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THE CHINA : MAIL,

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,· 1958..

The world's most flirtatious car

AUSTAR- HEALEY HAVE PRODUCED THE G100EST SENSATION OF THE SHOW

WITH A 100- SIX SPORTS CAR WITH EVERY RETAL PART GOLD" PLATED.

* STEERING WHEEL OF SOLID IVORY, UPHOLSTERY IN MICK AND DASH-

BOARD AND DOOR PANELS COVERKO IN CHINESE KID.

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SHE'S elegant

By BASIL CARDEW

she wears mink..........and she adores champagne. No,

not the girl....the car! And it was quite evident at the Motor

the Show

most glamorous attrae- at Earls Court that she was tion on view...the golden Austin Healey 100-Six sports car that stood close to the main entrance.

The report reproduced above, for example-radiated out to newspapers all over the country-says: "Austin Healey have produced the biggest sensation of The Show with a 100-Six sports car with every metal part guldplated, a steering wheel of solid ivory, upholstery in mink, and dashboard and door panels in Chinese kid."

The real stuff

Now what has this golden Henley got? It is basically a 100-mile-an-hour- plus two-seater with plush ivory-coloured dashboard and door bodywork. The

panels are covered in soft beige- coloured Chinese kid Its Rents uro in rare upholstered

Champagne Diadem stink, the newest type mulation mink used by the big French fashion houses.

NOT A MODEL OF UNDERSTATEMENT

of

Its steering wheel is carved in solid ivory from the tusks of African elephant. All the exposed metal parts -down to screws, muis, and bolts-are heavily plated in 24-carat gokl. The gold on the wire wheels alune is worth £100, and the value of all the gold on the car is more than 2500,

The most sumptuous

brukes are Even the new type dise gold-plated, and LA a final touch of opulence there is a solid gold key-ring with a gold model of the car attached to it.

Donald Healey, its designer, said: "It Look 60 skilled craftamen to produce the golden Healey. We really think it is

the most sumptuously luxurious sports car ever made. And we made it as a tribute to British craftsmanship."

A vintage squirt

The backroom girl who was given the job of decorating the car was Lorna Doone Snow, the rally driver, now B Mayfair furrier. "I went 10 endless trouble to get it right," she said.

"Everything had blend perfectly to make it truly elegant. And to com- plete the picture I am topping up the tank of the windshield washers not with common water but vintage champagne.

And the cost of all this magnificence on four wheels? The manufacturers estimate it at £4,000, but it is such special job that no hard price can placed on it.

Gold-plated

mink-lined

solid ivory

A

be

GOLD WHEELS, TO ŠEICHLIMMSİNGSMINK TO LEAN BACK ON

IVORY, TO STEER WITH

AND, OF COURSE, THE IGNITION KEY RING IS GOLD TOO,....

DO AS

Doctor Zhivago

YOU ARE

TOLD...

NO

BOOK has been more widely acclaimed than this first novel by tho 68-year-old Russian Boris Pastornak. Pastornak himself lived through the Russian Rovolution of 1917. His DOCTOR ZHIVAGO-banned in Russia -{# presented in this version *J stark, day-to-day account of the desperate hours in the life of family

A

"YOLL

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mean Strelni- kov!" In Red Army general).

"I do

"We dit't

What hnd You

BY BORIS PASTERNAK

You are there... in the agonising heart of a great social upheaval sharing vividly the bewildering plight of the ordinary man

that's trun.

Hawkoy

TOMORROW:

THE COMMISSAR- AND THE TERROR

"And his friend Tiverbin is there too.

"They are both members of the local revolutionary com- mittee.

"Well, can you bellevo it, Pasha hasn't been to sog tils fother and he hasn't told him who he is. And his father takes it for granted, ho imt a bill hurt. It his con is kept 'under cover then that's as it "You've made me feel sorry should be, he can't see him and for him You've changed, you that's all there is to it. They know. You used to speak moro arc made of stone, these calmly about the revolution, you people, they aren't human with were less harsh about it."'-

"The point is Larissa, that all their rules and principles. there are limits to everything. "What do wives matter to In all this me something den- them of a time like this?. The nite should have been achieved, workers of the world, the But it turns out that those who remaking of the universe, that's inspired the revolution aren't at something! But what's a wifel home In anything except Just an individual biped of no change

and turmoll: that's more importance than a ́fica or thetr native element; they a louve aren't happy with anything that's less than on В world sculo.

1

Jevolutionaries,

"For them transitional "That's what I was think choccoal baked into it under building a new world, torcha bashi-bazook or a revolu

Zhivago is riding back to his Іл worlds bearers of mankind.'

the family la neath. do anything, it ingr

their but in the tionary Jack the Ripper, but periods, When finally the show mounds The first time you hear It was our neighbours, but we got

making, are an end in remoteness of Siberia after a "We mustn't touch the belwech punished for good micasure. You

the sections of the you think: "What wealth of he was neither."

nren't fryst with Ears when he is cap. "They

they themselves, say he is not a party trained for anything else, turtin It sollers, But there's a whole track were cleared, the see that village over there?

by line imagination!'

Ked parklezne carpe of labour conscripta

The was all beenuse of them."

41 could be seen sying into

But in fact the reason it a member."

counter- the White "Yes, I think

I they don't know about fighting "And what crime had they well

free passengers, distance as straight and level as so pompous in that there is no as the committed?"

about 700 it all."

An arrow.

Imagination at the back of finve often wandered since what anything except that.

because the Groups of men with shovela It

thought

it is that makes him attractive.

