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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1960-11-03, Page 2ECHO — This open-mouthed work is part of an exhibition of Brazilian art in Paris. Mario Martins calls it "Echo.' Where Wild We Is Vanishing Our valley .is called Paradise Valley and it is truly beautiful, Years ago when. Svetlana and Iovanna, were small, We would drive out with them into • the desert, through staghorn cactus, prickly pear, saguaros, the ocp- tille with its red feather-like clusters of blossoms, and the daz- zling, wicked cholla. We often stopped to crush the leaves of the grease-bush and inhaled its sharp medicinal odor, and we also crushed the silver-grey mock. sage leaves that smelled deliciously like the lure moun- tain air. In the spring the desert floats was covered with tiny or- ange-colored blossoms and eil-• ver grass disappeared into the golden sands, Mr. Wright, the children, and I were delighted when we came across the tum- bleweeds rolling along leisurely and. lightly, on .the desert roads. We sometimes stopped the car to watch .a gila monster with or- ange beaded skin crayA 'sfowly and clumsily in the dust.. In the Later years of our life we still stopped, as we did then, to enjoy this vanishing desert life, And vanishing it is. A large part of the desert has been turn- ed into fields of wheat and alf- alfa. The ranches are becoming farms, with pasture land for eat,- tie, The roads are being paved, pFreiesecessf a.r. springing ere (hairline small plate of reeeeeetate r, t: ;' We• wore pioneers le.re tAliO• ty-five ;min ago, with the est residence twelve miles feettier. And now the valley is snea s ed with houses and the lights at night are growing in number every year. Although it leriffe very pretty lighted like u val and although it is good in know that this dry land ie being made fertile — we suffer the loos that goes with it -- the wild. life has almost left the Valley, -From "The Shining Brow: Frank Lloyd Wright," by .01gi- veue Lloyd Wright, "What possible excuse," de- manded the. irate judge, "can you give for acquitting this man kit' murder?" "Itisanity," replied the jtn-y foreman, "What?" snapped the judge. "All twelve' of you?" MAN IN THE CENTER - likdiaii Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru relaxes on the holcany oc hie New York hotel suite. He 110 Ietider in the (.0,N, neutral nations i Woe attempting to oil roll-West friction. II AFTER THIS, PLEASE,THIMK — Detroit drivers get strange instructions at Cadit -Randolph Street. TABLE TALKS GY Jane Az\dve,ws Is 15 /Ablates Worth A Billion? On a barren peninsula high in the northwest corner Of Green- land, the icy, rocky terrain is broken by a crescent of four 1.i.ant steel fences. Each of them stands fifteen stories high and stretches more than the length of a 'football field, Last month, from one of the low, buildings nearby, short, powerful bursts of electrical en- ergy were sent out pulsing against the are-shaped fences. ' With this, the free world's first missile-detecting radar station went into full operation. The $425 million installation, near ThUle; is part of tile BMEWS network — Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, The four tfences, in reality re- flecting antennas, are designed to bounce the multimillion-watt bursts of tedar waves high over the North Pole. Between pulses, the antennas reverse their role and listen for reflections that would reveal intercontinental missiles rising from Russian territory 3,000 miles away. The Thule station is one of three links in the BMEWS chain. The second( being built at Clear, Alaska, will be finished next summer. In 1962, a third station will be completed at Fylingdales Moor, Yorkshire, England. What will the U.S. get for the $1 billion these sentinels will finally cost? At the most, fifteen minutes • warning of a Soviet missile at- tack; just time enough to give the Strategic Air Command a chance to ,get its bombers off the ground and ready to retali- ate — scarcely time enough for anyone to do much else. But while BMEWS stations are being built, the U.S. is develop- ing a system that will make them obsolete — the Midas satel- lite, By late 1963, the Air Force hopes to have orbited a series of these snoopers which