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The Brussels Post, 1962-05-24, Page 2TABLE TALKS ,Jaue Ananws. pean eivil:zation. and many hew idCa,' the language held to expand if it was to ctlisorb 1110 new MOOS, The Greenlanders have therno, selves found new names and ex, pressions. "".To road" is to. "fel, low something"; ""to write;" "to put marks"; °to play the organ" "to hammer with the hands," etc, They have formed new words, with the aid of suffixes, e,g. °ship," ua bigheet"; ""church," 414 talk place"; "hook," "a thing you turn over"; "coin," °a thing like the moon"; "corn," "a thing like, fish roe"; "doctor," "the healer"; "liquor,' "sense-robber, and so forth, Experience shows that it is im- possible to go on finding Green- land terms for new ideas and things,. An increasing number of words are taken over as they are, technical terms in particular, They are used like Greenland words; are given Greenland end- ings and declined and conjugated a$ though they were of native origin. It is a development no perist can stop. A ceriasity, of the early years of Danish colonization was a kind of "pidgin Danish,, now out 'of fashion, A number of Greenland, words, it is worth noting, are in international use, e.g. kayak and igloo.—From "Greenland," pub- lished by The Royal Danish Min- istry for Foreign Affairs, edited by Kristjan Bure„ What Happened To Evita's Treasure? Evita Peron, wife of the for- mer Argentine dictator, was one of those hard-faced blondes who consider diamonds a girl's best friend. Before she died in 1952, Evita had accumulated an esti- mated $260 million in cash and jewels — and, unknown to her husband, had smuggled $45 mil- lion of it into a secret safe-de- posist box in a Swiss bank. Then, as ladies will, Evita lost the key, Today, husband Juan Peron, now residing in Spain, has ord- ered his agents to intensify their search for the number and tha key to Evita's safe-deposit box. Years ago, the. Peronistas sus- pected that Evita's brother, Juan Duarte, knew the secret of her treasure. When he died in 1953 (ostensibly a suicide), they broke into his desk and found a jumble. of loose cash, perfume, pornogra- phic literature, and letters fox Peron — but no key and no ac- count number. The search goes on, and Peron, seeking a political comeback at 67, is concentrating' his efforts. Time is short. associates persuaded fertnere• tee. sign; mortgages on .tanks, the ferrnere had never seen; 114 :farmers were paid for their efe ferte (Ogee 10 per cent of the mortgage), and Estes promise.d to keep up 111.4 payments: On the • paper. Wes then sold these mortgages to the finance corn- Panies, Bad as his troubles are, Estes made them worse with remarks and actions he now claims were facetious, His original jail bond was set at $500,000 because he bad once said. that if ever be got into trouble he would flee to ex- tradition.- proof Brazil, At his beilereduction bearing; Estes told the judge he really hadn't meant that. The court also wanted to know about a. $4.7 million chattel .mortgage he had assigned to a "K. Weinbeimer Co. of Switzer- land" Grimly, the conservative- ly dressed entreperieue explain- ed that it was ail a "joke." There never was such a company; he had picked the Swiss name out of the air to befuddle his torment tor, The Pecos Independent and Enterprise. "If they want to write, I just wanted to give them something to write about," be expleined. Estes testified that his peeeent assets were $20 million, his debts $32 million, and declared: "I kno'We that I can pay it off." Shortly after returning home, he announced that he bad made a deal to sell 15,000 acres of farm- ing land to an international cot- ton firm, It was the eirst'step in a desperate attempt to straighten out his financial' affairs, one that seems to be right in line with a somewhat Biblical-sounding suc- cess formula that he ,gave to an interviewer a year ago: "'You win by hieing, hold on by letting go, increase by diminish- ing, and multiply by dividing. These are the principles that have brought me success." From NEWSWEEK TRANQUILIZER — How con a guy holler when his mouth is full? He just can't. Ray Ayers' parents decided he should have a haircut even though he was only eight months old. Due to his long hair too many people were calling him "her." It looked 'pretty stormy until re- sourceful dad popped the bottle in Ray's mouth, and clipped the rebellion. Taking Big Chances Runs In The Family YSCOOTER — Angie Dickinson istpps traffic in Palermo, Sicily, ,-;tes.lie6ally when she is astride. zi-I"Ot*motor scooter. Eskimo Language Hard To Understand Eskimo language is quite unique. Considering the scatter- ed habitation and the few con- nections between tribes in North America and Greenland, the dia- lect differences are not great. Outsiders rightly complain of its difficulty, In structure it differs radically from every 4urOnean language, A phrase or sentence is formed by agglutination, as follows: The phrase "in the great coun- try,' is nunarsanarme- It Is form- ed from nuna., (land), -s,suak ("coat), and -me (in). "I'm going fetch water" is imertasaunga, and is formed from jrnek (wa- ter), -tarpok (fetch), -sAki and -ttga (I). In this way words may become very long, e.g.nal- u n a e riartorasuariasagaluaravit (you should really have sent word long ago). Many are long-. er than this, The language is not so expres- sive as a modern civilized lan- guage, which is not surprising considering the Greenlander's re- stricted world of ideas. It is striking deficient in abstractions, and so it is difficult to be abs- tract in the language, Technical terms and phrases are associated entirely with objects known and used by Eskimos, Nevertheless it is supple enough to absorb new elements. Where it' is concerned with the Eskimo world itself it is rich. The Rekimos have a variety of terms for the animals they hunt and for their lives, their tools and implements, and their home, A distinction is drawn between. men, land animals, and birds when they are said to "run." There are very fine shades of difference in descriptions of vari- ous kinds of wind, The Eskimos had no use for big numbers. Their numerals went up to twen- ty. The first ten were indicated by hand and arm, 10-19.by the feet, and twenty by "a man." Everything beyond, twenty was "many". The missionaries ex- tended the numbers by devel— oping the existing numerals; e.g, fifty as "five times ten." This system, however, has been discarded, as the Greenlanders have found' it easier to use the Danish numerals. In place of arfersanek sisamanik un- tritigadlit tatlirnanik kuligdlit atauserdlo, it saves time and breath to say nittenhundrede og halvtreds (nineteen hundred and fifty-one). It is still usual, how- ever, to employ the Greenland numerals up to ten. With the introduction of Euro- Another Boy Wonder Runs Into Trouble Sol Estes of :Pecos ie a smallish Man, but he Parries the ifull credentials of 4 Texas-style wheeler-dealer. AL 5.7e the sum, slam poor farin boy hills himself X.$ the world's largest distributor of anhydrous ammonia, a liquid fertilizer that lies helped turn West Texas's, arid prairies into rich cotton land, His facilities for storing surplus grain earned Itim a $5,1 million Federal check last year. Estes sells insecticides and plows, owns a daily newspa- per and a funeral home. lie is an associate of some of the most important Democrats in Texas, an active lay minister in the Chureh of Christ, a locally re- newned family man who first came to national attention nine years ago as one of the Junior Chamber of Commerce's "Top Ten Young Men of the Year," When Estes moved to Pecos a dozen years ago, he had little more than ambitious plans to get into the cotton business. The casyetalking young man built a house from salvaged Army-sur- plus material. Estes, his wife, and live children still live on the same site, but their home has grown into an elaborate show- place. A mile down the road is the modernistic home office of the Billie Sol Estes Enterprises. He often bicycles to work. For longer trips, he has a brace of Cadillacs and a plane. As the folks in Pecos unhesti- tatingly like to point out, Estes is the biggest man to hit town since the long-ago days of Judge Roy ("Law West of the Pecos") Bean. Estes may well have more in common with that old frontier finagler than the townspeople realized. Billie Sol Estes was indicted by a Federal grand jury last month on charges of committing Z7 acts of fraud. He spent a weekend in jail before being re- leased under a $100,000 bond while his woefully tangled affairs were