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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, September 23, 1964

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 23, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                                . Looks for the right track French deigned Monorail ilk thai May Toon by untiring la Knoll in Britain i traffic. By John Krueger 5&s London Bureau Britain is preparing la jump on the Monorail bandwagon As menu of keeping la head above the continually congealing Road traffic. Looking up from that not a Loneis Meroa is the Taylor Woodrow group a London construction firm with world wide activities Taylor Woodrow has taken out the British License for the French Cafege Monorail Myslem and expert i to have1u first overhead railway running with in three years. It i hoped to Start construction within a year. Among the possible routes mentioned was a connection Between Central Lon Don and London Airport. It now takes depending upon traffic about an hour to cover the 11-mile distance by car or  Standard Safoe Socle be anon yme Francale d Etudes de Gellon end enterprises carriages Are capable of ipe Edi up to 7c . And can carry maximum of 1m passengers. The coach 1� impeded beneath the carrying wheels and these move along a track which is fitted inside a hollow Pylon supported Gantry. Particular features it was pointed out Are the Speed Comfort and silence of operation brought about through these of pneumatic tires which also per my rapid acceleration and deceleration remarkable stability and Comfort even on curves taken it High speeds because of the pendulum Type suspension of the coaches and All weather operation made possible by the enclosure of traction bogles and running surfaces. Britain is definitely keen on the Mono rail. The county planning committee of Buckinghamshire has even published report on a proposed City that would be bum around a free Monorail service. London transport and Southern rail ways Are also interested. London has reached the stage in the traffic Battle where it is talking about charging Road tolls on the busiest streets in Hopes of cutting Down congestion. A proposal has also been Mude by the minister of transport to Ruisch Parki Smeter charges in Central London from 6 Pence 7 cent in hour to 2 shillings i. Cents. Goren on Bridge North South vulnerable. East deals. North Iii west4k.ua at none k7ms Uip ban 107412 u 7 14in a a South fue Modog Eul 8mris West North pan pass 14 double put 14 pass 1 pan i pan Pas Span opening Lead five of North May not Nave Lodge the proper complaint against hta partner in today s  be criticized South for not bidding three no  North Contention in favor of the Shorter Road to game possesses some Merit ii is a 14 South plan of Campaign at i five Diamond contract that draws our main criticism. When North made a take out double. South properly showed his strength by bidding two flu Rands one More than was Nee Elisary. North raised to three and South influenced by is Singleton decided to bid Gamin diamonds. However. Inas much As North is marked wit values in the major wits a in Trump game might have Beena More prudent undertaking. West opened the five of clubs. East played the Jack and declare parrailtfir1 him hold the trick South won the continuation with the Ace  and Drew the Trump lie played a heart next however West put up the Ace and cashed he Selling Rick wit the Kin of clubs. North criticized Nis partner Fot not of dding three no Trump Ano yet. With Only eight top tricks. South would have been confronted with the same prob Lem at that contract if nestled a club. With the opponents attacking his weak Spiot and theace of hearts not yet dislodged Declarer must make an at tempt to disrupt the for line of  s str Legy in ducking the first round of clubs might have worked out. If there were any Chance that bust had theace of Reurts and u double con club for. When East is in wit the of heart if he is unable to Lead a third club South can eventually discard Dummy s last club on the Jack of hearts. In Light of West s opening bid. However he wus clearly marked with the Ace of hearts and South s duly Remote Chance he Ivd on winning the first Lead in the Hope that bust had the Queen tuck alone in  that by playing the Ace of tubs at trick one. Declarer can actually Block the suit when West is in with theace of hearts the defense can take Only one club trick whether West cashes the King of clubs or under loads it. South regains the Lead in time to obtain the necessary discard. Soapy Pliml Imi film Gatluso trl Buim Fol stars and stripes no bugles for spies by Robert Hoyden Alcott popular Library Robert Hayden . Who was n lieutenant in the War time office of strategic services Conerl Hiilei another of those insider books. It s not the spy who came in from the cold but it a a Good Workmanlike account of Oss operations. Alcorn worked out of London under David k. E. Bruce then an Oss colonel and later . Ambassador to England. Alcorn tells of Many of the Ingrin Nuh devices developed by Oss such a in explosive that looked like flour. The Oss people called in Ifield aunt Jim leu Punk ukr flour and you could bake the innocent looking stuff into Burrud or biscuits a Well As blow up brr Lee with ii. He also tells the stories of Ninny individual i inels such As thei Ulitin Mare Hossu who entertained German officers downstairs in her chateau while hiding downed fliers and conducting other Oss activities upstairs. The German army set up u communication Center on the elderly widow s farm unaware that the Marchess and other agents were picking up All their messages and conversations with Bidden microphones. This is one for the spy huffs who prefer fuel to Fly lion. Blk judgment on Deltchev by Eric Ambler Bantam tub a Votee of foreign intrigue and murder novels is like Laboratory White mouse he is Wllling to Scurry through elaborate labyrinths for a paltry chunk of Cheddar it the end of the Maze. Readers of Eric Ambler s cloak and Dagger pot boiler judg ment at Deltchev will have to be smarter than the average mouse. However Ambler has planted r Large enough slab of cheese it the close to justify following the intricate and often times confusing plot Tine. Set in an unnamed Balkan nation and told through a playwright turned journalist named Foster judgment centers on the Kaa Karoo court treason trial of Yordan Deltchev deposed Leader of the country. Foster although no Bench cad. Suspects skullduggery. After wading through an array of skulking characters finding a decomposing Corpse getting shot it by two shadowy thugs and learning that the country s reigning chief is to be assassinated he becomes convinced that 1 his suspicions were Well founded and 1 he May be in Over his head. The Book grinds to a Lively Clow leaving the Reader to Ponder that things Aren t always what they seem. In fact they Aren t Al ways what they Don t seem. Georce he Khz does it make into a bed by Terna Novak popular Library  of Jln Lilley  Bce p Aeiful ill Mary Lee. Al the insistence of her Well of led husband returned to native ground. To a woman of her energies and ambitions the locals were an immediate Challenge. The men were Well fed Well loved Well Bow Bonert and much Loo satisfied with their lives to strive for Siose millions she considered essential for the simplest sort of Haoold Jane n Tratt ii ""mm"0,?" Cwm l a Hal sister. Fri Sujane. It was pretty difficult to believe that a girl who could have a because she has provided Good fun. Wai Ter Barne ? the marching morons by c. M. Kornbluth Iba Leonrine books old boy who cried   tre it a Jle i "1 � the in trying to influence the future by gulag there eed tack Lrowe re Oyt Hurth be 2? ,��rlh.to"89 in which " of science fiction attracts on unstable ten Fuli co jul h insidiously undermine. Lts%oundai1on.ypsn� re Mirty it to. Wednesday september 43, 1964  
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