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General Ayub Khan

Ruler of Pakistan

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1960,

Generat

France "Ruter of Spain

Saulle

General Cursel 7Ruler of Turtel

"Don't let those foreign militarists give you any ideas, Marshal Malinovsky!”

London Express Bervice,

Brain machine THE COUNT KEEPS QUIET

to cut sleep

In 50 years' time, say Russians

THE world's coal seams will be set on fire and the gas turned into power -without any mining. Oil and minerals will be extracted from bores nine miles deep. A massive tunnel will be blasted through the Himalayas.

vibrating

Man will link a machine to his brain each night to cut his sleep noed by a half.

Aeroplanes will carry no fuel but will be powered by beams from the ground.

radic

Moving pavements will carry pedestrians through cities.

These are some of the wonders predicted in a Russian book Just published in London.

They are wonders which, we are told, will become reality during the next 50 years.

Fantasy? It sounds like it. But there are two important things to remember before con- demning the book as science fiction.

Evidence

The men making the predic- tions are some of Russia's most eminent scientists, including the president and vice-president of the Soviet Academy of Sciences and others who are recognised

The World

of Science

by Peter Fairley

BEWARE, POISON

TF a potato is sprouting do

IF

as world authorities in their not bake it in its skin.

fields.

For scientists have found These men were previously

small notorious for their refusal to that spuds contain forecast future events.

quantities of the chemical They cite plenty of evidence to solaning the substance show that scientists of many which

makes nightshade nations are already poised for

deadly.

the final breakthrough

Secondly, a Rip Van Winkle theme runs through the book.

and whole sacks of coal have turned up.

There seems to be no definite One pattern to the attacks. clue may lie in human sweat, for the beasts seem to be attracted by it. But two things have so far become clear:

Paris.

EGRET to report

RE

that the Pretender

to the French throne,

PARIS NEWS LETTER

by SAM WHITE

the Count of Paris, bas kind of financial skullduggery. At the same time he is highly suffered a grievous finan- He has taken the maiter cial loss.

The circumstances of the loss are mysterious.

There is

no mystery, how- ever, about the sum Involved. It is £400,000.

The Count is an extremely wealthy man, having been left a huge fortune by his father.

In silence

This he has invested at home and abroad with great shrewd ness. Even so, such a heavy loss as an embittering has come shock.

It is not clear whether the loss can be attributed to the normal A shark does not like cold risks attached to financial specu- water. And it is most unlikelylation or whether there is a attack a strong, vigorous more sinister explanation for it. The Count is convinced that he has been the victim of some -London Expreu Service).

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swimmer.

As for Mrs Macomber, her to punctilious in his dealings with fortune comes from oil and is officials at the Elysee Palace the Count of Paris.

one of the most considerable in and more particularly to M Olivier Guichard, one of General de Gaulle's closest advisers.

The possibility of a prosecu tion was discussed,

Thus he never sees the Count the US. himself but deals with him only through officials,

Honeymoon

There is a notable honeymoon

without any hope of effective marriage to Hussein in redress,

Monte

L

Two letters

A 2,000-MILE NIGHTMARE FOR BRITON

IN CANOE

Leopoldville.

TALL good-looking John Roberts, a 22-year-old

| Englishmän from "Devon, is about to attempt one of the most hazardous journeys en earth-a 2,000-mile trip in # 12 ft. canoe from the Source of the - croendile - infested Congo river,

The last people to attempt the journey were an American and a Briton from Kenya. They were swept to their death in rapids.

But John Roberts - son of a Devon architect - told me: "I am mapping every mile of the river.

"There are well over 100 rapis between the source and the mouth of the Congo.

"Before I start out I hope I shail know where every rapii. is | so that I will not be caught that | way."

