1958-12-11 — Page 4

**** THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1958.

..

by

So now

ANNE

SHARPLEY

THE

I'm OK

for sound!

was

HE first time I went into the Temple of Sound I was shown the door.

What I wanted, I explained (far too positively I know now) some invisible sound equipment to play my records on.

ف الف

men

little a submissive I could not bear thone great

at the bottom of the blank, mysterious looking salnam

and Bald could they bud penker hungs, tundaged stepa In grey

stockinette material. possibly, kindly, explain a tile Couldn't they put it up the of their religion to me. chimney for the?

The Were very nice fell in the place where they seB every kind of really.

since women were here to stay Joulut except in colour.

they had better civilise me.

There was 0 difference between sound and noise, at there was between perfume and strell, I learnt.

afraid,

Madame, We

te du installations unless we

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of

Think "Do.... do you might have mine put up chimney!" determined.

the

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I

Don Iddon's

Diary

:

The St Lawrence Seaway has boon described as "cutting the From Atlantic Ocean Into the hourt of the North American. Continent." Montreal, on the St Lawrence River, it will reach out 1,245 miles to tho ports of the Great Lakes to link them direct with the ports of Europe. Ocean-going vessels will sail infand through a series of 16 locks which will Noxt year, the Queen goes to Canada lift them 602 feet above sou-lavol. for the opening ceremony. And as the glant undertaking moves towards complation, bón Iddon filex in to report the scene.

THIS EIGHTH WONDER

Montreal.

THE first violent storm

of the winter flayed

the St Lawrence Valley eight hours after I got

here. Fortunately I had flown low over the vast Seaway and power pro- Our eyes glinted defiantly stject before the blizzard one another. He yielded at last and had decided that with the graciousness of a man engulfed the area and who has remembered he will be all the works of man- able to deal with me entirely by

dams and the great ear in the happy times ahead.

and locks, the canals

the channels.

power stations, bridges, tun- nels, and roads.

all

Stereophonte sound was the ich Paris perfume of sound.

My instructor tuk about living with Round every where, 1le even had a lot -

waker in the bathroo

"My wife records the radio

1 programmes

have missed

My friends reading worly through quagmires of delicate equipment had made it clent during the day and I listen to was downright unsporting me to get my soutral equipment them in the bath," he told me. predigested in a bead boy with nothing to cn but plug it in

griting "You're 111! pleasure you could from cars rey fold may, a challeng ing thought to any woman So I set off to get my

their rights.

But every time impend ear in the Temple of Sound

the

Your

Smellies?

even

invented,

U-type

Before I went to see her i

Buckingham Palace's new Press assistant would be like. And tried to visualise her offee.

wondered what Anne Hawkins,

Imagined a tall, slim U-type girl with pearls and a cashmere cardigan.

Her office would be small not Old too light und led with Masters they did not know whot of the in the rest 10 do with Palace, speculated.

As we circled over the river above Lake and then dawdled St Louis. Lake St Francis, and Islands i on to the Thousand

ould see the sheets of fee in the grey water and there were snow flurries in the air.

NOBODY

BOASTS ABOUT...

It has. Some say I has been told me: "if it can't do what we a miracle, and certainly it is the expect, then there's a nice hunk must prodigious piece if surgery of change gone down the drain. ever performed on geography, This has cost plenty." and all done in about our years.

CANAD

before the last blueprint, and

I feel there will always be con- troversy.

The Queen, according to pre- sent plans, will travel with her

aboard the husband

Jacht Professor Marvin Barloun, of Britannia in late June, passing through Montreal to the inter- Western

University. Reserve

the St of section saya: "The present construc- tional tion is not the end of the argu- It is only the end of the beginning."

ment.