could spot a missile when it is launch- ed, extending warning time to a half-hour. The ultimate answer to the missile is, of course, an anti- missile missile. Sometime next summer, en Atlas missile will be launched over the Pacific' from California. From 3,000 miles away, a U.S. Army Nike-Zeus missile will take off to try to klit,4,rcot iu, Brat ven ewe,' reeds in downing the Rita'', th", nnesile's future is doeet.f.il. the Nike.zetpt system ('Oil the billion, yet it would be Lin- able to handle a erne.eine barrage ((f ,),p(.1C.1 n 4 71.1rin s(11,11,1.o ,;violfild siaeclz balse rind 1 As one Walingiee ob-Tryer put 1:;'W:;;Irigi( he questiontrk'i ' is whether it i" worth $15 billion to develop: en anti-missile system that: might not even work." From,. NEWSWEEK, . Teenagers And Charge A c counts Charge accounts for teen age customers is the newest wrinkle In retailing — and One of the most controversial, A recent survey by Seventeen magazine of 217 department and specialty stores reported that 63 per cent had some form of credit plan for teen agers. In 1959 the figure was 32 per cent. The Wall Street Journal note, that stores have both immediate and long range reasons for pro- mating credit among young buy- ers, who in some cases need be only 12 but usually must be 15 or 16. Grabbing a bigger share of the already big teen age mar- ket is one reason. Getting young people in the habit of baying at a particular store is another. "Educating" young buy,er's in the use of credit is a third, One blue eyed 17 year old Charlotte (N.C.) girl finds a charge account "wonderful". be- cause it enables her to buy things "right quick" when she wants them, She says that' a charge account has taught her job bo money. Maybe her part time Maybe it has. But of our mid- dle aged way of thinking, re- quiring a teen ager to wait and save is a better way to teach money management than encour- aging buying "right quick". We believe, too, that parents, should, be the teachers rather than cre- dit managers. Or is it the parents who allow their teen, age sons and daugh- ters to have charge accounts who should be given instruction in the proper use of credit? — Mil- waukee Journal. ISSUE 45 - 1960 FASHION HINT • p. entaii•eiee „. .„„. propped fork MeeOfek A. 'Vhitoes, Cooling 1r-rieril s ere where you: .make ;ern, and one of mine is resident , • enagee of the famou.s. Old E :.• .. Iand Spring House. Known ea t hotel trade as "white elee ,phants," these ancient Yictor:an lestorte pores a perennial voram- ' eieum as to their suCcees, for *bile they were money-makers. hack in the other times,. the vacation habits ef the nation have changed, It seems, now, to 'be eomething of a chailenge to ople ;Jke Red Johneton to see ii ',Vi. they car. make the places burn again. And one of the means is to snag ail the ccinventlop:$ they ter, get all_ the rooms that aeern. not to flit so :well as they 41d, back when Qrampie was a Tad', Rod has been :doing all right, .and .the day X dropped in on him with foresight enough to arrive at mealtime, he bad two con- ventions going simultaneouSlys end the dining room was a hearty place. Somehow, because. ' Of the vast size of this Old re- eort, two conventions can „meet without disturbing each 'other, I believe something like 850 people. were thus enjoying their Meals when we went in. What happened seemed am:tes- t:3.g to me at the time, for a waitress dropped a fork right at my back. I saw her coming, tray ft) fled high with the remove, on, . er way to the kitchen. Luckless-. a , the fork slipped just so, • • Bled to the floor., and bounc- ed around, Without the slightest peuse, this girfetoeped, held the `loaded tray in perfect balance, hooped the Earle Up in her free and, and kept on going. As ,she gathered it' in, I heard her say, "Oo.pst Company's corning:" As far as Poland Spring Hotel matters, the company coming would turn out to be the. Maine Retail Lumber Dealers Associa- tion, which was booked two years ago, and several other simi- lar organizations. It was the hearing of this old adage in this place which made it amusing. Dropping a fork has always been considered a sure sign, in Maine anyway, that some guest Would arrive. Mr. grandmother, who had many such frelkiorish idea; used to sit around after she