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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1962-07-26, Page 6„1i ▪ • , isitisyntettnes .apWSolitiv aas k coliod A Fake: Training To Perform Under Pressure Fa nods .Airport Had A Short We . • geologist will laugh at von it you come out with this "old wives' tale' ye: teceutly as Chitty years e: r of. a "sea (pt Timbuetoo" Were hcmg sEriously invest hp ted, In 1998 the botanist. Auguste Chevalier, w z;s wands...rine nnul • the Tivalmetoo area whoi, tc., his surprise, he funod a emir:- -evil itx• the sand. His swieprise wag. Wadable: this particular sakes at snail lives only in the SO. The native.: were complete- ly Wined by the foreign visitor's exciternein. They showed him places where he found other sheIla, same of which belonged to a second etaritinie species. Che- valier published a report of his discovery In 1901 and came to the conclusion that in the Quatera- ary period less than 900,000 years ago, the sea nad advanced as far as "Timbuetoo. As Timbuetoo to- day is almost a thousand miles from the Atlantic Coast, this theory caused a considerable sen- sation, Other scientists, who regarded Chevear as a charla- tan and made on-the-spot inves- tigations, also found snails' shells of the same species bat the sheer quantity of them strengthened their suspicion that this was not the work of Nature. It was not until 1935, nowever„ that these suspicions were final- ly confirmed. Theodore Monod collected 10,133 shells and ex- amined each one separately. The result: these shells were a form of currency broaght by caravan from Mauretania to Timbuetoo. Oddly enough they show no signs of wear; preSumably they were only exchanged in Untie The exchange-value of each shell seems to have been very low and on the Atlantic Coast they were passed from .hand to hand in quantity, Toward the .end of the Middle Ages they went out of circulation, when caravans front Morocco started. trading in cow- rie-shells; a porcelain-snail from the' Indian Ocean which the Venetians had built up to.one of their major exports. Timbuctoo adopted the new currency and joined the. cowrie-area. And one result • of this currency reform was that the • old coinage was buried though whether spontane- ously or on the orders of some Finance Minister is not known— From "Sahara," by Georg Gers-. tet, eranslated by Stewart Thomson, PLAYIN` IN GRAIN — Timmy Ahern, 6, has fun playing in a load of his father's wheat at grain terminal in Hannibal, on the banks of the Mississippi River. era who switch "It was a matter of time-saving,' recalls an airline official. ttlf, a man went from Indianapolis to Mil- waukee and had te, Change air- ports in Chicago. you couldn't realle -juetify his flying." (it often takes as much as an hour to drive, eleven, minutes for the $n.till helicopter ride.) Chicago is by no means ready to abandon Midway. Mayor chard Daley has, in fact, called a meeting of top airlines officials in an effort to get some flights transferred back to the older fa- cility. One reason: O'Hare has been forced to handle a level of traffic not expected until 1965, resulting in occasional opera- tional delays of fiteen minutes taking off and up to one hour landing. Although Midway might be able to handle the smaller jets just coming into service, Chicago has an uphill fight on its hands, Seven citizens' groups claiming to represent 90 per cent of the 200,000 people in the airport area are dead set against the jets, "We live about a block from the runway," explains Mrs. Joseph Giannini, a 30-year-old house- wife who is chairman of one group. "I never knew how nice it could be until now." More important; the hard- pressed airlines are not so much- concerned with maintaining Mid- way for future needs as they are. for just making ends meet.' "I think everybody in the industry realizes we'll be at Midway again," one airline official said,. "but not at the moment." — From NEWSWEEK. Long on the NA-^* -port itn rophtablk. New York obstetrician Its %t at er"'t -diet. book. "Calerics Dottie emat,,,, was one of The moneymakers in mem pi : ing history, Though .1114,:t ex-, pert; have derided Its to,-an,, that the ovemt lent eon -nod e wide xvlrile gorgine oa fat ,: unsaturated tat:), eetin '2 copies .cf tlw are in f,,Int. Last month, hotveve', "Cu „-.Itd" was dealt a new inow onnen should jag in, reptiteta in. .1 riOt its position on the le it-seller :tats. —when the Food and Drt.., ministration disclosed tin- of its investigatien. The book, said FDA -Coa.mizt- SiO1I0r George P. liarrick, mainly the work of laymen to promote the sale of product in which Dr. Taller•:•nd a financial interest," Dr. Taller., according Ia tyre• FDA, had written one draft' for publisher Simon & Schuster. The draft was then given to free- lance writer Roger Kahn. ,vho re-wrote the book and hit upon its catchy title. As a next etep, the revised versicn war; cent to General Development Corp., a. land-holding company, and when it returned to Simon & Schuster, Larriek said several cheages. were noted, • Among them: The -addition of a mention of Cove Pharmaceuticals, a Glen Cove. N.Y., vitamin firm, fr'S a s.'n.rce of safflower oil capsules, mon mended as part of the book'c..