1961-05-10 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1981.

Bowler hats LOGAN GOURLAY

at the toy

counter... as I meet the 'cowboy' from the a new craze paddy fields

catches on

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By PATRICIA SIMMS

of Texas

MR MARCUS W. MAURITZ (pronounced something like Morris) has

a handsome equine face with a skin that's tanned to the colour of HAD to push through a crowd of bowler-hatted, seasoned saddle leather. He has a voice as metallically strong as a stirr cityfied types to get to the counter of the up and a Texan accent that drawis along to the pace of slow hoof beats. toyshop at the weekend. There wasn't a child in sight. I was among the followers and fanatics of high-heeled cowboy boots which Britain's most booning hobby: Plastic-model build-make a deep impression on the ing.

He wears a pair of handsome

lounge carpet of his Mayfair hotel.

"Proper daft some of these people are," said one of the girl assistants. "Come in twice a week r Lo ask what's the latest model from America.

- grown-up men too."

of the hos

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The toy shop--one hipRest in London counter #ven over entirely to plastic- presentatio model kits. I went there in tal out what makes them

the

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as much as the marketing

of

over

"And we export half of that- about 27,000,000 cwt, all chemical fertilisers.

But Mr Mauritz has changed the world."

The all that. He talks about his rice

New Yorker sald fervent sceptically: missionary'a

"I guess you'll be 1 ilut Mr Mauritz is no cowboy, with

sell Jie throws #tatistics telling us next that you The main interest of conviction,

and rice to the Indians

thu which make you feel like n Mauritz

Plain is rice.

and frightened bride- coolles out East," ordinary rice, Be used! for pelted

“Yes, sir, we do, We supply English weldings and Indian groom.

This is what he threw at me. about 80 per cent of the rico eurries, ote.

India by

and "In the past two years, sir, Imported we have increased the sale of Pakistan." He is president of the U.S.

the United Export Development American rice to Rive

which is partly Kingdom by 2.000 per cent. Yer ed among the top-people buyers. Association

the

Govera sir, 2,000 per cent." Over there, psychologists pre-subsidised

by serie kit-construction for bigment and officially blessed budness

sedative President Kennedy. as A

men

cinating that, for example, against the harassment of every- friend of mine spends six hours day e every weekend building things Hike a motel of the liner Oriada tark (1) (it in his study, a his bedroom). d an elephant it moves from room to room)

Around the counter I spoke to Mr John Yeasden, an iter secountant, who was stocking for Sunday afternoon and even- ing-he chuar, Bnally, a mostel of a US spare-launching site. (There are no Soviet models.)

Present

"I've been constructing models for 18 months now," he said. "All began with

birthday present I got for my 11-year- old son. a simple aircraft job. Made for him just to show him how it was done.... But he profers football.

"I've got 30 models now. concentrate on planus and space things, you know. You get this sense of having created some- thing you see."

Mr Harry Apton, an Epping! time-and-stuly man, was buying TWO OF three years ago 1 began study. of the Wild ing the history

Wyatt Earp and all West that. This, you might say,

A Red Indian chict.

the practical side of my interest, making these motels of cowboys ad that. and stage enaches Fascinating.. nothing better

by

Fervour

I tried not to look at him os if I thought he might be o jar.

I managed to "But the Indians own rice."

say polttely:

moice

MARCUS MAURITZ — RICE, WITH MAYBE A LITTLE DEX IN THE SELLING

the pounds "We're epening up offices all "That's where you're wrong, but it doesn't put

So we can You can't say you hate the en like potatoes. over the world now to promote air. their and advertise rice. I've just taste. Because it has practically say if you want a slim,

figure, eat rice. been on a tour of 70 countries no lasta. to get things moving.

sexy

Mr Mauriz

Production

assured me that moment he is not planning a world-wide competi

Miss Nice Itice. tion to and 1961.

The "I takes the taste or flavour I tried Mr Mauritz on subject of advertising. How was of whatever you cook it with for the the U.S. Rice Export Develop chicken, or fish, and so on.

Association. with the "That's one of its great ment backing of President Kennedy, virtues. Its versatility. We use putting the stuff over to the that in advertising."

image What was the world? they were creating in the public mind?

