa provision a result of years of Indifference trouble."

Cabinet Minister 1:2 Nehru's of passion.

ally joined to Nehru's India on by successive Governments Government,

the strict understanding that many

Empire ties have THEY TRY TOD MUCH

For Noon is pre-eminently a plebiscite would be held to been drastically weakened. But civilised man. He was up at allow the people to decide for that is no excuse to allow the Wadham College, Oxford, He themselves.

krocess to continue, was called to the Bar. As servant of the old! Indian But Nehria is 2 Kashmiri I was no excuse for eald- Tthe United Nations, as else Goverrument he served on the Brahmin. No picbiscite has shouldering Prinic Minister- where, Britain could always Viceroy's Council and was been held...despite all the John Diefenbaker when he He blames the modern pace nf

of the business life for extra stress any upon the understanding of rewarded with knighthoods in resolutions

United come to Lendon nglow with the Because of Im-the Pakistan Government. But it the orders of the Star of India Nations. And Nehru's India prospects of Britain and Canada management.

was obvious that this altuation and the Indian Empire. proved

now holds nearly alt Kashuntr murching side by side into. a transport, particularly

by force of arms alone.

Prosperous future. Of course, flying, executives may, tend to was not going to last for ever,

Loyalty is only sustained by In the last days of the war he

the set themselves

eventually

Government schedules, get tired, and state fell over the years that he was the Wor

thought loyalty and Noon increasingly, was India's representative ois

And The country is under military made the right noises, Cabinet. His novel, occupation. Reporters who are they put Diefenbaker in an result,

being let down.

"Scented Dust," la considered likely to be hostile to the Nehru impossible position with "A man

to give a fine picture of rural regume and it During

dmcult if not Canadian Free Trade, plan. one of Our many life in the Punjab, meetings in the last five years

intpossible to get into the. country at all to report what I was no excuse for doing Whenever It

possible is going on.

sole for the New Zealand Noon Travels with his wife,

trade delegation when they the former Elizabeth Rikli, a

us come here a year ago,

New Zealand are

flies to America, spends three hectic days there, flies back, then goes straight into the office to write up his re-

Noon, poured out some of the I think this is just anguish he felt, poris. medness."

The executive's own methods He had tried In at work may also be an import- Į enlist British support

valn

ول

To make natiers worse,

the

The

to beautiful and talented Viennese, Noon complained in his speech fanners over His background, his, tastes, his at the week-end. Britain hurt and angered-but it is still

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