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Some of the privileges which have fallen Kennedy's way

PRESIDENTIAL PERKS

SALARY AND EXPENSES Salary: £35,700 a year before lax Expense allowance: £17.900 a year also taxable Travel allowance: £14.300 a year not taxable Free medical service

Pension of £8,930 a year for life; free office and staff on retirement from presidency Widow would receive pension of £3.752 a year for life

TRANSPORT

18 limousines with chauffeurs

92ft. yacht and a 62ft. cruiser

Boeing 707 jet airliner

Super Constellation airliner and 4 helicopters

Any U.S. warship or fleet of aircraft

at his command

All operating costs, guards, mechanics.

and crews paid for by Government

HOUSING

The White House fully furnished rent free with well-stocked wine cellar Free heat, gas, and electricity

72 White House employees including

8 engineers 4 electricians 11 gardeners

3 plumbers 2 storekeepers 1 painter 1 clerk 1 steward 2 housekeepers 4 butlers 6 cooks

5 doormen 5 housemen 1 laundress

1 pantrywoman 8 maids 1 valet

RECREATION

Holiday retreat fully staffed

in Catoctin Mountains of Maryland

New library every year

Private cinema

Heated swimming pool

Private tennis courts

Several colour and black-and-white televisions

London Express Service

But he still has to pay for his family's food

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THE JOB is acknowledged as the No. 1 in the Western World. And, appropriately, as President of the United States John Kennedy will collect the perks to match the power. They are worth over £1,785,000 a year.

. The President is free to travel as he wishes. His safety is watched by bodyguards, the Services, and the police. His

A giant among intellectuals

AFTER working on the discovery of Vitamin A, the brilliant Cambridge scientist wanted to relax. So he wrote a novel, and made for himself a new discovery · - the world of the Arts. This discovery led to the birth of a crusade to bridge the gulf between the Arts and Science.

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travel the world together. They are warmly welcomed at foreign universities he to talk on velence, government and the

her views on Proust.

describes the best kind of flcted on the enemy did not problems of man, she to give

Sir Charles is a convinced pro-

of a Civil Service Commissioner. Lady Snow is dark; blue-eyed He mixed with the Government's and vivacious. She smiles eastly top scientiile odvisens and was and has none of the ponderous critical of much that went on.

gravity of her husband. They Recently, he startled a Har. have one hori aged eight who is vard audience by a forthright a small replica of his father, attack on British bombing down to the spectacles, and a Discussing his policy, claiming that the wartime flair for chess. government ignored the advice son's chess ability, Sir Charles Bald. chunky Sir Charles that not to have a glimmer of armaments beginning, as a leken, of men with first-class braing be- gives one of his rare, rumbling

laughs. "He's a born intellec Percy Snow 6zes the intellec- the Second Law of Thermody with the halting of nuclear tests, cause a particular ecleatist who tual. When he's ten he'll prob tual life of Western society split numics Is not to be educated. or risk catastrophe."

had the ear of Winston Churefillably beat the hell out of me.". into two polar groups-the liter- It is doubtful, too, whether any Sir Charles carved out his urged full-scale strategic bomb-

Sir Charles and Lady Snow ary Intellectuals at one pole, the other writer of fiction could have carcer his own talents. He ing of Germany in 1942-43. Sub- scientists at the other. Between found himself as Sir Charles did was born at Leicester in 1905, sequent events, he said, vindicat them lies á gulf of mutual incem- recently-as a leading speaker to the son of a boot. factory clerked the man who were passed prehension.

the American Association for the and the grandson of a man he over; the amount of damage As a man wish a foot at each Advancement of Science,

Victorian artisan, self-educated, warrant the effort. pole, Sir Charles the reading; Looking sternly ever the top high-thinking, yet who never public on both sides

of the of his

thick spectacles, Sir got further. than maintenance grensive. He has a passionato Sir Charles is a modern art Atlantic know him as C.P. Snow Charles he was knighted foreman at the tramway. de- interest in the under-developed enthusiast, He favours Sidney is controversial, outspoken and 1957 for his selentilic work - pok“ His grandfather he re- countries. "We have all the Nolan, the Australian painter argumentative.

