1959-12-08 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1959.

HIGH HEELS The astonishing story

IN THE

of why this rocket isn't ready yet...

MONASTERY Private

ANNE

SHARPLEY

reporting

from

Cyprus

Nicosia.

Line

London.

WHAT will happen if lightning strikes the H-bomb nose of one of the giant Thor rockets as it points skywards on

its launching pad near Britain's East Coast?

This question and other

minde of British safely experts

STAYING at a Greek monastery is one of those things you can do to prove you belong to a long, high-minded line of Philhellenes. But have raised such doubts in the did it because I was curious. And perhaps because in her far-away subconscious no woman quite accepts the idea of men living in solitary asceticism --without women.

that they have not yet sanction- ed the delivery of any warheads

to the launching sites.

I can discle that in spite of Insistent U.S.

pressure to get them delivered, all the

THE

THE R.A.F.'■ THOR ROCKET ON TRAILER AT EAST COAST SITE

COLUMN OF DISCLOSURE by CHAPMAN PINCHER

and U.S. site commandera These doubts mus! be have each turned a key in special resolved for two reasons:-- locks-which will never be done

used unless anger.

the Thor

Fizzle'

in

A "Fizzle" explosion releasing some radioactivity is possible. But Wak-

evidence that such

use

EIGH

The Guinea Pigs

31.M

women

50

"mechanism" which might be gerous-the submission of help- jarred fato some sort of action less people to painful and often

in indignity

the by a profound shock when it polniless goes wrong-as a watch might nume of medical progress. be made

tick 10

again by shaking it.

On balance

It's an exaggeration

To quote the doctors: "There

Is

WHEN declared operational some of the rockets will be kept vertical for quick launch- ing, and the crews must be train- ed to "count-them down" under all conditions, including stormis.

NIGHT old EVERY few weeks, some of

gotting senile that they аго were reasons for thinking that WHITEHALL My subconscious, however tar marvelled at the quantity and heads are still in storage under mishap is unlikely the Americans The warheads will have to

described by the doctors some senile patients might be worked up about possible away, need not have worried. Of the ammation of the conversa-

U.S. control at Lakenheath, have screwed almost identical be screwed off the rockets and

benefited to some degree by the repercussions from "On the "cabbage- 00 The 30 Thors already warheads

to their the 1 masteries of Cyp us 1 tion.

Atlas returned by road to Lakenheath concerned

of a very giving

strong and

the Boach,"

horror film At 9.30 the naked light buit Suffolk.

them on sites miles rockets now ready for

like" in for special maintenance.

have

given unusual stimulus. been chee the most famotes, Kykke,

We selected

the devastating which during the heat of the began to waver-the monastery's awaiting

are Aited with dummy California. plant was going out y

Modifications to the missile severe electric shock treat those who might be described as based on

over 00 effects of H-bomb fall-out, summer comes almost a sun electricity

on the theoretical cabbage-like. Those The British experie have a are now nearly complete and ment

were excluded."

when it opens in London me: resort as the Greek Cypriots for the night, Tine to sleep.

back I was escorted

alon!

that further sutely worry. They are neveral dummy runs with the chance that it might im- British experis suspect take to the mountaine

this month. the white-washed corridor

Their conclusion: "Some of contains coucemed about the effects of a warheads have been made with- cool.

because the warhead

prove them, trailers delivering out incident.

the patients were undoubtedly Across a red pia lihtly the monks who it ne kat

Jump unci

The Foreign Office fears asked if I wanted

substantial lumps of ordinary fire in the

to the launching reatiered with cartridge can the eat that was sleeping on my

So, though the Prime Minister

The resul

changed for the better though high explosive it might detonate the warheads

was so bad that

of sites

the ban. along narrow

10 country would prefer

delay

Una resurgence i struck by lightning.

any the treatment was stopped after none to a major degree. now tha the shootint of gans

Then they

Jonen.

marrying of missiles and war they had endured nine electric fortunately these were balanced the-H-bomb marchers and birds other than me, is back, 1 pillow patting out.

