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WHY A CAT ALWAYS LANDS ON ITS FEET
BY CHAPMAN PINÈHER
TEX HINA MAIL FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1960.
THE mystery of how a cat manages to fall on its feet, even when dropped upside down, is solved by these diagrams issued the other day by Dr Donald McDonald, of London St Bartholomew's Hospital
After years of spare-time re- The entire acrobatic perform search photographing falling cats ance takes only one-eighth of a with a high-speed camera, Dr second-which explains why a McDonald claims...
cat can turn over when dropped from a height of only one fool, Dr McDonald was able to film it only by taking 1,500 frames a second, he reports in the New Scientist,
The cat has the astonishing capacity to twist the front part of its body completely round without.twisting the rear park.
In this way It uses the rear part as a fixed weight on which the front muscles can twist.
The rear part then follows sult using the front port as a base on
which the back muscles can work.
During the process the cat's back is automatically arched so precisely that the animal is placed for a four-point landing.
OH, SENOR!
I'
BRUSH UP
YOUR
ENGLISH!
BARCELONA. Barcelona's cafe and
restaurant proprietors want to write notices in English, then they should either write them correctly
or not at all.
So says Senor Juan Limoges committee member of the local Chamber of Trade in the July Traders' Newsletter.
***Some of the notices I have seen in our cafes and restaur- ants are a disgrace to us and
insult to
English-speaking people," writes Senor Limoges.
Blushes
And to emphasise his point, he quotes these three examples -all frem Barcelona cates catering for American tourists:
British
and
"As Sure As Can Be You
Here to Enjoy the Very Good English Tea."
THE SNAG
Sole mechanical soag with this system is that the rear half tends to overtwist because it is beavier than the front. Some cats com pensate for this by whirling the Lail so that it acts as an air- brake.
Birt tailbes Max cats can still make a perfoot landing-prob- ably by contracting various body muscles as a trained acrobat does to keep his balance.
This built-in agility is ready for use when kitten is tour weeks old, but cats become more
expert at h the more they are. dropped
Cats make happy landings only Bikndfold cats if they can see. fall in a heap and could injure themselves, Those barn without the normal balancing organs present in the ears believed to be essential for positioning the body in space--can still land an all fours.
Dr McDonald, who dropped his cats on a rubber mattress so that they would not be hurt, suspects that they would land softly even if dropped from an airplane. They have survived falls from trees 60 high when they were falling as fast as they would from any other height.
and
Fat little guinea-pigs rabbits are equally flexible at the waist, Dr McDonald reports, but he is satisfied that no human acrobat can do the cat trick.
London Express Sércles),
"It was your idea that we share each other's interests. Mother - if I watched two weeks of Wimbledon you'd take up golf."
For Britain this is a moment of destiny. In international affairs, and in defence, Britons fall more and more in
the shadow of America. Must that trend continue? Here a Conservative M.P. gives this answer
MACMILLAN COULD LEARN FROM de GAULLE
HERE is a question which every British man and woman should consider
today. Do you think Britain has any future at all as an independent by LORD LAMBTON
force in world polities?
There are plenty of people who will urge you to believe that the answer is No. That we should resign ourselves to the inevitable and admit frankly that Britain's only future is as a satellite of America.
They are the defeatists. They are the men who never believe in anything-least of all their own country.
When they talk that way about Britain, let it be remem- bered that not so long ago the same thing was being said about France.
Quick-change
When France fell in 1940, the whole world went to her funeral and lamented how this once- great nation would never risc again.
Then came the shame of A great new spirit was created Petain and the long period after throughout the country, and the war when one Government today it could be said that succeeded another like quick- France has supplanted this change artists and it was im- country as the great European possible to get to know what Power. was the policy of one Prime Minister before he was succeeded by another unknown name.
No kow-towing
There was the crisis of Dien Bien Phu and the long-drawn - AB. Mr Winston Churchill once inspired this country to win the out Algerian war, and again the intellectuals of the war, so. has General de Gaulle world raised their hands and inspired France, and we should lamented the glory that
was take some lessons from- him. France.
De Gaulle's greatest quality Then came General de and that which lies at the very Gagile, and suddenly the root of his success, is that he whole picture changed.
has always put France first.
