Pare B
IKE'S CLINIC TO HAVE
ATOM REACTOR
It will aid fall-out victims
THE CHINĂ MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1960.
PRESIDENT Eisenhower's "own" clinic-the Walter Reed Army Hos pital, Washington-is to be fitted with an atomic reactor, the first ever to be built inside a hospital. It will supply radio-isotopes, for use in diagnosing and treating disease, and sterilising rays for medical equipment.
But the chief purpose is to enable doctors to steady the effects of radiation on human body tissueJ,
From these studies, ways will and be found. to treat men women who have suffered ce- cidental exposure, or victims of nuclear fallout.
Central depot
The core of the "alom fur- noce," a stainless-stect Ephere filled with a solution of uranium, measures only 16 inches across. But so much protective lead and concrete must be used that the whole unit will probably end up larger than a 14-foot cube.
Its power will be compara- tively low-enough to keep 50 one-bar electric fires perma nently aglow.
The hospital has 300 buildings spread over 323 acres. It is the clinic of choice for many top U.S. statesmen, including Eisen- hower, Harry Truman, the late John Foster Dulles ond General George Marshall.
A
The World
of Science
by
Pote
Fairley
Will British hospitals follow the idea? Most unlikely.
They are fed with radio-active materials from a central "depot at Amersham. Reactors at Har- well, and others in the new power stations will easily keep pace with demand.
lewer much
But the U.S.. with reactors
and working
BREAK-THROUGH BY BOY SCIENTISTS
GROUP of Derbyshire schoolboys has discovered something which may well save Britain's dye industry many thousands of pounds. They have found out how to prepare diazo salts by a single-stage process.
of
**TIG
These salts are among the paid for a refrigerator, needed most important basic "ingre to make the salts in below dients" of modern dyes. They freezing-point conditions. were discovered 102 years ago Dr M. A. Doughty, the school
master by a German sciential, Peter chemistry
with who. Griess, But until now, a com- Professor R. D. Haworth, plicated three-stage chemical Sheffield University, supervised process was needed to make the boys' work told me: them.
The boys sixth-formers at Mount St Mary's College, near Shemeld-tallowed
some up original research done in 1957. The school is one of 48 receiv- ing grants This year from the
to
interest of industry is irrelevant to our purposes, The research was carried out for its own sake and for the sake of the boys."
I can understand that. But
almost all the clothes we wear today have been dipped in dye. encourage So the boys', work is also of great
Royal Sociely original research. This grant practical importance.
The Congo faces
new enemy
HEALTH CHECK MAY END
From GEOFFREY THURSBY
Leopoldville.
ONE of the big fears in the Belgian Congo today is that with the coming of independence at the end of this month tropical diseases that have been
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greeter distances to send the fast-decaying isotopes, has special need.
Dig that ditch
WOULD you like to spend
your
summer holiday digging ditch 15ft. long. 12. wide and eft. deep? If so, you will be welcome at Overton Down, Wiltshire on July 1. - Tools? Primitive antler picks.
shovels shoulder-blade
and wicker baskets,
}
Purpose of the ditch is to get earth to build a bank beside it. Purpose of the bank is to see how it, and the tiny insects in i1, stand up to the next 100 years of British weather.
Furpose of the tools is to see how many hours it took how many Ancient Britons to build Fuch a bank-a common type of monument.
Sports wea
"Yes, Modom, I did read that Lady Lewisham thinks some shopgirls 'hope their customers drop dead, preferably outside the store, before they have the bother of serving them.' and 1 couldn't agree more."
London Express Service.
NEW YORK NEWSLETTER by Jeremy
Campbell
People don't like me any more,
New York. HE voice is butter
THE
soft. The white hair
is slipping off the back of the domed head like a mink stole off a sofa. The suit is rumpled linen blue stripe that has long since stopped lying about
its age.
This is P. G. Wodehouse, the
Lord Emsworth of Long Island;
says the
lonely P.G.
the chronicler of the bumbling says he will not because he completely rich, and the bumpkin peer could not have his dachshund walk. whose 80th novel has just been submit to the British quarantine published in New York.
regulations, but it is clear that
Jost her
Her flat is a dark museum of
Africana. A jumble of wooden IN THIS diet-obsessed city
gods, tom-toms (this
one for
rain, this one for weddings), where almost
every menu
leopard skins, human skulls, and has a low calory section, it gree at a small private cere
four bronze busts of Albert was a buoyant feeling to see mony last week.
