ROUND
UP
Prettiest Unionist TRADE unions are
to
start
showing off their prettiest girls. In the Industrial area cl Essex they are kot ng kw two of
The
smartini girly
engineering. Boy friends
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the workshops, provid Inther and mothers and the girls then- Belvea we sinding in photo- graphs to be judged In Justuary. The two closen will be greamed and plumed to take purt, with
modela professional fashion show in Hond Town Hall. Ex in March. This is all part of a new type of socia!! get-together desmed by Mrs Margaret Mckay, Chlor Woman Officer of the TU.C. "It is no inembers une trying to recruit und
Brouze
their
interest
through specches and meetings." she says. We have proved that
All a half two and three
times DEVE with something beautiful and gay."
Toughening Up
N
annual "toughening up
coute is planted as part of
the trainin for Hertfordshire?
endets
Ten have justi Police returned trom u self-luna-
Snowdonia The Cox182 cadets cooked their own food
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1958.
Doctor Zhivago
BY BORIS PASTERNAK
The days that decided the future
of a whole nation-told
told as if
you
had been there with your family!
THE STARVELINGS
in Moscow
and lived rough on the slopes Dr Yury Zhivago, starving of Snowdon for seven days in revolutionary Moscow, Their only equipment was tenka | decides to take his wife cooking stoves, warm clothing Tonya and his family be and stout boots. Activities be cluded: Climbs up the mar tains: 14-
marches with full packs; physical train- ing: and mountain rescue prae- tice. Now next year's course is being arrutgach, And it will be
even toughe
-
Picture Treasure
attic.
A TORN ty un a pile of other pictures it an The owner died and they were offered to antique vender Alexander Pudd, uf Dunstable. Bedfordshire, because they were "cluttering up the place."
a favour he bought the portrait and two others for the The He paid £10. . frames.
portrull was in my shop for 12 months," said Mr Podd. "Then
recognirable portrait by in
mos ns
yond the Urals to "live off the land." Ho goes to the Yaroslavsky Station (the Paddington of Moscow) to find out about trains....
E
NDLESS queues of passengers moved
FROM the book that is today's sensation.....the desperate plight of a man and his family caught in the greatest social upheaval of our times..........a problem to which no family can pretend even now-to havo a glib answer. The book is DOCTOR ZHIVACO (say it Jivago, rhymes with Chicago), a first novel by Boris Pasternak (right) ---now 68, one-time philosophy
student who became a Moscow librarian. It tells of what happens to the common, ordinary folk in a revo- lution in this caso the Russian Revolution of November 1917. The book has been banned in Russia.
There were nut enough eleaners, and the station was withy, and the trucks in front of the platforms were anusable be cause of dirt and ice. The trains stopped further out,
across the halls, along
angways between w wooden hand-rails.
Don't Rsten to them," sald the formalist. "Tll explain, it's quite simple, As all specle}
bave trains
been abolished, there is ily one type of tralb, the same for all-army, сап Tonya waved to Yury, and victs, cattle, people-it's all one
and the summe train."
he
close enough WAN shouted Instructions as to where i was
their to get
"A lot you've explained he travel was
shouted down "A lot you've sald when you've told
THE TRAVELLERS by freight
nnd stockbrokers from Petersburg side by slie with cabbies, door polishern, bath attendants, Tartar xng- and-bone merchants, escaped lunatics, shopkeepers, and monks, all lumped together with the exploiting classes..
The lawyers and stockbrokers sat in their shirtsleeves round
the red-hot iron stoves, telling cach other endless storics, joking and laughing. They connections, were people with They felt no anxiety, they had induential relations pulling strings for them at home, and if it came to the worst they could buy themselves of later
on.
THE TRADERS
-by barter
Howhey
Yury, who had also woken up, uncovering her wares, whispered helped her down from the bunk, cogerly: Signal huts and Inmp-posts "Look at this, I bet you. drifted past the door.
haven't acen that in *. Long before It had long while. Elke it? Don't stopped, sailors jumped off think about it too long or into
it will be gone.