-die- tary regimen. • Cove, it turned out, had .kst up a new organization, -CDC twhich could stand for Calories Don't Count) Corp., "to produce caps- ules for which the book weeld create a demand," according to Larrick, Stockholders, tic added, included Dr. Taller, General De- velopment Corp. officials, and two Simon & SchUster vice presi- dents, Although Dr. Taller was not available for comment last month, a spokesman for the publisher called .Larriek's report "vicious and irresponsible." and declared that his firm had brought out the book "in good faith as a presentation of •a novel dietary theory," The FDA's story came out shortly after the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn upheld the seizure of Cove capsules last January, Cove president Ed Bob- ley did not contest the FDA -ac- tion. Why? Neither the publish- er nor Dr. Teller, he said, would. defend the book's theories, I'ut up a football in the trance cf 13Yrea N. (Whiner) White hurls in the 1930's and invariably he'd make it disappear in the • other fellow's end 7 Me. White did it as an. All-Atuerwa halfback at Colorado and also 09404 as the National Football Leagues leading ground-gainer. Now ci .schloarly looking meenber of the United States Supreme Court, he is en extraordinary combination of youth (44) and. experience, determination and-drive. Despite pressing judicial mat- ters, the ex-Whiner found time to carry the ball for sports re- cently in an interview with •a New York paper. lie scored heavily with the words: "This • business of performing under sonic kind of pressure and being willing to face up to require- ments proves its utility in Miter activities of '"In athletics, especially compe- titive athletics, whether team or individual, you get in the habit of training, planning, and work- ing for some kind excellence, Sometimes it takes six months, For a sprinter that whole six months may go down the drain in 10 seconds, You perform then or not at all, A team may train all year and be great in practice, but it's when the whistle blows that it counts, "I am in favor of exposing young people to situations that require the highest performance on a regular basis. While athle- tics are a manufactured environ- ment, there comes that moment when you stand face to face with doing. The moment—perhaps • a fraction of a second comes when you either do or you don't, This kind of experience is valu- able in the growing up process. It contributes to one's ance, initiative, and integrity and it's also good fun." /TABLE, T KS /SY Jaue, Ancinws. Not long ago. an Amerlean Airlines pilot requested permis- aiOn to eirele Chicago's Midway airport with a new Convair 990 en a demonstration. flight Out of 01-lare Airport, the seven-neer- Old field 12 miles to the north- west. "13ring her in tit about 1,000 feet so we can take a took at her, suggested the Midway controller. Then he added plum- tively: "We've never seen a jet." Althinigh a bit premature, the Matter-of-faet statement might well serve as Midway's epitaph. At its peak in 1.953 and 1959,. Midway was the world's busiest airport; there was an airplane landing er taking off every fif- teen seconds, and it was a stand- ing joke that "if you took time to bee:erne., you eouldnt worn in. the Medway eontro' tower." Last month, too small for the larger lets and too far from O'Hare for travelers in a it i n g connecting flights, Midway lost its last scheduled. airline. With the tie- Larture rreently sf United Ant- ines Flight 236 to Toledo, it was left with only a few nonsched- uled carriers, some private craft, • and a helicopter service to. O'Hare. Midway's long, low-ceilinged, snaking terminal building, once bustling with as many as 8 mil- lion passengers a year, was vir- tually dese r t e d. Neighboring streets and highways, built to accommodate choking lines of traffic, were all but empty The motels and restaurants that ring