1960-09-07 — Page 1

The World of Science

by Peter Fairley

Atom chiefs warn: Leave these posts

LINE of rotten wooden posts, bending drunkenly over the shingle, gorse, foxgloves and thistle of Dungeness beach is to be preserved by order of the mighty Central Electricity Generating Board.

The posts are on the site of

THE CHINA' MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

FAMINATES Paris

TODAY,

Paris.

one month

after the fashion shows of those whom it would be an exaggera. tion to describe as his rivals, Cristobal Balen- cinga unveils his Win ter collection. ·

1060.

The biggest name

in fashion-and

nobody knows him

As us it will be "the moment <H truth" for the fashion world. Some scientists belleve the international

even in the great the world's biggest atorn power giant ants choose brown con! It was so station, shortly to be bulli,

ms as building plots, because Christian Dior's day, and Dior's the material is a bad conductor death has only made it more p of hent. Thus they

keep the parent.

Lhe 177277

has Who insides of

You their Jantes cool,

pre-eminence thestre plastering

this with enjyed the nutsides

for nearly 悲 efay to felleel the sun's rays."

quarter of fashionable homes. His name century, Follow the ant-his-and the bathed in the floodlights does not appear in any reference rul, is the herpes

publicity. remains completely books and his age is a matter unknown to all hot a hand of speculation-probably he is in ful of intimate trends and his early fifties. business associades,

They ALSO happen to be the favourite landing point for mil lions of insects which migrate each year from the to Britain Continent.

Exhausted, de bugs rest for a while befine' moving infand,

For entomologists, the posts are a unke museum. Anil ac

result of their ples, the Board is now warned its contracters: "Leave the posts completely

"

Mwenzer, the power.

ROCKET TRIPS

BOUT that second batch of Mr R% "bly splash Pacific twelted host. Professor Georg Pokrawsky, OR! ut Russia's leading explosives experts, as

incastre

and is never seen In

There is ant a head waiter in Three homes Paris who could recognise ilm

or a woman of fashion whose fitting he has ever flattered by IMMEDIATELY his presence.

Never received THE Chess

is completed

11

collection

and before it

CRISTOBAL BALENCIAGA.

Eew smuld know him.

solid, erninigy

and In

» fh4. comfortable but

VOL

designer bert

by shewn, he takes off to one of his threp Spanish homes-on chiefs

in San Sebastian, another in have appointen a special warden. Pie vorkel tests stein to look after all the birds, indicate the

Madrid, third in Barcelona. Soviet Union is

++ flowers and tiny creatures that mangkly approaching the pointME

Windsor In France he has # shound this reanale tip of Kent, white mekets can be used not | ↓ dresses.

18th with it, but If 1 souple

century near Orleans, That is what I call good pale baily for space travel, art for may so put it, she never his babe De relations,

Pater-Pontinental manned fights been rercived by him.

Welt.

All the Rothschild women are without any ostentation 1114 ellents yet il

only WER

His servants, including his Givenchy who will also be show

·From: Rusia to Antarctica rendy in a foreign hotel that cooks, are all Spanish so, indeed, ing his collection, EEP down in an old mineral would only lake 45 to 50 two of them save him for the are most of his friends.

ale in the Mojave Deseri, minutes."

first time, when an owed hotel French friends number only six

are. seven and

with iw California, the US. Air Force is

fightser revealed the identity or Trying a new form of rady

of the sombre Spaniard dialling exceptions, people unknown to at an adjoining table.

the general public. in Parts he never

DEEP DOWN.

DEB

communication using "earth

currents

Instead of travelling up from point A and down to point B via the atmosphere., the gignals stay close to the grottari and Rol- low the contours of the country- side.

The idea was first hinted by

the Scottish physicist James

Clerk Maxwell in the 19th century.

It works

electromagnetic

tu;:1

pass

through dense material such as earth, then suddenly esurge into a lighter Rubstance such as air, they change direction and follow the line of the surfacnj with comparatively little loss of power.

U.S.A.F. scientists are beam- ing their signals etil along 11 underground, wire, pointlag in the direction of the revolver. Reception

good."

described

The disadvantage of the sys-

Is that a

tem

for

than for above-ground work,

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What kind wif rockri wondri an explosives expert be interested for?

(London Express Service).

goes to The two exceptions are the a restaurant, never attends the painter Bernard Buffet and the

Among us now

de

fellow Spaniard Plessen in the dignity of his detached with drawal from the world around him and his fierce perfection-m In his craft,

A nun without any intellectunt pretensions red little and his only hobbies are eocking and a mild interest in antiques-bis principal pride is that he is a first-rate needleworker and superb tailor.