Schweitzer. There is hardly
મૈં
square inch of wallpaper to be that the Pleasantly Plump Old Yaleman Porter sat on a Club of New York, limited suita in a 93rd floor, sulte at the Towers dressed in
seen.
She keeps Schweitzer's old to women over 121⁄2 stone, Waldort leather shoes which he wore in will hold its first national academie robes. the jungle for. 35 years carefully convention at Los ́ Angeles preserved in a Polythene bag.
next month. "I have no plans to marry," she said. "Otlo and meet or phone. I have come to model's feel now that nothing really
matters too much.
never
OLD MASTER
The Provost hung blue velyet hood on the composer and said: "Master of the deft phrase, the delectable ifyme, të” dis- tinctive melody, you are, in your field, the top.""
"In the summer I shall go
His friends' say the old master to Lambarene in time for
Cole Porter, who has not yet of the deft phrase is beginning...
to compose again, after long Schweitzer's 86th birthday and
from the amputation withdrawal from music and from I shall celebrate it. After bis recovered
his most spar. dog I am
faithful of his right leg two years ago, the world.
was awarded an honorary de-
"Schweitzer said I was a bird Last week he reluctantly, he is still hurt by the way he of paradise in a nest of spar
the his dachshund, was treated during left bis acres,
war rows," she said, "Now at last Nazi have become one of the his coloured cook, his Polish when his broadcasts for
wild row** maid and his two cats to make Germany brought him his thrice yearly visit to Mid- personal unpopularity. town Manhattan,
Still English
He speaks of this period of his life with puzzled resentment, calls it a silly business with a which touch of embarrassment
I taxied down the steaming eventually tapers off into sil- corridor of Fifth Avenue to
ence.
almost wiped off under European control will meet him at his club, a gloomy And finally, at 3 o'clock, a
return.
Sleeping sickness and malaria, once the bane of the Congo, are
now rare.
Daily, all over the country teams spray the drains and let off disinfectant "bombs," along the roads and in the steels.
Polio peril
The "health bombs" keep mosquitoes and flies-mosquitoes spread malaria, fies sleeping sickness-down to a minimum Spraying must go on continually. To make sure that diocase control is effective, "health bomb" men go into both Euro pean and African houses spray them.
and
The Africans, most of whom are backward do not like the spraying. They do not under- stand what it is for.
Now the Africans tre saying that one of the things that must stop with independence is the spraying they do not like.
The disturbing thing is that some politicians are beginning ገብ
people support the political ends.
fumed oak outpost of Empire on waiter wraithed out
It
very was
much like glasses.
of the
the fringes of Central Park gloom and look away the
upon the Albert stumbling Memorial in the middle of the We walked out into the city
follower."
--London Express Service),
Edmundo Ros explains
ARTIFICIAL stars winked in
an artificial night-club sky, Waiters scurried around like a Brooklyn Bridge. For Wode- sunshine of 66th Street and series of smooth glissandi. In a house, a naturalised American, watched P. G. Wodehouse, the has stubbornly retained his Englishman's Englishman, walk pool of light Edmundo Ros-the Englishness as if it were a fav slowly nway Table his weighty maestro of the Latin- utrite
pair of tweeds that his cigar smoke, back to his cats valet has threatened to give to and his cook and his two American dance rhythms-sang handed bridge on the lonely 12 with his own band in his custom- the gardener. in the steaming Congo is pollo.
He drinks tea. He falls to acres of expensive Long Island
ary style. The Belgians
been understand American politics, land. have giving African children vaccine And he still speaks with the injections. Suspicious African unmistakable triphthong of the mothers are against them. English public school.
Another enemy to be feared
If it is politically Advan tageous, to the new Congo politicians there will probably not be any injections.
I am told that of more than 100,000 Europeans in the Congo at the beginning of January there are now 75,000 jest.
-andon Express Service).
Out of date
• TOURIST NOTE. The New York sight-seeing buses now paute near the house off Fifth Avenue where late-
So cautiously that he might have been afraid of damaging the mike--or waking the neighbours.
unenthusiastic, Latin
To the
Wodehouse is rich, lonely ly lived Mrs Porumbeanu, American music (Ros style) might and nearly 79, dismayed that the then uneloped type-¡ appear to be one long tune his popularity in America is a writer, heiress Gamble Bene- coming off the assembly
the decline and fearful that his novelist's invention has begun dict.
to run dry.
