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The

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1960.

-Rain.

Jebb Puts Winchell Right About Britain

U.S. SECRECY FOUND DANGER TO SCIENCE

The U.S. Government's security and loyalty programmes are unintentionally retarding scien- tific progress and endangering American leader- ship in the field, according to a 90,000-word report| on the impact of governmental security practices on civil liberties.

Written by Walter Gellhorn, a Professor of Law at Columbia University and a frequent critic of Government loyalty procedures as a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the report is the first of eight to be published on the findings of a two-year study financed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

AIR SPEED

Three major criticisma of the operation of present security programmes were voiced by Professor Gell-

PAST HUMAN horn. While aimed at de

ENDURANCE

sirable objectives, he anid that the measures have:

1 Hindered selente teainwork and led to wastefull duplien- tion of research by prevent- ing the free exchange of ideas between scientist. Obstructed the training young scientists by refusing,

High-speed planes are outstripping the abilities of the human body and mind. to control them. su the plane of the future will carry its OWN electronic brain, says a scientist.

coveries.

to new

of

3. Discouraged by "feur of smear," experienced scientists from entering secret research. "The hope for science in this country and for the nation's security is that the public al large will shed its tears, grow in understandinst and cease

THESE somewhat damp German Protestants are attending Church Day of the Evangelical Church of In an article dealing with use Berlin and the Province of or electronic calculating Brandenburg...Some 10,000 | machines

problems of fight from Berlin and

control. the Russian Zone of Ger-body's design ta becoming the E. Edlefsen sold the human many were on hand in the principal stumbling block in sedulously accepting assertions development nt supersonic milltary planes.

persons

rain. (Acme).

FASTER THAN

A tall, dignified Briton was strolling along New York's Park Avenue just before midnight after a strenuous day at the Foreign Minis- ters' meeting when a man in a slouch hat and raincoat approached and SOUND WIND

asked: "Sir Gladwyn Jebb”?

nist."

ints

am

Bul £

TUNNEL

Jebb admitted his iden- ours in his columus or broad-, flank that had belter main o the recurt," says Sir Glad- ity, and the stranger troduced himself:

The Southern California The two men

stood talking wyn, "unless Winchell cares to

direluse what I nich. for several minutes, and

Win- Walter Winchell the colum-ben invited fell to the Sterk thank you may kay I put him-operative wind tunel, Club for a drink. Crowds here aught on one or two things." being hurried to completion bir Gladwyn had only one re to serve nearby warplane her Uno spokesman sitting side there were a number of factorien, huis bean "souped by side for about two hours.

fullywood and Broadway sture

up" past the sonic burier, What did they talk about? Hesent, "bul, he was to busy talking he did not introduce me

any of

of them."

Sau Jebb: "1 had been want-

ing to meet Winchell. had heard so many things about bim-that he was no friend of

Lesson

Britning arch-critic

For Liz

and

WHEN actress Elizabeth Taylor returned to New York, after a honeymoon in Europe, she went to the Waldorf- Astoria Hotel and took an accordion lesson from Dick Contine, Liz will soon be back in Hollywood and hard at work on a new film to make up for time spent on a

long honeymoon.

--

EX-COMMUNIST

automatic

Dr

that safety lies in secrecy," Mr Gellhorn wrote in his report, which is pulled ly the Dr Edlefsen, associate technt-Comell University Press, cal rector of North American

Aviation's acrophysies i bora-

company's

SOCIALLY HURTFUL

Fine

Feathered Friend

BETTY McLaughlin, of Portsmouth, N.H., is doing her good deed. When Smokey, a sea gull, was found injured, Betty offered to nurse the bird back to health, and ho looks like he's doing all right, ·(Acmo),

Heredity Is Unknown Factor In Cancer

A Madam

tory, cald In the

Z. comes down in medicat İlterature" magazine Ikat military aircraft "Sverecy is antithetical to the cause of twenty-six mombers of her family--mother, now by so fast that pilots can-pit of science, soclully childron, and grandchildren-sixteen died of cancer. Out not react quickly enough to fire hurtful. Only for brief periods of 174 members of the G. family of Michigan, forty-one'

can it be practised without succumbed to cancer, destroying the scientifle

their guns,

In the future, bralis built into superiority small boxes will handle au- | 1weserve,” tomatically

this interception operation, he said.

