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All in a Doctor's Day-by CEDRIC CARME

DON'T BE HAUNTED

A

BY THIS SHADOW

RE you afraid of having a chest X-ray? Afraid that the doctor will say: "You have got T.B"? Despite the fact that pulmonary tuberculosis is no longer the drend disease it once was, tell a patient he has a shadow on the lung and he goes pale. Tale as snow-faced Mr Peake who now sat opposite me.

I almost wish, I never went

to that mam X-ray unit now," he suid,

Mr Peake had never had a

day's illness

So it was like

throwing leed water in his face

when he wYNA

Hadow.

"There

bre

told about the

shadows and

shadows," I explained.

"Same

do represent tuberculosis, others only a cold that's gone on to the chest or something of that sort,

Even if it did represent TB. the chances were that it was not in an active state. Hundreds of thousanida hove scars on their Jubgs as a result of an old T.B. infection These are no more significant than a sear, say, on a leg caused years before by a fall.

THEY DON'T KNOW

Can the camera lie?

Belter

vaccinated against it. housing conditions also, and muss radiography have played or. Important part. Yes, Mr Peake was wise in going along to that mobile X-ray unit.

"You think everybody with a cough should go?"

Mr Peake asked.

Sometimes lung tuberculosis leads to a cough or to log of weight and tiredness. But people don't realise

that

they

may

have no symptoms of all and yet have a patch

"What

on their lungs.

Most people do not know they hove such lung scars. Like Mr Penke they have never had any That is why everybody should thing worse than a hangover or an odd cold. But one of those have an occasional chest X-ray. about radiation from colds, in fact, was more old

X-toys?" Mr Peake then they realised. It probably these represented a minimal T.B. asked. The

sunount el radiation infection which the body over-

frem routine X-rays This resulting came, leaving the scar. scur on an X-ray would be des of the chest is so small that cribed as "a shadow on the there are no, adverse. effects. One might as well worry about lung,"

the

from radiation received

"If It's merely a scar, why have they asked me to come gazing at TV sets. buck for another X-ray in a few months' time? Don't tell me that it's just because of my dynamic personality," Mr Peate sald.

Doctors may believe that the epaque shape on the X-ray look. like a sear. But they want to make certain that it belinves like a sear niso. The best wily to do this is by taking another X-ray at a later date. When the two nims are compared the opaque shadow, if a scar, will look the sume on both X-rays.

THERE FOR LIFE

"Like scars anywhere else on the body, they remain for life, more or less unchanged-and of no consequence," I said.

Even if a shadow proves lu be active tuberculosis there ly no need to panic. These days drugs like streptomycin elve the T.B germs knuckleduster uppercuts and the infection is soon knocked out. It is not for nothing that T. B. specialists are twiddling their thumbs and the beds in sanutoriums ar! selvol getting as empty us a playground on a Sunday.

"I suppose that's because people are cured much note quickly now," Mr Peoke said.

"Yes," agreed, "also many patients with active T.B. need not be treated in hospital anv more. They can be given tablets to take while they carry on a more normal life."-

those

Another reason for

is that those beds empty musceptible to T.B. can now be

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/ THE CHINA MAIL,

HIS name is Freddy Page. At 33 they made him chief engineer in a large airplane factory.

Today, at 41, he in giving Britain ils Intest wonder of the air-the RAF's new P1 jet fighter.

He is the man who evolved the banle design by which the P1 burate through the sound barrier, and then leaves it far behind at speeds of more than 1,200 miles an hour.

Freddy Page is just one of the people I have been hearing about in surveying this New Age of Opportunity and the dazzling now deciding prospects it offers young men

on carcert.

He is high nong the stars in a brilliant team that surrounds Sir George Nelson, ercator of the modern English Electrle Co. Many other names sparkle there, too,

There is Arthur Sintor, who runs the group's guided missile factories at Luton and Stevenage, where the Thunderbird ground-to- nir weapon is being turned out for the Army and RAF.

SAME STORY

Sintor wok charge of the projeel when he was only 37.

is his special Ils production achievement.

In another great engineering. enterprise the General Electric Сон headed by Mr Leslie Gamage, the story is the same.

Robert Millor, tall, quiet, and confident, is 37.