Tory M.P. for Berwick-on-Tweed
and
taken e selfish and a cynical of conscription, and by pretend- view of his opportunity.
ing that his country could have a foreign policy without How easy it would have been defence force. for him to have struited about Indeed, it would have been the world stage, following with roses, roses, all the way. pretended morality every that he had undermined the Popular demand for peace. How whole future of his country and easy it would have been for that of Europe would have hird, with the traditional feet-mattered little to a man of his Ings of his countrymen, to have age. exchanged his bafon for Cham-
For him there has been no should apologise, that the Sum- kow-towing to America, no mit Conference must not fall. falling over backwards to He was the rock on which the please that country if what West rallied, and now that the he thought it was doing was European Common Market is berlain's umbrella, and to have reality, America has changed gone to Rusaim to negotiate a ber traditional loyalties and settlement over Berlin, looks to France to lead Europe.
Wrong. Last year he refused to have atomic warheads stock-piled in France, and demanded an equal say with Britain and the US. in the use of atomic weapons, The whole world shuddered, and he was accused of wrecking Nato, but the prestige of France
rose.
The temptations
Looking ahead
But de Gaulle has done none How easy for him to have of these things. He has never purt himmelfth the role of courted momentary popularity. the Peacemaker of Europe, He has never tried to govern by and what momentary popu- one expedient after another, Iarity he could imve achieved, always taking the easy course, He would have been hailed as always taking the line that would a man with a minion, the bring him praise. super peacemaker.
Instead, he has looked far How easy it would have been ahead. He has made decisions were at the moment As an old man coming into for him and how popular he which power after many years in would have made himself by intensely unpopular because be no opposition, how easy it would taking the easy way out of the knows that if you are to govern have been for him to have Algerian crisis, by the ending a country well, the popular line
All this de Gaulle has achieved by putting France frst
One can also judge his great- Similarly, this year, when ness by the temptations that he Khrushchev made his scene in has resisted. Paris, General de Gaulle re- mained calm.
There came from him pante reaction that Eisenhower
AMERICAN NEWSLETTER
New York.
TRY to see Mr Rex Harrison while
he is making a television film and the studio officials look at you · as if you were trying to enter Fort Knox with an out-of-date ticket to Battersea Pleasure Gardens.
I report that quite different con- ditions prevail in the case of his first wife, Collette, between the hours of
9 a.m. and 5.30 p.m.
Collette Harrison has taken a
by by Jeremy Campbell
Money and the first
Mrs Harrison
is the easy way out that though for long time your dad pretend that there are "no thorns on rose trees, one day the blooms will fade and only the thorns will remaitu
are
The French know they following a man who is certain where he is going. They are fød with no illusions, they are not told to believe that the world is ad easy place to live in, and that there is a clever sohition to everything.
Way to greatness
ed to put a woman in the White House within the next disende.
At the head of this stealthy network: Mias Emma Dot Part- ridge, small and sharp, and Miss And the general's polley is not Lilian Rock who makes every only a brave one, it is a clever stafaxbent sound like an amend-one, for popularity fades quick- ment to the American Constitu-ly, and when a country wakes up to find that it has been ruled by
tion.
ite
This year they have selected six women candidates for Presidency.
"Frankly," said Miss Rock, rapping her pencil on the desk,
gimmicks which have looked good but have led it nowhere, although it only has fiself to blame it will not forgive those who deceived t
For Britain the lesson of
As a woman of spirit, she does and advertised widely to poten- The entire ceremony took about her life in America, of not intend to settle down in tial customers that his degree two minutes. 30 seconds which "the office of President has be-France is that the strength of a "If you want To Be Fresh Job at a renole seaside town in which the most significant part Switzerland (where she has been had been conferred "for promot- so far as the experts here can come entirely too masculine. It nation lies in its people.
Try Our Gins and Tonics."
• "English Typico Tea: Scone And Newly Caught Cream."
From a Barcelona night-club hand-out he quotes this exam- ple: "The Best Danced
chestras and the most Selected
Shows."
"I blush every time I Net
Long Island. She is working bahind the counter in the local beachwear shop.
divorce courts 18 years ago.
was clearly an afternoon in the living) until women are given ing better bealth with
his tell, establishes some sort of is devoid of reaction. It has no sensitivity, no ear to the ground; recent past, when she lunched the vote.
genuine Idaho baked potatoes." academic record.
if it lacks strength as well is be- This week the University of Herbert Hoover had 84 degrees Idaho, after
some embarrassed at the last count, and this year's comes pretty well sexless."
