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THE WORLD、 OF SCIENCE

A new wonder radio

By PETER FAIRLEY

FTER three years

AF -secret work, two

British engineers have

·built·· a-revolutionary short-wave radio trans- can send

mitter.

several messages at once, transmit each one Onl several different fre- quencies, and continue transmitting them even if a valve breaks down.

Previous short wave set have only 21 ble to send messages 4+1i **** frequency. To use diferent Gre-when, -Y atmospheric conditions

change the operator

2 to move ting entrade on the amplifier.

Its

The new transmitter has we tuning controls, amplifies atl 111 chosen frequenci matically at the same time. secret is a device called a "dis- trited amplifier," Normal set rely four or five large values. This one distributes the "load" over many valves, so that if falls, unly

sapat net! 1Jf

splittenfion is lost.

BR

· ATOM SEEDS

RITISH seed firms are footing into the pos- sibility of "putting “atom- blasted" seeds on the home market. Tesis

are now in progress al the Wantage

THE CHINA MAIL,

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1959.

4 United

we stand

Cummings

YESTERDAY TODAY -

It works much better to wave an OLIVE BRANCH at your enemies...

The Duchess tells Yves

-"How stunning!"

麻麻

Paris

the Duchess said to St Laurent: "I thought your collection was

This Windsors have now luft

Paris. eume as something stunning." IT

of a surprise to me to sce the Duke and Duchess of Windsor in Paris at this strictly un- fashionable time of the year.

tra previous years their summer months have been spent

Radiation Laboratories to me ryd alternating

trips to Haly. Salzburg and what effect atomie cruises in the Mediterranean.

Ser

radiation has on same types

of fruit and flower seed.

and grass.

New pattern

Their

Those werks are boy on sale to the publie in America. And time of producing mark-

1915

with

presence here at this the year stems to

• Underime Theis increasing [:0 large sections oble results, Tomal Plantation

ind international have produced as many as 16 of Freuch

xiety, which

went to sweet, deep-red. trenators

efforts sange, clungated shape. Mari-great frouble in their

#olds, usually growing upright,

to enteram the Windsors.

Paris. They have gone to Biar- it--the second me in two yours for resort's leading hotel.

stay at that

There the Duke will work on his new book which is devoted to men's clothes, Ile is belang assisted by Patrick Kinross.

★INCIDENTAL INTELLI-

GENCE: the principal cafe in the village of Mar- coule, where Franco's Har- well is located, has changed its name and now calls itself, the Atom Bor. Immediately beneath the name it adver-

"Provencal tises

Speciali- tics."

Wasteland

are many

Jurve turned into sweet-sentied For the Duke this new pattern flowering vines. Petunias hve of life fits in increasingly with I wish some Tin Pan Alley write il sont changed colour and shape. And his own Inclinations, but for the bard would sweet corn has Hourished with nver-vivacious duchess it might entitled "I hate Parls in the

Autumn." There be a different story. eight ful cas per stalk,

The U.S. tom blasted"

among us of that small, hardy varieties are the idea of Dr They both looked well when burch who survive an August li

Paris, who would sing such a C. J. Speas, a Tennessee dental surgeon at the Oak Ridge siomie Anergy establishment,

I saw them a few days ago at a

eft bank restaurant which has, tomg with heart-rending feeling. recently become fashionable.

that

evening:

At this time of the year the

SUZY'S SISTER,

TALL GIRLS AND

SHORT MEN ...

AVING listed the disadvantages of Paris With the fashion shows on, one suddenly finds oneself-minus clean skirt, of course— living in a dizzy world of which the female part seems to consist entirely of short-sighted women with swizzle-slick fures, who are; In. fact the world's top fashion models.

How here is one advantage.

This leads to curious social occasions in which they not only outnumber the men pre- sent but are considerably taller as well.

This

situation at a party Kiven recently by waa lie Dorian Leigh, the famous ex-model and sister of Bury Parker, who now runs a model agency here. The party was lo introduce her friends to her husband, a Paris obstetrician whom she married two months ago.

Most of the men she could find for the party at this time of the year were New York fashion buyers, who seem to be a race of uniformly short stature.

