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Take Over
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London.
BAND of "40 thieves"
Ain an Arabian oasis
is causing crisis.
diplomatic
The 40-strong band of nomad warriors has occupied the Buraimi Oasis -eight villages on the borders of the Sultanate of Muscat and Saudi-Arabia.
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from
The force came Saudi-Arabia, · but their prize is more than an onsis,
Local reports say there are rich oil deposits beneath it.
Rumours thni Britain has threatened to use force to pust "40 thieves" were denied by the Foreign Ofee.
The Sultan of Musent, though an Independent ruler, has relied for years pon Britain to | negoliate his foreign relations.
Recently the Emir Felsal, son
of King Ibn Saud, visited London to discuss the disputed boundaries of Saudi-Arabia,
Pending completion of the
there is only ONE BEST talks, the Foreign Office under-
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de had a circumferentor and a diagram of the planetary aspects, a tide table And a nocturnal. Made by an Eng Rahman. Humphrey Cole, it sailed with one of the greaten of all Eng., binen, Sir Francis Drake. Andil alan told the time--withia half an hour of 60. (Reproduced by coursesy of the the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, England.}
▼HEN Elizabeth I was on the throne of England and English sex-power was at in height, - this dial was buccaneering the seas with Sir Francis Drake. It was probably with him when, in 1577, he laid course, by Morocco and the Cape Verde islands and set out to sail around the world.
Neatly four hundred years were to pass before the Rolex Datejust made its appearance; but the analogy between Drake's dial and the Datejust is not so far-fetched as it may stem. For Rolex watches, too, have quite a naval tradition. They've been used, for instance, for destroyed navigation when the ship's chronometer was destroyed-and "once, even, for timing a flotilla attack in the Far East.
But they've also served with distinction in quieter roles; served with such unvaried accuracy as to make their name - byword," And top of all Rolex watches we can put the Datejust-perfectly waterproofed by the Oyster case, powered by the silent, efficient Rolex Perpetual self-winding "Rosor," it shows the date automatically in a neat, clear window on the dial. Of all great Rolex watches, the Datejust is the latest and the greatest so far, at least,
"Those whites'd probably fine you ton bob if you let a firework off in Regent's Park."
London Express Service
Secret of the film that
THE PAGE WHERE IDEAS JOIN UP WITH ENDEAVOUR... LEADING OFF ON "THE FILMS' ANSWER TO TV
pulls you out of your seat
YOU SEE THREE
PICTURES..FROM
THREE CAMERAS
HIS is the Cinerama, the new large-as-life cinema which is Hollywood's answer
T
to the stay-at-home pull of TV.
It
plc-
full-colour screena tures which the audience sees ›
three in
dimensions without having to wear glasses. Three dimensional sound heightens the realism.
complete it is
The illusion is so that the audience feels taking part in the action.
People ducked to dodge the spray thrown up as a speedboat raced across the screen at the Cinerama's first showing in New York
recently. They
leaned instinctively aldeways in their scata to right themselves as. a boat tipped when someone stepped into it.
When a jet-plane files un to the screen the audience first hears it approaching from be hind. The whine follows as it appears to fly across the theatre.
Inventor Frod Waller, who has put 15 years of costly experiment into the Cinerama explains:
The cameras used on location are the Brst which are really capable of 'shooting exactly
scenes
38 they be viewed by
human eyes.
The Cinerama re-creates the scenes
almost perfectly."
„CURVED SCREEN
63 FEET LONG
SOUND
CONTROL
ENGINEER
DISCOVERY
PAGE
Edited by CHAPMAN
PINCHER
The Alm is taken in three separate parts by three cameras mounted alde by side to cover a wide arc. Each camera records one-third of the scene.
The lens of the middle camera. points straight ahead. The lens on the left "shoots" the right side of the scene: the one on the right records the left side.
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that arranged so they overlap to make strongly curved screen. arched away from the audience a set-up which gives a stereo- scopic effect without distortion.
While the picture · is boing "shol" on location five micro- phones pick up the sound of the action covered by the cameras. These sounds are reproduced in the theatre by dive loudspeakers arranged behind the screen.
