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THE CHIN

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1969.

HOMESIDE PICTORIAL

ABOVE: A 58-strong party of Russian tourists pictured here, leaving Glasgow Cathe- dral on a four-day tour of the Scottish Lowlands include an expert on Scotland's notional poet Robert Burns. She'ls Professor Elistratova, who presented a book on the post to the Burns Museum during the trip. The party spent three days in Glas- gow, will spend another in Edinburgh, and in between are spending one in the coun- tryside where Burns lived,

ABOVE: The glass wall of the new Coventry Cathedral will be 45ft. long and 70ft. high, and composed of 90 panels engraved with the figures of 31 saints and 35 angels. The work of designing, and engraving is being done by John Hutton in London, who has already made 14 of the figures; the rest will have to be ready by March, 1961. Here, Hutton pauses during his work on one of the 8ft. high glass panels. All work is done with flexible-drive carborundum wheels, or a dentist's drill for fine work.

ABOVE: A revolutionary British spacoflight de- vice, on which resourch and planning has been going on for some con- siderable time past, was spoken of the other day, and; illustrated' with . a model, at the first Com- monwealth Spaceflight Symposium ot Church House, Westminster, London. Picture shows a modol at the "Space Pyramid."

RIGHT: Japon's best- known woman MP, Op- position leader Mrs Shid- zue Kato, arrived in Lon- don recently to apolo- gise for the wartime atro- cities committed by the Japanese. She has visited sovora! Asian countries, already, and in each sho has apologised. She says the apology must come first "Then we build friendship slowly, carefully, but strongly."

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ABOVE RIGHT: Keeping herself company with a good hefty book down at Pinewood Studios in between filming, lovely Brenda Pooley, 18, is a girl who seems booked for stardom. An ex-cinemo uskurette from Southend, Essex, Brenda tired of worching other stars on the screen, and canto to London to be a stor herself. Her trip poid off --she has just landed her first film part, în Norman Wisdom's latest film comedy

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ABOVEí Shy, 14-year-old Londoner Ann Stone sat out. the other day on the biggest adventure of her life.. Ar London Docks she went aboard the Russian, Iner Baltike-bound for Mdiców, and a four-year scholar, shipt:with_the Bolshoi Ballet School," "Daughter of 44-year-old caretaker, she is the first British girl to be offered a similar chance; wRS! authorities when the ballet compERTE tain in 1956. Picture shows watching Ann bourding the Ba

ABOVE: "The most ex- citing place in all "Eng- land", this is the proud boast made by architects who have worked on the rebuilding, 15 reconstruc- tion, and planning, of Coventry's brand

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ABOVE: The welcome given by Britons to U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower when he visited Britain recently, was a warm, and hearty one. Picture shows scene of Hammersmith Broadway where Ika got a reception reminiscent of New York's Broadway itself.

ABOVE: This is the home of the future-according to a not-too-serious artist's impr pression at London's current Radio Show. It's dominated, naturally, by TV-sets to' pick up commercial, broadcasts are built into the walls of kitchen, bathroom;:bad; room, and lounge as well as the lift. In the hall, a "Telefone" allows the owners (Mr and Mrs Tolley and family) to see us' well as hear their callers; more screens in the kitchen 'show Mis Telley what's happening inside the oven, grill, and washing machine; and when the front-door rings a touch of a switch puts a picture of the caller on a screen in each room.

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ABOVE: Glasgow factory owner G. J. Laird-Portch this firm makes skirts at. East Kilbride) decided that something had to be done about the perennial problem of Insing skilled workers who left to get married and become mothers. The solution be found was to build his own private creche for £12,000 --- complete with cots, tiny chain and tobias, foys galore, and bundles of napples, Picture show? Mms Violet "Leitch, a worker, watching through the window while her baby daughter Jean (facing (camera) jetties down with three playmates in the creche..

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