لمة

A Soviet Embassy official in Paris: "Our only in

is to ensure the

Ferest

The most

sumptuous flat he He is a 60-year-old Armenian, Mouchegh Dilerdjian, who, after reserves for himself; 1 has

room Coft, by 18ft. suffering years of frustration reception

Socialist legislation la and there are five bedrooms. from

bathrooms and vasi France, has anally found proa three perily in the bencing, rep enter terraces.

DI, as I shall call him hence- prise air of Monaen,

forth, is married to an Austrian and has two sons.

He does not own a yacht yet and is clearly no immediate menace to Me Aristotle Onassis, but he is ulready

the biggest manufacturer of plastic lavalory sente south of the Loire.

Afler uti exploratory trip to Monier a few years ago, when

He leads a multi-lingual lie, nesking French in his factory German to his wife and his native Armenian to his two sons. Di has an Austrian passport. 1te leads a quiet life, being com- fetely absorbed by his rapidly

he found that every prosiect in expanding business. Congo's indopondence. Do the principality pleased him, he On weekends he escapes to his would set up his factory in the ravine 100-acre farm in the South of

you really think wo

be fools enough to think we under the bridge of St Romains, France, So far he has not been

exactly four yards Inside the sighted In the Casino, could make Communism with the Blacks?"

The friendship with Cavenly Finds prosperity

is a close one overflowing into their cornmen work and la

relationship is that MAN who manufactures

A which their

plastle lavatory seats of master and supil.

report, making Utterly impervious to Nattery, I am happy to Balenciago reminds one of his his mark in Monte Carlo,

WHEN THE

the signs that KISSING

ignited this

man's fury...

higher-"ONE word of warning-this book is not an enter- powered transmitter is needed |tainment except perhaps for those who are enter- The advantage is that storms, tained by the prospect of seeing their country de- And as he said this, Constantine Fitz- sunspots and all the other in-stroyed." ferruptions have practically no Gibbon looked out from his study on to the placid.

Tect. A useful stand-by in West Country fields.

times of emergency.

COAL - ANTS?

FitzGibbon was talking about his novel, "When The Kissing Had To Stop," a book that presents being England much as it is today, but degenerating into examined with new interest appalling complacency and immorality.

NT-HILLS

are

in South-West Africa. They may point to brown coal.

Indeed the reason which A lot of people regard this impelled him to write the simply as a spectacle, but don't novel was "first 1 was dis- realise that Pawers

was doing. what he did for us in Britain

HAD TO

STOP!

by JOHN CRUESEMANN

Is,

Tonceo Trontier.

He then went into Monaco's booming real estate business and

but filmselt one of Monte Carlo's

An

English woman visitor in Paris: "No,

most spectacular blocks no, we are not going to St of skyscraper flats.

me an-

This block now lowers over Tropes. It makes my hus- the port on the winding Boule band restless and vard d'Italie that leads from the viout." casino eastwards to Menion.

BOFFINS

-(London Express Service).

SAW 'ANGELS,' LEARNED ABOUT BIRDS

New facts from radar

By JAMES STUART a fresh approach to the old were pin-pointed as the centres ADAR scientists are problem of how a bird navigates, of sterling costs, and Trafalgar

evidence nev Square was one. Rearning a lot of new Substantiul cleanses seems

says

things about the flight of to prove that a blid makes use birds. It has

come of the sun by day and the stars all about through their efforts by night in order to fly with u

houding, constant

Dr to understand why what Eastwood. they call "angels" appear on radar screens.

Same of the things that have been discovered about birds are told in Shell Aviation News by Dr E. Enstword, of Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Co., Chelms- ford.

During the war eynics in the RAF used to say,

"Only birde Outside, as he finished talk and fools fly, and birds do not

My novel might besis possibly the hekle English sunshinelly by night." De Eastwood says

contemporary England.

And I wrote I." he adds, chiuded over. because 1 was terrified partly

that

time.

the

On airport screen Similar ring angels" have appeared on the radar screens at London Airport from the start- Ing roosts in Windsor. Great Park. But they do not interiers with radar operations.

But it has not yet learned how to correct for wind drift.

Measurements made from the Dr Eastwood says there are a strength of the rader echoes number of fixed points at which made it possible for them to that there were * starlings occupying a

-{London Express Servier).

radar echoes like ripples on calculate

scientists call them millon pand-the "ring angels" are observed on roost in Essex. radar,screens at sunrise.

M'

They

Just Fancy That

TEN aged over 60 in the United Arab Republic (Egypt and Syria) will in future need special court permission to marry women under 30. A new law men-allowed breaks a centuries-old custom by which Four wives under Moslem law-often celebrated old aga by marrying teenage girls.

!

redarstudies 111 Marconi research -- station at flushy Hill Essex, have estab- ́by of the remarks I heard "itemember," prided

on some oral roma. We seem Gioon Quisling and Kadirlished the fallacy of ins

Fitz-

Systematic recordings have to be living on our comfortable, tre in

Watching. the crowd.

shown that the total volume of little island with no big internal waiting. Listening. looking. biru zálivity is very

much Issues to divide us and without They always have been.

