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The Brussels Post, 1961-08-31, Page 8•:Ili 311441, Wellington to. American . collector Charles 13, Wrightsman„ The Ok- lahoma-born ail millionaire took the heat coolly.. if Britain was ,S0 anxious to keep the famous por, trait, he indicated, all she had to do was pay back the .092,000 that bad been bid ,Tone 14. to get the treasure, After nearly two months • of frenzied fund-raising, Chancellor of the • Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd. said the other day that a $286,000 gift from. Britain's Wolfson Foun- dation, coupled with .a $11.2,006 government ante, . had saved Goya's 25- by 20-inch Wellington from exile.. "We are delighted that the portrait will not be go- ing to America," said a British. National -.Gallery spokesman, Wrightsman, too, may have. breathed a sigh of relief. For weeks Londoh art circles had speculated that hot bidding in. the June 14 auction drove the price a trifle high, even for a Goya, and maybe even for an Oklaboma .oilman. This Teacher Is 19 Feet Tall Schoolchildren of the future are not likely to take an apple to the teacher, They are more likely to take a can, of oil as a gift. For, in a few years' time, the education of youth is ex- pected to be carried out by mon- ster robots. Bat they won't be anything like Frankenstein's horrific mon- ster. They will be gentle giants such as "Bozo," the robot super- man who is now being exhibited by his Russian creator, Paul Ko- zar, in Sao Paulo and other cities of Brazil, Nineteen feet tall and, weighing a ton and a half, Bozo is commanded, via lactic) wavelengths, to act exact- ly like a living being. Under the direction of his de- signer, he answers questions, walks, moves his arms. He can stop and start, embrace a per- son, move mouth, eyes and head — and all without any clanking or jerky movements, On hiS first test hike, Bozo walked a total of fifty miles, He is six and three-quarter feet across the shoulders and his head alone has a height of four feet. His "heart" consists of two elec- fro-magnetic motors and two six- volt batteries., , Kozel- tot* • more than •-six- yeirs to build his superman, In the beginning Bozo was just a " jumble of parts and electrical wires and appliances, packed in- to an outsize trunk. The job of putting him to- gether continued in several dif- ferent countries. Finally Kozar completed his robot marvel in' Brazil, where he has been ex- hibited for the benefit of the Red Cross. Kozar says that there are more robots on the way. Other countries are also realiz- ing the value of robots for step- ped up teaching. They can replace many hu- man professors and can teach large groups of students, as Bo- zo has done. A Restaurant Built Just For Two IN BERLIN — Tank-supported United States troops in West Berlin infiltrate CI mock-up town which is located not far from the Soviet zone border, during maneuvers. Deer Slaughtered To Make Perfume In. the mountain, forests of 4.0V.thern. China and Tibet lives one of the world's smallest kinds. • Of deer an animal with such 4 Price On its head that only its Inaccessibility has.. enabled. it to survive, is the Musk deer from which comes the most sought-after and valuable of all perfumes,. Despite the difficulty of track, ing the musk deer in the dense rhododendron forests where they live, the musk hunters pursue them. with such determination and skill that the annual toll appreaehes 100,000. How .much, longer the species can stand this enormous drain on its numbers we do not know. Protective measures 'by the governments concerned would have little value, for in these immense areas of wild and unin- habited country it would be possible to enforce them. All kinds of methods are em- ployed to .catch the deer. In the valleys, nets are placed across one end and the hunters and their dogs advance right through the valley from the opposite end, making as much noise as they can to drive the frightened deer into .the nets. In more 'opera *country, ,rloges are . used to drive therrx-'-froin cover, when they can be shot either with rifles or poisoned arrows. Others are caught in traps along well-used deer paths in the forest. But many manage to elude all these methods of capture and remain hidden in dense thickets. Even they are not safe, for the hunter knows they have one weakness — curiosity and an ap- parent love of music. So he sits down quietly and begins to play on the .flute he always carries with him. The little creature is irresistib- ly tempted to investigate the strange, appealing sounds; but as he