What about the crocodiles? . Said John "I ant more worried about the hippos." He made a snapping noise with his teeth to demonstrate. "They just go for you, canoe and all." Witch-doctor

John has already chalked up some fantastic adventures in his three years in Africa.

an

When 'beiress Olga Deterding

He decided to work his way around to returning to across the continent and as a zela It was decided on this very couple in Paris at the moment. Europe after her prolonged ad-

They are fami Hussein Bey, ventures in darkest Africa, she Congo aim he set out in

sort of practice run for this high level that it would be

husband of King will and two letters waiting for African cance inadvisable to begin legal pro- former ceedings.

from Northern Farouk's aunt, and the enor her at Orly Airport.

Rhodesia on the Zambesi river. The Count will therefore have mously rich 84-year-old Ameri-Both have been there since to bear his loss in silence and can widow who was until her March 28, both were posted in "Suddenly I began to ache and All went well for 100 miles. Lelden in Holland and both are pain," said John. "I felt violent- Carlo a few weeks ago Mrs Initialled J.S. on the flaps. Jefferson King Macomber..

Hussein's Sixty-year-old

in- Novelist Irwin Shaw:

"African tribesmen got me to Egyptian fortune which he

wife and herited from his

"Taking

a long look at one of their huts and called a which included a world-famous,

|witch-doctor. They danced round some of my friends I find me for hours. The witch-doctor that my faith in divorce bathed me in hot water and ded has been

wonderfully me on milk."

He had malaria. restored."

London Express Service).

The incident focuses attention on the somewhat strange rela- ionship existing between the Count of Paris and General de Gauile.

De Gaulle is widely credited art collection has been confis with the intention of restoring cated by Nasser.

For the past few years he has the monarchy in France once he

from the been running a small factory in himself withdraws

Monte Carlo. political scene.

Fly ill. I managed to get ashore

at a small island.

ONE MAN STANDS OUT AS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY'S CHOICE BUT HAS HE POLITICAL SEX-APPEAL?

Cool, crafty and

WHEN the Republican faithful gather in Chicago

this July to nominate a Presidential candidate, their main function will be to sing songs, ring bells, and generally whoop it up in traditional style. Their candidate is all but picked. He has, in fact, been busily running for the job for several years. Vice-President Richard Milhous Nixon, 47, lapped the field when President Eisenhower blessed news conference in March. his candidacy at a the skin. Bailing removes them. Baking traps the poison inside. The surprise was not that Eisenhower endorsed Nixon, but that he took so long to get around to it.

These amounts are stepped up

If you had fallen asleep 50 years if light gets at the potato or aga would you recognise the when, it sprouts. They le in same world on waking today?

Would you have believed that radio, TV, atomic power, the jet aeroplane, Hovercraft, computer earth satellite could come in just 50 years?

and

A wise man today will read this book without his pinch of salt.

TALKING

POINTS

Praise yourself daringly. Something always sticks,

-FRANCIS BACON.

Give a little love to a child and you get a great deal back.

-(London-Express Service).

Normally the amount is so smell that no possible harm could resul not even a mild stomach upset.

But if the spud is sprouting It would be as well not to pop in the oven.

EYE ON SHARKS

THE

may

thing about Nixon is the very education,

Perhaps the most impressive Senate against federal aid to

fact that he is running for Pre- Others complain that Nixon sident after seven years as Vice- lacks the indefinable something it President job that for over which distinguishes a statesman a century has been a dumping, from a political hack. Certainly ground for dignified nonentities. he seems stubbornly dedicated in his speeches to the mundane

Controversial phrase. From Maine to Oregon,

Nixon changed all of that by on his many travels to uplift taking advantage of two breaks. his countrymen, he has left them First, Eisenhower soon showed to ponder such words as "all we

rough shark

have deep revulsion for the

and tumble of party politics, pretty teeth, but every" There was an opening for some- one fears its bite. The numbody to step in and lead the ber of people killed by them Republican Party, and Nixon each year is infinitesimal.lled it. Secondly, Eisenhower's serious illnesses caused Nixon to Nonetheless, scientists of be taken suriously as a possible several nations are coming immediate replacement. to the rescue,

If Nelson Rockefeller had been elected Governor of New York four years earlier, the story on humans are now kept. The might have been much different.