Liko to the untrodden пот and raced round the give me your napkin for a
half-onct" building to where pensant
Tonya mild the last word, women were usually to be "What dp you mean, my found trading illegally
in dear?" food.
The sailors' black uniforms with bell-bottom troffers and ribbons
fortune-teller's, slood
The woman meant half à fluttering from their peakless caps gave an air of bare, roasted whole from head reckless speed to their advance to toil and chopped in two, She "I'm telling you, I'll and made other people give way held it up. Jis before the onrush of racing ve you a halt-one for your ski-ers or skaters.
What are you staring napkin. at? It isn't dog's meat. My Round the corner, girls and husband in a hunter. It's here women from villages near by, all right, hiding behind each other and is excited as if they were at the They exchanged their gooda. In single Each believed that she had had fle in the shelter of the station the best of the bargain. Tonya wall, selling cucumbers cottage felt as ashamed as if she had cheese, platterfuls of bolled beef swindled the peasant woman, her and rye pancakes kept hot and while she, delighted with
deul, called a friend, who had savoury in quilted napkins.
also sold out Her wares, and Mufted up' in shawls tucked made off with her, home to their inside their
the village while sheepskins,
going was THE others, in boots and kut-
taus, or barefoot and in long women blushed a fiery red at good striding down the mowy *hirts WOTT outside their the sailors' jokes, but they were path into the distance.
Was At this moment there was an trousers, with or without beards, terrified of them, for it
in the crowd. stood at the half-open doors of generally sailors who formed the uproar
was screaming: to units organised to fight against woman the airless truck, holding on the sides or to the buards speculation and the forbidden youl Where nailed across the opening, and "free market,” gazed sullenly at the peasants and the villages by the wayside, speaking to no one. They had no Influenting friends They
con-
-
the
An old
arc you off to?. Where's my money? When did
you
pay me you shamelesa soon, They were
however, thief? Look at him, greedy pig, from their trescued
you call him and he doesn't barrassment as the train stopped even bother to turn round.
the crowd, Trade became brisk, Comrade! I've been robbed
There he goos, Stop, thief that's him, catch him"
Below them lying un Blue Werranis stamped,
the THEY had been three had nothing to hope for, and civilian passengers joined Stop! Stop. I tell you, 'Mister stone doors, were people in grey Army ruals, who roughed, spot.
"Show me what they've put him he's got stamps for
special coach! The special
There were loo days on the way, but malked over, and spoke it un she asked him when come conste is full of sailors
A sailor
scripts for the trucks allotted ite held out a wad of tas a trained eye and a gun, had not moved far from to them and the overflow had expectedly loud voices, misel. back. culating the amplifying echo of papers across the hand-rail. He takes a look and what does Moscow. The
put cold been
the among "That's for the special coach," he see!--A member of the weather went on. Out- mostly typhus said the man behind her in the Perited
Whenever the train stopped queue, reading over her int
former gentry, side the window, tracks, Tonya sat up cautiously so often shoulder.
He hospitals
pulls out
fields, woods, and village celling. the day after the
trodbye,"
roofs all were deep in through
I noticed that a signature and ril
dimly showing werf
through, and I sent it to a ple- Jure restorer" The restorer told Mr Podd that 11 WDS Ghinsborough, worth £1,000, More Tea
TEA consuinplun reachers
TEA
peak figure of 10.1 lbs, per head in the United Kingdom in 1958, according to a review by fle
issued.
the vaults.
They patients
crowded
alsebarged crisis.
Li
1.
Economic Commonwealth Committee, just
were
whom
***
OVET-
The man in front of her wos He was one of
Yury, as a doctor, had often more explicit,
had do this himself, but he those sticklers for form who had no idea that there could be every
so many of these unfortunates know or that they were forced to seek refuge in caitway stations.