But al- cody he has had the job of planning a power plant.

£40 million A-

And in a few days he takes over as general manager of one of GEC's biggest engineering works.

Even younger is the com- designer. pany's chief turbine He is John Mitchell, who is 31. In the old, alow-moving days a man rose to the tup by a long

of

and Indder

experience

дет senjority. Today he can there at least 15 years earlier.

the Gomage, Listen to Mr GEC chief: "We are in a young man's paradise with so many new ideas and products to be developed.

"Look at the average age of my company's team of atomie

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958.

How to 'hit top' before hitting 40!

Relentists. It is not much more thun 30"

And to Sir George Nelson, whose English Electric, besides producing serepianes and guided also building the weapons, is world's biggest A-power plant:

DAZZLING PROSPECT

"The prospects held out nuclear

ord engineering the other new nolds opening up betere us is dazzling."

by ail

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most

Like all our big industrialista technical In this increasingly age, Sir George and Mr Gamage are eager to recruit the right sort of brains for their organisa

tiona.

While today's young "star" shine in

find factories

Their

officer, they are spending large

guma

to make sure that the stars of tomorrow will be ready when needed.

In both the GEC and English Electric groups, for example, than £1,000,000 is being more spent each

on training your schemes,

This year Phglish Electric has also lauingred a new scheme for university scholarships.

DOWN WITH THE

ENTERTAINMENTS

TAX

ANNA NEABLE

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by ALEXANDER THOMSON EVENING STANDARD CITY EDITOR

packet.

It is offering the bright boys trainees co the £600 pay from school three-year scholar

to shilps worth £450 a year train for jobs in the company.

Says Sir George "The future Britain can prosperity of only be assured if many of our most able. boys seck careers in engineering."

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During the Easter holidays the first batch of boys will be Interviewed for the new scheme and 20 selected.

MORE NEEDED

The lucky ones will study for honours degrees in engineering. applied science, mathematics "or any other subject

relevant to the advance of technology."

Afterwards they will do a

on

two-year graduate apprentice-

with the company ship solaries of £600 a year.

So oh each boy Engilsh Elec- tric is prepared to stake but

£2,000 of its own money.

In a variation of the plan the boys can spend one year us ap- prentices on £5 17s. Od. a week l the age of 18, followed by the three-year university course and then another year as graduate

JR SALPH KITSARVSEM

You have got to be good, to win a scholarship like this. And it is not only brain power the company, is looking for.

TEAMWORK NEEDED

It also acts great store on character and personality. For the daye when you put a "boffin"

31 a backroom and forget about him have gone.

Technical development is now EO wide and varied that it has become more a matter of leam work than ever before.

Thus in most of companies 11

the General Education exam.

Certificate of

Then they allernate between the company and approved. colleges of advanced technology for their training, getfing weekly pay packets rising from £6 plus to something over the £0 mark.

Says Mr Gomage: "In the race to the top in future, the Dip- loma Technology men will be level-pegging with those who have a University, degree.”

FREDDY PAGE

at 33 they made him He belleves that, in вате

chief engineer, respects, the Dip. Tech. "sand- wich men" may even have an physicists and the like are wo advantage.

They will have in danger of having too many great all-round spent more time in industry, them? qualities they are after. They which should help them in pro-

our

Leslie Gamage, GEC also awards and 30 university

for

can

OUTPUT DOUBLED Back to Sir George for a word on that.

Nelson

He points out thai In Britain

want the knack of leadership as duction and design jobs. well as know-how.

And,

they of course, Mr

membership of whose quality

professional bodies - between 20 the scholarships A.MI.Mech.E, and the like-in we are turning out every year technologista for every university 120

1,000,000

In of population. Russia the corresponding figure

better

..

a year, makes an important the same way as point for the boy who is not graduates.

I have even heard it sold that la 220. lucky enough to try for a de- gree.

boys now being recruited by As a complement to univer- Industry for Dip. Tech. coursca sity training he sets great look like providing store by the new Diplomas of material as future leaders than Technology which you can earn some of those coming

ko-epited · on the

"sandwich" universities.. courses.