Detailed records of each attack

of

shark's palate is being studied. and stomach contents

far bottles, tins, rubber

most

but everybody loves Pat."

Faked photos

in

scene.

BY

clever-that's Nixon!

U.S. journalist GEORGE JUERGENS, an authority on the American political An Oxford education and ап English wife have equipped him with an exceptionally good understanding of what the "foreigner" wants to know about the chief candidates for the world's toughest job and the issues which affect their chances of reaching the White House.

WHO'S FOR

PRESIDENT?

Patricia and Richard Nixon next for the White House?

has delegated increasing respon- which likes politicians who kiss be written off anyway, and Ro- sibility to him over the years babies. One of America's best- gers would seem the more likely (the Constitution is almost com- known political writers, Stewart prospect for promotion, th

the problem While it is foolhardy to at- pletely silent on what functions Alsop, recognised

are

a Vice-President may or may not when he wrote that "there is tempt predictions before the even named, perform), and that as a result he something mechanical, something candidates. is the best-prepared candidate faintly inhuman about the man, Nixon at, the moment probably for the White House.

as there is about Dewey, when has at least a 50/50 chance to be The Nixon Success story he resembles in a number of the 35th President of the United started in Whittler, California, in ways. There is something of the States. Most of the animosity 1913, where he was born just a too-perfect quality of the very felt for him is concentrated in stone's throw from Hollywood handsome girl, whose hair is circles, which wouldn't vole Re- a respectably struggling always In place, whose slip publican anyway, and he has assets of Eisen- Quaker family. On both sides he never shows and who is never the precious

hower and "pence" and "pros- traces his ancestry to Irishmen led to the altar."

perity" to rely on.

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who migrated to America in the 18th Century. It is tempting to trace much of what Nixon is to- day to those roots.

Blushed"

Likely prospect

With the nomination all but an

ambitions of his own. His re- decisions, peated announcements that he is not available for the Vice-Pre- sidential nomination sound sin-

Difficult.

But the race will be extremely Nixon's rocket rise from dis-

close if the Democrats produce who radiates opponent any charged veteran to Presidential -RUSKIN. caught are being analysed. So candidate in 15 years has not

One could argue that his sewed up, the main excitement political sex appeal. Whatever tyres come cheaply. He is easily the

historical judgment on vaulting ambition is an out- in Chicago this July is likely to the controversial figure

growth of childhood poverty be over whom Nixon will select Elsenhower's Presidency, he has American public life, and causes need is a win complex....the and sci Democrats' teeth

ignoring for the moment that as his running mate. The Re been greatly loved by his coun- more sparks than anyone since same old Socialist baloney any gnashing.

his most likely adversary, De- publicans convene one week trymen. Not even Nixon's war- McCarthy. His stock campaign way you slice it....that's the Nixon's supporters often con- gambit, always good for a laugh, way the ball bounces.".

cede, that he was an impetuous mocratic Senator John Kennedy, after the Democrate, and Nixon's mest supporters feel real affec is to tum to his wife, sitting

was born into great wealth who is picked to oppose him.

Ironically, there is every pos- demurely and attentively, and to But nothing has aroused more youth, but argue that he has just as ambitious though he decision will probably hinge on flan for him

gained wisdom and maturity in that his prim, inhibited per- A Republican "dream ticket" sibility that he would make a announce: "I'm controversial, animosity than Nixon's version office. It is true that strice Eisen- sonality developed from his Nixon and Rockefeller better President than Eisen-. of the rocking, socking" cam- hower's heart attacks he has sternly religious upbringing; and seems to be impossible. The New hower. Nixon is much more like- The case for and against him paign. In 1946, when he ran to become more dignified, devotes that his rock-and-roll tactics are York Governor is a young, vitally to rellen the exercise of In old hat by now. His detractors the House of Representatives more time to handing awards to a legacy, from a race of fighting men who nourishes Presidential power, and to enjoy making argue that Nixon is "a pitchman against Jerry Voorhis, and in boy scouts and All-American Irishmen. of politics, who coldly trica to 1950, when he took on Ms football players. figure what will sell, packages Helen Gahagan Douglas (wife of Undoubtedly, Nixon's greatest his products neatly, and then actor Melvyn Douglas) for Call- asset is his by inheritance. The