the ,airport, once filled to capace ItY, were ready to quit or were desperately trying to attract new customers. "It's going to be a tough uphill fight," said Mitchell Housey, proprietor of Housey's restaurant, which he bought when it was losing ,$.6,000 to $9,- 000 per month because of Mid- way's falling traffic. Assistant tower chief Carl . Joritz .summed up the depressing atmosphere:, "You don't become king, then wind up nothing, without feeling tad," And Midway once was king, During one month, the bustling airport on the Southwest Side handled a record 26,626 air-car- rier movements; it was to flying what New York's Grand Central Is to railroading. But its doom was foretold in 1955 when O'Hare opened. O'Hare was bigger — 6,700 acres . vs. Midway's 600; it had longer runways — five of ,hem ranging up to 11,600 feet vs, Midway's longest of only 5,- 000 feet. When the jets appeared. lin 1959, there was no place but O'Hare to go. At first; the airlines attempted o maintain dual facilities. Un- fortunately for Midway, the two- 'rport concept. was not feasible 'lar Chicago; 40 per cent of all Is traffic is made up of passeng- Sea-Shells On The Sahara Desert During the millions of centur- ies of the earth's history the des- ert has several times been flood- ed, either partially or entirely, by the sea. For a long time the Sahara was, in fact, considered to be a dried-up ocean-bed, a theory based on the association of desert sand with a sea-shore. The salt lakes and swamps in the desert—se-called Chotts—were taken to be-the last remains of the sea, which the sun had not yet evaporated. The modern Shakespeare—Still A Living Citizen What. Do You Know About SOUTHEAST ASIA? LAOAG PAR With fresh tomatoes coming from the garden these days, new ways of preparing them are wel- come. Stuffed tomatoes, for in- stance, are usually popular and the fillings may be varied in a number of ways. Those including meat or fish are substantial enough to serve as a main lunch- eon dish, Here are some favor- ites: Baked Tomatoes With Chicken Stuffing Choose firm ripe tomatoes of uniform size, Wash well, then cut a slice from the stem end of each. Scoop out the seeds and part of the pulp. Sprinkle the inside of each with salt and a little pepper and fill with this mixture. To each two cups of finely diced cold chicken add one cup cold boiled rice and the following: 2 tablespoons chopped celery 1 teaspoon onion juice 1 teaspoon chopped parsley 1 tablespoon melted butter Salt and pepper to taste Combine ingredients thorough- ly before filling tomatoes, the top slice back on and place tomatoes in a buttered baking dish. Bake at 400° F. for about 15 minute's or until tomatoes are tender, Remove from oven be- fore they become soft. * " * Baked Tomatoes with Sweet Corn Cut a slice from the stem end of each tomato and scoop out seeds and part of the pulp. Sprinkle cavities with .a little salt, pepper, and sugar. Cut young sweet corn from the cob; season with salt, pepper, and melted butter; fill tomatoes and bake in a 400° F. oven until just tender. Erin's Harp Was Repaired In England An Irish harp has just been played for the first time after 200 years of complete silence, and its notes were recorded. This precious instrument belongs to an Irish college. It had been silent, according to tradition, since it was played by the harpist O'Neill in the streets of Limerick in 1760. Experts in London reconstruc- ted it and restrung it after taking out worm-eaten and decayed parts. But harps are not old-fashion- ed. Right now they are enjoying a new popularity. Recently an Irishman got spe- cial permission to take his 6-ft, harp aboard a trans-Atlantic air- liner because he wanted to "play sentimental tunes on a little bit of old Ireland" before he died. All the way from Idlewild to Shannon he strummed Irish mel- odies. After an interlude in the airport lounge in Eire he carried his harp back into the airliner and flew on to London. The harp was once held in such high esteem in Ireland that a "Professor of the Harp" was exempted from taxation. IA teaspoon salt 1 cup orange juice 1 teaspoon grated orange rind 1 cup orange sections 3/2 cup heavy cream, whipped Combine water, sugar, tapi- oca; and salt in saucepan; heat and bring to boil, stirring con- stantly. Add orange juice and rind. Remove from heat and cool, then chill. Just before serving, fold in orange sections and whipped cream, reserving some for garnish, * * You may serve this applesauce pudding warm, if you wish, but you'll like it chilled and served with ice cream on a hot