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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1961,
PEOPLE IN THE
NEWS
The King has decided things
are looking Mr Bunter-42 stones
up
for Laos
By RICHARD BERRY
News contributions thould be Whatever the outcome of the cold war
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till
struggle in Laos, it seems likely that the King, Savang Vatthana, will keep his throne.
Both the Russians and the Americans, as well as the Laotians on both sides in the civil war, recognise him as Head of State.
MAN WHO CAN'T
STOP EATING
BAFFLES DOCTORS
Mr X is a FOOD addict,
Bunter complex ends" of eating.
who
He craves food as an alcoholic craves drink. His weight once "went up to 42 stance more
than a quarter of a ton.
The strange case of Mr X.
25-year-old London Nbora- tory technician, has been deserited to meeting of diet experts by Dr Gordon Kennedy, of Cambridge University,
favourite Laotian phrase pen nyan," meaning "It doesn't matter.
The King says: "What is the
of sending people paint
to school? We are backward, and | whatever we do we shall never rise to the level of other peoples, Anyway, an educated people is difficult to govern."
A curious situation, but Laos is country where the curious commonplace. A country where, for example, 90 per cent [of the people think the world is dat, and populated mainly by Laotians,
And here,
the 100, both American-backed Royal Laolian Army
Communist and the Patket Lao are extremely re- luctant to shoot at anyone with ride, since it is not per- ansmissible for any good Buddhist
knowingly
kill a human being
they i concension
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Plucked from home at the age of 10, Sayang Vatthana was sent to Paris (the French, who then ruled Laos, like top people's chtdrea to have
Frunch education).
But by his return he had
14
| willingly make to military re-forgotten how to speak Lao and
quirements is occasionally to Arei for several
to be years had
func- bowitzers in the general direc-instructed by a palace
tionary. tion of the enemy.
Savong Vatthana's father soon tolked his son out of the foolish Ideas Europe-Ideas about science and agriculture. "My people only and make know how to sing love" he said.
FAITHFUL Military casualties resulling from, actual warfare over the have been past Fix months under 100.
Unambitious, slow moving, with a never-satiated taste for rier whisky, feasting and love making, they are te despair of the high-powered military operators who have come bustling into their coalty from Maset and Washington.
In this curious situation, the King is a king-sized curiosity. Partly under Laotian influence. ply under Western, he has found himself at odds with both ways of life,
He refused to practise thes royal tradition of polygamy, and woman plump He has stayed falth cousia available five.
ful and has five children,
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married one
He
is a fan of Margot Fonteyn and of Italian opera.
On the other hand, he has the traditional Laotian lethargy which
is
summed
in 113
11
WANTED KNOWN
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up in
COULDN'T BE SHAKEN By the time he lock the throne In 1959, after the old king had died aged 74. Savang | Valthana seemed to have sunk Inte torpor that could not be shaken by the fast-paced world around him.
ALWAYS RISING
In bed and eat because he bud become too fat to move,
London, Apr. 5.
a man with a Billy goes on "lost week-
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British newsletter from Peter Burgoyne
That's the stuff to tame the wild ones!
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He was eating 7,000 calories of food a day about twice the amount deeded by a novvy.
After being restricted to ear-starvation diet in hospital weight for many months his was cut down to 14 stones. He promised the doctors to stick to a diet, started work again, and even took up cycling.
FOOD SPREES
Amy
anybody's name you can think
of.
But he keeps going on what Dr Kennedy described as "eat- ing sprees." His weight has dept up to 19 stones, and he Superkavviar two now rides an sulo-cyclé,
The doctors have warned him that such enormous weight must endanger his health.
Since the eriais began, the king-now 54-has taken notable steps 10 Fused his country. Ile ha
kept close watch over an ancient golden | Buddha on the theory that "s Dr Kennedy thinks this case
long as the country is in cur
supports his theory that appelite hands, the country is safe."
and. the desire for physical And he has kept the body of activity are controlled
by the Inte father preserved" in sume part of the brain formaldehyde on the ground A defect in it can make people that powerful spirits which || hungrier and lazier at the same surround the corpse of a king time, so that they run a double will ward off all invaders, | risk of putting on weight.
London Expresa Scrutee),
his
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We have been considering] motor cycles.
