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"That's an absolutely tremendous idea, Harrison,
In fact, 1 Just thought of it myself."
"I notice be has Herbert's tight fixta,“
THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1950.
storeys up!
Out over Hongkong-18
AUSTRALIAN acrobats Ray and Trevor Dalray
"up in the air" over their new
training methods-just about 250 feet up.
The young brothers from "Down Under" who at present are performing as an acrobatic comedy team at the "Princess Garden" have devised what they call the "fear method."
They explain that the new method works exactly the way it sounds.
"Every day for the past week
been We have training by scaring the daylights out of OUT- selves." Ray said the other day.
To explain more he and Trevor, Д
clearly,
former
jockey, took A photo.
by
Steve Dunleavy
grapher and myself to the the abrupt end to a four-year
of
carce for the young team,
with a bit of a thrill in it," ... Trevor said with a grin.
top
an 18-storey Now "this is something building in Hongkong.
"This is our favourite training ground because it's so quiet and there is plenty of space." said,
Trevor
Abrupt End
But the only space I saw was a 250-foot drop direct- the ly under the top of
and where Ray building Trevor started to practico their new "method"
I drew a horrified breath as the two daredevils crecut- ed a difficult balancing trick only inches away from the
edge.
The slightest slip calculation would have
or
mis-
The "bit of a thrill" ental!- ed Trevor standing about two feel Away from the edge of the ballding and tording a high front somermult!
"The idea is to land as close 10 the edge- as possible naturally, you have to keep your wits about you."
Naturally
Heart Attack
well thanks for the story. We'd better be getting along now." I said shakily.
At this the young team locked surprised.
Why, "you haven't seen holl of it yet." Ray put in.
Hinlf of it? I thought-just how meant much can two people do almost
JODRELL BANK IS QUOTE
AIMING AT
SCIENTISTS at Jodrell
Bank are preparing
to bounce signals off the planet Mars.
The attempt will be made Around next October when
Mars is at its closest to Earth about 50 million miles away. From the echoes they hope to tell the exact range of Mars, something about its surface, and whether, for instance, it has an Ionosphere similar to Earth's.
The World
of Science
By Peter Fairley
And all knowledge is good
such
MARS
45 feet per second and under acceleration 5,000 Umes that of scientists hove HOW gravity, calculated.
al
by speed ace Donald Camp- bell, at the Chelsea college aeronautical And automobile engineering-
IF this world is to live in peace, It can only be through the upsurge of engineering, because obly science can raise the stan dard of living of the world'sa
IS IT TRUE? under-privileged
in cloudland with nothing more apart from when he than a very hard concrete street jockey." he said.
a long way down below?
Ray then picked up Trevor and held him overhead in a sitting position with both hands. He then took away hiks other hand,
Tumbling
WAS
a nightclubs and
were on
"With my
arm. In plaster I could not go to work, and one day. I saw some of Trevor's rates training.
"I was then
way.
"Soon after, we got a contract to tour the East and, well-here we arel" he added.
By this time I had regained my composure and was about to accompany them to a lift that would take us back to blessed that I decided terra firma,
It was nerve-wracking. Not satisfied with almost giving their two spectators a heart attack, Ray then started that it was high time I had a po to "cokewalk" along the edge of the building.
"Alright, alright, I've seen enough. I'm sure you'll be n great success," I said, starting to
go.
Then Trevor looked down and gave Ray a knowing wink.
What next?
I then witnessed the most terrifying sight of my life.
Ray swung Trevor down from his airborne poeltion, between his threw him
and then-ob no legs with all his strength hurled Trevor out from the roof-top gripping him only by both wrists.
over
Is it true that when the moon
For almost a second Trevor' 1 bigger? is low in the shy And this is because it is nearer?by Judge Geoffrey Howard, at
West London County Court, was stretched full-length
of the building-with UNTRUE. It is no nearer. It
when a witness said she dialled the side SEEMS bigger. Many
999 because her tenant rang her only busy Victoria City below.. theories have unsatisfactory
Hay quickly snapped his part- doorbell continuously:-
[ner back in, and Trevor leapt to his feet wearing a big grin
unly
this.
the layman to appreciate any practical beneits from experiments, But as the scientists been put forward to account for Now two American polct out: "It is knowledge. rcientists from Wisconsin have
given what
rnost the seems likely answer.
Jutting out from the roof of they high building placed 20in. cardboard moon. now Then, 85ft. away on the ground.
placed 3 varlely different-sized moons. People sitting direelly under the 20in. disc were asked to match with one on the ground.
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If they rucceed, the feat will A new kind of "bleep" may
the hit probably
headlines be heard from space in a year
vr two. Several firms, well- an 85 again, as did the Moon-bounce recently. and Venus - bounce
versed in high-pressure sales-
Such
spec. manship techniques, experimentis SM tacular. But they form only u
considering using privately own they rd Catellites to send com- smail part of the work which
mercial adverlisements back to Britain's giant radio-telescope is
Earth from space. doing.
One group, for instance, is now
much studying how
shooting store "wander" from their
They call it Orbital Adver- ising.
plotted paths, and whether this Good shot, sir
ia due to high winds at between 100 and 200
from milles up
Earth.
Private bleeps'
of
it
of
ashamed Ou should be
yourself bringing the police out for n Hitle dispute, Thero should be some sort of punish- ment for people who ring 099 unnecessarily.
*
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Not Bad!
"That's not a bad trick ac- tually," he said calmly.
But why would two well paid. go in for these jymung Aussicy
roof-top capers?
"It keeps us interested," was the reason they gave.