Two projects

bcen

we

la a

I should make clear that more than

Togg seaway 360 miles

bullt. has been

An enorOUS series of hydro-cięctric power plants has been built,

The cost so far has During the past day or two, $1,200,000,000, and will probably

reach $1.600,000,000 before when the snow hus let up for a

business. There time and the winds dropped, 1 are m have been taking a good hard curious idea among people who

that On schedule?

the Canadians have not been here look at what the

achieved. Americans are looting the bull The pilot sud: "She is closing und Americans have

could thee because

Canadians ali

weather's right, The

First they have lamed the not and all that money. turning bad-beller not go two

mighty St Lawrence, low Bo

n bad There's

down river, the

Not 50. For every million Rometimes benign, but Miss Hawkins turned out to draught, Better get a good look len

Furbulent. They have brought that the United States has con- Eributed to the construction of He had

while you can."* he be a tall, stim. C-type girl with

I peered down: at the cross-it to heel and opened up a north- told me, a vast collar of thin pearls and cashmere cardigan

penetrates the Seaway the Canadians have massage that certainly word puzzle of forests that had cost W1121 ears wood that stuck out round us And her offe

A Canadia like those of un

the crevices from Montreal to the Canadian put in three milion. This, to angry amall, badly it, and had no less been flattened, st

Commonwealth than seven Ole Masters (among In the earth, and the elongated and American Middle West and a great degree, in

makes ocean ports of the inland triumph, D Van Seaway isself.

There were the wrecks of vil- cities, Chiengo, Detroit. Toronto, achievement. Did he wear that in the bath? Ustude) on the walls,

Hawlages that has been abandoned. wax Mias Surprising

in the earth, kins's reply on how many times great holes

hall, and all the the Palace stand cut hadi she

used

construction of down un-paraphernalia formula for turning

welcome questions ("That is a Brst private matter") in her the real

month's work. "Only three so far," she said.

Pars

an African elephant-"50 that not

a nuance is missed." fa ruther matatud-looking buse-

I put ned off Regent Street) my foot in it, so to speak.

were the creatures Women

1520-

laskesi.

What

about

smelties {}

who had made sound-devoties records?" 1 sald, thinking how cut down the

the mural perfume, might be mug-

menter by a little of glorious big loudspeakers.

think.

Salaam...

Women were always scream

those lovely about all inx batteries of switches and dinls, anying they made sitting-rooms look like scientific centres,

And now here was one who Tanted it out of sight altogether

1 pondered in my failure for

a few days and then deelded, in all humlilty, to try again

"Yes,

un-

them a

Teniers and

Hippos form

(1)

Footing the bill

The

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or

Rren,

I

So this is not just one mam- moth project but two.

Lawrence and will, offleinte at the Canadian United State opening ceremonies.

IT

President Elsenhower cares to attend in a somewhat junior but almost joint capa- eity, well and good.

onc

for

tha!

told 1 am

by Oltawo

mild man, la the President, o

be likely to caree. It would (urvical

the Canadians to have

and the ceremony Americans another after all this toll together.

Thero is also a controversy But about the Seaway tokis. netually the proposed tulla ore

Have there been rows, argu- ments, resignations between the Canadians Americana and tho and among themselves? Plenty.

There are always arguments lower than those of the Panama

and the Suez Canals, when $1,000,000.000 more and ond

agree shipping interests cannot world prestige are at stake.

they do The writer and historian Hugh on a fair price then Maclennan says. "National not deserve to use the inland

ride end prejudice

have

were in-

valved, but the important thing

is that all the differences were resolved and the two good nigh- bours went ahead."

No claimant

In all this necessarily rushed uncomfortable and certainly

am survey of the Seaway 1

No Intrigued by one feature.

or woman, single person, man

has

forward stepped

and the father or claimed to be argued

mother of the project. Eisenhower

And until another

King Canute comes along there won't

The Touring tound very little boasting ficials Canadian Government

"Nuw don't go who did the have Insisted: engineers

you'll be British, giving the idea that and some were

Not all the differences but destruction.

fourit. able to sail the Queen Elizabeth talk 1 d't

Krui

still a "Wil she be on schedule?"

United most of them. There is or Queen Mary Coast" or "an eighth sea" ared the pilot.

This s Itter, though undercover, battle They States up the Seaway. main street." The "Can't Bay.

politicians "Canada's

over the official opening of the the Journalists. for analler shipy. soon, perhaps I's just

and we would be teave that lo stid April

"The key figure, and we hope St Lawrence Seaway. question of Anding a way of

But it looks to But they insist that the Seaway

The Americans have The ready to raži.

will doing it," he said, locking raply

mean great the lucky number, is 27. Ike June or near the ultimately

that President e more

channels TC 2710 shipping locks and change in the world's into the selenide vistas ahead.

beginning of July." is sull The car

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und trade. Ile added: "No one's Ever since the entrancing exptored channel for suggestion, we will be able to I believe

revelation that during one of the plaining. It's been one hell of a of breaks reproduce every sensation

Iri the

Age ble job." aving without having to move hippopotami from our loudspeakers," he London (some hippo bones were recently dug up in Trafalgar sald

Square) have dreamt of re- stocking Britain with hippos.

