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Paris Newsletter
Paris.
WANT to destroy one great myth this week. It is that the English are the people who have an obsession with the wea- ther. I now know that it is the French who really can never stop talking about "Le Temps."
11 may be that the bad weather this year has ekog- gerated their interest. In fact the first thing any. Frenchinan or Frenchwoman discusses in the weather.
They look up at the sky and discuss the clouds. They look at their thermometers and baro melers and worry whether they are going up or down,
The habit
I have now learned the habit,
I am constantly talking about
THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 81, 1980.
FROM
DONALD EDGAR
That so-English topic-it's the
talk of Paris.
Yes, I mean the weather
now they have a class," "Les 1 and feet I will flatter it, be, doubt you are more beautiful Blousons Dores," which is dim- poilte. At other thines 1 attack than your lovely voice. I would but roughly it in the spirit of Waterloo. Uke Opern 62451”—and you will cult to translate refers to the same type of young
Shall we sny that may number gel i man who comes from a richt
19 Opera 02451.
It is not just an anecdote, It You find your- family.
something in the the tele expressUS The
have self involved with papors recently led with a number of phonist. You give your number French soul. They are born with
reasonable
They must have "Ahi normal life, French,
And if life doesn't cuses where young men of good
Monsieur," she replies drama.
provide drozun naturally, well family have been involved in
"Opera 80451."
Nou, Mudemuiselle, you reply, they will create it,
the weather mysell. When theft, and sexual violence._________ ket buck to Lon will be quite a change to tulk about the Royal Court Theatre.
men. care
A problem
Right answer
more
neurotic One of the experiruces in working in Paris ig the telephone. The trunk system is more or les automa tie.
in
Qui,
..
"Opera 62451."
Ah, oui Monsieur," she re- piles "de comprends Opera $2041,"
None left
itcently is is the moment of truth.
I Thought there Parisians left in This is the moment of crisis, It were 100,000
and 100,000 American you can overcome this you have Paris
tourists. -Now the 100,000 sulved the problem.
Parisions have left,
In the fashionable bars, such ns the Georges Cing and the
Franco, 1ke every other coun-
But Bal Involver dialling try, has its juvenile delinquent
You either lose your temper probl. They have their young curtain code numbers, listening and say something rude, in
The Wilt!
case the Ones, who to music and disembodied voices which
whole of the around the high route which give you instructions telephone system will be work- Crillon I have seen them Biled and sometimes get into trouble, which when you carry them out ing against you for the next few with Americans and when
hours, or you swallow hard, re- say filled, I mean filled. There They call them here, "Les have no effect whatsoever. Blousons Noirs, referring to
member you are a calm English- hus not been one French person their bluck leather jackets, But
man and say 'Mademoiselle, no there.
I have various moods with my telephone. Sometimes I look at
Civil war fear in а town called
From BERTRAM JONES
Savannakhet, Laos.
Paradise
I AM writing this from turn of the
tuning dial will
the Edge of Paradise. bring it a
For nine hours a day it tells
Mrs Wilding has an
amusing week
WILDING And her friend MIN Dolly Goodman, wife of the Lendon advertistig. man. had quite an amusing week here in spite of the fact that Sue had come over in a state of DERVER affer, breaking with Michael Wilding.
MRS SUSAN
My own opinion in that Susan Wilding (above) will to fairly swiftly recover
usual on with her
CRITY
active life,
I know that the break-up envisaged an early sa 18 months ago.
She told me that she pai up with it after that because she felt abe ought to do her bent, for; Michael.
Dolly was a great success here in Paris. She is half- Japanese. very lively, very amusing, and dresses Ex- tremely well.
CUCKOO-CLOCK
MINDS
11
Phoumi
TN that splendid film,
That is the ancient name for Luottons that Kong Lee is Savannakhel, L French-style Communist stooge. village anug palms
I found Generui
ow dripping tider enormously composed consider-
swamps
monsoon rains,
iL
that
*There is
statement about
RECENT NEWS GIVES
THEM MUCH TO ANSWER FOR
by Chapman Pincher
BTCS
of greatness. Two other Factors were responsible.