day, Applesauce Pudding 2 cups 'applesauce, sweetened to taste :in teaspoon cinnamon 1 cup fine graham cracker crumbs 1, cup brown sugar - 1 teaspoon grated lemoncl rind let cup melted butter Combine applesauce and cin- namon and spread in a greased 8-inch pie plate. Combine other ingredients and spread over top of applesauce; pat down gently. Bake at 375° F. 30-35 minutes, "flow can you tell when you've reached middle-age?" asks a man reader. When the girl you whistle at thinks you are calling a dog. Sun. Tan Lotions Big Business With midsummer fast approch- ing, and millions heading for the beach, the nation was on its way to becoming a vast roasting pit. To supply basting for the roast, a dozen or so manufacturers were locked in their annual bat- tle for the $16 million suntan- lotion market. As the weather and the com- petition hotted up last month, a few of the lotion makers were trying to cash in on new gim- micks. There were, for example, "Kip," a new push-button spray tanning lotion-insect repellant. But most of the ''sun" advertisers were still pushing their wares with the biggest seller of all: Sex. It may have been that people once bought suntan lotion to keep from burning; one could hardly guess it from this sum- mefs ads. In general, they fea- ture bull-necked, bathing-suited, bronzed males gazing rapturous- ly at beautiful, bathing-suited, bronzed females, or vice versa, Sample caption: "Nothing flat- ters you like a tan," Sea & Si which shares about 70 per cent of the market with Coppertone, outdid itself with a full-page Harper's Bazaar advertisement for its Beauty on the Beach lo- tion, Dominated by a three- quarter view of a. nude blonde, the ad proclaims the product "a. luxury lotion that makes suntan- ning a beauty treatment. While advertising budgets are a closely guarded secret, as are sales figures, it is no secret that the natural tanning lotions have regained their supremacy over sunless tanning products, such as Man-Tan, Positan„ Tan Tone, that were very much in, vogue last year. It is no secret either that irrepressible sun worship- pers are buying their favorite tanning lotions in typical mid- summer fashion, In Miami Beach, which can estimate its tourist prosperity by the amount of refuse left in the sand, a garbage pick-up man dumped another batch of tanning lotion containers into his truck recently and observed: "There's no end to it Sometimes I think they drink the stuff." "This ear's power reserve will get you out of trouble quickly," says a motoring journal. Trouble it got you into—quickly? tage cheese combined with fruit or vegetables, Light desserts are always in order for hot summer days. Those that can be made and baked in the cool of the morning and then served cold, perhaps with ice cream, or those that need only to be mixed early and refrigerated for several hours be- fore serving are popular with home cooks and their families, writes Eleanor Richey Johnston in the Christian Science Monitor. * * * Parfait Chocolat 11/2 cups cocoa-sweetened toasted' rice cereal 1 cup (6 oz.) semi-sweet choc- olate pieces 2 eggs, separated 1/3 cup, water enS cup brown sugar, firmly packed 1 teaspoon vanilla Ye cup heavy cream, whipped Unsweetened chocolate, shaved Cruch cocoa rice cereal into fine crumbs. Melt chocolate over hot but not boiling water, Re- move from heat. Beat egg yolks with water until well mixed, Add melted chocolate slowly, beating rapidly. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Add sugar gradually, beating until stiff and glossy. Gently fold egg whites and vanilla into chocolate mix- ture Chill until slighty set. Put mixture and crumbs into 4 al- ternate layers of chocolate mix- ture and crumbs into 4 parfait glasses. Top each with a small amount of whipped cream and shaved chocolate. Serve immedi- ately or keep in refrigerator un- til ready to serve. Serves 4. • * For this pineapple-marshmal- low refrigerator dessert, you'll need a dish about 10x13 inches in size, After chilling it, for 24 hours, cut it in squares and, if you like, top with whipped cream and serve. Pi neapple-Marshmallow Dessert 1 pound marshmallows 1 No. 2 can crushed, pineapple 2 cups whipping cream, whipped 1 teaspoon plain gelatin, dis- solved in 1 tablespoon water la pound vanilla wafers 1/2 cup pecans or other nuts Drain pineapple; heat juice and add gelatin. Pour this mix- ture over diced marshmallows; allow to cool. When cool, add pirieepple and fold in whipped cream. Pour into dish, Grind vat Willa wafers and nuts together. Sprinkle over top of pudding. Chill. * * * Sake