Hono interested
get7
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by Mr A. B. Clegg, education ufficer for the West Riding of Yorkshire, speaking at Manches- ler's Textle Institute:- In every case, they chose a disc considerably amaler than TECHNICAL education is sti
"We've been together for four In other
regarded the one above them.
unfitting for words, those on the ground op-
the son of an English gentle years and we have always been kept up to a very heavy they Larger than
given the How many. pored much
schedule
Trevor of shows,' lo actually were.
cholee of sending their sona
explained. Children were least accurate.
one of the older universities to "If
practice we Some of Man's most difficult The youngest chose a 10in. dise read clamics, pure selence, or ordinary rehearsals there is technical problems pre often to match,
an error of 50 per mathematics, or to a college of danger of us losing interest and overcome quile simply by cent.
Adults were wrung by advanced technology to study
going stale. Nuture. While Thors and Atlases about 10 per cent.
mechanical engineering, would
This
we keep way explode miserably on the tiring- The scientists suggest this choose the lattery
interest keen," he added. Canaveral, the due to the process in the brult points at Cape
Ray said, they had started off Ares Its seeds which "corrects" the Image of dwarf mistletoe
together as a team while he was perfectly millions of times
distant object
recovering from a broken arm,
year.
t
80
is
that it
The correction CDC3
Fucks at these winds will be vital to space-travellers, who will be buffeled by them,
sppears to be its proper size.
from-by Prince Philip, telling boys Other group
are making a
and girls at Buckingham Palace "sound map' of radio signals
Because we do not Each fruit has one seed. When experience.
about the standards set for his given off by stars in Earth's own it ripens, It bangs so that the often look at objects overhead. galaxy, tracking meteors by seed is pointing up. As it breaks our brains do not get much award scheme
LOOK xt them with horror. radar and measuring the exact from the bough, the fruit con- chance to practice the correction
T know perfectly well I size of galaxies as far away as tracts, shooting the seed up in for the moon. Try it.
conkla't do it. 700 million mics. It is hard for the air at an initial speed of
IN
THE
DOG-HOUSE
DANCE
THÉRAPY 371
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WITH JAK
STOP THIS
"Well, that's settled your dog, now what seems to be YOUR problem 2-**
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suffered at playing football.
"Trevor had been doing this (acrobatics) for years before,
at
"Trevor, who was very good at tumbling even then, started to train me and we both joined up with a good gymnasium.
were "Within no time we getting crigagements in Sydney
"Sorry, we have at least an- other twenty minutes of practice ahead of us," Ray said.
"Don't wait for us-you leave by all means" he added.
I didn't give them a second chance to shock me to the
marrino....I left.
(Top) Ray throws Trevor out of 250 ft drop. Says Trevor: "To do this trick it is advised that you are the best of friends."
(Bottom loft) Trevor is "sitting pretty" on_Ray's extended orm. "Sitting pretty close to the edge. Ray says with a smile.
(Bottom right! Friends come face to face. Only the angle and altitude are a little different. One slip ond brilliant carrer comes to an abrupt end,
NEW FACTS ABOUT THE FIGHT TO
LENGTHEN YOUR
HA
AS the average human life-span,
which has almost doubled
LIFE
in the last 200 years, young children. Only $5 years now reached its natural age 16 out of every 1,000 bables died at birth. Now the number limit at 68 for a man and is 23.
74 for a woman?
This prevention' of wasted Hie is continuing, but so slowly that Figures issued by Sir John it is being swamped by the loss Charles. the Chief Medical of life in middle-age, caused by | Officer, show that after a con-
tinuous rive, te-expectations complaints like heart trouble, lung CLACET, and leukaemia, have remained static for the which are on the inerCOPE,
last five years,
And there are strong
in-
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All
HOW THE SPAN HAS GROWN--AND LEVELLED OUT
SCIENTIFIC evidence suggests that the rapidly rising living
theso dactors, tending to which used to kill one person a dications. that they may even standards may be beginning to keep human longevity in check day in England and Wales, nÓW fall, unless the doctors make reduce life-span.
even reduce it, would be kills six.
rapid and spectacular progress Because of richer feeding.chil-or
But the assault...on against heurt attacks and the dren are now reaching their rapidly cancelled out if the
much scientists made a breakthrough illnesses is being precard for new killing diseases of civilisa- maximum height at R
on-such atroad front tion.
earlier ago 17 and 18 instead in research on heart complaints ward And and cancer.
and involves so much talent af in their early twenties. throughout the animal kingdorp such early maturity is so these disorders which has the curative treatments but methods It is the steady increase in that, in my view, it must even- tually yield not only better
Century
ciated with shorter life-span, doctors worried. Coronary of prevention.
zbuch
When that happens the Chiet now: _Mesical Officer will once, again four report an upswing of the average
expectation of useful life ilke to take men at least to 79 and women into the eighties.
Experis predicted that human 2 AFTER years of intepalve thrombosis, hardened srieries, longevity would go on increasing e research by doctors and
are gradually,
cloculatory system average of 100 years and even no method of extending the responsible
possibly up to an scientists throughout the world and other complaints of the
for nearly beyond. What is the reason for maximum span of life
dakika, in every 10. this unexpeted, check?
beyond 100 is in sight. 1 belleve there aro three main A few years ago scientists wern confident that research ADVANCES in medicine and would yield mich direct clues to living standarde haya ex- the cause of old age that they tended the average lifespan would be able to devise ways of mainly by asking the once staving it off. No auch Endings signant halt in the rising
CVA USER:
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Upswing
There is little sign of any
trend-of-lung-conver."Lelakaemia,
Chapman Pincher
Form(Lotro-shows-Einpress Barvion).