bic me an uthusiastic good-

Their doubts were not eased heads until

the Summit convulsions each.

by

patients who were demonstrations on the roc night.

be

These when the U.S. trailers for this talks, he is expected to accept

experiments were influenced unfavourably."

ket sites. The Home Office tighter U.S. not armed for purpose arrived without brakes the

safety undertaken on the weapon

the foresees great apprehension standards before the New Year, theory that the

Later in thele report atonic action until the British or renelights.

doctors adroit that they know on the

part of credulous "practically zero" about electro people who may

believe convulsion treatment, which has the film, and then charge the Covernment with mis-

drove towards Troodos

tems.

The are not to much

To krom

Stoun-

1:30-

tau as a series of mpacted. Into church

thickly wooded pyramida (un- tike Cyprus's other range which is a sharp points and Crusader castles and after

NOSPR

by

oil

At live s.m. the church bell already cracking hours of broke

there dawn and just before six was

led at the usund scurry by kind.

cimbing and cornering was the monastery.

Not one of those pectacular Father Eugenios to the church Greek monsteries just maag- and put in a stall next to him.

Gradually, like a gilded forest. itu to keep a gnarled grip on a clifftop, but an easy-looking the full extravagance of a Greek church interior be- group of large buldings with a Orthodox

The service lasted cafe af the side with drink enme clear, advertisements, to help with the an hour with Father Eugenios's kindly whispered injunction to salmer rund.

"Hav

cigarette." saline to "si" and "stand" to guide me, a great deal of tuneless but Father Eugenios, removing his blck stovepipe had and giving energetic singing by the monks Ine Gown in comfortable and novices and a feeling that behind that layer on layer of chinta armchair in his "cell."

gold of the altar screen there remained Inger on layer of gold yet

a

Father Eugenios's cell was, in Jeet, two quite spelous rooma which gave all arrivals through them a jack-in-the-box efferi,

Seven chairs

B

He had a tartan blanket for a

bedspread, a radio draped with pink silk scarf, an upholstered sofa, seven chairs, and a day-to- day tear-st

wine calendar, a advertisement, which indicated at for Father Fugenios it was il the 17th day of last mouth. Father Eugenios

small, Was

utterly and charming, although, so much for eloistrat gulet, he had to keep dashbag off to answer the tele phone.

Your

supper's ready," shid after a small boy novice had come in and spoken to him in Greek.

brown. bearded

Jan

As he led me along the arched verandah

what I wondered strange new food i should ind.; "There on the table in the room

Breakfast was

A

full-scale explosion would

because impossible

the

after

tenuous

brain is

ຕ

CAN WOMEN CRACK

THE

WORLD'S MOST

YOU call it "a bribe.”

New Yorkers call it

hurd tady any one of a hundred And the latest

elitese, more of the good brevic and a spoonful of quince jelly names,

taken ceremonially with a glass is "the old payola."

of water in the monastery's re-

ception zoom.

signed the visitors book an

It's IL good nume,

bit especially the

about means

the same page, as it happened the oid. For it as Archbishop Malcarios."

The stay was over. I was good old-fashioned graft- now one of a long high-minded New York's oldest and (if line of Philhellenes. curiosity had been satisfied, you judge by the well-

And my

QUOTE

by Sir Gordon. Russell, Direr- tor of the Council of Industrial Design THE average регон 13 not highly Imaginative and can- not be expected to visualise a in which I was to spend the new thing from description. Te set out an all-too has got used to a poor standard night was funtliar dish-egg and chips. of design and, indeed, sometimes

Father Eugenios came whisk- į prefers it.

ing in as fuished the

meal.

"Come and listen to the news,"

he said, and once more, at what

heeled

company it keeps)

most prosperously respect- able industry,

CORRUPT CITY?

by IAN

Of course, it has its ups and downs like any other business, undal after But this year is one of the good years. In New York alone some 18 Investigations into graft scandals are going on right now.