emerges, the liquid notes of the flute give way to the deadly crack of the rifle. Only adult males produce musk, but as at a distance there is no way of distinguishing the sexes — neither carrying ant. lers — males and females are both killed, thus increasing the annual wastage. Although musk-deer venison is a particular delicacy, the musk unter is interested only in the little musk pouch, about the size of a walnut, lying at the base of the abdomen. This he carefully removes, and then leaves the earease to rot. Inside the pouch is the granu- lar musk — so sweet, yet so strong that anything that comes into contact with it retains the ecent for weeks. So valuable is musk that the -temptation to swindle must be very great. Many of the hunters have perfected methods of in- troducing foreign material into the musk pouch to increase the total amount of "grain" that iinally can be extracted from it, and hence the price that will, be obtained for it. The introduced material soon. 1/8 becomes as stroogly.gcented as the real grains, Musk grains as removed from, the pouches are worth more than $140 per pound, but finally, purified musk extracted from the grains san be worth as much as 4 1.500 an ounce! Musk hunting is clearly a profitable livelihood, hat it can also be a dangerous one, Just as there is no law to protect the the deer, so there is no protection for the hunters, who are valu- able prey for the bandit, writes Philip Street in "Tit-Bits," For him to pick out those carrying musk is an easy matter, the strong scent giving him away, Many a hunter has been killed for the musk pouches he has been carrying, All perfumes are complex mix- tures, A single odour has ,no subtlety. Among the odours blended in a good perfume are some that by themselves would be repulsive. Perfume makers distinguish four "odour types," which should all be part of a satisfactory per- fume, These are sweet, acid, burnt and goat, the latter being a very unpleasant odour. The value of musk is that be- sides contributing a particularly valuable odour, it is also able to make other scents with which • it is mixed more permanent:. It' is a fixative. The, Perfdine maker also gets three other important ingredients from animals — ambergris, civet and castor. Ambergris has a rather curious origin, being pro- duced when sperm whales have indigestion. These large sixty-foot whales feed on giant squids, which are so powerful that they' can inflict a considerable amount of damage on a whale before they are over- powered. Most parts of the squid are easily digestible, with the ex- ception of the pair of horny jaws. The whale is unable to digest these jaws completely, so they are coughed up as a half-digest- ed mass, called ambergris or "grey amber," after the rest of the squid has been digested. Large pieces of ambergris worth considerable sums of money are sometimes washed up on the shore. Ambergris itself has an earthy smell, but it helps both to mel- low and to fix other odours, Castor is a product of the scent glands of the bear, and is therefore a similar product to musk. It is, however produced by both sexes. Civet is likewise a produce of scent glands, this time of the civet cat. It smells quite horrible, yet, in very small quantities, it adds to the qualities of a good perfume. The latest news is that' pure musk has at last been• synthesiz-. ed. This is good news 'for the musk deer, because it means "the end of persecution for them as soon as the process has been developed on a commercial scale, Nesting 60 feet from the greund in the branches of a century- old banyan tree in Honolulu is the world's most intimate res- taurant, which is jammed every night to its full capacity ;Of • two. The restaurant is thelOy. in- spiration of Dona BeacItr:ProPri- etor, •of the famous Doh the Beachcomer's bar nearby. "The tree house is an escape for those in love with love," says Beach. At $36 an escape, couples are let through a gate, up a stairway disappearing into the t r e e, through another gate and into their leafy isolation. Beach locks both gates behind him when he leaves, and guests must call him when they want to descend, Lit by candles and furnished with a low table holding the pre- viously prepared food (squab, roast bananas, champagne), a record player and a sofa, the tree house is favored by older (and richer) couples. "M o s t youngsters are out for a lark, not a truly romantic experience," Beach explained recently, "I have served at least a million people. but my greatest pleasure is serv- ing two in the tree house. It's a wonderful