investigated by the Federal and state governments and a dozen finance companies. Before the week was out, $10 million in suits had been filed against him. Estes' troubles started a month ago when The Pecos Independent and Enterprise, which competes with his Peeos,Daily News, point- ed out that farmers in eleven West Texas counties had signed mortgages on some '32,000 anhy- drous ammonia tanks, each cost- ing about $1,000; but, the Inde- dependent and Enterprise noted, only a fraction of the number mortgaged were needed in the area. The Daily News ignored the story, but when the finance companies heard about it, they sent investigators swarming over West Texas. The investigators compared notes, found that their companies had bought about $22 million in tank mortgages—and many of the tanks existed only on paper, What had happened, according to investigators: Estes and some Fashion Hint FOR WARMER WEATHER What Do You Know About NORTHEAST ASIA? SOPA DE TAQUITOS (Pancake Soup) cup tomato sauce 3 tablespoons oil 2 quarts well-seasoned meat broth 1 cup' sifted flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2. teaspoon salt 1 egg, beaten 1 cup milk 2 bard-cooked eggs, chopped ' Pancake filling Place in a large pot the to- mato sauce and oil; cook a few minutes; add meat broth. Let this simmer while you make the pancakes. Sift :,into a bowl the flour, baking powder, and salt; mix well, Add 'the beaten egg and milk and stir until smooth. Bake' spoonfuls of this batter' in a moderately hot greased `skillet, turning to brown on' both sides. When all are baked, spread the hot pancakes with one of the following fillings: el cup butter and grated cheese cup well-seasoned, chopped cooked vegetables ',A cup chopped cooked chicken or meat Roll up each pancake and place 2 in each soup plate. Cover with boiling' soup and sprinkle each serving with chopped, hard-cooked eggs, Serves 6. tors, "it will perform well any- where." International drivers invari- ably are shocked by their' first safari test—and the veterans do little to put them at ease. Before, this year's race, a Kenya driver blandly described the 1961 race: "We had one of those tiny Mini- Minors but we never saw it again after the start. Something must have eaten it." Rock-throwing natives and growling beasts in- crease apprehension, but most foreign drivers usually return. for more. "I'd like another try at it," said Miss Moss. "But may- , be I wouldn't if that had' been an elephant on my car." Hours 'later, Pat Moss flew to England end visited her brother , Stirling, the world's finest male race driver, who lay unconscious in a hospital, suffering from a concussion ,and a.4 broken knee and rib. In a race in Sussex, Moss, 32, had throttle trouble with his Lotus and hurtled off the track at 105• miles an hour. onion chopped Cautiously steering her Saab at 60 miles an hour through the clumpy bush of Tanganyika one night recently, Britain's Pat Moss, the world's finest female rode: driver, inadvertently picked up a hitchhiker, An antelope darted out of the darkness, jumped onto the hood of her eate tore off the radiator grille, damaged the distributor cap and fan belt, and loped back into the bush, For the startled Miss Moss, who was able to repair her car and still finish third, and the 207 other drivers (two to a' car), antelopes were only a minor ha- zard in the tenth East African Safari recently, Stoned by angry Chuka tribesmen, rocked by deep potholes, trapped by seas of mud, and bothered by elephants and lions, only 46 of 104 cars finish- ed the 3,080-mile, four-day race through the most primitive roads of Kenya, Uganda, and. Tangan- yika. On the read for all but twenty hours 'of the 79-hour race, armed with knives, a supply of food, water, and pep pills, the drivers faced auto racing's most 'unusual test. "It's been bad, be- fore," said two-time winner Bill Fritschy of Kenya, "but this year it was absolute' hell." Why do they race? "It's the challenge," said- Tern Fjastad, a 'Kenya coffee farmer who won only e800 for co-driving this year's- winner (a Volkswagen). "This race is the ultimate chal- lenge Auto manufacturers a g r e e. Aware that good showings have boosted 'sales, manufacturers from. Germany, France, England, Italy, and ,Swederi have been sending cars over in increasing