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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1960.

BLUE STREAK MAY LAUNCH A SPUTNIK

All-British space probe plan

BRITAIN'S future in space now hinges on the 3,000-mile Blue Streak missile. I understand that if its trials are successful, Lord Hailsham will ask for the cash to convert it to a satellite-launcher. And the plan for three British sputnika to be fired in the noses of American Scout rockets next year muy be scrapped in favour of a more ambitious programme, using the de Havilland rocket.

Development of the missile is

ahend of schedule, 114 Bis fest ay be in July, at Wor

But until it has turn perve?, the Government will stick to its present modest scheine.

Ministers believe they have 1he backing of ovary British acientist of repute in this "wait- and-see" policy,

If the Blu Streak fails, Lord Hallstar will certainly ask for the rockel's slice of the defener budget 10 1 diverted in other forms of spare research. But

The World of Science

by Peter Fairley

Unless the Ministry also seen the waves. These vibrations prevent light.

the milk curdling when de-

The Martian canals frosted,

―a Soviet theory

The invention, which was backed by the National Research Developmen! Corporation,

Little Rock

Negro lynchings

Ku Kia Kign

Kashmir

HUNGARY

Prison for

SHARPEVILLE

political

opponents

Sheno

Cummings

Is

"He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.

.”—St. John, Chapter 8

London Express Servien

TS Mars covered with ice? being highly praised all over the Cominios catth. His bringing milk places where it has never been tasted before.

prospects look rosy. And design studies to convert it to peaceful research are almost complete

Satellites 10

anti The

Russian astronomor V. Scouts will weigh 1 Davidav believes it is. Ho That the Bine Streak could p up a 1,000 punaned spoilk. And reasons like this: plans to Tull

are being drawn up.

Let's hope that, as the Ainer!- cans say. We have a bird,"

Wanted: More women scientists 1X7HY has Britain so few

WH

woman scientists? The answer is simple, because we have so few women science

teachers in Britain. And the prospect of gotting any more looks bleak.

brea

While big strides have made in training mure men, the total still calls short of the need. Women could 11 the Hap among the dons,

aunch

Hut

Fran epiculations, there should be as much water on Mara as on earth. Since Mars 14 farther away from the sun it is much colder, and the water should be Irazen.

Those "canals" which tele- scopes reveal? They are deep assures in the lee, caused by earthquakes. And their banks may be warned by internal heat, thus allowing vegetation to grow. Keeping milk fresh for 18 months TORE than 2,400

car-

Mono trasonic milk

Twenty pints will go soon to an interested Californian Orm. It mast he the most expensive milk ever bought. The United States will not take milk from Britain because of our reputation for foot-and-mouth disease.

So an NHDC offelal, complete with portable ultra-sonic vibra- for, is going to Jersey to treat the mills there.

dim?

Cost to the American

About £2 per pint.

A locust to beat the snowdrifts THE snow has gone. THE

But

дго boing rushed from for next time A ΠΟΥ Britain to a Durban hospital weapon is roady. It is the The to help save the lives of Snow Locust, built by อ Ministry of Education, prejudice African children. Frosonic Newcastle firm. and tradition are proving in mlik a new British invon- It blasts out heat to melt the surmountable.

keeps cow's snow from oil burners fited un- tion, which

дет и сапору in front, At the milk fresh for 18 months. back, 1 rotary brush and

The supply was sent in answer squeegee complete the job.

WOL

MANKOWITZ

ON AMERICA

A LOVER OF LONDON TELLS WHY HE'D RATHER LIVE IN LONDON THAN HEAD FOR NEW YORK

JOLF MANKOWITZ has just turned down an offer that many a British novelist, playwright, impresario or businessman would have accepted with alacrity,

He has refused

a three-year

Hollywood contract.

involved me

They simply refuse to believe that women will learn mathe. matics and physics. Russia has not convinced them. Only Lord to an SOS from doctors. Their .A nine-foot wide strip at Hailsham has seen the light. wards are crowded with victims snow, six inches deep, can be

"It would have wasting cleared at the rate of four miles The new mixed cumprchute of kwashiorkor - schucts will bring some improve disease caused by lack of protein. per hour. Or it can tackle drifts living in Hollywood for an im- he ment, But Brithir cunun have a This milk is frozen to below six feel deep, the manufacturers mense amount of money,"

not degrees, after being claim.

"But I'm just proper cadre of women science eight

interested." teachers in less than 25 years. "vibrated"

-{London Express Service).

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with ultra

sonic

tells

What makes a man

like Hugh Fraser keep on working?