this rhubarb pudding in the morning and serve it cold with whipped cream or ice cream when dinnertime comes. Rhubarb Bread Pidlding 3 cups ''„-inch soft bread criambs 1 quart diced rhubarb :!j cup sugar 1i cup chopped nuts ettp melted hotter lit teaspoon each, netineg and cinnamon Combine by tossing together lightly with 2 forks the bread crumbs, rhubarb, sugar, nuts, butter, and spices, Pour into a greased 11/2 quart casserole; cover and bake at 375° F. for 40 minutes, Cool, Serves 8. * 4 w liere is another refrigerator dessert that calls for your pret- tiest glasses for serving. This re- cipe serves 6-8. ()Mtge Chantilly 1j tulps 'water` cats migar %,42 cup truiett-coolting hot Nobody knows what William Shakespeare thought about his own work, though he had a worldly success, and toward the end of his life could afford a house in Stratford and another in Londdn, He may not even then have moved in good society —actors and players seldom did in those days. Yet his bones were hardly laid to rest before Ben Janson was saying about him, "He was not of an age but for all time." Did he think about all time? Did he care? 'Did that marvelous verse that came from his heart with such apparent ease seem to him a language' that all men might speak if tleey so desired? We know only that he left the English speech forever richer, filling it with images that pa- rade with banners, drums and the -"wail of flutes three and a half centuries after he had set pen to paper, • Shakespeare, dead and buried with no autobiography except in his poetry and with no adequate biography, remains a living cit- izen of this planet, We may come upon him in New York's Central Park. We find him only a little further off in Stratford, Conn„ where t h e American Shakespeare Festival' Theatre has completed its first decade, He may be heard in Stratford, On- tale°, and in Stratford, England, Why 'does he live? Why can one man, writines for a few, in a small city in a thinly populated country, speak over the genera- tions to millions of people? The man from Stratford remains mystery, But his resounding woods, his haunting cadences, his kings and' clowns that are even as today's ordinary men — these survive long after the writer himself has turned to dust, Riches and power go down the long highway into nothingness but a roan whose only riches were words and whose only power Was wit, poetry anti un- derstanding remains alive, is-The Mew 'York Times , . When you think you're going down for the third time- just remember: you may have count- ed wrong. iloife Petersen. * Savory Tomatoes Scoop the seeds from medium- size tomatoes after cutting a slice from the stem end of each. Chop fairly fine sweet green peppers, add a small amount of chopped onion, and season with salt and melted butter, Fill the cavities; cover with buttered bread crumbs and bake at 400° F, crumbs are brown and tome toes tender but not soft, • * * Baked Tomato and Salmon • Cut a shoe from the stem end of firm ripe tomatoes, eiemove the seeds and part of the pulp • and cut the latter fairly fine, Mince together chopped salmon, salt, pepper, tomato pulp, and melted butter, Add to this mix- ture about one-fourth the quan- tity of cracker or bread crumbs, moistened with a bit of cream, also a small amount of chopped parsley, Fill the tomatoes and bake until they are tender — about 15 minutes. at 400° Si Tuna or other fish .may be substituted for the salmon Stuffed Tomato Salad Cut a 'slice from the top of firm ripe tomatoes. Remove the • seeds arid part of the pulp. Sprinkle the inside with sa.lt. vert and allow to stand about 30 Minutes. Cut up the pulp that was removed and combine with. equal amounts of chopped sweet chopped celery, and cu- cumber, Adding a small amount of chopped parsley. Salt and pep• per to. taste. Add mayonnaise or salad dressing to moisten and fill 'tomato shells, heaping slight- ly. Sprinkle tops with chopped chives or .a.alice of stuffed olive. Serve on, salad. greens, rulings May be varied in many ways, using, for itistanee, cream or cot- AID TO SURGERY—Joanne Owens models floodlight far *tirgeons and tries one of the headlights an Kim Kearn, 7, Viho was visiting the American Medical Association convert- igart, 1,1 1811t — 190Z WiMBLEbON WINNER - of San Antonio, Tex holds Sukova, background right, of don women's singles tennis Mrs Karen Hintze Suafesen, trophy after she defeated Vera ezeckusloval<ia, iri the VVirnble. finals. The difference between horse races -arid political races is that itt a horse race the whole, horse wins. George klutir.