Licin chumbling I saw pleasantly around London bowlers and taking dips in the Thames.

"Hall on the day." I added. putting my feet up.

Drambuie originated in the fale of Skye where it was made in accord. ance with the recipe presented to Mackinnon by Prince Charlie in 1745. The eccret remains in the same family to this day.

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I'll dive for Nestle Chocolate anywhere.

ased

Ice

to

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In

So when 1 heard that Carr Hartley, the man who supplies hippos to the Zoos of the world (Daisy and Neville in Regent's Park were a couple of hie) was in London I went to see him.

Just as I nagined he said that hupos make adorable (his word) wels, And he thinks young ones could be acclimatised to Britain quite easily (£850 per young hippo). He adds an unexpected

virtue.

"Hips are the most punctuurl Once it animals in the world knows you feed it at a certain

Punctual London hippos

in

com"

drop."

at

should share the honours with This has furiated

be.

Men have been arguing about the Queen. Quo construction chief Massena, in New York State, this Seaway for 30 years, long the ardent royalists here.

FIRST FULL REPORT ON WHAT BRITAIN'S NO. 1 ATOM EXPERT SAW IN RUSSIA

Sir John Cockcroft gives

a

startling interview

John Cockcroft, SIR

At present Russlan sclerice and technology is not up to ours Britain's top atomic in all fields but in those given Four it's there to the second." scientist, has returned top priority it is already as good

and soon will be better.

The fields given top priority, sir John found, are: Military including sput- developments

kery, atomic power, the air- craft industry, engineering and metallurgy.

bowlers.

✩ MY

from a week's visit to Russia with astonishing Mr Nubar Gul news of nuclear develop alongsido

Soviet bonklan's "taxi" tall brows and ments in the basketwork but

TAXI

E

pulled

up

senuine Union.

London taxl underneath).

Mr Gulbenklan Was Inside and my taxi driver leant out to say what everyone wants to say to Mr Guibonklan, but probably dosen't.

"Wish I'ad your money, Guv."

-(London Express Service),

In particular the Russions ere making a major effort in power-the application

"Russia will be very, very powerful in ten years it there is no politicn) trouble," he told fusion me In An Interview

the Atomic Energy Authority's Lon con headquarters.

ROUND-UP

MINERS' CHRISTMAS

NUMBER of miners in the Barnsley oren have booked to spend their Christmas holiday on the Continent, mostly in Parks. A local travel agency spokesman suys some of them are flying. "In recent years they have started to take Continental holidays in the summer and this seems to have whetted their appetite for more," be commented.

CHEAP TRAVEL

of the H-bomb principles to the

for industry. development of electrical power

Pics!

By

ANGELA CROOME

produced in the fusion Sir John "No, the Russian

melts oli DTUCTAX

ordinary programme has been quite inde- m.etals.

pendent. New alloys have to be

It is characteristically devised This is one of the key Russlan. They have not coplad problems facing moder anything." Except ZETA. They developed their ZETA type pelentist.

machine since our results come cut.

the

Example

Con we stem the flood? The short answer is not really.

Sir John was last in Russia in is a problem of numbers. Sir John says that they are 1930 on a scientifle mission. He can step

levoting

moro

power glamorous."

this effort to

A Reality

more

concen-

our up

It

Bir John-"To some exfont the excellent Fulbright Fellows from the Staten help."

They are over here for one year).

"There are the scientists from the Commonwealth and then the Commonwealth complains,” laughed Sir John.

;

Top people

Question.-"Are scientists and engineers better off in Russla?”