FEW nights ago I was sitting in a Highlands Hotel with Hugh Fraser, the Scots draper who took over Harrods last autumn. We were four in the party, the other two being Fraser henchmen. Suddenly there came upon the air the sound of music. Soon this was amplified from another invisible source. A third instrument joined in.

The other three nen

gezing seraphically

at

other. AL

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Were each From

by TUDOR JENKINS

Fraser, they drow their hands

from their Trouser pockets,

opened them, and disclosed ex-

quisite g musical boxes, the sun an he is satisfied that his The amount of time he can sire a small cigarette lighter, will power has conquered-that slay at his home is diminishing takes about 24 hours he returns as his interests multiply. And they continue to grow- not

Fruser and his twe supporters to smolting. hadi recently returned from a Fraser, a burp-featured man only his business interests but holiday at St Mori He had with a toothbrush moustache, his voluntary work, like the bought the musical boxes as a #kes groy suits and old-school Sonttish Tourist Board, the memento of their visit.

Liva (Warriston and Glasgow Automobile Association and a Academy). Much of his ward- project for old people, robe comes from the shops he Fraser does not join these to controls.

be a mere narse on the letter- Ivenda.

He hurls himself into their affairs. He is the most restless man I know, a man with practically no private life.

"This is the first time we've played them all together like this." Fraser told me.

In such simple ways do men of power And entertainment,

At 57, Fraser has built a modest inheritance into a con- siderable personal fortune. works tremendously hard; and

in his fabulous take-over batiles

Je has the capacity of maintain-

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little time for many of the things that go to make the full lite.

Nearly every Monday morning

at eight o'clock he flies from

fle is not much interested in Glasgow to London, where his wine. rarely takes little more headquarters are at the Savoy,

un

# tow sips.

He out As soon as he has rogistered, he

ing Ice-cold enlm throughoul. down on wine when advised tha: Is out of the hotel again.

But he pays a price. During one, cannot mix drinks with He becomes the most elusive

the weeks of his Bicht for control choln-smoking and high-pres- man in London. He may visit his of Harrods, Fraser lost a stone in zure business. weight.

One thing Fraser knows, and that is what is going on in the

stores in Kensington or Knights- bridge, or go to

^^ headquarters.

at 7.43 in the morning. He sat friends when they drop in for time with the departmental there niching like u hawk while an evening chat,

buyers.

And on the day the votes were world, He reads all the now- Ho practises the age-old dodgo being counted at the offer of his papers, And he likes people; of master drapers-visiting his Edinburgh itwyor, Fraser arrived wherever he is le welcomes his shope unannounced. and chat-

Evenings, back at the the counting went on. He had His home in a 12-bedroom Havor, he TODY not line 211

30 million at stake.

house at Milngavio near Glas- nearly midnight, Did Fraser show any sign of gow. He and his wife have Tuonday nights he returns to strala?

pon, 23--Bow on the board of Scotland-in a railway sleeping

enterprises and "No," I am told by one who Fraser

a car.

"So I can have a Hitle was there. "Except that he daughter. There Fraser grows sleep." Fraser explains. acoelerated somewhat his rate of orchids and carnations; every A week-ends just nYW 10

molting eltarottes,”

day he wentя a flower in his leaves the comfort of his own Fraser is fond of a cigarette. buitenbole.

home to stump the Highiande on Many silver trophies adorn behalf of the lively "But” he says, "I occasionally

Scollish give up smoking altogether,"

the house, tributes to his skill Tourist Board. It is a thasochfalle exerelso. An at mooker.

lio covers hundreds of miles

me.

conterence businessman's suit.. "How much money? Well this is my vilinge, my place, my about £45,000 over three years, background. I'm glad of the bit

"Why did I say no?

of Russian in me, the bit of Jew, "Web" he said. looking out and the Cockney. from the taxi window DS he "But there's nothing better in hurried towards his Plecadilly the world than being a British

In his best ofcc

going-to- Jew,"

FRASER

No doubt about

it, he likes the

power that money brings

keeping his mitilons turning over, just as lessen men are com- velled to keep their money circulating. Others say he wante

even more money..

Fraser's attitude: "This i my fe. I like it,"

There is no doubt about it; he also likes the power that money

also.

WOLF MANKOWITZ "nothing better than being a British

Jew".

force."

A big decision. For Manko- -ing from grim farce to witz novelist, playwright, impresario, is at the threshold of

his career. He is only 35.

is

In America the likelihood that he could soon du much better than £45,000 every three years.