it is intended IU

cases

There are some striking of identical twins Tue report recalled hat who developed tumours in research with mustard gas had the same period of life and The devices will be so cuti Je to methods plicated electronically the test Hodgkin's disease and that BAL, occasionally in the same

of combating panels wil

to be built au caniment developed for treat-place. Into the plane, Dr Ediefren ald, ing Lewistle burns. had been and the pilot will do little aoré ¦ found effective in combating Orismally desiped to test an press buttons to supervise

arcenic poison. aircraft at sinaudotisk speeds ap-action in the vanout phases of proaching the speed und, the mission. plans

the tunnel were chant to push its potential to 1,000 miles an hour or more,

fo:

The project was started on

For Mr W. 11. Stokes, ex- Communist, whose elevation to the Steel Board caured a run- Fun in the Commong, the ap-1 pointment means an income rise. of more than £4,000 a year. Stake,

is divisional or panic, to awnití Int delays they tuniser of the Amalgamated ¦ enæounter i when forcesi Engineering Union at Coventry, wait ther

to test new The job

j

Such examples, Mr Gellhorn declared "suggest a rent peril in Pilots In the let fifters of the terms of the nation's future, in futur will go long for the focusing solely upon the possible rice," supplying informationį military implications of scientiae that would be difficuli to De technological adware; while)

ignoring their power for good."

: df of several alreraft com-andle electrically, he said.

EX

i worth Jess Dannesium at government experi £1,000 a year; as one of the vental facilities, Steel Board Flakes will be paid |

45,000 a year.

Driven by the funnel's 12,000 change horsepower plant, 32 specialty- and designeri kuya-strength metal Hades will drive air tough a threat into a 13-c01 model chamber. Engineer, estimate the blut should reach a spevo rating of about 910 les an

How will prosperity Stoker's way of life? He

Siokes, married more than 30 years, live now in a modest | A

in Rochester Road, Coventry. Ars Stokes is in terested but not active in the causes that move her husband, hour at the start,

of

Shakedown

tests and later expreted,

Who Is Jacob Malik?

war, He

America Now

A Nation Of Old People

the show

SOLE SIGNIFICANCE

*Secrecy ought not to be really attached to selentifle or Kechitological matters merely be-

New York, cause, in some

Government spects, they

statistics have military signilcauce.

that the United Hugh Park, Atlanta

report said. Journal

"I should be States is rapidly becoming writer, indie

some interesting code significance is

attached unhesitatingly if their discoveries when he went about

a military nation of older persona, Jacob Male

owntown Atlanta asking who tue.

The

Federal Security that besides being the Rust n found

"The design of weapons, re- Agency reports that 2.1 delegate to the United Nations,

ports about Loir performance percent of the population Ak

was a football

and properties, the design of now has reached the age of player,

rge-scale plants for their pro-165 and over. In 1900, the duction and occasionally specific percentage of 65-year-olders instrumente or processes,

can be he kept under flexible restrictions Was only 4.1. without

effect any very likely upon industrial

or sejentine Here are sunie other facts advance. But care

must be revealed in the statleties; . exercised to avoid confusing these matters

with principles.

There are about

Ku Klux Jansman, barcbali

player and milor, Midlands.

improvements however, to boost the tunnel's pced to as high as 1,058 miles

u hour.

addition

In

will allow

ultraspecdy planes, the tunnel to toting

aeronautical en-

Those

were some of the answers provided by people on the streets,

Such evidence may convince most people that cancer runs in familles, but it is not

good herealty-genciicists. enough for students of

At the recent meeting of the Geneties. Solely of America,

at Columbus, Ohio, to commemorate the Aftieth an- iversary of the rediscovery of Alendel's laws of heredity, Dr.

larence C. Little, organiser and Director of the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory of Bar Harbour, Me, went over the ground again. He is the #eneticist who convinced biologists years ago that, though cancer my not be inherited as such, Susetptibility or nensus- ceptibility is certainly inherited.

"In most type of cancer heredity may be involved, but its effects are complex and often indicet and unpredictable," said Dr Little. "Heredity is there- fore, at present, a variable and uncertain factor in the incidence of human conter."

