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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-01-11, Page 6TABLE TALKS elane Andrew. BABY AND BLIZtEkt. Back to secatfyr • 1110 'mum ieeee 7. ...•-•,•••—•—•••••••••••. This Big. Money looms To Stink Best-Selling Records —In Moscow, Yet! Ancient Art Of Hopi Pottery Pottery making unfortunately. is still in the .grip of the com- mercial interests which have for many years diverted it into a get- rich-quick manufacture of cheap. articles for tourist trade :along, the great highway to the south; but the Museum of Northern Ari- zona is doing much to acquaint Interested people with the best work. of the Ropi potter. They exhibit it each year in Flagstaff in early July and take orders for the potters during the rest of the year, The clay for the vessels is first soaked and kneaded and its large lumps .are removed. Then long coils of the clay are fashioned and the vessels built up, as it were, layer by layer. Hopis never use the conventional potter's wheel. Afterward the vessel is shaped, thinned and the potter works the clay with bits of gourd shell or wood, When it has been, polished, white, dark red, and yellow paints are ground in small mortars and applied with yucca brushes, After firing, the vessels have become a golden orange, a a fine white, or a deep rust red, according to the clay used. De- signs are never drawn out in a preliminary fashion, but are ap- plied as they occur to the artist,. usually determined in some mea- sure by the shape of the vessel —very much as Picasso applies design to a piece of ceramic. Archaeologists believe Hopis were making and decorating clay vessels aoefore recorded history,. but they began to make the yel- low clay pottery they make to- day about 1300. A good piece of Hopi pottery has walls of unie form thinness which will ring when lightly tapped, a superb, shape, and inimitable design. ••••••••••••• C CY.RO-NOSE—Jeffery Hunter acquires an impressive Pinoc- chio-like appearance as he examines a loaf of French bread between scenes of a new picture, now shooting in France. INTERNATIONAL FLAVOR— Celesta Chen, 18, arranges a fish net in Comacchio, Italy, for a British TV documentary on eel fishermen. Celesta is the daughter of a Portuguese mother and a Chinese father. International flavor? Rather! Moscow record, shops last month, the fastest-selling item Was a long-playing disk first re- corded in 1918, The voice behind the clicks and scratches was Lenin's, and for 34 kopecks (about 37 cents at the official, official exchange rate), any Ruse sian whose ears were sharp enough could hear the Father of the Revolution explain "How to Rescue the Toilers From the Ex- ploitation of the Landowners and Capitalists—Forever." In every category fromLenin's speeches to Tchaikovsky's piano concertos, the four big factories that pressed most of Russia's. 100 million records last yam' just couldn't turn 'out enough, and the industry knows it. "By 1965, we will produce 500 million (equal to current VS output)," predicted G. L. Bazkakov, direc- tor of the country's biggest wholesale distributor, "but it still won't be enough," Even if it can boost its output that radically, the industry may have trouble keeping listeners happy with the selection they have to choose from. A special commission under the Ministry of Culture decides who can re- cord what, leaving some lament- ably great gaps in the catalogue of 40,000 titles. Until two years ago, expatriate composer Igor Stravinsky was ignored, and his three titles now listed are still bard to get. For the Russian music lover who has the record he wants, one problem remains: Where can he play it? For most buyers, the best bet is a turntable that plugs into a radio, but the tone quality of these is so poor, according to a recording-studio engineer, that the studio was "obliged to reduce the quality of the records" to match. For all their frustrations, how- ever, Soviet listeners have some- thing to look forward to: Stereo. By next month, some 600, titles should be available, and a Lenin- grad factory has already built a few stereo phonographs. The only question now is whether buyers want to hear the sounds —badly recorded, badly repro- duced — from two speakers- in- stead of the usual one. How Well Do You Know SOUTH AMERICA? Raw cauliflower has become increasingly popular for salads in the last' few years and you'll find this one unusual and re- ' freshing. RAW CAULIFLOWER SALAD 3/4 cup ground nut meats IA cup ground raw carrots 8,4 cup ground raw cauliflower 3% cup ground raw celery 2 teaspoons lemon juice 3242 cup mayonnaise Salt and pepper to taste Iceberg lettuce cups Cauliflower;' florets and shredded•carrots for garnish Mix together ground nut meats, carrots, cauliflower, and celery. Add lemon juice. Combine with mayonnaise,• 'salt, and pepper. Chill thoroughly. Spoon into let- tuce cups and garnish with flor- ets and shredded carrots. Serves 