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REMINDS
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MEMOVOX
ALARM WRIST". WATCH
JAEGER-LECOULTRE
Mevlana RAYS
OULD a soldier im-. The soldier under test alms his prove his marksman- ride at a standard target while Aship with a rifle by jected froth the "jitter-box" on two thin bears of light are pro- taking an "anti-jitter" drug to a small mirror fixed beforehand?
to the
What effect on a rifleman's alm
have the seasickness drugs now
given to troops boarding assault craft?
If a course of treatment with penicilin or sulpha drugs upscis the steadiness of a soldier's alm docs that effect last?
are
British defence scientists settling these important questions by using the Ingenious "Jitter- box" pletured above.
TAKE
Пс.
beams back to the "Jitter-box" which contains a complicated system of lenses, mirrois, and priams.
The mirror reflects the light
There, the smallest movements of the rifle muzzle are auto- matically analysed and recorded by a camera.
20 FEET
camera records the exact moment of firing on the film.
air Kenneth 8prtig at the The device was invented by Supply Ministry's research station near Chertsey, Surrey,
Dr ET. Renbourn is
auper-
vising the drug tests at the Physiological Research Labort tory, Farnborough, Hants,
Results of the tests will be kept secret,
FOOTNOTElyorcine,
one
of the drugs commonly used to ward off seasickness, is known An electrical contact on the to have a depressing effect on rifte trigger linked with the the brain and nervous system.
WORD
A COUGH SET ME THINKING
D
O'you cough violently
when the doctor starts
TO INCREASE YOUR
OWN VOCABULANY
SERENDIPITY
MAYBE you pick horses with a pln: maybe you think
that the day you look by accident at the small ada. In your paper will be the day you and the job you want. You Imay have no name for this but the dictionary has. It is SERENDIPITY the faculty of making happy finds by accident. It was colded by Iforace Walpole, novelist son of Prime Minister, in 1754, Pronounce it in five syllables:
SERENDIPITY.
This may help to end toothache
THE addition of a gas Professor Hubert Stones of the called fluorine to drink- Medioul Research Council, says tooth decay is to be recom- American children. ing water to help prevent that fluorine had greatly de- teased dental decay umong mended by the Health Ministry.
are
Certain areas. In Britain to be selected for a pilot-scale America, where fluorine has fluorine-a canary yellow ga
A. Government mission sent to test in which minute traces of been used for many months, has will be dissolved in the water reported favourably. Its head, for houses.
"Gallstone Do you "remember my telling you about a recurrent night. mare that's been haunting me recently?"
COOKING FOR THE ESKIMO
Children's Dept. By Ernost Dewhurst
Boys over 12 oversleep and miss school
TOST British children because their parents' holidays
fall in term-time.
MOS
are losing a whole year
of their schooling through absence: And much of this mlased education is not due to genuine sickness,
"WH
66X7HAT'S for dinner, Ma bears' feet. reindeer soup, or seal flip- mon eduse of absence-especial- as he rushes in from school. Oversleeping is . still com- pere?" asks little Johnnie ly among boys over 12. But playing truant s rare these daya-boys under 7 being the worst offenders.
Nearly 10,000 children
These disturbing discoveries have emerged from an inquiry 73 into school. absence carried out by the Ministries of were Health and Education.
Not in the southerly elimir where you live, of course, But in snowy Alaska in Eskimo- homes, according to a neat were little recipe book from those
parts.
from
Jointy involvesentative schools
in the survey. Homes visited when; teachers The "Eskimo Cookery Poole" wero suspicious of the reasons has been prepared by students given for absence.
of Shahnret Day
School, Alaska. meals But
lack of pride in good attendance he furvey, is shocked, by the theso days.
Colds and stomach upsets the were tasily
commonest causes of missed lessons.
20 percent of the absenteeism one case in every ave proved to be due to non-medical causes,
Dr Roy Branshy, the Health Ministry scientist who organised
"Parents should
be
con-
is
Many children over 12 are gratulated when attendance being kept away to help in the good. and notified when it is
Many more miss school bad," urges Dr Bransby.
home.
Journey Into Fear Behind The Sealed
Doors Of The Freedom Train
Frankfurt,
probing inside your ear? A SEALED train chuffs
do, so I found out why.
nerve also
away from track 19 of Frankfurt Railway Station A branch of the nerve which every night at 7.55 serves the coughing mechanism cloak and dagger runs close under the skin Inside the ear. So touching it starts through the heart of cff a coughing at.