THREE PROJECTORS
ASKING YOU
CAN you explain 187
Hundreds of people- *landading the Miceke violently as soon as they look at the sun, yet no doctor or selentias; seems * to be able to explain why.
thousands of years in develop ing the underwater sound defec- for used for locating submarinca,
A CHAIN OF [LOUDSPEAKERS ||
•~~PICTURE:
CONTROL
ERGINEER
Artist LEWIS analyses the set-up or the new large as life cinema, in which sound and victures give the audience the dramatic lilusion of taking part in the action
night without eslliding, and can' catch their prey in muddy water. They have no sense of smell, and their eyesight is
poor,
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MEMO FOR NOV. 2
EXT time you see the full moon lift your hand in front of
your eyes and try to pinch the moon between your finger and thumb. It will to immediately
appear shrink to about half its aize.
Then look at it through a tube made from a rolled-up. sheet of paper. Again it will shrink.
Looking at the moon through a mirror, or bend ing over so that you see it. through your legs, produces the same result.
Dr. Edwin Boring, a
U.S. scientist, has carried out « peri- mants to explain these Illusiona after centuries of argument have failed to clear up the mystery.
He found that the size of thos moon you "ser" depends on the position of your eyes in their sockets. The moon seems big- gest
with when it la vlowed the eyes peering straight ahead. Raising or lowering the eyes resulto in shrinking.
This helps to explain why the moon looks biggest when it is low on the horizon.
BU
AUTOMATIC
UT it must be the brain, not the eye, which is really, the trickster. Think of it this way: -
If you look down at a street from a skyscraper, a passing car will look like a toy. Yet if you look at the same car from the US. invention-may soon be same distance on the ground,¡ it` replaced by a vest made, from will not seem so small, a new plastic film developed
car
from the all-British plastic The image which
the called Terylene,
makes on your eye must be the sama at both distancos, yet the
It is being developed by Dr John Whinfeld, of Hampstead, who discovered Terylene.
A
*you
It seems the brain automatic- ally makes this adjustment when your eyes move up down in their sockels.
Extra speakers on side walls
It is claimed to be "as strong brain alters it to give you Experiments carried out with as hard aluminium and more :sensation of height when In the theatre the three reels and at the back of the theatre
12 tame porpoises at Marine- resistant to impact than any, are on top of a building. of film are run through three reproduce more-distant sounds.
"After soring the Cinerama land, Florida, bave proved that other slim." projectors positioned 50 that
Alm chict Louis B. Mayer they are extremely sensitive to they throw the whole scene on described it as "a revolution as high-pitched sounds far beyond to a curved screen 03ft. long.
great of the advent of the the limit of human hearing. picture-control
talkies." engineer keeps the three films synchron-
Sir Alexander Korda is nego- Porpoises may be able to send 1sed and ensures that the joins tiating for the rights to build out a stream of such "ultra- between them do not show..
and operate Cineramas in Bri- sonte sound signals and judge tain.
the position of underwater objects from the echoes which 'bounce back to their cars.
Upright strips of tape num- bering about 1,100 make up the screen, which is, about, throe timin longer than an average cinema screen. The tapes aro
WEIGHTY
CUIENTISTS have weighed an 89ft blue whale piece by pled it was cut up at sea. UE PORPOISE.seems to have This would explain why per- Its tongue weighed nearly three
beaten the scientist by poises can navigate in shoals at tonal
JOHNNY HAZARD.
SEA SOUNDS
AS JOHNNÝ SEIZES INS OPPONENTS
GUN-HAND, THE FRAIN RDARI.
| ALONGSIDE TRAPPING THEM........
By Frank Robblum
THE DEAFENING RUMBLE PROWND OUT THE ANGRY ||«PESPERATELY JOHNNY FIGHTS TO KEEP HIS HEAD SNARLG OF THE STRUGGUNG MEN
FRDA BEING BATTERED BY THE DÍEM OF THE D2* SPEEPING TRAIN!
But there must be more to tho moon ilusion than this. For the explanation does not oc- exunt for the fact that people who have only one eye seo the moon, the same size whichever
way they look at it,
*Next full moon;. Nov. 2.
Fiat car's
'Model" 1400
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