6-8. If you like fresh cranberries in salad, try this recipe that combines apples, celery, and nuts with the ground cranber- ries. castenada, who. chronicled de TOvar'e visit to the Hopi villages of northern. Arizona in 1540, men- tions Ilopi farmers but no topi arts,, The first mention of this. Indian tribe's great achievement in pottery making occurred 42 years later when Espejo and. Luxan arrived at 'Walpi, where "1,000 souls came laden with very fine earthen jars containing water," The art of Hopi pottery malt- big has flourished and languish- ed by turns, and the greatest practitioner of the art in modern times, Nampey0, twice exhibited her work in Chicago and twice on the South laim of the Grand Canyon at Bright Angel; but She never, more's the pity, re- ceived medals from American architectural groups or the French Palmes Acaderniques, Hopi women have always been the accomplished artists of the Pueblo tribes, leaving the farm- ing and the governing (at least in its outward aspects) to the men,. By reason of their remote- ness from the Rio Grande pueb- los, where Spain strongly influ- enced all the native arts, Hopis have worked more closely with their own ancient designs than have any of the other Indians, and decidedly to their own bene- fit, Nampeyo's husband, a Tewa of Hano, worked with the.J. Walter Fewkes Archaeological Expedi- tion of 1895, which uncovered much undamaged pottery of ex- quisite design, and Nampeyo copied these 'for a while. But she was too much the original artist not to depart later from the old- er designs, which her own more than equaled. Although most of the eleven Hopi villages made pottery at one time or another in the past, only women of the First Mesa work at it today. The three great Hopi Mesas begin about 100 miles northeast of the San Fran- cisco Mountains and spread along parallel with the vane" of the Little Colorado beside the 'wash- es tributary to it, beginning with Moencopi Wash in the west and ending with Polacca Wash in the east. (The entire Hopia reserva- tion is only a small plot in the center of the vast Navajo lands of Arizona and New Mexico.) Hopis are an old people. They call a village established-in 1700 a "new" village. Unlike Euro- peans, who look back on the six- teenth century as something al- most out of time, Hopis are them- selves a sixteenth century people walking about in an anachron- istic twentieth century, writes Frank Daugherty in the Chris- tian Science Monitor. ISSUE 2 — 1962 Buzz The Baby Into Dreamland More Sleep For Papa And Mama 34 cup mayonnaise 4 tablespoons whole cranberry sauce 1 stalk celery, chopped Y2 teaspoon onion, minced Salt to taste. Remove outer leaves of cab- bage. Cut into quarters. Let stand in cold water 20 minutes. Cut out some of the center, shred remainder, add celery, onion, pineapple, cranberry sauce, may- onnaise, and salt. If not moist enough, add a little, pineapple juice. GLAZED APPLES 6 rosy apples 34 cup boiling water 134/2 tcellapsposuognarcinnamon (op- tional) Cream, plain or whipped Wipe apples, core, and remove skin from top, one-third of way down. Place close together in saucepan, peeled side up. Add water and cover closely. Cook slowly, testing occasionally un- til they are easily pierced with a skewer or toothpick forced in- to center. Put into a baking dish, peeled side up. Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon and put in a broiling oven or very hot oven (425° F.) and baste frequently with water in which the apples were cooked until sugar is ,dis- solved and tops are crisp and delicately brown, Chill and serve with cream. * PEANUT BUTTER APPLES Core 1 apple for each serving, place in shallow pan on 8-inch square of aluminum foil. Put 1 tablespoon chunk-style or creamy peanut butter in apple. center. Fill hole with maple syrup, or a pitted date. Bring up foil around apple (to hold. in juice and keep skin from breaking) leaving 2-inch open- ing .at top, Bake about 1 hour in 375° F. oven. Ancient Bells Peal Again placed beside his daughter in the crib, the buzzer induced a deep sleep. • Horton, an obstetrician and gynecologist,, notes that "fussing" 'in babies usually. begins about two weeks after birth, The buz- zer achieves its success because it duplicates the sounds that the baby senses while in its mother's body. Turn on the buzzer and security returns. A battery-powered refinement of the invention (marketed as By ARTHUR AMAN Newspaper Enterprise Association ST. PAUL, Minn, — From the back seat of an automobile and a kitchen workshop comes a story of hope for parents accus- tomed to pacing ,the floor with a crying infant. Dr. Robert Horton's electrical invention, is about the size of e hamburger bun. With it he hopes to send agitated babies back to the psychological peace of their Pecuula non elet (Money has loo smell) is an ancient adage; 'but as the following account Of the troubles in ICatatiga, appear- ing in NEWSWEEK