Russian-controlled Germany The same main
to Berlin. Train No. 80609 serves the stomach, and stimu--The Berliner-is operated sel free digestive by the US Army for Allled Jutes to Juices.
occupation personnel. It is The aldermen of old London guarded
hard-boiled by could hardly have known this. American military police.
said to have arc Improved their appetites at City | Doors are locked and barred' banquets by rubbing the skin from the inside and window, behind the ear.
shades are kept drawn,
But they
doctor
For this reason, my tells me, the nerve under the *kin behind the car is still known as "alderman's nerve."
JAY SNOOPER
THE JAY is as thrifty as The squirrel at laying by a store of acorns for the winter, er it is probably better at remembering where 11 has
hidden them.
Once
By Norman Lindhurst
Progress reports continue, mile- by-mile, until the Berliner pulls in safely at the West Berlin Station,
aren't
Bup-
SO
It introduces which send a shudder "southerners." DOWNL the spino of we
Imagine, for instance. eating fish with ice cream. Yot one recipe reads: "Lingood eskimo Ice-cream."
It offers this advice: First cook and boll the Ingeod with water, and no salt. Remove fish bones and break into small pieces. Dry these and mix wit eskimo Ice cream. Add seal oll and water.
ours!
ADD BERRIES
Tasty? Perhaps so, but then Eskimo ice cream is not like
Reindeer tallow is grated Into small pieces and seat oil oddod slowly, while beating. Water Ja then added, while whipping, and seal ol and water aro add- ed until white and fluffy. --
the passengers peer poopla te
of German travellers on the morning. A passengers have on a way to track 19, clutching travel had strict orders to draw cur- At stations along the way, in
ordera and run which coat_20_
a railway lickel tains and keep them down Light the Soviet zone, passengers on 400-mile journey.
marks.for, the until the train-enters West the sealed train are awakened
Berlin.
by loudspeakers blaring "Aml
recipe concludes: Any At Helmstedt, the West Ger- (American), go home!"
berries can be added. The passageway to the train is barred by an American Army
man locomotive Is uncoupled Although they
Bear meat is another dish but behind a captain
and a Soviet. zone engine and podium, crew
the book
"Most of the "TRAIN COMMANDER" spell-pulling the scaled train through drawn curtains when the train
says; take over
the task of posel to,
to bear feet better than furtively from behind the ed out in bright yellow letters the Russian zone to Berlin.
mcat on his maroon armband. Flank--
Saya student Nellie Okpowruk: stops for checking and water in tooking military policemen.
"Wo cook them Ing the captain are two tough-
well and Soviet zone Germans are still Soviet zone. stations.
edd salt. Four feet would take barred, as are Soviet troops,
They see the train command- about one teaspoon of salt." ing cars. from entering the sealed sleep er, his interpreter and two And she advines: Eat them American mliliary policemen
Beal oli," At 4.22, with a jolt and a swing down to the station The average Eskimo house Burch, train No. 80609 crossca platform, where two Russian hold must consume large.
it enters the Soviet
our travel onders, the captain After a searching inspection of
finally grunts, checks our names off his list, and dryly remarks:
zone, nobody leaves or enters OFF WE GO
the train-not even the tommy- gun-toting Russion railway
guards.
with not
If you are
the border and starts its three officers are waiting.
hour
run to Berlin. Now the Berliner and its handful
allled passengers are on their THEY SALUTE
"If there had been one error own and at the mercy of the
takes."
with thick
and
the
two
The
quantities of seal oil in a year in this Land of the Midnight Sun.
The Cook Book stresses that Real is one of the most common kinds of food up there, and there are three kinds of seal---
seal and rijbon seal.
To board train 80600 you in your papers, no matter, how 'Sovicts. The train is in the There is a brusque salute on orders typed In must have, U.S. Any travel small, I'd turn you back. The hands of an East German Com both sides; the American cap-hair seal (common seal), spotted
Englich and Russians can't enter the train, munist crew and proceeding fain hands the Russians a list.
one word but they do have the right to Soviet troops and jack-booted, nationalities,
through country
of the passengers and their
"We use them for food and check everybody's travel orders Briton, Frenchman or even
an American, and they always notice mis- black - uniformed
"People's Soviets give It careful
akins for clothing and murluks,” scrutiny,
says a welter. Russian attached to any one of
Seal oil is made from the Stations along the route blaze.blubber next to the skin. the four occupation forces, you
Tho Chettiare entitled to ride the sealed
blubber is cut off and stored in train to Berlin.
ONLY WAY
shidop
on
After an autumn jays In Hainault Forest, Essex, bird-watcher M. R. burgh reports:-
During, a dolly stint in the oak woods a Jay works ten hours, making about six flights
to its "larder every hour.
It carries an average of three acorns on each trip, and burles
1,200 a week.
