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Encounter with world's

greatest navigator

APART from his languish and rakish sideburns, Francis Chichester in dark suit and diffident spectacles looks like

a solicitor's chief clerk whose most hazardous journey is from a suburban villa to wood-panelled office. It's difficult at first

though he is now lacking close tar battles with wind and sea.

"The next Transilantic race won't be till 1984. I hope to be in it, but must do something

to he is still planning

say

to realise that he is the holder of this year's Yachtsman of the before then. Year award for sailing his 39 ft. Gypsy Moth III across the At- lantic to win the first solo East-to-West race.

instruments.

Of course, it's almost axion of the birds. You need the be that men of high adventure eckim ok the part played by William Holden And they are usually modest to a In Chichester's case it degree.

is not assumed

unless "But even after you've taken

all the possible

readings and checked everything you're still at the mercy of unpredictable factors, like shifting currents.

It was his wife who toki me over Innch that just a [ew wecks ago he was dubbed The world's greatest navigator."

Title

"All you can

do is make a doriuction and

the hope for best It's like solving a detec- tive mystery.

"My favourite author Simenon. I've got all his books. Read one on the Atlantic cross- ing. Apart from being a great maston of the detective story he's 3 brilliant student of

Interest

He was given the fatle when the Institute of Navigation human nature and is oddities," presented him with their gold medal which also honours his aviation trufsfying solo from Engfant Australia in 1929 and two years laler making a recordi long-distance scaplane flight from Australia to Japan.

My Chienester

Even Simenon might be somewhat surprised by one of pecredi ing the ventures in which Chlenes his heer tankard and said: for, the lone adventurer, has an "Hardly the greatest.

"Navigation isn't just science that can be studied and fully mastered. To a certain exoni good navigators are born,

interest.

MRS CHICHESTER THE WIFE WHO CAN'T COMPETE

These, of course, are written by Mrs Chichester,

Her hus band's contribution is mainly confined to the colorful maps which show you where to find everything. But he has nothing whatsoever to do with a ser tion headed "Where to Powder Your Nose."

2 It's called the "London Shopping and Fashion Guide." It's an elegantly bound pocket- book giving fairly frank assess- For the

"Can't

much at this stage, but it may be a voyage lu Francisco through the Panama Canal. I'd enjoy that." Mr Chichester, in his un- pompous voice, made voyage (about 10,000 miles) sound like a day excursion to Calals Less than two years

the

FRANCIS CHICHESTER

YACHTSMAN OF THE YEAR

Only a remarkable wife, who knows that she can, would dare

to admit it.

SIGHTS OF LONDON: A

before he braved the Atlantic, man shooting pigeons and Chichester was told by his popping them discreetly doctors he had an

the nubile starlet who was brave enough to take a year off from premieres to study at R.A,DA. She is now at- tending premieres again and accepting bigger parts in films.

Pre-RADA, her escorts in cluded Dominic Elliot and Lord Kimberley. Post-RA.D.A she may be moving down the sociai scale, but onward and upward intellectually. She has been lunching and dining frequently with Anthony Crosland, Labour MLP. On one occasion in the House itself.

She says with Yorkshire honesty:

"He's a charming companion I like going out with him. Only trouble he's always having to rush back to the House to.... to divide.

"He talks an awful lot about incurable into a sack inside Euston politics, which I and very, in- lung disease and would die if he Station on didn't

operation.

give her operation.

have a major lung His wife refused to the permission for

noon.

She told me: 'I've never be

Heved in surgery, if it can be avoided. fell that my husband woudin'i Live through the operation.

"He wan finally completely cured by fasting and by praye

--as I knew he would. But required more courage to defy the doctors than to allow him to sail off alone into the Atlan- tic.

"Anyway, I thought the race was the last stage of his cure.

"I also knew better than to interfere with a man and his boat.

"A boat is a source of endless moment his chief fascination and joy to a mai

not made, though none of us ments of shops, hotels, restau- interest is his has the natural homing Instincts rants.

company in

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map publishing A wife can't really

St James's, but, with a boat.”

a busy after- teresting, though I don't under- stand it all."

Miss Buckingham

not

A British official told me: "We have course at the London School of

Economics. to get rid of the pigeons when they get trouble. some. We employ people to do it from time to time." "I THINK women suffer But their aim is good. from deflated egos on the No passengers

have ever whole. They must not be been winged.

afraid of making a noise in public or making a big noise in public, if neces sary." It was a woman, of course-Anne Godwin, chairman of the T.U.C who said it. In public. With fully inflated ego. I rate it as the most mislead- ing, inflammatory,

and subversive statement of the week.

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