There are atill some of those other motor cyclists left, we learned this week with no little
There was a time, it seems satisfaction. to us, when, motor cycles were Five hundred of them, club- held in not unaffectionate re- men from all over the country, gard by a good many elder Brl-crowded into the bar of a public when they symbolised house at Southall, Middlesex the youth's rugged zest for adven- other day with one common aim: ture and the open road.
to drive The Wild Ones off the roads. There
tons;
were some even then, of course, to whom motor cy- cles remained nasty dangerous things. But on the whole there was a pretty broad tolerance for the younger Briton astride his shining mount, roaring off to wards the innocent pleasures of
scrambles, hill
To this end they drew up be. tween them a four-point charter designed to salvage the good name of motor cycling: by com- pelting
manufacturers to pro- duee machine with effective all- encers, instructing teenogers in road safety, giving club riders cheaper insurance, and getting local authorities
provide waste ground tor sporting Rx- tures.
to
grass track climbs, and exhilarating week- end elubs runs to the coast.
Young owner-riders saved up hard cash for their machines
If nothing happens about their then, we seem to remember, out plan within a week, thore wil of often slender pay packets. be 24,000 well-behaved motor They knew how to decarbonise cyclists at a whole of a rally in and set the ignition and change Hyde Park wanting a tyre.
But life (ke motor cycles) is faster ROW. And we wish we Wild Ones. The kind of stuff could see anything even faintly they cannot stand in any kind Innocent or healthy about the of dose: organisation. powerful
down-payment mon- sters, straddled by black-jacket- ed speed flends, that now blaze in lethal convoy down our con- gested trunk roads.
SUICIDAL
Nor can you really term these new-look motor cyclists of the Amuent Age adventurous. Most true adventures offer at least a sporting chance of survival.
A better word would be sui- cidol.
We call them The Wild Ones: The Coffee-Bar Cowboys. Their new version of two-wheeled mo- tor sport is by now distressingly well-known to us all.
why..
to know
That's the stuff to tame The
☆ ☆
*
It
Was
RO
simple in Hamelin. If rats plagued the town you simple notified the burghera,. and they called in some reputable Pied Piper to whisk them away.
But Just try I now, as they did in the rat-ridden village of Witherley, Leicestershire week.
Just
Something had to be done fast. The rats, fat and frolic- some. were positively sneering at the villagers from the banks of the nearby River
Ver Anker.
It begins, by way of getting into the spirit of the thing, with a spot of moody mooching round the juke-box of the local cof- tee-bar, Then, when a reason- So the parish council passed ably large collection of impres- the problem to Market alonoble
has Cowgirls
fore- worth Rural Council, and they the vil- Kathered, it is necessary only to sent a rat-catcher to drop casually into the conversh- lage. tions:
"I think I go out and burn up a ton" (ton equals 100 mph). Then cut strides the Cowboy to his mount. There is an ear-
away
night.
Bog-
He sized up the situation with deft professional eye. "I can't
de anything," he said. And In no time at all, to the general
splitting roar from his illegally-satisfaction of the rats, he had doctored exhaust, and he is the villagers, the parish council 500 ec strong into the and two rural district.counelis looked fast in the niceties of 'The aim Is simple: to bag protocol and red tape.
The trouble was, he explained, your ton on the nearest stretch
then get round that the rats might well be liv- the block and back split se-ing on the other aide of the ri- aide.... conds faster than the last Cow-ver-the Warwickshire
making occasional boy who tried it. Certainly be- and merely tore your Espresso is cold.
forays into Leicestershire. Which would put them also under the
of open road,
And
It is dangerous sport. It la jurisdicilon of the Warwick- taal
wonder that accidentshire authority, the Atherstone registers in police stallions and Rural Council.
casually blocks re- hospital
So, while the rats splashed cord a mounting tail of grisly happily, telephone wires hum- midnight pile-ups of twisted med and a meeting was-arrang- landicbars
shattered ed between rat-catchers of the bodies.
two authorities.
But we are not completely dismayed. Timid Indy L-driv- ers may yet take heart. In Bri- tain at any rate The Wild Ones As parish council chairman Mr are clearly not going to get it John Tillson put it, we have to all their own road-hogging way.go about things the right way.
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