numbers. "If a • car performs well here," said Norman Garrad, teem manager for Rootes Mo-. The new appliance salesman in Alaska sold , a refrigerator to an • Eskimo. One day he met the cus- tomer. "How's the refrigerator we sent you?" he asked the Eskimo, "Swell," said the Eskimo, "but my wife still doesn't have the knack of chopping the ice •squares to fit those little trays." • PEARS IN JELLY 6 small-pear naives 6 maraschhio cherries 2 tablespoons granulated gelatin 2 Cups 'cold water 2 cups boiling water 1 cup sugar 1 cup' lemon juice Soak gelatin-45 minutes in cold water, ,dissolve in 'boiling water, strain, .and' add ' to sugar and lemon juice. pour half into,mold and put in refrigerator to set. When half set, 'add a layer of pears. Then place other half of gelatin in refrigerator. Before it. sets, place 'A 'teaspoon of gela- tin in each pear and then a, cherry. Just before gelatirels set, pour it very slowly over pears and cherries.' Chill for .24 .hours. Serves 6. * a * FRUIT REFRIGERATOR PUDDING % cup unsalted butter salted, add Vs 'teaspoon sugar) 1 cup powdered sugar • 4 egg' yolks 4 egg whites I/4 cup crushed canned pineapple, drained Sponge cake or ladyfingers Cream butter; beat in sugar; beat in egg yolks, ,one at a time; fold in drained pineapple. Beat egg Whites' until stiff And fold into initure. Line Mold With strips of cake or ladyfingers, Fill with mixture and chill iii refrigerator 24 hones. Serves 6. SNArl'k COME-11A01( For the first time in its 68- year history, Who's Who now lista more Yale graduates than Itarvard graduates. The new tiOti has 237 Yalemen, 232 Har- vard alumni. But tiarvard men didn't seem too ups,..,t. "Which would you rather havt.:," asked one; "287 Mors in Who's Who, or one man in the White Itousrsr ISSUE g1 == 164 PACEMER tai8dtit Astronaut John Glenn, left, and Cosmonaut Ghermatititov, don earphones of cI tapih of d television discussion on U S.-Soviet do-operation in seleitd., Here's a fine recipe for,. Roast Leg of Lamb also one for a cas- serole of the leftover lamb which could very well s e ry e as a hearty main di s h at another meal. ROAST LEG OF LAMB 5 lb. leg of lamb 1 -clove garlic 1/2 teaspoon curry powder 1,4 teaspoon poultry seasoning Salt 2 medium onions 2 stalks celery Wipe meat with damp cloth. (Do not remove fell, the thin covering over the meat.)• With sharp knife make four 'gashes in the roast and insert slivers of garlic. Rub meat with seasoning; dredge with flour, Place a few pieces of lamb fat or suet in pan. Start oven (about 500, de- grees F.). Heat roasting pan. Place meat in hot oven' with fat, side up. Sear for about 20 min- utes 'until light brown, then re- duce heat to 325' degrees F. Do not cover. Baste often with juice. Allow 30-35 minutes Per 'pound, Add cut-up onion, celery, and potatoes in last hour Of roast- ing. Remove meat and potatoes when making gravy. Add 1/3 cup catchup, salt to taste, and'"a. few shakes of your favouriteaseasoe- e ing. LAMB AND POTATO CASSEROLE 3 cups mashed potato, seasoned 2 cups diced, cooked lamb 1 cup gravy 1 teaspoon minced 1 tablespoori celery 1 tablespoon butter Paprika Cover bottom of .shallow bak- ing dish with half Of the potato. Over this spread Iamb;• onion, celery and gravy. 'Cover with 'rest ,of potato. 'Dot with butter; eprinkle ' very lightly ewitte pas prika, arid place in 400 degrees F. oven for 20 minutes or until brown on. top. Serves 6. * Most people consider chili con dame 'one of the beet" of the Mexican dishes which- We have adapted for 'our 'tables. Here is a recipe for this .popular, MEXICAN STYLE CHILI CON CARNE 1 pound ground beef 2 tablespoons fat 2 tnediunr-size onions; chopped: IA cup Chopped' green peppers 1 poirtid, 12-ounce can tomatoes 1 8,ounce can tomato' sauce 1 101/4-ounce tomato ptir4e 2 bay leaves 2 teaspoons slit 14 teaspoon pepper' 1 tablespoon chili powder 1 15-ounce can chili beetle or red kidney beans- Cayenne pepper to taste Brown beef Well in Melted fat In large skillet, Add all remain- ing ingredients except beans. tinerhet 11k haute'. If a thicker is desired, simmer 21/2 hour:; Add beans and heat. Serve hot, Serves 8, * * Another famous Mexican dish is .Pancake Soup. Here's the re- eipe taken frotel the 'United Na- tions took-book "Over 100 Test- ed Dishes hotel the United Nee lions."