And that by big firms who These are where boys or kept an eye on such things. young men start off with With such a scramble, gokig advanced level qualifications in on for engineers, scientists,

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London Express Zerot

UP COUNTRY by THURLOW CRAIG,

Rex is so choosy when it comes to cleaners

Rored in mature expression of purest bliss, while the vacuum cleaner was EX, the mastiff who loves television, lay on his back on the sofa with his eyes carefully run over every inch of his body. And my thoughts flashed back the events of the morning.

With a cruelly cold east wind that had lasted for days, I should have known better, but we needed a fish,

so I had sailed forth to concentrate on the stern" mechanical details of get- ting a good one.

But after an hour's fruitless flogging of the best pools, I put rod and waders under a bush, where they would be safe from inqulative cows, and did countless other unsuccessful anglers have done since immemorial,

CO

tume

I wended my way to the vill ago ale-house to make up for my failure on the river by aking a measure of beer.

Little change

of

The men-folk close-herded valley their stock in the lush below, always ready to retreat up the hill,

On the highest peak above our house there used to be another constantly-alloided post, while a few leagues further west was yet a third, called to this day Boundary Castle.

AVDE

Д

from

doubled our output from the In the last 10 years we have

universities. If the Russians are right in assessing the needs of the future, we hall have to double it agula.

For in this new Age of Op-

co widely spread. portunity the opportunities are

-{London Express · Service).

SUNSHINE FUEHRER!

by CHRISTOPHER DOBSON

HAVANA, CUBA. twice in 10 yards in the foyer But the Cubans are well used THE sun shines on Cubn, of the Riviem because he was to terror.

Rivas, who helped Dominic Elver's run- dway marriage 10 Tessa Kennedy, is extremely wealthy.

but terror stalks the crying a brown-paper parcel.

Jorge Tho watchers thought It was a streets. American tourists Molotov cocktail. It was, in plan gamble in thousands of fact, a bottle of Scotch. dollars at the sumptuous Havana casinos, and 100 The Hilton Hotel people are His father, a senator, is politi- yards away another name tacular

considering cancelling the spec- cally powerful. They belong to

opening of their new the Cuban aristocracy. less, riddled body is dumped hotel. It is possible the rebels in, a dark alley.

may take this chance to stage a large-scale Fanglo-type

de-

But all this avails Jorge noth- ing when the terror begins to

Beaten up

The sugar workers go peace monstration and kidnap some of stalk Cuba. fully about their work singing in the film stars-if they are brava the- felds and wake next--enough to go. morning to find a row of bodies swinging damply in the dawn breeze from a tree branch.

Smell of fear

10-dollar stenka.

The locals smile cynically

that it

ary

about this hotel, pointing out ORGE shrugs his shoulders

is unfortunately aited, almost next door to the closed a change of Government I go and say: "Whenever there is down Havana University, the to prison with the rest of my space from which the students

Jamily. There is nothing to it, Castro's loyal supporters-- It is automatic." launch their demonstrations,

·MERICA'S leading cabaret

Once he was arrested, boaten Castro has no wish to harm up and then rolled around his Hotel while the customers eat any such injury will bring the ketchup.

American he knows that cell noor and covered in tomato Wrath of the American Govern- Eddic, was brought in to look His younger brother, But let one of those customers ment about his head but what at him lying there and was told walk out of the front door of a templation it will be to carry he was dead. the Hillon and cross the road off some of the people who are juht 25 yerda awzy and a flood- expected, people light will snap on, machine Miller, Cornell Vide, gun will be almed, and a polite Murray, Hope Lange,

Brid Anna but cold voice will say: "Excuse Ellen, me, tenor, but will you please Alberghet!! walk on the other side of the street,"

For the Riviera's neighbour Is a barracks-a barracks fearful of attack,

like

Whispers

Anne Eddie was then put on a plane Don for Miami, hut just befong the Vera plane left his cuptors inflicted Maria the final degradation on him.

They cut off his trouser legs at the thigh and then sent him. fying off, terrifled, in the ragged remnants of his trousers.