The acorns
Gre
hidden" in selected
on
Police.".
BANGING
with huge Soviet Preda
the
posters, demanding,
Other meals from the seal in~: clude scal meat, seals' bare feet (the flippers), cooked blubber- "old people always want to eat this"-and seat head.
ا الله
LOTS OF THEM
At 755, the German conductor the platform blows his whistle. There is a last-minutes
division of Germany," "Down seal tins. It is left in a warm sprint of passengers and then off Up and down the corridors with the Western warmongers" spot, or during the summor it we chug on the 12-hour ride in- clump
renders flaclf. the American military and "Death to traitors." to the darkness,
Even in their darkened police train guards, bánging ‘on
com- partments, passengers on the On the train are soldiers en compartments and shouting: It
is the
train can "Pull down your
distinguish only way the route to join troop units in Ber-
window sealed about 180 a day more than age Westerner will ever be in, diplomatic couriers had shades! Keep them down until between West and, East. Rolling northward from Helmstedt, the able. to travel into the Soviet cuffed to briofonses stuffed with we arrive in Berlin!"
train pitches from aldo to šido zone
reasonably secure
Iron bara protecting doors to on the run-down roadbed. from secret documents, arrest and imp
newspaper separate places in
imprisonment,
couchics это awung into
At 7.30 in the morning, our And area, which may be as much as
dozens
of Western correspondents scenting "trouble the
place; locks
are given a final journey through danger ends three-quarters of a mile from occupation personnel make the brewing in the divided city.
check, and the trip into danger when the scaled train pulls into trip
every week as much for
In one compartment, reposing begins.
a suburb of West Berlin. In solitary splendour, is a Soviet is the trip really dangerous? Many there, stili in night-caribou and clam soups, White. Come along with us for A Ualson officer, Who attentively The American Army belloves it "On every occasion I have ride ол the scaled train on its observes the quilted Hessian is, despite the fact that there owns stand at house windows
waving. dark run through Stalin's zono felds, crumbling casties and US, have been few serious incidents, watched a jay retrieve an acorn
The scaled train is Weat It has bounded straight to a
of slavery.
barred, heavily-guarded Berlin's visible link with the given boot, stopped, dug Through the grime of Frank- Amy Installations as the train In a
rear communications ear, Army Western Alles proof that furiously with its bill and, in furt Railway Station, ils
signal men maintain constant Berlin stil belongs to the West, due course,
has taken out an airders still hanging twisted By the time train 00800 pulls radio contact with. Helmstedt Seeing the train glide in every acorn.**
and naked from bombing of the up at Holmstedt, on the Soviet, and West Berlin as the sealed morning `gives them renewed ➡(London Express-Service) fast war, we jostle with swarms zone border, it is 3:50 in the train whistles through the night, xtrength to start the day..
the oak wood. The bird seems the thrill as from necessity. to remember the exact position of each one,
JOHNNY HAZARD
FIGURE IT THIS WAY........ WHOEVER FAILED TO KILL PUNCH SHERMAN DIP KILL ALBERICH.....BECAUSE HE MIGHT HAVE TALKEDİ
LOGICAL AND THE? AURPERER STILL CARRIES THE WEAPON!·
IN THAT CASE,
WOULDN'T YOU GUESS
zumbles northward,
I AGREE, WE MUST TAKE PRECAUTIONS THAT ANOTHER ATTEMPT | TO GEE THAT SHE IS
PROTECTED
WILL BE MADE ON HER
LIFERA SOON?".
By Frank Robbins
- AT THE MOMENT HER ONLY GUARD 19′MĪGIEU WESTLEY!
SOMEHOW,CAPTAIN, THAT'S JUST WHAT I'M
AFRAID OF!.
NORTH BRITISH
The Best Tyre
for Miles
Let us not forget walrus slew, caribou gravy andreindeer,
whale and owl also appears on, the_menus,
Young Stephen Sectamená hus this to say about Eskimo tea: "We find them in hill, at Ser- pedline, ferent than whilto
They are, little dif- men'sica. There's lots of them: 'Sorbe people gather somo for tea. They put them in kettle and let boll. They are dark green,
Native
plants (with -curious names also
provide food for the Fakimos; they include cran.. berries... blue-berrics, gainson- berrics and mouse leaves,"
Profils from
the little book will help the Alaska Crippled Children's Association a
Teacher Isabelle B. Bingham rocalls that they had talked about food needed for good health, and had listed foods available in Eskimo, land) Sho asked how mothers students cooked their food,
And even though one litle boy. protested "Eskimo, don't have cook books, the idea took shape. Sudents-brought re -cipes and pointed were, offered for bringing then,