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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1981.

IF EARTHMAN MAKES A TRIP TO VENUS

Now that Man has gone into space, how would you like to go to Venus? Not much? Quite right too. For Venus is thought to be one huge sizzling bowl of dust where humans would be fried.

But now, a 20-year-old Uni- versity of California ostronomer has come up with a plno to make Venus at place for earthmed to live.

The way to do it, he says. is to load a rocket with algue

7.3 "plant" it on the planet.

Greenhouse effect

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Algue are the greenish, plant- like organisms that abound stognant ponds. The scientist, Carl Sagan, recommends that tons f the stuff should be jetti- soned fun the rocket close to Venus and Allowed to clawn.

Stout

Vents is shrouded by clouds compard, it is believert, ly

This of carbon dioxide.

steps the planet's heat escaping into spaer and produces a green- house effect. Sugan believes that

the algae when

pras through this layer they will ab- sorb water, and-lower down~~~ breathe in carbon dioxide and

breathe out oxygen.

That is photosynthesis. Pre- elsely the same reaction

makes earth life possible.

that

And

the reproducing algae should

ensure that it is a continuous

chain reaction.

Water, too

Sapan belleves the carban dioxide level of Venus's me

sphere would fall, heat would escape and the surface call What is missing? Water. Bul the Californian has thought this too

cf

As the algae Beat really cle the hot crust of Venus, they shuld be roasted, and decom-

And porc.

as every

The World

of Science

Fenil. It is manned by Rent Aremen and will deal with

blazes aboard ship or ai elther

to emergencies, no matter how bad the visibility or what time 01 night.

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Spood trap warning

ND now anti-radar. An American firm la pro- ducing a dovico

to

warn

motorists whom they dro op- proaching a polico radar trap. It is called Tho Santry.

It weights 13oz., is powered by batteries, and clips on to the dashboard. Any rndar SCA within 400 yards is detected From its signals. The Sentry allowing the driver plenty of gives out a warning "bleep."

bank.

ilme to slow down. Price? The radar gives particularly About HK$240.

obstrelen "sharp" pictures o

All is fair is love and police on its screen. It will enable the traps 68ft. long craft to speed quickly

(London Express Service),

QUESTION OF PROTOCOL Cummings

I

AT THE PALACE ......

Rome.

HAVE just visited the Royal apartments in which Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will stay as guests of Italy during their visit to Rome next month.

two These

apartments #11 Quiricale Palace are specially!

set astrie ter Royalty or chiefs

This protocol ruling, ap-

ef state ; ነ ሮቶ have been re-parently as irrevocable

as day

The

furbished and redcerated in or night, is causing the staff of chemist part. Yet they have lost noth- Quirinale much embarrassment

# the day approaches for knows, if you heat rarbohydrates, of their 18th century gran- you get carbon and water,

Irgenious,

✰ * Radar for firemen

deur.

the

Rueming half-length Quirinale-some 350ft.-on street side of Via del Quirinale, the apartments ecmbine to len The suite for the royal couple.

Strangely, peshops, no numes

RADAR is to be usedstvu i

fire.

the

against

callel

pre saleally. Apartment No, and

Apartment Nu. 2.

Apartment No.

A Deren et has been bullt into the Thame newest Are allocated 10 fcal. Firefiale, based at Grave-sovereign.

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DEREK

FULLARTON.

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a

always reigning

"Ho's a member of the 'League of Empiro Loyalists.' “'

SCHOOL

Queen and Price Philip to take up residence.

Austere

For it means the Queen must sleep in In austere, though regal. suite destined Napoleon, Emperor of France.

Prince Philip. hrwever, with necupy a more luxurious and femthinely appointed

ment designed for the Empress

Marie Louise.

The moblem has not aristos

before because this is the first

time Quirinale has been hnst

10

RICH Sovereign avcom

panied by a prince convert.

OF

SUBVERSION SPACE

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FOR

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SUBVERSION

SOUTH AMERICA

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OF

AFRICA

"Keeping rebels in your pocket! How disgraceful, Mr. Kennedy!"

London Express Service.

How did this man come

to hold so much power?

WHO, would you say, is the most modest

figure in British public life since the century began? Of all our big mon, who has had the slimmest regard for his own genius and abilities? Who is the most diffident and self-effacing, the least con- ceited, the least vain, the least self-

The first recupant of Queen, satisfied? Elizabeth's Apurimea: No 1 was Franz, first Emperor of Austria, who was guest of Pupe Plus VII in 1814. Last to sleep there was President Eisenhower on a visit to Reme in December 1959. Buth

of them were soldie's to whom

the luxury Was ot secondary importance.