Miss Rock's plan to put sex hesitation, told me that no such Who's Who in America declines back into the White House has sentence had appeared in the to list them there is simply not encountered recurrent failure for
Ex - President citation, that the university did enough room. not give degrees for
baked Harry Trumans has only 14, but more than 20 years. The women always back down and vote for a man when the critical moment potatoes however good they then he's a Democrat. might be, and that Mir Toffenetti would receive a strong letter asking him to withdraw the ad- vertisement forthwith.
in New York with Rex Harrison. This is a situation between "I spent three or four weeks in Mrs Harrison and the Swiss Rex Harrison married Collette New York," she said, "and 1 Government which the Gover when he was 25. She left him, liked it. But is such a dis- ment does not at the moment Or- came back, then left again. The advantage to be poor there. I intend to resolve.
marriage finally ended in the have never thought money very Her share of the Alfa Romeo,
important.
along with the other two-thirds, "Bat Americana, epenkkity is rios touring Canada. And she American women, seem to ro- is living alone in the sleepy and gard poverty na monasthing sin of Long Island, where she has
think they actually few friends. Today Collette spends her day despise you for not being well Up to now I've always bed stead of picking out. wortis selling rope sandals, bathing o
someone rather delicious to drive me about in a car," he said. #1 suppose I really should set about learning to do it for myself."
After 45 minutes, which was
posters such as these," says Senor, Limoges.
"If the proprietors would ask
for an official translation in-
speaking
TALKING
POINTS
Marriage off
her life.
"I
"I was carried away," explain- ed Toffenett later.
Time to think
am a little remote down★ Cory thought for the good quality potatoes,
winter: One of the major
Cash helps
Charlie McCarthy, the wooden dany of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, received an honorary MEA. for his mastery of “inbuen- do" which provoked the com- ment "It will not be the first
from the dictionary, English- trunks and straw hats. She is "You might have some loath
people would feel treated to one of the least grace- some infectious disease. I rupe more at home. After all, who ful sights in the Western heml- pose they think you want to hor wants
to eat freshly caught sphere-that of the middle-aged row money from them" cream?"
American male dressed for the Mrs Harrison's calery is not all she was allowed for lunch. The remarkable fact is that time a blockhead has received beach. -London Espress Service),
enough to ingratiate her with the the first Mrs Harrison hurried nobody seriously doubled that a a university degree."
Doctor of Laws degree could be
At the smaller colleges a dona- Extensively described, at the dollar aristocracy of New York. Back to her shop. time of her marriage as a dark- But in Long Island it
tuables
sive ilversities for baking tibn in each can still produce an
academic honour. haired teacher of French, she is her to pay her way, La natural honey blonde who has
I miher like the cynical, can- never given a French lesson in here, I suppose," she said. "But television networks has more whole business of degree giving with this year came right out Americans widely regard the dour of as college in Florida, I never enjoyed being in the She has 4 Warm, over- public eye,
into the open and conferred the than 60 million U.S. dollars as a harmless academic romp. worth of autumn' advertising
Go Back Wilson the gowrio dojum- degree of De of Phlanthropy on hist my week received a Doctor a New How Silliman, Mega- time unsold.
[of Letters degree. In Indiana, May Stinson, although no altig with the President of g |ebaker at drachinations. General Motors, grid the owner had dran 2 Elijden to the col- of the Empire State Building, les pot a new dining roomi Ch. Wison, who writes some of the gaudies prose in the Busi- here over that an- nesa, said: “I said the President of the inkerally why he w23 giving, tan a degree... He told me Wonky and a house, notice of
enunciated English accent,
a Brillah pamport, and a third
share in an Alfa Romeo, ^«
Where next?
Her remarriage, which was "Really it amuses me the way planned in Canada,, has fallen the photographers always take
- It takes a mighty smart through. "Now," she said withe unflattering pichires of a á nesly: feller t* succeed with a good] out self-pity: "I'm going to cpt. divorced wife. When Rex and I education.
-FRANK MCKINNEY
HUBBARE
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--(London Express Service).
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miracles,
England was inspired to de
by Churchill in 1840, and given the right lenderskip today. I be lieve we could once agath achieve greatness and. Indepen- dence."
-(London Express Service);
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