Investments
"The Third Man," Mr ing that als wife and seven Harry Lime, in the person But today Savannakhet is the children Bre hostages in of Orson Welles, made
have been and Vientiane, edge of danger.
Refugee Lolian Government threatened with rebel reprisals "rofound, if slightly exag-. Ministers d umny generals, if he moves against Kong Lee, gorated,
First, the spirit of the tunes fugitives from revolutionures He revealed that he has troops the Swiss.
Imbued the artists, writers, Vientiane from who peized their capital city marching on
He pointed out that though,
architects, scientists, and inv through lack ambition, the nearly a fortnight ago, are here two directions.
While that Swiss have afijoyed a century
the Americans will For further evidence of the ventors with a barnlag drive. planning como-buck
The danger, he said, is
financial patronage emptured furge | of
ail peace threatens to blaze Into elvil war. the rebels have
have describe with pride their sadel- cuckoo-clock trind look at the Secondly, they
lite
achievements and Hore,
their atom-propelled merchant ship-g by far-sighted men enabled the In talks
these stocks of weapons and uramuni preduced is the cuckoo clock. with
en absolute "must" for Britain creative Intellects to put their deeply disturbing Mercury project to put an as- very tan bi Vientiane, and may ar leadurs, I have found a different picture from the conthe-people and persuade them evidence that many of the tronaut in space Britain's ex- it our leadership as a maritime ideas into action.
politicians sured and that rebels under to fight for Kong Lee.
controlling Britain's penis Will sit muted and em- natki is to be maintained~~~~ General Phouml's Already
Aye Broe have to- future
Though have developed this barrasxd, Captain Kong Lee are patting
jstuliltybag, cuckoo-clock men- Intelligence service reports that out from Vientiane, the
As the jaunty Ruscione give dorod designs to the Transport стро
are in agents Communist
tality.
detalls their fantastic pro- Ministry for a 05,000-ton atom- tured capital 309 miles away.
Much vessel Vientiane advising the rebels.
gramme to populate the moon driven tankor, no
Because
the enormous because the cost Lao the Pathet And if
be built will wil and planeta, the British
of so
moders msay have 10 explain that their Goverment has already been projects the patronage of any guerillas originally recruited
that no stom-driven ruighty Government cannot make up its advised
enterprise now resta 20 largely
the In
hands of Their creed; Let us accept mind to afford a missile big ship will be economie
Yel Governments.
Cabinet £ second-class enough to blast a two-fout globe years.
mund the partk.
19 consistently subduing Let us stop trying Phoumination. But against that
1 sl be ashamed to see my
creative drive by turning down under the rebel clima
etery to play at the big table. Let us that troops in
projects because they show no countrymen-among the world's Vientiane are keep out of ambitious venture bost as producers of ideas-
Immediate province outside
signe of being us (that might · run Nosu» Debird him.
into ble representing a Government too money. Minister before
down-at-heel in spirit to afford Masanwhile. the Americans them opportunity. Vientiane's food and petrol and Russians strengthen their from Slam-alarmed command of space with one First, by blockading the supplies rebels food and fuel, Second, at the prospect of neighbour-technical masterpiece after on- necesing Laos going Communist-ether, unchallenged by this ance by a shooting war-il
greut pioneering natiin. sury,
Challenge
Lee and his 800 rebel
There, the takeover by Kung to fight for independence from pa France, and now turned Com- communist-join in, it could mean
Troopers is presented as
piele, with Britain-sized Los murderous civil war. und t 2,000.000 rasy-going
people firmly
Government.
But General Ploumi
van, Defence
Kong Lee's coup, assured me the
rebels will be challenged.
Treaty
have almost ceased.
That
Second class
we
No guarantee
Spirit, cash
for
of
The Atomic Energy Authority economic. What greal inven- will suggest the building of a tion ever did? floating alomie laboratory.
than Electricity was dearer witch might cost £30,000,000
first invented. But the atom chiefs hold no cardies when
combustion engines hope that such a sum will be Internal forthcoming bocaust of the could not compete with horses the on the form. Steamships„dre over-cautious approach of Hut rebels may get air drops The U.S. scientists hove taken The Blue Streak project, At this moment, the battle is of rice from Communist North
controlling tho purse sul dearer than schooners. On lead with two quicks Britain's only means of getting psychological.
the "t-must-be-conomic" basis Rival radlo
strings. Vicinum
triumphs in bringing a satellite me the space busmess, flogs un
we should never have developed propaganda clogs the air.