The splendidly willowy fashion models soared above them like beanstalks,

In many cases men had to land on lip-toe to offer a girl a drink,

It was a situation in which any man touching six feet fell at a clear advantage.

He has long wanted to start a house of his own. Now, with murringe of his brains and Miss Hutton's patronage, I forecast that he will do so.

Holiday isle

I spent my holiday on a small French island once cecupied by Nelson's sailors, and from which they bombarded the port of La Rochelle opposite.

The island is greatly favoured by Paris Industrial workers who can indulge is their favourite sport of fishing.

London Express Service,

Just Fancy Thet!

TIMMY

TIMMY THE TRACTOR took off on his own the other day while Farmer Bob Carter went for a cup of tea in his farmhouse at Mulben, Banffshire.

The tractor trundled across two fichis, knocked down fences, charged cattle and sheep, and crashed into a ditch.

*

DUSTMAN William Miles, stopped as he was leaving

work, was found to be carrying a pair of sandals, a tennis ball, a deflated football, a pruning knife, a salt cellar, iwo nuts, a bolt, and a washer. Total value: 3d. But he was fined £1 at Ripley, Derbyshire, for theft, because "anything a refuse-man collects belongs to the council,"

THE

HE "cowboy" behind the bar of the Fusiliers Arms In Salford, Lancashire, was the licensee, Mr John Cairns, who had been taking part in a Western-style show.

He did not bother to change when he returned to his job. His gun was sill holstered on his hip-for a while.

It caught the eye of Dennia Ryan, aged 24, of Russell Street, Salford, and as Mr Cairns drew pluts, Ryan drew the gun without Mr Cairns knowing,

At

But Ryan was seen and followed by a woman. Salford he was given an absolute discharge with 38. costs for stealing the gun and four blank rounds,

A

Hertford. 16-YEAR-OLD boy was committed to a juvenilo home recently after his mother testified that be: Tried to throw her downstairs, threw food

on his sister, smashed furniture and dishes, came homo drunk, stayed out all night, stabbed a ferret to death and buried another animal alive.

"Has he ever had a good hiding," Judge Stephen Harrison asked.

of * The impending spilt is largely He was having trouble on his

elty is a wasteland of shuttered police, in anticipation The Duchess, I thought, die a shops and restaurants, but it is deserted city, have abolished the result of having such a private farm with hillside crops

splendid

13 Bar- customer

It was a splendid sight to see whien grew poorly because vainendid thing

nut luxury such as this which parking time Umits.

What

not reckon bara

who Hutton,

bought they did

them indulge in their other washed away the fertiliser, He' Shortly afier she and the interests us-it is the stark

worth of clothes favourite sport of good eating, believed radiation miel uke Duke

with was the influx of foreign HK$1,600,000 were seated,. Yves problems of survival.

The result 13 the from this year's collection."

with grilled lobsters at six sald. sects tougher and more fruitful. | Laurent,

10 who How to get a shirt laundered cars. concrete binck-wears the heavy mantle of Dior, becomes, Je l

under the circum- paradoxical situation of a seem-

The Lanvin family is the shillings, oysters about tenpence

a' dönen, and a ciderish local house on the hill, put in a pellet | untered the restaurant, He stances of this strange, ghost-ingly deserted city in which financial and perfume side of

and Castilo, this white wine about threepence a of radio-petive enhalt. and paused to greet the Duchess, Jiko existence,

more parking space is harder to find the business almast

full name, now that he has just glass. loaded the seeds. on trays for

Important than the Bile matter than ever before, The entire

elovede TOO!1,

won a Spanish coùn claim to a their "done.

of meat. of Amerten with buyers, fashion writers,

title, is the Duke Antonio To find a butcher involves a

Conovas del Castillo) is the experimenting models and drew designers here

dusigning gonius. For Sumc will the varieties and reporting for the winter collections, held 15 minute cruise around the city, for plumbers or elec- This breath to catch every word and as findings to Dr. Speas.

I years now he has been one of the their tricions.