That is the way they play it in Cubs-rough,

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RUT this is only the froth of

Just ag 20ugh

the Each day the terror grows,

the terror. The casunt

gangsters who have moved Ins the imperious each day the tall of the deed visitor does not really see much from America to take over the Then I heard barking of a dog, followed by a mounts, and the smell of fear trouble. That is played out gambling casinos. But they girl's voice raised in protest. I hangs heavy over Cuba.

quickly and quietly, perhaps don't really matter in this story. asked what was amiss.

They They support Batista. have to, for Castro has promised to make an example of them if

"It's only that fool Rex," was the reply, "he won't let her start cleaning the carpets until she's done him first. Go and see."

Scandalised

The whole lehand has become with a mudden rattle of gunfire

with battleground,

rebel in the jungle and canefields, and a

alleys of the old leader Fidel Castro renching eat the darkt. in the night from his jungle Spanish towns. stronghakl to bring death and A rigid censorship has been ho comes to power. They will destruction to dictator President clamped down on Cuba's papers. Batista's friends and supporters. They carry

So far the lush tourist hotels troubles.

no

Dut it of the

fee before then.

Castro doesn't really maiter. Is a worthless Neither docs Batista. They are the news flies almost symbols. The revolution- I took my mug into the back have remained as an oasis of consorship: room and there was Rex being rather sandid peace in a desert round Cuba in quiet whispers ary leader who could ao caslig change into a dictator, And the vacuumed by the daughter of of destruction. True, the cebels and grows and grows..

dictator' who rose to power Two bodies found in Santiago through an army 'coup. the house. When he decidedį kidnapped Faralo, but what a that his under-side was clean gentlemanly` kidnapping.

he

Whisky.

thai

Most

become 200, a brush between he rolled over and presented.his

army and rebel patrols becomes. Their places, could be Alled glossy back. Once she made as

a fill-scale battle.

from atty -South American though to leave him, but jumped to feet looking

The people listen to these country a dozen times over, As I walke 1 thought

scandallsed, indicating os clear-

Tumour and look at tho- quarria The revolutions, I wonder if posted, round Batista's preal- ly as anyone could that she had is only a matter of time, dential palace in their sand- Cubans like. Rivas shrug and those ancient anglers and the

Tolly matters. changes they would see, could

forgoltn his head and neck.

however, before a tourist gets tagged machine-gun emplace- xay:" Probably it never was a castle

*A revolution is the only they return to the valley on this

Finally, reluctantly, he ap-

Nearly everyone was burt.

inments, and watch the polles way we ever got a bitter day in the Ides of March. but just an outport where

change of peared to ogrco that ho

gangs of students, Government." kept. But fundamentally our natures continuous watch

clean enough. He lumbered Havana seems to carry a gun in beating up

his waistband, but again they hear shola in the night, and the and our habits have hardly And in case of alarm the three down off the solo, pleked up his

extranoly gentlemanly, distant crump of. bombs "'S No, what really matters is changed at all, for already in posts.could communicato tu

ridiculous rubber bone, ambled

friendly safe-keeping when they pound Castro out of the jungle. run with its beautiful women, And they know the terror lovely old buildings, and the that is about them.

aristocratie remnants of Spanish rule, men ore, dying, every day. его shop-ayed Tota I watched an oli tank bura beulen, shot, hanged. at every door just watching and for nearly Ave, Saya outside

An accident, waiting. One friend of mine Hava.

mittedly arethen suspicious Batista. Sabotage, claim the looking character wyea – stopped - reisels. -

ancient race.

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those fcr-cit tlines wo ŵere matter of seconds with flame by solemnly out to play with it in always giving their pistols into Batista's ancient bombers try to that on this lovely laland in the

night or with smoke by day, the yard, In the middle of the valley I even more quickly than we can

And I had the answer to whyot up to dance. passed a rounded hill which cover the same area with our

ho was always perfectly The hoteistato preotulinos. was once both watch-tower and new-fangled telephones

In the old hotel I called for turned out; for every day it is There stronghold, Women and child-

stayed safely by their my beer and sat on a high- habitations cu the knoll with on backed baken settle polished by. I returned to the bar. Plus uver-vigilant watcher on the the cords and moleskins of ca change, plus, c'est la meme

chost, highest point.

many generations.

ren

the same.

+

says

There is burning and sabote

“Pervoc stalks the strenie, age. Women wailing. -