The

for

INBRED MICE CANCER

case is different laboratory nice, Dr Little pointed out. Mice which are Frisly mutcentible

er Tistant to enter are inbred for many generations. In come of these Inbred mice cancer of the breast will occur in over 10 Does

NO PLANS TO MOVE Mr and Mrs Stokes have children, have spent most their lives in the When he becomes a steel boss Air Stokes will work in London. that he and his wife have made no arrangements to move there. "I think for the moment we'll stay where we are," says Mrs gineers to observe reactions of 12 answered incorrectly or said and practices which expand the persons aged 65 and over in the percent of the females,

She views her hus- band's impending rice with "mixed feelings." Sald she: " think it is a big honour, but I suppose it will break a fol old associations."

Stokes.

HIGH WEB

Stokes is a teetotaller,

of

dors

rol roke. At week-ends he kes to watch Coventry rugby:

team

MTB MAN v. ATTLEE

Mr Altlee's Tory opponeal at the next election is a young man of 26.

Mr Edward Du Cann. ton of Mr C. G. L. Du Cean, the Old Bailey barrister, was officially adopted at West! Walthamstow.

near

Mr Du Cann is unmarried, lives with his parents Horsham and works in a Cily cflce, He was a sub-lieutenant In motor torpedo-boats during the war.

He is a parish councillor at Horsham, assisted Lord Winter- tou there in the last election.

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guided missiles and robot craft,

**Dumbo"

Park questioned 20 persons about the identity of Malik and

they did not know.

Has

Photo

edges of understanding"

Taken

"DUMBO," officially, the Short-S.B. 3, is one of the 58 latest military aircraft in the Society of British Aircraft Constructors' display at Farnborough experimental base

This bulky anti-submarine craft and the others on 'display' were seen by Western experts, but Husalan airinen were not invited to the show. (A cm e).

highly

£1,500,000

population, and the estimates

this prove in itself that cancer are that by 1950 the aged group at all.

of the breast is hereditary? Not will number almost 15,000,000 and, by 1975, almost 20,000,000.

but

There

Fifteen years ago Dr John J. Bittner, then ona of Dr Lifio's are somewhat intre celleagues, but now a member boy babies born than girl babies, of the faculty of the University

the male superiority inf Minnesola, numbers disappears in later life newborn young of these females because of the bigher mortality at birth to foster mothers of a of adult males.

highly resistant

transferred the

-strain. Th The longer life expectancy of fieldence of hreant cancer women shows up particularly dropped to alnost nothing. in old age.

Today, there are Evidently Bocibing ip

the about 100 women 65 years and milk of the cancer-susceptible over for every 30 mea.

mother brought on cancer of the breast when the young matured.

More and more Americans, old as well as young, live iri

Now geneticisty speak of the citites and towns. The shift milk factor," and nimy of from rural economy has teen them believe that the milk factor particularly hard on older people is a virus. The point is, as Dr because eilies provide a le Little pointed oul, that the part favourable environment for played by heredity in the them.

transmission of cancer has not

There are fewer job

opportunities for the aged and yet been determined.

feines are amalier,

HOUSE CHORES

INFLUENCE OF HORMONES

The case for the heredity In- Auence of homines is a little also better.

Here, Dr Little said, show that the development of genetic influences are clearer. household appliances tua re-

The agency's statistics

duced the number and burden Human beings are mongrels. of house and farm chores, and There, la no human consequently

the

i

about the house

rela livets.

stock on

usefulness earth as pure an Dr. Little's mice,

of older For this reason It is hard to iscover just want port heredity Plays in the development of

"The big increase in the last human cancer.

It is also for

50 years in the reintive number | Kris reason that the

pure

of older portons," the agency strains of inbred me that Dr points out, "has been accom- Little's laboratory has beca panked by significant changes in applying for many years are

oller the proportion of

age of such importance. Some 240 groups in the population.......... lestitutions are now fondueling di

only in cancer but in other researches with tedd kains not: T diseases, 5 y 15

"Increased length of life is result of better living condi- tions and gains in the control of infectious diseases are reflected Why ro cis-"¡püto bredt, in relatively more people not aristocratic mice with known only in old agd but in middie | gehoɔlogies to important to these. age as well."

Institution PRASA older age, the problem of treat-material they

With Americans Hving to an expetly with what kind of that the experimenters know

ing discases of old age becomes that gonetic influences can be vali

are desling,

separated from our

more acuto.