Would, seem to show, some kinds oe modern Pioneer could well stand e deo- dorizing treatment. At times during the fighting in Katanga last month, it eeemed that the line-up was the United Nations vs. the Union Miniere du Raut-Katanga, an enormous min- ing complex that completely dominates the economy of the secessionist Congo province, Fighting swirled, around the company's big Lubumbashi cop- per plant, site of what is possibly the tallest smokestack in Africa. Some of Union Miniere's orange- stucco buildings went up in flames. Its cluster of modernis- tic offices in the center of the city were occupied by U.N. troops. Its electrolytic copper re- finery near Kolwezi, most mod- ern of its type in the world, was strafed and knocked out of op- eration by a Swedish jet, Air attacks on its fuel dumps and rail lines forced Union Miniere to close mining operations at Kol- wezi and Jadotville, principal pit areas in a complex that produces nearly a tenth of the world's copper, almost all of its radium, more than half of its cobalt, and a quarter of its germanium. The company, whose 1961 earnings are expected to pass the $50 mil- lion mark, said it didn't know when it would get back in opera- tion. While Union Miniere appeared a hapless pawn caught in the Congo turmoil, there were critics •'-including many U.N. officials —who charged that it was actu- ally a sinister behind-the-scenes power operating from a sedate nineteenth-century headquarters near the Palais Royal in Brussels. There, the critics said, the signals were called for Katanga Presi- dent Moise Tshombe's rebellion against the Central Congo Gov- ernment and for the pro-Katanga pressures that erupted in Bri- tain's Parliament. Union Miniere was accused of paying Katanga's white mercenaries, arming its soldiers, supplying military com- munication and transportation systems. Union Miniere categorically denied that it had anything to do with political manipulations, it supported its arguments with impressive logic, but still some persistent questions remained, Just what has been Union Miniere's role in the Congo? Who shapes its policy? What is its future? Some, of the answers are simple; others won't be forth- coming for a long tune, if ever. Financially, Union Miniere is undoubtedly Tshombe's chi e f bulwark (in fact, helped launch him on his political career). Through taxes, franchise charges, and dividends; it would, turn over some $0 million last year to the Katanga Government. That is only slightly less than the total revenues collected by the Congo's five other provinces. It's pretty obvious where the money goes. But as the company president, Herman Robiliart, points out: "Union Miniere is subject to the laws, regulations, and taxes of the authorities in the area in which it operates. It is unfair to base criticism upon or draw in- ferences from this kind of rela- tionship which must prevail with any private company anywhere," But in Elisabethville, a com- pany official admits that "some of our Belgian workers have PERENNIAL FAVORITE—The sailor costume has been de- lighting little girls for decades. Next spring's suggestion from Italy: A two-piece knit of red Merino wool, with touches of white and blue, Jaunty beret completes the costume. Q. flow can I add a better flavor to baked apples? A, A delicious dish to serve with roast pork is baked Gran, berry apples. Fill the cavity left in the apple after the core has been removed with cranberry sauce, and bake. sided with Katanga." And when Tshombe declared Katangan in- dependence, Union Miniere offi- cials in the Congo were enthu- siastic, at least in private. In fact, there seems to have been a basic split between company of- ficials in Brussels and Elisabeth- villa, with the latter encouraging secession. Those Elisabethville officials, however, were beginning to look with more favor on a unified Congo last month, For one thing, some members of the Tshombe government were talking about 'nationalizing Union Miniere. For another, Tshombe seemed to be losing control over fanatical sup- porters who demanded a scorch- ed-earth policy. Even if its plants and mines were put to the torch, Union Miniere's 1.2 million shares of stock would still be valuable. No one will speculate on what might happen to the 18 per cent bloc now held in escrow in Brussels for the Congolese until a stable government takes over. A .con- trolling 28 per cent bloc is own- ed by the Societe Generale de Belgique directly and through holdings in the Compagnie du Katanga and Tanganyika Con- cessions, Ltd., a British financial group. The other 54 per cent, a Societe Generale spokesman said, is owned by 120,000 small inves- tors in Belgium and France. "It's a widows and orphans stock, just like AT&T," he said. Those "widows and orphans," who will collect a 1961 dividend of about $30 a share on a stock which sells for some $220, are in good company. Societe Generale is a holding and investment