"You must get a priority," n porter Inn while apron told "Thes you Kust coine every day to disk if there is a
fare s
accept
classest doctor,
☆☆
During
the
qucun
Worse
his
theu
gun-and
snow.
*
The Zhivagos had been lucky
passengers.
free
THE ROBBER
well armed
as at to knock her head on the
and looked
down. the crack of the door to see if it were worth while to go out,
This depended on the size of
her
"Which one?"
"That one, the one who's clean-shoven and grinning."
"Yes, yes, catch him, the Sarnech!"
90
after "Go
him! He's got straps and cartridge bells all over him. He'll go after you."
"What's going. op here?" circumstance possible
"Fellow over there bought the appropriate regula-
some milk and ples, filled his inspecting the weres, past half-hour enough to get a corner to them- the station, the probable length TNYA walked down the Alo, ton, and are able to discuss it'
top ther of the of the halt, und the consequent towel fung over her shoulder, as belly and went off without pay-
the Impersonally
old woman is and
it unidentified figures had been selves on the
if she were only going to the ing strolling into the distance along bunke, right up against the long. Ilkelihood of profitable barter, vithout question,
bleary window underneath the So it was on this occasion. back of the station to wash in crying." the tracks. Then a mob run out ceiling, and here they had settled The train hal awakened her the snow, Several women had
Tint shouldn't be allowed. "This stomp," He explained.
"Open up the doors, you down in a family group. Tonya "ves you the right to claim
Crooks!" yelled voices in the bad never travelled in a freight from a doze by slowing down, called out. "Hey, what do you Why don't they go after him?"
number The nu
of points and want for your napkin?" but she in a coach with classes, seats More train, Trains are a
"Look what's going on! truck before.
it continued on her way, escorted which over gold nowadaya, It's a question that is to say, a
The train had Passenger Here they've locked us in, and
23 coaches, switches of luck. And, of course, the coach, if there is a passenger yet out there
in front were seme bastards Sallers
free bumped and rattled suggested by her husband. ribed his two fingers with his couch on the train."
Open passengers in the middle, and that the station was fairly have jumped the queue.
At the end of the row there thumb) Bittle tour or some-
the labour conscripts in eight large.
was a woman in a black shawl thing.
Wheels don't
The whole queue joined up, ar we'll bust the gates"
coaches յ է
There the back.
She rubbed her eyes, taled with a crimson pattern. Sho without all, you know."
In ла once, **Passenger
"They needn't envy that lot, were about 500 of them, people her hair and, after rummaging saw the embroidered towel and WHEN YOU DON'T conch Indeed! f you cau
at the bottom of a bundle, the fools," said the legalist. of all ages, conditions and pro-
her bold eyes lit up. ★ ★ ✰
seal "
fessions. the buffers "Th on
DO WHAT YOU Arc conscripts.
pulled out a towel embroidered be must
They were They'll thankful They're under escort.
remarkable with cockerels, horse collars, Glancing be digging trenches."
sight-rich, smart lawyers and wheels.
she sidied up to Tonya and ARE TOLD TO DO..
д
tan four-fifths of the 100 entering world trade and alanl one-half of the cocog and rule- ber was shipped by Communi wealth countries, 1311 for number uf plantation com- modities the United Kingdom and the United States M Amerlen were the largest out- Jeta. The review shows dominant post on which pianin
The Yury
run
get
you
meets his family nowadays!" later at the station....
tion crops sugar, coffee, THE sucues went up to the
spices, tubacro and rubber held in the export trade
Jumber countries.
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I fact the passengers had to board the train
good half-mije further down the line.
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DURING A
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round
cautiously.
TOMORROW:
SHOW...A LOOK INTO THE FUTURE
I go searching
for the family car
IN the middle of the traffic jam my companion said: "Ten years from now it is possible that we motorists will be spared such inconveniences,
"We'll take off, fly over the con- gestion and drop down at a point where traction motoring is easier."