Sculptures

When the Queen drives in o Quirinale through the portals flanked by Bernini sculptures of St Peter and St Paul, and tep- ped by u Madenou, she win walk up the Grand Staircase into the Hall of the Cutte witrs, the B01L-long 17th-century ebrerotial hall with ornate gilded ceiling.

There 15

medium-sized drawing

called Salotto rcom Verde--he green roon-whose mirrored doors reflect Bohemian chandeliers, Persian-style gilded chairs and Beauvais tapestries on the walls and a small

Japanese salon next door in which Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip will dine.

The Queen's study is the Salotto Pifetti named after the master of Piedmontere School of the 18th contury.

Magnificent

Hardly a soul could hesitate before answering that one. The name, quite clearly, is Attlee.

Repeat those two clipped syllables to yourself and immediately you see a vision of modesty personified and made flesh.

You see a small inon in a quiet suit in small, quiet car; you see him perched there shyly in the passenger's sent next to Lady

Altlec.

Or perhaps you see a differ ent vision Perhaps you look back and see that some small A- gure setting out bravely like Tons Thumb Info the world of giants.

And perhaps you remember how, like little Tom, le Clern triumphed. He slew the giants.

For more than 20 years he was the leader of a tough, turbulent party. Fur 11 continuous years he was one of the most important Ministers in the land, for six of them as Prime Minister.

Even now, in retirement, thka small, different mon is not out in the cold. He is an earl. He Isa Knight of the Garter. Above all, he is still no Oracle.

Someone sald: "If the prout has done well ran thinks be

he will say so. The conceited man will prefer just to mention that other people say so."

When you come to think of it, what a shrewd definition that was. Consider your own neigh- hours and ask yourself who is the most self-satisfied.

Tan't he perhaps the apparent- by shy mon who sometimes, quite quietly and without overt- y boasting, slides under your nose the note of appreciation

Edith Summerskill, Attiec and the late Anuerin Bepun,

by ROBERT PITMAN

A

Yet now I have read A Prime among equals. He necessarily Mister Remembers and from has, if he's any use at all, now on I can attend premieres good deal of experience and and view Earl Attlee without a think he has a certain amount authority, Some people may

quolm.

of wisdom...”

To tell the truth, only Onc Prime Minister really has all the qualities prescribed by Clement Attlee-Clement Attlee,

Dominating the entire room is

he has received from some per-

With a feeling of foreboding I In his preface, Mr Francis

Well, now, whom of our great a magnificent escritoire with In his role as Oracle he son of distinction?

turned to September 1039 in Williams thanks the official who Prime Ministers docs that bellying drawers, topped by a recently was interviewed on

Attico's book. The chapter was helped to trace Attlee's tele- describe best? Disraeli? Glod- closed bookense half-ceiling television, between puffs and Later I opened my copy of headed "War and Downfall

of grams to world leaders of which stone? Lloyd George? Churchill? high; the whole of the polished wheezes, by Mr Francia

Wit- the Attiec autoblography. I Chamberlain " wood is almost inviable beneath

Attlee kept no copies. Hams. And now BUINU subse

read about the episode, during the inlaid ivory and mother of quest Interviews. greatly aug-

The first paragraph started:— the General Election of 1945,

But there

ате other items pearl depleting neestes from mented by private papers, are

Attlee polished as a book: A PRIME when

engaged in

"When I returned Koran history.

has evidently from which the earl

One la used to by s MINISTER REMEMBERS, famous

I had debate-by-letter with Southport

to enter a kept with care. Francis Williams

(Heinemann, Winston Churchili:-

nursing home and underwent conclude the new book. Francis

for prostate Williams thus describes it operations "A the correspondence was trouble. I was warned that it

The clipping was a leading his would be some months before I published, Sometimes

article from the Ollawa should be ft to undertake full

comfortable.

The Queen's bedroom simple, unadorned but not un-

It is not difficult destined for a

21.).

The walls are of pale

to see it was soldier.