Shysters

AITKEN

--------New York, Thursday -----

being told

Bribes

New York's principal protectors. the 24,000 strong police force, provides a alue, For, excluding Latin America, the men loughingly called "New York's dincst" are probably. the world's must consistently corrupt law enforcement agency.

New Yorkers have seen the pilgrimage of overcoated

copa

pround the neighbourhood stores and bars asking for "unsolicited Christmas gifts.

Any taxidriver can tell you the price of getting his licence renewed without trouble ог delay, and most smali shop- keepers can tell you how much 11 costs to park a delivery

street.

been

The

used for 20 years in the treatment of ordinary mental

being held

patients They admit that one leading them over the fall- of the objects of the investiga- out danger. tion is to and out more about (L. Meetings aro

I refrain from naming the

to consider counter- ductors concerned in the bellef that their intentions

to moasures Were entirely humane. I report their public that the film is activities as further evidence of fictional exaggeration, a trend which consider dan-

--(London Express Service),

Eskimos may

assure

new system of writing

the

a

get

Ottawa.

CANADA'S 11,000 Eskimos may soon get a new

written language to add to the two systems which have already been taught to them by missionaries.

But

many Canadian church. the men are indignant about the new

language.

Dr D. B. Marsh, Anglican Bishop of the Arctic, says that to destroy syllable writing would Lefebvre, of be to destroy something which

Montreal, has

become distinctively

In the Eastern Arelle, most Eskimos, and means that books by Greenlander and scandal at last to a licence to chent. Dishonest van regularly in a no-parking Eskimos at present use syllables, written

a type of shorthand In

the the classics they have translated Western profess to see a gleam of light, shopkeepers were

Aretle they use u would be available to Canadianı that they could safely go ahead Building contractors can make Roman alphabet without the Eskimas. For at last the women are and sell short weight or inferior a fair estimate of how much letter Z. involved. And if there is one quality goods provided the they will have to pay to avoid a

Neither system is adequate thing more dangerous than a profils were shared with the flock of prosecutions for minor

to represent correctly woman scorned It is a woman inspectors.

violations of city building reguEskimo tongue, swindled by her local shop-

lations, and the owners of small keeper.

workshops have a similar know- minor icdge of the cost of They reach into flelds as far Thanks to the women, two

At the summit of this racket violations of the fre regulations. and 2 crooked apart as the law, television, am- city officials

So it goes on, So it will always services, bulance

newspaper union boss are already in gaol. was no less a person than the distribution and even graf Dozens more are expected to Director of the City Bureau of

zo on, until New Yorkers wake up to the fact that it is not an investigation itself.

And the tide of Weights and Measures, one Fred follow them,

who admits that inevitable part of city life. And J. Loughran, indignation is already lapping the swindle has been going on In the past few weeks the round the ankles of

now the Wozzzen aro helping, for eight years. has blown off television Robert Wagner.

(hat may happen.... quiz shows, TV and radio record Council of Physical Recreation's programmes, city slum clearance

-¿Landon Express Service). annual meeting-

projects,

evca gambling-and MAY be wrong about this, the neighbourhood butchers'

but if there is any meaning shops. in this catch phrase, “a higher

It all began when housewives standard of living," surely It Teenagers have learned that in a working-class district of means that people should have their favourite disc jockeys may suburban Brooklyn discovered more time to do as they like De necepling money to play them that their hard-won house- and that there should be more one record rather than another, keeping money was buying even opportuniiles for enjoyment.

less than usual. They were pay-

I realised was his normal speed, by Prince Philip, at the Central

we brook-necked along the corridors back to his cell.

The news was followed

throbbing voiced

alonte

crooning.