"The fact is," be said,
"Americans don't like my books
much any more. I'm out of date,
I suppose. Pornography wasn't
GOING BACK
line, with occasional pauses while the maracas are lubricated.
This is obviously not the view
of the loyal millions who have
allowed when I began to write Marion Preminger, former kept Mr Ros prosperous for 20 and I never learned how to do wife of Otto, Preminger the pro-years.
ducer, is going back to the Al- "Even my magazine articles bert Schweltzer Hospital at have come to an end. I don't Lambarene. think the editor likes me very much.
"
Long day
This beautiful ånd witty ex- The Res working day spans countess, ex-actress was once most of the 24 hours. In the woman pursuit of success Mr Ros has voted the best-dressed
found that sleep is something he can dispense with.
EDMUNDO ROS
'I have made
mynulf a luxury. People have to
why he is
never tired..
KM.
pay a lot to sus me in person,'
to one of my tie wilted, the customers were
here are too blase to have bend me on the radio unless it was on their car radios. I think I ain
bit of a snob.
"Where I live I want to be the man who recognised as might sit on the local counell, who might have his own pew in the local church. I like to tak to people in the club and bell them my son is down to go to Marlborough.'
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On a limb
The image of the night-club proprietor is nolone thal Mr Ros is anxious to project. He leaned forward confiden- tially: "You know yourselt man to man, that the average night- club owner is a person you would not want to let in through your own front door,
Mr Ros likes to be seen at the Festival Hall and the Wig- more Hall-places notably m. different to the charms of Lain- American music.
"I live just like a hermit now. Never see anyone. I suppose I must be worth just about in America.
0 million dollars but I have
Salvador Dalí called her the
He explained: Some people nothing to spend it on. My only
In addition to managing his :
who won't allow my music to be extravagance is a game of two most beautiful skeleton, in the handed bridge with my wife in world. She wore the first (and own Edmundo Ros Club (which under contract
played in their house, change all glass he does as smoothly as he companies and I am paid a desperately trying to muster their minds when they find me the evening.
enough strength to keep up the sitting next to them at the publicity at the time than the eight different companies which
Festival Hall,” beau Conference of South American range from selling wines to "But it is very complex. None conversations.
"A sent in a concert hall Is Mr Ros lonked cool enough to of my companies is allowed to accumulate any capital. When have just come in from a bath about as close as Mr How likes Mr Ros Fettled his 10% stone they do I take it out and divide and a long sleep. He hummed to be to his colleagues in the into the plush comfort of one it I take half and the income, his own
Embarrassment
"Hollywood? I never got en well there, I was more or less thrown out of the place. I once gave an interview to a chap and said I was drawing a huge
presumably the last)
which received more manages his songs he runs salary of £4,000 a year.
Nations.
Went to Africa
salary for doing nothing. It Then all at once she throw raised an absolute storm.". society over and weni out
Hollywood for its own part to Afrien.
has made him no filth offers for
to operating laundries,
He told me, "When you are
Lunes and laughed pop musle world, 3, 4 de is best chairs, sipped a tax man takes the other half. loudly at the jokes in his own in this business you are cut ou
of
brandy and water and explained
why he worked so hard.
"In 1940 I was at the top of
the ladder: "But I didn't know
Not at club
floor-show.
a limb. It is too small, too com Reman who takes a petitive to be healthy, delight in making friends and I wouldn't let another band "Living around me are lots influencing people the ride leader know I had an engage
ment until the contract wi the last 23 years. The novels I went to have drinks with it at the time. I didn't charge of people with more money than people,
I have, based oh generations of
T are not readily available in the her in her bizarre and extra- enough. We gather
But I have „zlomk The mass cullence who watch signed. I would't let anfone New York shops
ordinary New York that. She - New Linew I am at the top Trosperity. In his adopted country he wore slark black, no Jewellery and 2 do charge mouth. I have thing they hvert got utile his new Charina Nine TV know I was going to record a Anda Barselt success-starved and only the faintest suggestion made melt lawry. Frogée amour And they comdn't show Let's Go Latin being number until it was prese
rictly on rating, charte - but. and looking to England for of make-up,
have to pay ́s lot to see me in afford to buy me
It was nearly 2 am, The hot at the Pomanda Roy Cuth. Gerard Garrett adaniration.
person. Wollhouse is patiently she still looks beautiful but take o Jok of money out 1: bead must have been going "I obi wwot nice propia în
and |auxious to re-visit London. He carelessly groomed
has spend a lot of honey, I am tired. the cigarette girl locked a here. The people who come
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