com- pany which controls corporations with an estimated worth of some- where between $1 billion and $2 billion. Only about 6 per cent of its holdings are in Katariga. Through interlocking director- ships, ,its interests in Union Miniere coincide with those of some of the most powerful finan- ciers in Britain and South Africa —men who turned the old. Suez Canal Co, into a successful in- vestment and holding company after it was nationalized, If need be, similar strategy should work again, Come what may, the' in- vestors underscored their faith In the future of Union Miniere last month by bidding up' the priee of its stock on the'Brussels exchange, Sitireibertorie) is encased in a light plastic case.. Its sound (14 flat below Middle C) is similar to a telephone dial tone. 'Tests on 1,000 babies hospital butt- eries showed 06 per cent effi- diency, All 'of which makes the Did; story of the sleepless parents even More archaic; Father f thought you'd never get 'the baby quiet tiow did yeti de it? Maher: I rocked him to sloop: Father What size rock did yolk iiscf pre.birth environment. In so do, ing he would give countless ad- ditiotial hours Of 'sleep time to harried tieOtheee and; fethere, The docter's idea was born in the family' auto. He noticed that his youngest daughter usually dropped off to sleep' in the back sea,. A combination Of noise and vibration, lie reasoned,, promoted her elutriber, On the kitchen table lie fash. 'toned a buzzer device tti &oil, tato the Auto vibration. "it sounded awful," The doctor admits; "MR it evbeked.Y Wheel "When will you pay me?" Say the bells of Old Bailey . . . "I'm sure I don't know," Says the great bell at Bow. The old English nursery rhyme's great bell, the one which inspired poet-preacher John Don- nee resounding lines (".. never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee")', rang out for the first time in more than twenty years last month. The historic tones — which ha v e sounded in London since the fife teentit century—had been miss- ing since World War II When German bombs blitzed St. Mary- Je-Bow, sending Bo* (as the great tenor is known) crashing down with its eleven fellOws. Recast from the fragments, 2: 1/10-ton Bow is now back in the belfry with (going up the scale) Cuthbert, Pancras ' Timothy, John, Augustine, Faith, Mildred, Margaret, Chrietopher, Fabian; and Katherine, After the redeciication teree molly, at which the Anglican Bishop of London presided, Prince Philip gave Bow's bell a pull. That was the signal tor twelve bell ringers to start the peal. London, and Much of a;figierio, would hear tow tells next' New 'Fear's Eve at a televised Watch-flight service in .8t, Mary's: "What tould be better tor , &v- land," says_ the rector, the Rev. Joseph McCulloch, "than to this, in the New 'VW With BOW Belled" CAREFULLY. flit yoif save May be pink Own. RING'S METTER -- Actor-singer Bing Crosby .titicl his wife, Kathy, prepare to drive ki the airport ciftiOr Crosby left St. JoSePh's Hospital in Sari Ertiredoeto. Bing had entered thi hotpitai i0 houei eoliee with 'hot his dodoes tdlied a dose of "titeiatidC11 * * JEWEL SALAD 2 cups raw cranberries 34 cup sugar 1 tablespoon unflavored 2 tablespoons fresh lemon jgueilcaet n 1 cup boiling water 34 cup diced raw apple 3% cup diced celery cilpchopped nuts Lettuce Grind cranberries and mix with sugar. Soften gelatin in cold water; add boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add lemon juice and cool. Add cran- berry mixture; when gelatin be- gins to congeal, add apples, cel- ery, and nuts. Pour into mold. Chill. Unmold on crisp lettuce. Serves 6, * e Another salad that is seasonal looking is the popular jellied tomato aspic. An easily made aspic — one given zip with a little Worcestershire sauce -- follows: JELLIED"TOMATO SALAD 2 cups tomato juice 1 small onion 1 teaspoon salt 1 teaspoon sugar 1 tablespoon gelatin 34 cup cold water 1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoonuce Worcestershire s Cook together the tomato juice, onion, salt, and sugar (boil gently for 10 minutes). Mean- While, soak gelatin in cold water for 5 Minutes, Strain hot mix- ture, add gelatin and stir until dissolved. Add lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce. Pour into large or individual molds and place in refrigerator to harden. Unrnold 'on crisp lettuce. Serve with mayonnaise, :0 ,0 MOLDti) BEET SALAD package lenion-fleVored gelatin 1 tup hot water Liqiild chine eanned beets plus water to mike 1 cup 1 No. 303 can diced beets 3 tablespoons 'vineg'ar 1 tablespoon prepared itid teaspoon salt ettp finely shredded cabbage. Dissolve gelatin in hot Water; add cold water arid beet liquid. Chill until syrupy: Add remaining ingredients. Pour Into iridieidual Molds and chill until faint, tin- mold on crisp lettuce leaves. Serves 6, , 4 PINEAPPLE COLE SLAW With WhOcti oitANitEitioi SAUCE Small Cabbage (11/2 -1b.S.) tableSPoOnS shredded Phi& aPPie f.