A shot red at close range Dr Zhivago and his family "Pretty well at the seven "That's more than enough.

I think it is because he is a "And do you know why there deafened him. He doomed mon. are in a crowded train leaving deadly sins,

He'll come to a Ja

whirl the We'll start the moment we get were standing at Intervals all second-rate."

incessant revolution-tom Moscow to far. Foor Peasants' Committes, the shovels."

along the way,

bad end and he will stone for never-ending preparations? It's snatched at the reins

pulled. that's one: refused to supply

"God, what a misfortune! Do

Seeing ench. other

the evil he has done,

because they haven't any reai hurmes to the Red Army, that's

all Tartars, you think we'll manage?"

the first time, they Were In the nearest town Zhivago. "Revolutionaries who take the capacities, they are unglited. "Of course we will." They soy resisted

to astonished mind you, horsemon);

how meets Lara, the nurse, again, law into their own hands are Man is born to live, not to pro- snail's pace for the

elties are captured by weight of mobilisation deeree that

and falls in love with her. He horrifying, not as criminals but paro for life," numbers and this is only a rall- many they were.

confides in her his feelings as machines that have got out why, after all. Don't worry."

away-from-It-all Siberia

Dissolved

THE train, creeping at two (and they're

a

fear of running off the makes three at any rate,” -

track, anow-covered pulled up at a burned-

out ruin.

This was all that was left of the station, Lower Kelmes, its name still faintly legible on ita blackped front.

Beyond it lay a deserted village blanketed in snow,

This top was duinnged by Are.

"Yes, I sce.

I quite sce.

they were shelled?"

"Naturally."

The work of clearing the lino took three days and all the Zhivagos took part in it. These So were the best three days of the

journey:

17e workers were divided iniq

THE

ace.

SECOND-RATE

gangs, the labour conscripts kept THOUGHTS

uport from the civilians. The

From the armoured train?" "Of course." "Very, sad. Still, K'e none c2 whole alle was surrounded by our businema,"

But the

sceurity troops, The workers

for

Zhivago, his wits and family any cato Is all over. spent all day in the open, geing settle in a remote hut. Ile puls

shovels. It was sheer plenmure.

At the time. too during

their three days of work in the

"W

about the revolutionaries.

Lara

of control, ilke a runaway train. "Strelnikov is us mad as tho As their Inve develops

has been drivea echoes his views. Her husband rest, but ho Aeft her and is a Red Army com- mad by life and suffering, not.

this

AND THE

mander under another name, by books. I don't know his THOUGHTS

Strelnikov.

accret but I feel sure he has

Yury tella, Eara. that on his one. boen Interrogated by Strelnikov theviks is accidental. They put without realling to was Lara's up with him so long as ho hap

pens to be going their way and husband.. Lara kays

"You saw him. How extra-cy can use him. The moment

Journey aerom Rumia he had "Illa alliance with the Bol- OF A WIFE

"Where could he

Fun

10,

of

sat up,

and

I front of him were the Three horemica crossroads. blocked his way a boy in a school cap and a tunle with two cartridge bolts, a' cavalry- 'man in an officer's 'greatcoat mid fur cap and a fat man oddiy clothed, as for a fancydress balt in quilted trousers and a wide- brimmed clerical hat pulled low over his forehead,

"Don't move,

Comrado Doctor," ald the cavalryman,

Lara adds, talking about her who was the eldest of the three. "If you, they orders, you will be perfectly sate. "If you don't

attached to

news I have for you back only to sleep, It was one down his dialliusion in a diary; ordinary! I won't tell you how, they don't need him, they unband:— The place was not, in fact, më isn't very good either-I'm and frosty and the shifts werd

but really it in extraordinary. throw him out and trample on dene no it looked; Viere were a ntrakt you'll have to stay here short, as there were not enough 6HAT is it that It's as if you were predestined him quite mercilessly, ha they

"Do you know that you. The urgent wel hoot fow people silli sboul, The for a couple of days,"

his own father, our unit has been killed and to meet. He seems to have have done with other military Atainmaster rose out of Rig "You're Joking. I'm inking

conscripting you asta prevents me from unde a good rather thing a bad experts." the guard jumped troops to the front." ruinn and

**But is there no creage for Pavel: Ferapontovich Medical worker, det down and down from the train and com

"I'm not joking at all. We've open air the workera had a feel- being useful as a doctor Impression on you?"

him? Couldn't he run away?" Antipov, a former hand the reins over to the minerated with him.

and no one to clear It.. Half the were inued with great chunks "I think it is not so much eur ought to have repelled

"Yes, on the whole. He Lariam? You could do that in political convict, an old young man."

the old days, under the Czar, worker, is quite near "And, let me remind villege has run away, 11 put of hot fresh brend (no one privations or our wanderings or We had actually panned. But just you try nowadays!"

here, in a Bottlement you: If you try to cscapo whose orders); I had a tasty settled yes sa the power in our through the country where "tell, what attend. I'll got crisp crust, whiny on top, cracked day of rhetoric, of the cliclio he had brought death and by Coline and FIREvin Preps is Ri along the highway where we shan't stand on cere the passengers on to it." at the side and

Many Bentl will bite of all this 'dawn' of the future, destruction, I expected to see me and he lived in exile?

"I suppose the village caught

fira and the station burned with

117

"Yes, we certainly had a fire,

init that wasn't the worst of it,

had a bizzard for a sulit week ing of pleasantly tuti #omach. or a writer?

nowdrifts all along the line. And no wonder. At night they

the rest of them on the job, but knew where It came from or by our constantly changing sná u

it won't be enough."

me.

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