As General Phoumi discussed
minimu inley, no Who are those men? The the jet-engine or the atom- reflecting satellite Into orbit.
with power station. the rocket men that it will ever them. I name in particular Mr But who knows what worlders come to anything.
We are living largely on the Selwyn Lloyd, the now Chancel-
Until now girlish-faced Kong his problems, I remarked: "Itely back to Barth and put with
ting મ 100Lt. wide radio- priority, and no guarantee 10 HOW Cabinet is loaded
Lou, the paratroop esptain who
is hard to see how a war with cries when he becomes mo- out fighting can be won." tional, has had it all his way.
מרקט
only
freedom
He has seized the Laution radio,
Laos now a
But
Vientiane's
that
4
TH
recuntly?
10 Intention
scientists at this congress.
exciting
endeavour.
DI
now for our
He smiled grimly: " must the Russains wil announce al This is the slow-death-by- lor, Mr Butler, Mr Watkinson, investments in bold ideas and act quickly," he said, "and
the International Space Con- slamation treatment. Boconise Mr Maudling and Mr Thorney- great discoveries made by our looks as if there must be
agress which opened in Stockholm the politicians are terrified of croft, the Aviation Minister. Tonebears. What future winners ahooling war."
allotting a big stem for any non-
are we backing So far hc
It was not the sudden descendants? - There could be no more con- military venture, Britain scemns station is on the air. Working of calling. In Souto which
poor arrival of a phenomenal, nun- Britain hao no stake at all in become 3 from an army hut turned into a could involve trealy nations Vicing demonstration of where doomed to
of the U.S in yet her of genluses on the scene the future of space exploitation broadcasting station, its wave- pledged to resist Communist this failure to compete will lead relution
feld
and will not which made the Renaemiace and exploration length is deliberately so close to threats in South-East Asia. us than the plight of the British another
121 the Inevitable and the Industrial Revolution share fractional
-(London Express Service).
commercial rewards.
Unless some enterprise rnd spirit can be injected into the cuckoo-Flock minda which govern 19, il is clear what the historians will say of our generation. They will say that when opportunity knocked all we did was to complalá About the nolag.
-London Express frotca).
ARMCHAIR
TALENSION
"Next one who switches RAWHIDE on in the middle of my Olympic Games-BED!"
TALKING
POINTS
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"If we're going to send a woman as well as men into space now, I suppose we'll have to provide facilities for a gossip columnist too,“
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LAKE ENDS!!
(WATER
"I had a terrible experiance fast week too. You mode a mistake and gave me an empty bottle in my order!"
House of future
passes its test
Los Angeles.
MERICA'S all-plastic "house of the future" will pass
Aits toughness test here 1000 as it has its d
millionth visitor. The house was built three years ago en the outskirts of Los Angeles against public scepticism that it wouldn't stand up to wear and tear.
But now the makers announce Ulions divide the rooms and a that after a "rigorose going housewife may change the shape over by the publie" it shows of rooms if she wishes by a little virtually no signs of deteriora- light moving. tion.
The furniture in the haura Omcials say it should not be ranges from television, telt- too long before other models phones enabling the person start appearing la suburbs. They receiving the call to see who is will be a strange sight,
calling and switchboard. which can flood the house with The house has a central core scents ranging froth Innocence has nothing to containing kitchen, bathrooms vapours" to "sea breezes."
and laundry from which pro- dread.-
Jest four glass-enclosed “welugu,” Chairs adjust to any position roughly resembling' "Caravan of the body, and have bukit-ja trailers. These form the living speakers for murie listening. Open weave glass fibre drapéries in emon peel" and Valeng alter the Ught through: wall- Range of scents as windows in the family rooms
--RACINE.
To have known love, how bitter a thing it is,
---SWINBURNE.
No man is· justified · in doing evil on the ground of
FTITEODORE
Sreas,
and children's wing.
Doigned by the Mass-
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b conventional housewife wa The birusa in mino
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