warned the great scientific brains: members with affection and resources to help hall the world who has designed the covers of He has become a respected fl- "We are faced with an either-or. admiration.

to live as long as we do and to some cl his books and whose distinct Eure In two

Lime. worlds. And we haven't much

"He was a member of a class eat enough. All that is missing works adorn his study walls. No other iterary figure could Either the United States must which has now, disappeared and is the will. We are sitting like have found it safe to pronounce accept a restriction on nuclear left a void. It is one of those people in a smart and cosy res- things we've got to fill the place taurant. Down on the pavement of, but heaven knows how." are people looking up at us,

The Snows scraped enough money together for Charles to go to the local grammar school. Physics took him to the top of his form. From University Col- Jesse. Leloester, he went an a scholarship to Cambridge, where he did what he calls "respectable work with molecular physics,**

His first novel, a detective

Author C. P. Snow is not impressed by the theatre, "John Gabriel Borkman, makes any play written this docode timi I

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Simon Kavanaugh

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story called "Death Under Salt" people who by chance have dif- have seen look like the work of forent colour elens and are children ill-informed and un- was published in 1932. Two

rather hungry. Do you wonder comprehending children. years later he wrote n povel

That sometimes we feel ashamed about young pcientists, T

"How are 'wo golur to lure Search." In 1933 he began work of ourselves as we look out

another Intelligence as adult as on his vast eleven-volume series cugh that plate-gloss"

Ibsen's Into writing playa? I which lakes its titla from the first Snow 18 critical of Como boolr, "Strangers and Brothers." aspects of

believe there is only one cliance British education. The cigirth in the series, "The Ho resents what ho calls thee's got to collect three or four serious writers,' pay them Oxford and Affair," appeared list year. The stranglehold of

something. ilko professorial work regarded as his best, "The Cambridge and wants to 900 · Balary, give them a contract for Masters," wop him. in con- many more universities. Al three years and make them re- junction with "The Now Men” though, he finds fault with much aldent playwrights, with a good, the James Talt Block Memorial of what he saw on his visit to repertory. company. That's al- Ruskin, he is outspoken in his most exactly how Ibsen Icarnt Some of his boɑls are set in achmiration of the priority the his craft." Cambridge, where he was a Savlets have given to leaming. tutor and is now a Fellow of The man who has been hailed Sir Charles Snow and C. P. Christ's College; others deal with by critics as one of the two meat Snow, Two houschoki, mames the world of government by com- Important: Briti novelista of onbedied in the bulky frame of mittee.

Almost all delve into the day-the other is Lawrence - ono intellectual who combines the struggle for power In Eover Durrellworks - und outstanding literary and lentific ment or academie sphere, As a study looking on fo Cromwell- talent and falls the world that man who moved in responsible road, West London.. His wife, man's progress demands ding.com. quartern for trany years, Snow in Pamola Hansford-Johnson-they operation. between two epheres well qualified to write about a married ki 1950 having become which have olwegn, represented world known only to a few. friends after her enthusiastia re- two diminet views of Utø...‚

The war found a head of vlow in a provincial paper of

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the Physion Section of the Central, one of his book a novelist, Omo tecla that if any one man Reglaber, cosponible for putting in her own right. They discurs could rehlave, much Untly that the right ocávallate into the right kikens, reco each other to the man woukt. bo Charien Porcy back rooms, Tho scicntiat olllary desk each day, but never Show. He has already uciloved novellet was accorded the dignity collaborato,

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health is cared for by a staff physician....

But not everything is free for, John Kennedy. He must still pay

for his family's food-and his personal phone calls.

The presidency didn't always provide this standard of living. Thomas Jefferson, for example, was on the vergo of bankruptcy for eight years after leaving the White House.

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