A New Yorker who was listen- ing said: "I didn't even knoy

I know I used the wrong verb, Over here, 1 asked a psycho- ile what he thought,

we grew any rice in America," but then I've never claimed to Logist

He is iso a millionaire (who You won't see it growing in be a man of the soll, and any- suid simply that it was a good

Park,"

saul Mr way it gave

a Mr Mauritz in' in Texas?) with interests Central thing that

mea many

chance to make a little joke. humdrum jobs needed a crea in oil wells, banks, and invest- Maurilz, "but we sure grow tive outlet, and building things ment houses. But rice is his in Texas, and California,

In the most up-to- "But the Indians also make a Ricg is his life. Louisiana. just chief concern. like space-ships provided

Until I met Mr Mouritz, my dote way. We sow and ferti- lot of Indians. that. "It's like gardening," he

And they all We produce eat rice. They can't produce self. You can see something ignorance of rice and its pro- ise it by plane.

than 50,000,000 enough to feed themselves. duction was profound. It was a roughly mere

we supply it. -Landon Express Service). Isubject that interested me about ewt. a year.

Krow."

The odd link between the

minds of twins

BY CHAPMAN PINCHER

TS there some telepathic link between identical twins which keeps them in subconscious con- tact, even though they may be separated by thou- sands of miles?

The poribility, which 14 for taking your mind completely been noted by deelors

reientists many times before, is

at the day's worries."

Meny of the

bles

men j

met

He found that

#1!

the

fraternal twins had Cops of their deaths

but many of the identical twins died withia few days of each other and in one case on the same day.

ย

agreed that the wife grum-raised agoin by the strange casat lenst three months between

of MI Dorothy Collins, -all these parts Brighton. Miles Collins die

from an accidental overdose sleeping tablet a week ago few hours before a cable

Africa with ved from South the news that her twin sister Marjorie had died.

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around the house." Some kits have 300 parts.

will Dic

out 1,500,000 of these kits this year- at prizes ranging from 2. 1. 10 Over B, in 150 shapes and Blacs.

You can buy plastle kits of

The evidence showed that

our old friends Athos. Porthos, though they had not met for 23

Arunis, the

Three really years Dorothy always seemed to

know when her sister was ill.

und Musketeers. Or. It you want to dig deep into the past, & Viennese foot-soldier of 1460

or a Crusader of 1180.

Or perhaps you prefer natural history? Then you can buy a squirrel (ail plastic except for the fur) or bigger game to the rhinoceros.

But it's ships and planes that are the big sellers.

You can buy Drake's Golden Hind for a few shillings. A 381. anadel of Thermopylae, clipper ship, that can be "rigged

the

as a barque or a square-rigger"

for ms.--one of the dearest.

Enthusiasts

What about a Defiant plane

Identical twins who have been separated soon after birth and reared far apart usually have astonishingly similar per-

enalties,

The

The likeness between them at every singe of their lives often extends to such detulis as pattern in which grey hairs The deaths could be explain- develop and the posliion of As purely coincidental but wrinkles. In the case of u the results of a long-term sur- 95-year-old pair of twins, X- voy of twins carried out by De rays showed that the shape of Franz Kallmann in the US, sug- their hearts. WU3 almost gests that the case should not identical. be dismissed su easily.

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GAPS

Dr Kallmann reported: "One twin was married to a farmer and took care of a large family. under typically rural con- ditions. while tho other Kallmann compared the preferred to remain single ond ife-histories of identical twins independent as a dressmakter in those conceived with exactly a big city. Nevertheless, their the same hereditary make-up clinical historios paralleled each in such an extent that and fraternal twinshore ao other

100e alike thar

were ordinary both

reported to have brothers and sisters.

become totally deaf, and blind in tho sinne month and to have hod strokes on the same day."

of the last war? Complete with POCKET CARTOON

the information that at Dun- kirk the Defiants of 204 Squa dron destroyed 37 enemy planes In only two patrols, without Jos, before switching to night- fighting,

But the real enthusiasts go in for such things as the newly issued 1-11th scale, 18in.-long Allison 501 D13 turbo-prop engine. Ilere is a plastic engine, complete to male, down la com- pressor, almuerew reduction gean- ing, ebg-wheels, aircrew blade pitch change the manufac- turers say with much pride it is the

aircraft most compleated kit ever markcled. And it sella ilke hat enkes.

But, big as the boom is here, It still has not reached the pro portions it has in the United States. There, one of the cur- Br1. rent best-sellers in na German-mado plastic giraffe (£100). selling at 300 dollars Last year the favourilo was n

at 450 dollars! buffalo selling

(£100).

Over there, President Ken-

TAUN nody.