feeling to be able to re-create true romance for peo- ple." Great Painting Stays In Britain Britons high and low hotly pro- tested the recent sale of Goya's 1812 portrait of the first Duke of Back . To School Fashion Hint TO WED — Melanie Elaine Ad- ams, 19, and Ronald Como, son of singer Perry Como, were is- sued a marriage license in Goshen, Ind. Melanie is Miss Elkhart, of 1961. Their wedding plans are not yet re- vealed.. Insect Poisons Back-Fire On Makers Someone intened to shoot him. He knew this, because he heard voices talking about it even when he was alone. The radio referred to it and people in the street stared at him, and he 'was terrified. He was a horticultural techni- cal officer, a greenhouse worker in Australia, and strangely he was one of eight- men employed in the greenhouse who suffered from symptoms of psychiatric disorders. He and another man had schizophrenic reactions. The other six weree` depressed, had nightmares, and had lost their memory. These bizarre cases were re- ported in a recent issue of Lancet, the great. British medical journal, by two Australians, Drs. Samuel Gershon and F. H. Shaw of the departments of pharmacology and psychiatry at the University of Melbourne. Their findings: The psychiatric symptoms fol- lowed constant exposure for periods up to ten years, to insecti- cides derived from deadly nerve gases. The two Australian scientists also cited the cases of eight other persons who had suffered similar symptoms after long exposure to these insecticides, including two preparations called parathion and and malathion. Of the sixteen cases studied, seven of the 'vic- tims suffered from depression and five had schizophrenic fsymp- toms. One had blackouts and the other three had impaired memor- ies and inability to concentrate. The insecticides involved kill insects exactly as deadly nerve gases would work to kill -soldiers in war. They, attack the central nervous system by 'depressing the production of an enzyme called,. cholinesterase. Of course concentrations necessary to kill insects are' much lighter than a lethal dose for humans. In the United States DDT is still the most popUlar synthetic insecticide. But the nerve-gas- like insecticides ' are second in popularity principally because in- sects rarely grow resistant to them, as they do to DDT. Potent parathion is widely used on large-scale commercial farms, while weaker malathion is used as well on home farms and gar- . dens. . Asked whether psychiatric symptoms had cropped up among • insecticide workers in the U.S., J. C. Ward, a Department of Agriculture expert replied: "We haven't seen anything psychia- tric, even though we have asked the industry to watch for any unusual symptoms." But at least one chemist, John F. Henahan, said he suffered bad dreams and fits of depression as he brewed batches of the same kind of insecticide at a laboratory in Middlepoint, N.Y. He received a patent for 'one of his batches. No longer a -practicing chemist but a writer for the American Chemical Society News Service, the now cheery Henahan says: "Everybody in t h e business knows of effects like this." The Department of Agriculture emphasizes that only "gross carelessness and misuse" can make these inseeticideS danger- ous. And Dr. A, J. Lehman, di- rector Of pharmacology, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, commenting on possible danger in using thetri, said:• "As for rest- dues of these materials remain-, ing on food, farMers nark comply With specified safe toleranCes, Otherwise their fruit and Vege- tables are seized." From NEWS- WEEK. Add dry ingredients with milk to creamed mixture, stirring af- ter each addition until the bat- ter is smooth. Pour into 12 paper-lined muffin tins. Bake in 375-degree oven, 18- 20 minutes: Cool on cake rack. Then cut cone from top of each cake, fill with fluffy cream cheese frosting. Replace cone, dust with icing sugar and serve. • CREAM CHEESE FROSTING 3 -ounce package cream cheese 1 tablespoon thin cream (18 per cent) 11/2 cups icing sugar - 1 teaspoon vanilla Beat cream cheese with thin- cream until smoothly blended. Gradually add icing sugar and vanilla, Beat until fluffy. • * VANILLA CUP CAKES This recipe will make 24 me- dium-sized cup cakes. Frost half of them and roll in coconut, make cherry upside down cup cakes with the rest. 2 cups pastry flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup vegetable shortening 1 cup sugar 1 egg, unbeaten 7/8 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla. Sift flour, baking powder and' salt together three times. Cream