dropped a fork and wonder who it could be, She'd run. through the family and friends, guessing which had any reason to arrive, and sometimes would even guess who it might be. "It would be Alice," •,she said one time. "Alice hasn't been here in ages, and she'd be the one to come without notice." So, of course, Alice arrived the next day, and Grandmother said, "I knew you were coming •— drop-, ped a ferie." I •do- remember- one time Grandmother dropped a fork, end noheny came, After a couple of days went by, she used to go- over to the window and look down the road, expectantly. She was positive she'd see a buggy coming, with somebody in it to fulfill the omen. ,But nothing happened, and some doubts must have crept into her. mind. I re- member she seemed preoccupied, and forgot to pour the froth ,off the milk for the cats. But then 5t happened, It was a tramp, A real, old- fashioned tramp of the kind we used to get. The kind whp, in: the first place, tramped, They come wandering up the road. in complete leisure, never in the r:igletest hurry, willing to be weierever they were when they got there. They had a respectable phiios:ophy, granting one or two ehines, and were not resented, Perhaps the terries were more, agreeahie; and the tramp was ac„ cepted as some kind of link, With the rest of the world. Net too many people ad come. ty. A tramp would clean up a hed„ or split some wood. They freqoenily showed considerable skill in eoree of their chores. They knew how tr) handle an axe, anyway, and lacking any- thing eiee for them to do a farm always had a woodpile to he. manicured. A tramp knew • just about how much wood he ought to split for his supper, and he'd do twice as much again if you let him bed down in the haymow with the expectation of breakfast. Afterward, • they'd move op up the road. They never stole anything that I knew about, or abused us. Grandmother used to judge them one from another by the way they washed up, She couldn't abide a dirty tramp, If one splashed water about a good deal, :and used plenty of soap, he attracted her charity accord- ingly, Once a tramp asked Grandma for a cake of her home- made soap, saying he meant to wash his clothes at the next brook. She was delighted, and regarded him. as a high type of tramp sure to make a place for himself in the world and amount to •something, • .Anyway, the poor tramp show- ed up just as Grandmothees dropped fork was about to ex- pire as a reliable augury, Ac- customed to sitting beneath the trees in the dooryard, and laying his dishes on the back step when. he had finished, this tramp was bewildered at the reception he got. Grandma brought him right into the kitchen, where ,she pour- ed hot water for his ablutions and set him a place at the table. He didn't get any handout on one of the old dishes — he got the full meal, right through to pie.. And when Grandfather came in. from the barn and found this disreputable character sitting in. state at the family board, as good as one of the family, Grand- mother answered his quizzical loOk by saygg simply, and end- ing the matter, ,I dropped a -forkl" By john Gould in The •Chrietian. Science Monittor, Human Heads Are Changing Shape How do you look these days? Have a peep in the mirror—Stilt the same old familiar face? Now have a look at your offspring— aren't they better looking. It's a fact that we are slowly becom- ing better looking than the people of past centuries. In the skulls of our remote ancestors the forehead sloped backwards. Today that form of head is becoming rare, The long head—not the "big-heaci"i — is becoming more usual nearly everywhere in the world. The high cheekbones and sharp features that used to chat- acterize many aristocratic Eng- lishmen are "toning down" into the modern, face type. Less than 300 years ago aquiline noses were very common in Britain, Since then our noses have grown longer, and straighter. if you want to bake sandwich- es in your oven for lunch or din- ner, try these cheese and bacon ones. They need about 40 min- utes to bake just right, BsAbKreEapd CHEESE SANDWICHES 8 slice Butter 14 Pound bacon, diced eh cup chopped onion 3.4 2 couchlooped celery 1/4 teaspoon salt tablespoons chopped green 8 slices Cheddar cheese pepper 4 large tomato slices 3 eggs, beaten 