They world always will be,

It is not a greater at night than in the day the awareness of the

anestion of trusting to luck that around us.

anything unpleasant will some-

High fliers how Dass us by but trying to spot the danger in our midst. that seeps through life to countrymen,"

there sound to

down day.

FitzGibbon recalled how, in pompous but I wrote the book.always willing to run a slave "Once you get to a state the Germany of the 1920's public in the hope that it might help camp, To whip and to debase. birds to operate at 10,000 feet, his box when the heavy lever came away in his hands. in which sex and strip tease morality had almost ceased to prevent the horrors and dangers The phrase 'I can't happen but most probably such flights Points were changed by hand for three hours, delaying ure bought for money as exist and scandal and perver. It envisages, This is not fletion here is only true if we watch ore at about 4.000" feel.

sion were openly flaunted. With at all. It could be near fact," out that it doesn't happen here." "Radar studies are permitting grantly as they are now Hitler as the result. [objects, then it is only

VALENTINO WINS gusted by all the dingy sex quite as much

NEW FANS

ON TELEVISION and bodies become just

D

New York. America has discovered

new television personality

Rudolph Valentino.

ay for his own

And as if to encourage Hitler. little step to locking those Britain

the Peace Pledge Union in guve the impression bodies Up. And finally, however well intentioned some bodies that can be bought participants were) that this

country was soft and decadent, can be burned."

The book shows Britain

Once again the situation ts

as a country in which not dissimilar over here. Only Thirty-four years after his surge of maak emotion this time instead of the Peace

death the former

is winning new fons and new indistinct hearts os his silent pletures are

sereen idol generated by a few not-too-edge Union there Aldermaston marches.

shown on TV.

rapp

public figures

(and ANITIE well in the

are

the

"No one denies the sincerely, held views of some of these men

An independent rating service background) has swayed a and women." FitzGibbon - says that thousands of teen-great nujority and aver- phasised. "But what we have to agers and middle-aged women turned the Government, fear is not atomic analbillation, wern "wide-oyed and

sweeping to power a Ca- but the folly brought about by when, his most famous Aim, Son of the Shelk, was shown inet intent on a policy of the fear of that annihilation. in New York the other night. nuclear disarmament.

Sponsors are now bidding "sky-high prices for the use of the films.

Among other developments: A national "Rudolph Valenting Fan Club" has been formed. with members wearing buttons Yoading. "We Rate Rudy1"

A contest

A contest to disenver a new Rudolph Valentino is to be held

'Stupidity'

"Have you ever asked your-

on Hiro-

elf would the Americans have dropped the bomb #hima and Nagasaki if the Japanese had been in a position The next stage is in- to retaliate Now the balance evitable the

of terror is so poised that it is Russians move in. Without opposi-

better than no balance at all," tion. Equally inevitable, Britain becomes a satellite. And liberty is at an end.

—

Anger

FitzGibbon wrote this book,

The trouble today," very fast in three monks Inst at Allanile City, New Jerney

FitzGibbon pointed -out, summer and in a mood of cold, Says Press agent Birt Biken, the organizer: "The

people sustained anger. rublies that so many response to Valentino hos bei here regard the American- He had in the past few years overwhelming. If I enn ånd a Russian conflict, for Buch boen much occupied on a writer look-alike I've found a new it is, as if the whole tent with the Nazl camps star."

Valentino hair-cute-air of strength were a sport with the whole horror of tofall-

tarianism. well-alled and pressed steekly ing event which they are

People reading "When The

almost inevitably compared It

to the head-are being demand-watching from the grand-

and No

ed by the youth of America, re- stand with nothing to Kiming Had To Stop have ports the Federation of Barban. worry about but bet on the with George Orwell's "1994." Said Mr Paul Kliam, Bro- ducer of the serica featuring result,

1

But Fitzgibbon says "That Valentino: "Ie rather Over- whelming. And to think we The picture of stupidity and book, brilliant ce if Is, deals some with an England of a gener(A =, just thought the dilent movina Unreality displayed by would provide a quiet evening British politicians and leaders tion ahead, with a concentratio

Fle appalling. Just look at the camp England which it needs a London Express Service). U-Z fight and the Powace trial, lowp of logination to pleture,

of TV...

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The danger

don't

want

"Somerne

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that

Radar has discovered individual birds fly as high as is 20,000ft.

It is comman for migrating

CIGNALMAN BILL BANKS pulled the 4ft. 6 in. lever that controls the points outside Liverpool's Central Station recently--and was sent reeling across

trains.

---{London Express Service).

"Well, they're not down in the official entries list.”

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