Sir JohnThe 150 leaders We in the field are top people. They of are much better paid than hero

output was therefore able to measure scientists and enginocm by ex- and tax is only ten per cent. pending universltics. This is They have a country house, a that to fission-A-bomb type the progress made in 22 years,

chauffeur-driven car and two being done. because it is

months holiday a year." The Rusclans have uated most effectively on pro- We can encourage young men

(Their standing, In fact, com- ducing crack metallurgists. to go into these jobs by paying

ot pares with our captains Ten thousand new metallurgists them more. This is beginning

Industry.) "Britain to happen Even so, "there is b are trained yearly,

steady small drain of very high "I don't know about men in perhaps produces 300,"

the middle, At the mechanic "But," uld Sir John, "we Because of their overwhelm- quality people to the Stales.

the Russians can Here it is not numbers that level, living standards make do with ing numbers

about the same." have got to ission power for the next 20 stage extraordinary crash pro- count, but quality." to 30 years. Fusion power is not grammes. likely to be a reallly before that."

How are the Russians going nhead EO fastr The simple answer is that they have more people to draw from.

Faster

this

Question "Why do they 20?"

for

at

there

scem

Sir John laughed so heartly

that As

there secmed any nothing more to say.

-(London Express Servicw).

Question.-"How soon before The sputniks were an example. Bir John Becauso tiere, is our scientific leaders are treated On the other hand, Sir John Now they have developed OGRA better pay and better facilities as well as the Russians?" In six months, OGRA, first — more professorships, found that the Russiane are o long way behind on the applica- preconted at the Geneva Atums instance."

Peaco conference Bon of radiation to medicine, for

tu be the Question, "Is BRITAIN'S record year for tourism coincides with the 150th This was notably the case in the summer, is thought

way of getung reverse flow?" from fusion pro- anniversary of the birth of Thomas Cook "the man who in-use of Isotopes for the treatment nost promising

Cook, founder of the world-known of disease, the storing of food cicctricity vented cheap travel."

and in agriculture,

duced by anyone so far. travel organisation was born in Melbourne, Derbyshire, la 1808. The firm, which grew out of his anti-drink efforts, now does travel business with more than five million ellents a year. Cook was indentured in the carpentry and cabinet making trade, later turn- ing to printing when he established a business in Leicester. In July 1841; ho arranged for 470 fellow temperance supporters to traval by open rail carriage from Leleester to Loughborough to attend an important temperance meeting. The 24-mile round trip was the start of the business. The fare was one ahilling. That Great London Exhibition of 1851 saw Cook arranging tours which brought 160,000 people to the Metropolls. From Yorkshire the return fare was five chillings. He begon his foreign tours with a 24. Gd. return trip from Leicester to Calais. Cook remained a staunch Lemperance worker. On one occasion he addressed 000 Britist.coldiers at Agra, India, on the "evils of deink." He died in 1802 at the age of 04.

|ALLIGATOR PET

"In fusion they are working

The Russians have produced of a very broad front. Because their own version of "Dritain's of their relentine manpower ZETA in six months that 15, they can pursue three or four different les simultaneously,"

We can tackle only one, They turn out 50,000 engineers every year he against our 2000. These take a five-year course (the British course is shorter) an that the training is "moro thorough,"

since ZETA's vital stallatien were published last January. "We could not possibly have produced, ZETA in Icas than a car and a half," sald Bir John,

Question"Does the bureaucracy of the Soviet Union

clumsy

affect their aclentic worit?"

Sir John-Top priority work Then Moscow University alone processes 3000 physlelsia and is not affected at all. There 17-INCH alligator is the pet of Fireman David Bidey at his A Wembley, Middlesex, fint. He has named it "Ally" It's a lie same number of chemists a seemed less red tapo at the two big nuclear institutions than in monster in miniature, eleops and swims in a large. gins tank year.

Said Sir John: "Metallurgical any of our Government depart heated to 85 degrees, in the sliting tourn. A voracious feeder an

much developments: aro

the ment, Their top nuclear man cubes of meat, supplemented by calelum. tableta, Ally is growing

most dimeult part of nuclear is a very powerful digure. Ite on Inch and a half por month. For company he has three water

Esta just what he wants, tortolnet. "Nearly all the alligatore kept an pets In Britain aropower programmes,"

question."Java WD. given The importance of producing

much about caymans or other'croe' types," Sidey anys. A larger tank for Ally has already been ordered. When he outgrows that one helerge numbers of metallurgists away to

lies in the fact that the Immonas power?" will have to be offered to n z09,

JUTY

GAMIAMI AMATEUR

STASOS

Friell

MIERE

atom

"I don't understand the fuss, all the starfats d'have seon on the screen are perfect amateurs!"