Flater, uni .....Katharine Hepburn are number-

BY FRIELL

Population

Reporti

EASTOR TO CEP HUSBAURS

IN FUTURE PRESS.

"Do you think that's why men are frantically, speeding up their afforts, to, get into

space

HEREDITARY

The facts can be interpreted simply as meaning that, barring peeldents, the length of our lives is more or less doclded by our hereditary make-up before we

are born. Since Identical twing have the same make-up throy tend to dle at about the same ume.

But a recent medical report

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Cummings

and

I also took the opportunity to say, with apologies, that I per- sonally hated the taste of So stuff. But Mr Mouritz

invincible.

OF

LORDS

TARGET

Wedgwood Benn

the

"No scx?

I asked. "Well, maybe a Blue sex, yes Sir,"

(Mr Mauritz is able to sir you all the time and make it sound comradely, obsequious.)

not

It's probably the best netva I've heard all weeks.

Finally, I would like to report that Mr Mauritz shares my

ricc strong dislike for

dishes. it wouldn't

But unfortunately thar be true.

"You see, we advertise was

rice is non-fattening. It's starch, Constantly.

Yes, Mr. Macmillan also is attempting to put a man into space (a little space)!

He also cals the stuff.

Bogarin

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London Express Service.

TOTAL WAR NEED NOT KILL-BUT | BROTHERS FIGHT

IN

ALL WILL BE HELPLESS

U.S. PROBES CHEMICAL WAR

an age when total war could bring total destruction, experiments are being made with strange now "weapons" which would do no more than make masses of people temporarily helpless..

The war that incapacitated

without killing would be fought cause

with chemical compounds,

war

DOLLAR GIANT

From HENRY LOWRIE

to "slagnate"-and Now York.

they want brothers father MERICAN millionairo him out. The

is Cilat Mureliison, a

multi- from millionaire from oil, milways, Alan P. Kirby, Now Joney, and the Toxas theatres, and banking.

brothers John and Clint

bloodless confusian, irrationality werge of

but by Dr Joan Fitzherbert,

are confident these com- and odd reactions to the call of we British psychiatrist, offers an The Americans are developing the mind. Under their ipfiu pounds have a real potential in (£2,192 million)

warfare," Major-general Stubbs company; Allogluny alternative explamilon -- that these "Incapacitaniı”......the name the minds of identical twins are

given to this class of chemical ence, the courageous may be sold,

poration, capable of telepathic communi-agent Major-generel Marshall come timid and the timid brave. Slubb, Chief Chemical Ofcer

ortion,

He warned that there weio Dr Fitzherbert put forward of the United States army, has Those under the Influence of other biological agents, such as evidenco

thatsald magaling:

that investigations aro theo ngente not only cannot colourless, odourless and taalo- molliers have some. telepathic going on at full spred.

think clearly but may think loan nerve gases, which were sensor which erobics then to

completely opposite from nor quick killerS. know instinctively, whơn - their. The non-lethal chemicals can mal. children are in danger. ́.

be divided into. two-groupo. One

There was reason to bellevo can take that the Sovjet was, out-

America in producing

in the: chemical weapon fold, he

Complete recovery

without treatment minutes or hours.

If such a meratail link between causes temporary physical dis- mother and babys. In confumo, ability such en discomfort, parn- plące, It should also..exist between lysis or immobilisation. Identical twina, vyhore retutions

The other the paychochemi- "We do not want to create the They, impression that wa, are on, ibe

Fehlp in much more inlilimutan.

cals-affects London Express Service.

belaviour.

ackloci,...

Kirby, a Woolworth heir, is Murchison will know in • zaid to have a private fortune fow. doya, who has won, the of 300 million dollars, Battle for control of the

which has been The fight, million-dollar cempared to the 6,000

nineteenth- holding century battles of the oil and Cor stie barons, is not only to get shores but to infuenes sufficient shareholdern to take siden,

climax. Baltimore at the companyia an- lat (£14,280,000) and the two mual meeting. Usually, abojit do

dolines stockholders Murchisons 20,000,000

turn out. (27,143,320) buying UD Al- time there was about 1,000. foghway shares,

Wall Street. which calls it

Balding 08-year-old Kirby has spent about 40,000,000 dels

It reached'

This

Kirby is chuimnign of theo titanio struggle" has inade company but John Murchison, Kirby the favourite. But it will 301, and his brother Cini, 87 take, a day or two to count tho Bướ? Hos in sun, okwonion, manager shareholikiuz, müllóna, of, proxy,

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