That sound...

by

Greek

How remote it all seemed after the telephone had stopped ringing and the novices had stoppest shouting rock 'n' roll- and so remote from the world

of women,

This consideration was

al

by the Rev. Gordon Hyslop speaking at a youth service Bloomsbury Baptist Church, Lon- don

GREAT many people

lid

Excuses

mayor

Slum dwellers patiently wait- ing more and more for meal. ing for new homes have dis- And they were getting worse covered that their landlords and quality for the money. the alum clearance contractors keep then In

are in league to

their misery"

Accident

Chickens that weighed 31b. in

the butcher's shop mysteriously weighed only 23b. есть the victims have found kitchen scales, Steak that in that ambulance services and looked tender on the slab turned

sooner completed then we heard an unmistakable sound along the stone-flugged corridors.

A the world do not realise abyster lawyers are in league to out to to tough and gristly on Click, cilek, ellek. And I walked a splendid lady in a fur that it is man who is important enrol new legal clients for the the plate.

coat, stiletto heel and a smlig of pure gold teeth. She, too, staying the night.

WDS

and man who maitets. Our lawyers.

science, great inven-

eyes turn all too readily on all Boris of other things develop- Neighbouring monks began toments In drop in, passing round cigaretics tlons, and the while Father Eugenios made natlous soffice. Hero WL9

shubby monk with

young

the Black

Imperial who was, of all things,

a Manchester United fan.

"When they are besien I feel

*

power of great |

Grubbiest

they

In growing numbers complained to the local inspec torg ol the city Bureau of Weights and Measures. But they And housewives have dis- were mot with blond excuses The dollars covered that the men paid by and shifty anilés. the city to protect them from continued to dribble dishonest shopkeepers

in drain. with the dishonest

by Mr John Chugg at Barn-league staple, Devon, Rural Council shopkeepers. sad," he said, reeling off the UIERE should be asurden names of the players.

A shed where a man own get LL, thin in new. But New wite and | 43 Yorkers know that behind

And there was one of those away from

down the

Network

Indignantly, the housewives

confused prolonged uproarious children, smoke his pipe, and it all lies a police department took their complaints directs to tallding sessions associated with | recover his equilibrium. Mediterranean peoples, and

perhaps the Irish

Father Eugenios, talked about

*

Live time syben Archbishop by Lord Mancroft, speaking Makarios was a novice at the of Sunday Observanco laws monastery, and two or three of London last night the island's milliumaires,

IT is a fact that only a Mokam- The fur-coated tady talked medan or practising Jew about her work, which was |çan operate as a barber in Boot- sirvesmaking, and 1 sat wed land on a Sunday.

notorious for its persistent graft City Hall. And when the files acandals, a body of politicians were bulging with angry letters who are sizung the grubbiost la City Hall officials at last decided the world, and a pubito morality to act:

that is more inclined to ask. What they found was a sing- in "How can I get in on 17 than gering, network of crooked deals

"klow can it be stopped?”

between butchers at aver New York-and the city's own integro- Yet experienced obsovers tors of weights and messures. who have seen the "eltrewida The inators were mystsenali- treakdown" vojne kod go in cally peddling · "what-wingind

How could he get away with 11? A glance at the record of

MY FAIR LADY

COMPANY

system, Eskirno. alphabet

Churchmen profest

Now Dr Giles the University of has developed new

the Roman using

It would also mean that which he hopes will stan Bibles and Prayer Books would dardise spelling and usage. have to be reprinted.

It

resembles closely

The Northern Affairs Depart written language used by the ment is expected to arbitrate.

advanced Greenland

-(London Express Service),

more

NO. DARLING, NO!

"HOT BLOODY LIKITY. WAS CUT FOR

THUS VERSION!

ALT

SKARSAL FOR MOSCOW

terse Camarans by prrangement when the Movabazter Quardian

the

★

A

TALKING

POINTS

society grows round

Ita ideals.

RAJAGOPALACHARI.

**

A platitude is a

trath

we are tired of hearing.

-GODFREY NICHOLSON.

Learning is often the

enemy of initiative.

LORD SAMUEL.

Every reformn was

a private opinion, t

onca

EMERSON.

It is not the longest sword but the longest purse that conquets.

-DEFOE.

The best reformers are thoon who begin on them-

*-BERNARD SHAW,