Mr Mankowiiz has just returned from a business trip to New York, where he sold his Allm, Expresso Bongo, and made a distribution deal for his firm. Sellers-Mankowitz Productions Ltd., on lucrative percentage basis.

On beaiulis: ·

klo!

"Even they are a symptom of the American social disease of conformity. You can be a non- conformist by wearing a bowler and city sult, or by joining a tight litle group with a vorabni- and chatter lory of 20 words about Zen Buddhism and half- cock philosophy."

On Mankowitz in America:

"If I lived there the first thing I'd have to do would be slow my puce. Show business is faster here. And оле reason why

I found him at his St John's Wood home, д fairly modem bungalow behind the lush blocks British production seems slower of Mats in Hall Road.

There

Untidiness

д

Icw

thon American is our compul- sion to give everything a better finish.

assume

"Our businessmen should be descending upon them lite the hordes of Genghis Khan. They want to trade with us.

"Even the vast buildings they were Persian and are putting up in New York like. Afghan rugs on the floors, rows insane termites, they of bookcases round the while they'll have to pull down. walls,

"That's significant-this death "primi:ive" brings. And there is something sculptures, 12 scatter cushions wish about things they make."

And on Britain's stiftudo in red, purple and orange on the making speeches. interviewing profcot. If so, it will be a great Mr Fraser's father was 12 sottees, and a happy air of Intel- towards America: local lairds and persuading success. In the Highlands, as in knight. (He was a Lord Provost.) lectual untidiness,

Street, people to brighten up their town- Threadneedle

in his Frarer's Fraser's Glasgow friends bellevé He was

provocative chipa to appeal to tourists. name has a mystical quality. that as a result of all his volun-international commentator

"Gleas

Fraser are not Why does man so rich keep tary work.

may be mood; exploding with judgments of the American scere, and enough," Kays Fraser. More on Increasing his chores? Why honoured, too. They hope he will

for reasons

not wanting to hotels are needed, more caravan not relax and live the life to get a peerage. sitos, more motels.

which his wealth entitles him?

become part of it.

On American women: "They're so dull. It goes along them. with the passivity of American male, you know,

"An Englishman in America should always carry an English woman wherever he goes."

On the American mood:

and lochs

The future

Already Fraser has the banks with him. "I want the local landowners to join in." he says. Many shrewd Scots belleve Fraser will make a public issue

of shares in his new tourist Le caught in the rat-race of

Men about him give different reasons for this. Some say he

If that occUZI, I suggest he should choose the title Lond Milngavie. It has the Aristo- cretle touch of not being pro- nouneed as it is spelt.

"Call Fraser.

RIGHTS

BLACKS

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# Mingay,"

Black

Justice

White

Justice

Con

MACLEOD AND THE RIVAL GODDESSES

зауб

"Our role should be that of trader and clowa.

"They need the detachment of our clowns and satirists to earth They're away up there the out of touch with reality in the

Cold War."

"I used to despise them. This time I found, to my surprise, I had an intense compassion for them. Rather as I would for a widow who had just inherited a large fortune.

"Now they have a strong com- pulsion to let you lighten their golden bump. The general feel- ing reems to bo-bero we bre with more wealth than wo know what to do with.

Lapped up

this

Such Mankowitz-lems as are lapped up by American Intellectuais.

An American news magazine last week published Mankowitz's Judgments on Greenwich Village and America..."the village la nod pretentious. FampouS Nailonalise the lot and give them A country of their ow/33," Americans are a marvellous sub- Ject for humour. They are caught between the vast ballons of the inflated Communism and American way of life, and aro the most anxious people in the world."

"They have for us rather the

the ancient attitude

Romans must have had towards Athens. fashion- "English things are able. Our films are making a

The other night a recorded dent in the American market interview with our Mankowitz They regard London the

world.

Talent

Athens of the English-speaking was due to be seen on millions

of American

In TV screens, which he said: "I hate Lie Ger matis. I have Dix million You rentons for haling them. asked the question. That's what I think."

He tells me that there were the ludio control cheers from

Not necessarily because of

"And they would like to have our talent, our intelligence and

the ability to speak as we think und to hell with you, Jock."

On American power:

room

the

"They are rather like my own opinion. But because in these children playing charades. They days "Americans do hot say put on the great imperial cloalt, what they think in pubite as Wo bul as the game progresses they do habitually,"

Which la one of the reasons got a bit embarrassed and won- der it perhaps anyone is taking why Wolf Mankowitz

dog that offer. them soriously."

On New York:

turned

"I love it. It is exhilarating Frank Entwisle

for anyone ohseised with show business; a running show-rang-

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