It is difficult to guess what goes out to peddle them,"

fornia's vacant Senate seat, he Republican slogan of "peace and successfully used trick publicity prosperity has survived for

At school, college and uni- cere. They suggest he would policies he would pursue as Pres to convince the State that his seven years, and there is every versity he stood high scholas- prefer to wait in the wings for sident, but the likelihood is that domestic affairs ---- though not, as His flexible record on public opponents were dupes of the indication that it has many more tically, was a successful class Nixon to stub his toe; to stand he would be conservative m issues provides plenty of ram Communists.

years service to offer. The people golitician, and a more than com- by for eight years, if necessary.

and an internationalist in foreign munition for such an attack. As a Senator He endorsed the In recent years he has been still like Tke, and even if "I Like petent debater. He was obviously so that he can have star billing conservative as Elsenhower

ahead...

The two most likely prospects affairs. He is not likely to re- Bricker Amendment which more subtle, if no less aggres. Nixon" doesn't roll off the intelligent and determined to get some day himself,

In World War Two, he served at the moment are Secretary of verse the policy of containment would have limited, Presidential sive. He applied all his old tongue so easy, the Vice-Pre- authority in foreign andirs; as collegiate debating tricks to his sident manages to share, in the creditably as a desk omter in Labour James P. Mitchell and developed under Secretaries of the South Pacific, came home in Attorney General William P. State Acheson and Dulles, nor is be likely to put less emphasis on Vice President he opposed it, role as Republican batchetman. reflected glow.

Popularity after it incurred Eisenhower's from 1952 to 1056: A classic

time to be offered his Party's Rogers. nomination for a Congressional Mitchell is a Catholic, and will foreign aid.

On the other hand Nixon wrath. He supported a liberalised example occurred in the Spring,

Nixon has also benefited by tarif programme of reciprocal of 54, when he laid aside his

alienate Catholic voters by re- would probably be more willing trade, but also voted for crippling script on a national telecast de his widely publicised travels. On seat, and hasn't looked back be favoured if the Democrats

the Administration's two dramatic occasions first He is inordinately shy for a jecting Senator Kennedy's can- to take a gamble occasionally to achieve his ends, He prides, dim- amendments. In public addresses fending he has stood both for and foreign policy to remark: "And when he narrowly escaped being pubile official, particularly one didacy,

Rogers is probably closer to self on being an expert pakas against American intervention in incidentally, in mentioning dragged through the streets on of his reputation. A member of

Secretary Dulles, isn't it wonder his "goodwill" tour of South his star recalls, for instance, Nixon. It was he who introduced player.

But at cards and Korea and Indo-China. :11,

politics even On the hare a wook ful finally to have-a Secretary America, and later when he how he blushed like a zake the Vice-President to the in- after warning Republican din. of State who ten't taken in by jibed Khrushcher to a standstill when healed into an office fluential Eastern king-makers the coolest, craftiest players nor in Chickeo thai inadequate, the Communists? in their famous kitchen debate" shower for one of the girls and within the Republican Party, and sometimer lore

he has sided with Nixon on TOMORROW. He didn't say that Dulles's in Moscow his popularity has saw lingerie on display cixarŐBINE, -underpuki :- teachers,

Nixon's inability to project many Administration Issues. I Who' will the Democrats' and fabbe standards are weak- predecessors, George Marshall soared upwards. ZORION WE MALE! Osially strive, and Dean Acheson, were "taken Nixon's supportery also point warmth may be one of his Kennedy -is nominated by the ***Unt: In the /it." But the implication was clear out that Frendent Blignhower samaral, handicaps in a nation Democrats, the Catholic voce can

"What's the stork mad at you for, død?”

since.

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