Despite ferocious dentals,

In the fashion highest-pald

the designers in changes-which said eventual- of this chance public encounter

despairing flat forecast a split ly play a major part in eniging between one of the world's best- doven many a

house of Lanvin-Castillo, which business, and I assess is pre- the world's Krowing ford dressed women and this year's dweller to a hotel room.

As though to add a Anal has had such noteworthy success sent salary at nearly HK$900,000 problems-take several years to most disparaged designer, Bhow full effect.

a voice which ricochetted frenle twist to this situation, the with its collection this summer, a year. round the room like a bullet,

Now thousamais gardeners

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THE FIRST FLIGHT TO

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a dull, overcast August morning, 40 years ago, the first pas- senger ever to fly on a scheduled international air service was sick in his

hat. His name: George

PARIS MISSED

THE BOAT

Stevenson - Reece. The visible as a whole owing to the service, was Aircraft Transport

pilot who flew him was a genial, burly fellow call ed Bill Lawford.

The date, was August 25, in that remarkable year 1918, when Alcock and Brown flew น่าจ Alantic, Ross and Keith Smith flew from Britain to Australia, Winston Churchil!

Air Minister with Trenchard Chief of Staff.

Was

14

2

joy.

and Travel Ltd, founded by a Edwardian - looking I search in vain for the Eifel shroud

Tower and the Sacre Coeur and businessman, George Holt

ffounslow.

try to persuade myself that I Tiemas, ike, "bunking" sa WC curl Holt Thomas was not alone in downwards to arrive. Just twe the field. There was Frederick hours 20 minutes after leaving Hanley Page whose organisa- tion of Cricklewood had been founded in 1008. His Handley Before he died in 1955, El Page Transport Ltd, started re- Tawford. the pilot, recollected

gular operations on the London- this inaugural flight; "We had Paris route on September 2, 1010, no wireless to help us, no blind with seven passengers and good. flag instrumenta, no fight The plot on that occasion wan ungtices, no parachutes or Shollo Douglas, now Lord brollies and only one engine that Douglas of Kirtleside, head had had a lot of wor use.

BEA, who recollects that he Anyway, hedgehopping over went to Handley Page, asled the old familar route, I soon for a job, and wha given · £500 international airline operatur, picked up the coast. Then came a year on chief pilot." WIG made in a converted SKUTIN wave-dimming which By the end of that year, the bomber, a DH 4A. a simple wasn't so funny in the sea mist. Insiona Air

Lime had alco mircraft, built of ash und spruce "Crikey What's that alica started and there were Thus braced with steel wire and pull the old ins up sharp, that's covered with linen fabric.

Hudilled in 1014-18 war flying kit in Д Fakeshift cabin, Stevenson-Recco sent an record,

BOMBER

Tiao Cross-Channel

which put Britain frut

fight,

the Vane Ughtship, that was

missed it by a fow feel, and the

a doesn't look at all matty/?"

of

three British firma running cóm- petitive scheduled services across the Channel, with two French river orad KLM.

Of that company of ploncer But there was one aspect of

in the Evening Standard with a pilota, Lawferel said: “... they travel between London und Paris first nicourt by an nirline flew old atroplanes with single which was both faster and less passenger at tho eestaty qu engines of, doubtful reliability, hazardous to the air passenger skelva: With almost d start Yet they establ

a record of 10 years ago the Journey suddenly the mist clears and regularity which has marcely between the city terminus, and houses begin to thicken. The been beaten with all our vastly the point of take-off, Just a airfield of Le Bourget stretches improved · multi = engined nir comfortable drive or 30 or 40

minutes. in front and we begin to descend, erüt.”

Yes, Paris was away on the right. The company employing him

I but even now it is scarcely which promoted, the first regular

- John Pudney ---{London Raprese Nervice),

I was less pleasing to find after de Gaulle's that, a year retium to power, the Communist Twspaper L'Humanite outsold all other Parls newspapers put together anxng these aristocrats of French Labour, -

~~(London Express Service).

A

"No, but he has had a good talking to," his mother

* * *

TEN-FOOT-LONG model glider soared off on its own last week and was lost.

It was launched-for an intended short trip-by Geoffrey Roland and his brother Tony at Stretford (Lanes), an air current carried it 500 ft, up, and it was last seen heading for the Peanines.

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