1121 tcetia..spp nllioonk prepared mustard Spread 4 slices bread with the butter. Place in bottom of greased 8-inch square baking dish. Toast lightly in 350 °F. oven — about- 10 minutes. Meanwhile, brown bacon, onions, celery, and green pepper. Season with salt. Place slice of cheese on each toast slice in baking dish, Ar- range bacon mixture over cheese.. Place a tomato slice on each and top with a slice of cheese. Cover with remaining bread slices, Combine eggs, milk and mus- tard, mixing well, Pour over sandwiches. Bake at 350' F. about 40 minutes, Serves 4. If you are in a hurry, here area, sandwiches you can hake for only 10-15 minutes and serve hot. BAKED CHEESE SANDWICHES Cold sliced turkey 4. slices bread Cheese spread I can cream of chicken, initeh- room or celery sotto cup milk cup crushed potato Chips or cornflakes Spread bread with ' cheese spread. Arrange doge together in -baking dish, Top each with a slice of turkey. Combine soup with milk; pour over sandwiches. Top with crushed chips. Bake at 425° F. 10-15 minute* until light- ly browned, • • • Garnish these hot tuna sand- wiches with tiny green: peas and you'll have a whole meal reader. HOT TUNA SANDWICHES , 1 1-ounce can tuna 3 tablespoons mayonnaise 2 tablespoons Minced onion la slices bread PA cups grated Cheddar 'cheek, 3 eggs 3 clips milk teaspoon Worcesiershie sauce I teaspoon salt Mix together tuna fish, mayon- naise, and minced onion. Spread on 6 eliees of bread; cover with remaining slices and fit into a crieeerole. Top with half the petecI eheese. Beat eggs until li ,ht; stir in milk, Woecester- eliiie whet, and salt. Pour over sLndwiehes. Bake at 350' F. for :bout 40 minutes, then add re- maining cheese and bake until Pule'y and golden brown 5-10 minutes. Fif L.1 '3. PICK LB-STEAK tArt ti.;Qtft'S 1 cup chili eatice !i clip Water teaspooh brown sager 3 tablespoons vinegar 1 Medloin-sized onion, eh (MOM VI clip Chilppeit green peptide 141 clip chapped sweet etietten- her Weide era tettelteott salt teespitott pepper tablespoons Mitten 4 beef cube steaks iiiiiiiburgcr rolls, -split extra sliceg of sWeiit Pieklite Cambia° chili sauce, water, sugar, vinegar, Orden', tf rooit po- t. per, chopped pickle, salt and pepper; mix well Cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Melt butter; add cube steaks, Cook over low heat for 4-5 minutes on each side, or un- til browned on both sides, Serve on one half the roll; top with chili sauce mixture and garnish with pickle slices. Top with other half of roll. • • I don't know if any of the readers of this column grow per- simmons. It is so long since I tasted them that I had almost forgotten that they existed. Still, in ease you live in a persimmon district, the following item from the Christian Science Monitor may interest you. • • • Autumn is in the air and per- simmons will soon be ripening here in Indiana, Our fruit is much smaller than the Japanese variety grown in California, but is very delicious. I was once given a pie recipe from the 'Mo- ravian community in Hope, In- diana, MORAVIAN PERSIMMON PIE 1 cup persimmon 1 cup Sugar 2 eggs -•" 2 cups rich Ariilk (1 use a tall can, of evaporated milk (12/6 cup), plus cup plain.milk) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 14. teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon melted butter - 1 teaspoon lemon juice Makes pastry for 9-inch' pie pan. Pour in, filling. Bake at 350° F. for 45-60 minutes. • . • PERSIMMON PARFAIT PIE l cub cold milk 1 teaspoon (1 envelope) plain gelatin Cup brown sugar 1 cup persimmon pulp I pint vanilla ice cream 2 e-fg- whites 2 teaspoons sugar Few drops maple flavor Mix milk and gelatin in up- per part of double boiler. Let stand 5 minutes and then heat over hot water until gelatin dis- solves. Add brown sugar and persimmon pulp, Remove hot mixtureie Irony stove. Add ice cream. cut in chunks and stir un- til melted. Fold in meringue made from last three ingredients. Pour into a beked pastry shell. Garnish with outs, coconut, or cherries, Chill until firm. RETRIAL — 'Carole fregaff e. trig retried With Dr, Bernard' Pinell in the slaying Of, his wife, Peeves 'Court in les Arieles. riteelelei,!iS!,10! iseislis'isie'l'111111111111111111 .7.41411:Lnal,11,..1 .t. , •lummlllune,wilnmii011111411.