Not Jules Verne talking. But a little man in n grey flannel ault with a slide rule in his pocket
of 1968...
by RAMSDEN GREIG
years'
O
Energency pareciate, bruka
Smoke extracter
Factor, swivel souts
Mayle aye mtomatic, driver
{Lifthy, fots {m wheels)
Ventilation for atomic mator §2 Retractably absets for parkirj
car industry. I face duela. In 10
time your car will still fashion designers, clutches his whose job it is to prophesy travel with wheels. The look like a car with four predictions to the breast of his the future for one of the man in the grey flannel sult wheels, ont steering wheel,
But loading British car manua-I said: "Think of the flying boot, a bonnet and passenger Savile Row suli. facturers.
bedstead and work it out space. The roads in Britain, let's admitted: "We're already
faco it, couldn't cope with any work on the car of 1963. It's from there."
thing more revolutionary.
still got wheels. No, it doesn't fly over traffic jams.
Leap-frog car
"I have such a leap-frog
TRAVELLING
.
through In the clouds
+
he
at
The 1968 family goos out for a look-no- :
'a not-to- hands spin in the country...
bo-taken-seriously view from JAK,
"unsurmountable certainly with- In Britich road-making. And at In the next ten years."
the present rate of progress, it 10, years will take more than before that takes places.
The problem
And the ideal road? -
"It will have a protective
who
it
"Nineteen sixty-eight? Speak- the City at an average
ing unofficially and trying to car in mind," the man said.
"You will, of course, have a keep within the bounds of possi speed of 10 miles an hour form of air suspension that will "The Americana
I reached. the chartered
The main problem, I was told, actually produced. one.
make you feel as you are bility you might and the turbo- Locountant'a office where driving a cloud. But your car jet car la a Anandai possibility, is effectively screening the atom beam running along both sides.” We've got hellcopters, Peter Kerwin Taylor worko. will be basically
the enme ne Aire, I know a man who sees no unit. The Nauillus has two feet predicts Mervyn Culler right? Why shouldn't an
when Henry Ford was saying reason why we shouldn't have of concrete screening its unit. designs for Rootes, "so that autogyro car be possible?
In his spare time: 28- that his customers could live his an automatle driver in a car-
long no it was blank.", "Further to that," the year-old Taylor teams up car in any colour they liked so man la the grey flannel sult with 32-year-old Pulborough
As I went back to my four went on, "see no reason at sculptor John Frayling to
help draw the sleek lines of wheeled car I heard Mr Tayler all: why we cannot have a
without the Lotus cars. I asked him muttering: "A car with diapenses car that
to draw mo the car of the the tyre manufacturera say?"
wheels, indeed! Whatever would wheels.
future.
*But It's
like aircraft have now.
"This fellow is 'working on a
hur...
"This," one car engineer told will be impossible to drive or mt, "would make it impossible kid off the highway. "And there sort of to have an atomic cnt. But do will probably be domo car that given something like ot be surprised if by the 1963 rader device on the car that will the German autobeling to travel Motor Show you see an atomic brake it before a crash occurs." on, will make in own way to the
Last word... driver's destination."
What about an elomio cart "Wheel, the ́inan vald,
gol wheels," I
With the submarine Nautilus "are the cause of mant car sald,
TN the goner Piccadilly show in mind Dritish car manufac nocidents." I'naked how on "I sin nat," Mr Taylor said, - rooms of the floated group I turers are studying the pensi earth, litorally, a car could "one of the Jules Vemes of the spoke to a man who, like the Billig-and drding the problems there is a revolutionary change
TODAY all these revolutionary tarde.
ideas are
from Sir William Rooter on the drawing "In 10 years. Une we will be riding on air with fewer controls and that'll.sult me fine. I only They will remain there until with wo were doing that now “
London Sprew Kerulow),
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