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two

green material; the bedspread, ASK YOURSELF Churchill's letters reached me chairs axi day couch are in

at Inte hour at night, but I responsibility. I went with my Journal. It described Attico 83 bottle green.

always

to get my family to Nevku lu North Walen not only in important respecta There

contrived Is one

Small

info wonder if any quiet replies

the Press marble-topped bed-lable with a

the to recuperate, and it was while I a great Prime Minister but "in ideal of I wan was there that Hitler's invasion any ways a heau single reading light, one chest clerk ur under bank manager, same day as his letters,

of Poland took place."

Prime Ministers.” of drawers,

looking at this pleasantly im generally thought to have had Completing this sulle ad Desing volume, should feel that the better of the exchanges. The 1 monument to authors of The British General next to the Queen's bedroom it is indeed

Election of 1945 stated that I

is a large military-looking blue- what modesty can achieve. grey dressing room whose mir- rored doors lake up the entire side of the room.

Contrast

In startling contrast in the

daintiness

Apartenent

and femininity

of No. 2 In which

Prince Philip will realde.

Yet, of course. thought could occur.

had the air of a sound and another ateady batsman keeping up his It might wicket with Caso against a be asked: "How did such

demon bowler who was losing difdent and modest man ever both pace and length."

What manage to bring it off? secret enabled him to climb to the top of the

speeches

TOLERATION

It appears that Lord Attlee endorses this view. Here, in answer to

questions from

at Press interviews. Minister ought to have:- beanstalk and SHOCK EFFECT Certainly he did not seem to be

slay every giant in sight?”

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fall of himself.

You can, perhaps, Imagine "Yes,"

Which in itself is clearly an extra quality. Even great men are not always solistled with the things with which fortune

has endowed them.

Disraeli would clearly have

preferred to have been born an Aristocrat. Winston Churchill may have regretted that he never really mastered foreign languages at schon!.

which

Naturally that paragraph Get disturbing ideas stirring in my anked mind. Could it really be,

By contrast I should say, that myself, that Clement Attice was

Attice has always thought that not so completely devoid of self-

it is best to be like Attlee. regard as everyone said?

For notice the points Tho very question seemed Williams, is his account of the are not included in his picture Impious. I read Lord Attlee's quaillen A perfect Prime of the ideal Prime Minister.

Nothing is sold about the "A Prime Minister's got to be need for such a leader to bo even more of a co-ordiantor than able to inspire and rouse his

and be would sometimes & Cabinet Minister. He ought country

hin colleagues; the shock effect of those teme, say, in answer to a long question to have a reasonable historical nothing is said about the need flat words for me after the disor "No" or even, In background and a reasonable for vlilon or a burning sense of cussion of a few hours before. talkative mood, "Quite so

degree of toleration. He need mission. But that was not all. Another

not necessarily have a charming point had been made in our

I watched him, on television, I personality, but it helps. And ho Tho only qualification which discussion. Someone elso had watched him at Alm premieres should remember that you don't could be in any sense, excep of autoblography. pale blue flowered silk,

sald: "You can always tell a Cha attends many Am necetearily think the other anal is that he should hnvo I was told that when the Royal Quite by chance, when I took really self-centred man by the premieres), Bometimes I have, fellow's a dirty dog.

and been almost Arst discussed there home my copy of the book, I way he remembers years

on the point. of “Off you go, dear, and be a was talk of putting Prince Phillp had a discussion with some datm. For example, he may pushing pust Jack Hawkida and ".......Another top: A

bad girl."

in Apartment No. 1. However, friends. We were not discuss say quite seriously: In Septem- the other premiere - goers Innate Italian gallantry fought in Atlee, We were discussing ber 1939. I had a'long course of apologise to the little eaxi for get along, but an egocentric a losing battle with frodiiloty. the difference between pride dental treatment.

10ar over harbouring such thoughts Prime Minister can't.. He must Second Class Honours degree in

about him.

only the fron

(London ArgYEAR, NUTRICE).

The bedroom is much larger.

Let me say at once that A huge Empire bed is set in an

first got almost reparate room divided several years ago.

sight of the answer from the main bedroom by two Biliaro. The walls are of bluo It came about with the publf velvel and

blue velvet drapes cation of another books hang from the pillars, the bed- Happend‹t, Earl

Attice's own

spread and chair-covera are

visit was

London Express Service).

ami conceit.

bayan then tobi",

The

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"a reasonable historical back ground."

fairly

to egoectric Cabinet Minister car

Earl Attlee has an Oxford

remember he's

history.