shortening, add sugar gradually, cream until light. Add egg and beat well. Add flour, alternately with milk, in small amounts, beating after each addition. Add vanilla. Pour one half of batter into 12 paper-lined muffin tins. Bake in 375-degree oven 18-20 minutes. Frost with fluffy frosting, sprin- kle with cocontit. Place brown sugar, nutter, pineapple wedges and a big red cherry in the bottom of 12 muf- fin tins, place portions of re- maining batter on top and bake, for cherry upside-down cakes. * CHERRY UPSIDE DOWN CUP CAKES 1/4 cup melted butter cup' brown sugar 10 -ounce can pineapple rings 13 large Maraschino cherries Vanilla Cup bake batter Blend butter and broWn sugar, Divide evenly between 12 rritiffiri .ottpS.• Drain Pineapple slices, tut into Wedge's,' arrange on top of brown sugar mixture, place 'red cherry in centre. Add vanilla cup cake blitter. 'Bake in 15-clegree Oen, 18.20 miriuteS. Let test for 5 Minittei, looter), edges of CUP' teket, tulri out and serve:. "Settle motorists never stop to 'think," SOS a, "toad safety Pam- Piet: Yep,, a ui'd others never think to Stop. /TABLE TALKS ekane;_Anclrews Oven frying4S an excellent way to prepare Chicken, particularly when more than one is to be cooked. Crumb coated, placed in large shallow pan, they take very little watching and you will serve fried chicken as tender and even- ly browned as anyone could wish. OVEN-FRIED CHICKEN 2 broiling chickens (21/2 pounds each) 2 eggs, slightly beaten 2 tablespoons water 3 cups dry bread crumbs 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon pepper 1/4 teaspoon celery salt 1/4, teaspoon sage Y4 teaspoon thyme , Pinch dry mustard teaspoon ginger Pinch cayenne Pinch garlic salt (or powder) 1/4 cup melted butter Cut chicken into serving pieces; wipe with damp cloth. Combine slightly beaten eggs with water in shallow bowl. Mix bread crumbs with salt, pepper, celery salt, sage, thyme, mustard, "ginger, cayenne, garlic, garlic salt in large deep bowl. Dip pieces of chicken in diluted egg, then roll in seasoned crumbs. Let stand in cool place for 1/2 hour. Melt butter in large shaltow baking pan, place chicken in it. Bake in 325-degree oven for 1 hour. * * * In some parts of the country bacon grease or salt pork is ad- ded to green beans while they are cooking to give additional flavor. They ,May be boiled, then butter and seasoning added after cooking. They may also be creamed. In fact there are many,, many ways to fix this favorite vegetable. Here is an unusual way to prepare them, STIRRED BEANS 3 cups (about 1 pound) fresh green beans 2 tablespoons vegetable oil or bacon fat lh cup water 1 teaspoon salt Snip off ends of beans and slice them either diagonally or lengthwise. Heat oil in a heavy skillet; add beans and keep stir- ring them as-they cook for about 1 minute. Add the water and salt and' cover skillet. Cook 3 to 5 minutes ((beans will turn a brighter green). Then, take off cover and continue cooking 5 or 6 more minutes until beans are tender. Stir occasionally to avoid I scorching. The water will evapo- rate, leaving flavorful green beans ready to eat. Serve prompt- ly. * CORN ON COB, PRESSURE-COOKED * ears freshly picked, sweet golden corn 4 Btaubtlteesrpoons water Salt and pepper Husk the corn, remove the silk, wipe the ears with a damp cloth and place on rack in pressure cooker with 4 tablespoons water, After the pressure is up to 15 poundS, cook corn for 1 Minute. Serve at once, drenched in but- ter and seasoned with salt and pepper, SPICE CUP CAKES cup shOrtening 14 cup sugar 1 egg 1/2 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup pastry flour 14 teaspoons baking ,Powder t/4, teaspoon salt 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon iIa teaspoon nutmeg 1/2 teaspoon cioveS 6 tablesfitions milk Cream shortening. Ada sugar .-gradually and continue creaming until light and fluffy. Add egg end vanilla to the dreamed irilx4. ture and beat well. Sift together flour, baking Pb*,. der, Salt, cinnamon; nutmeg; cloves, three times. Eliminated Chore: With a brick-paved yard crowding his property lines one suburbanite we know yawns at the mention of lawns. MID ISSUE 35 1.961 HOODWINKS' AND CUTAWAYS — Hoods ate the rage fair' dud Winter C011ectioni in Paris:. Leff, the hood set high On i is woo coats which Is completely frame In Matching. "fat" *Oaf fringe. The coat'S Only Closing It a bow under" the thin. Right, 0 satin wrap falls straight from the shoulders and circhei in front to reveal ci Matching , SeqUiri-embroidered dress be- neath.: Both designs by Michel Gornc4 .1 •