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CHILDREN
HAVE HEADS SHAVED AS PUNISHMENT
THE
London.
owner of a privato 1 boarding school looking after 26 "maladjusted" and "backward" childron admit- tod that he had punishod some of thom by shaving thoir foods.
He also said he had made other children gargle
with A solution of water, mustard, and disinfectant.
The schoot owner is Mr John Bentans, of Kingsbridge, Devon, AL the school, Widdicombe
House, children scrub, polls, wish-up, make beds, and collect fuel in addition to taking lessons.
Bald Mr Benians: "I do- liberately stabbed one boy with, a pin to make him walk properly instead of limping. It was for his own good.
"But would be extremely unfair to suy this school was one of the most horrifying in Bri- inin, We would welcome an Inquiry. am not worried."
The children, all over eight, are looked after by one laundry- mald, two hundymen, one cook, two kitchen helpers, and one domestic help.
THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1960. :
TACKY'S DIARYCKY
JACKY Mendelsohn's mostly inhibited by People Called
THE Teacher must of Remembered SOME MORE Stuff ABOur The NORTH ·| Pole, ON a count of we went back To Studying about it This Week
The World
Age 32%
The North Pole is a place On Top Of The World Where Some Body once Started in To build A Barber SHOP
MOST Eskimos Wear Tennis Rackets To Walkaround on.Only if they canta ford ir They use husky Dogs To Pull Them.. Poor On A Sled. ESKIMO & real husky DOG.
Rich
ESKIMO
ESKIMOS, who have To Eat Raw Fish
wear Mittens,
LSO Their Houses are made out of 8CE, & dont have any Electrisity. So they gotta Watch Television by Candle-
Light
Am other funny thing in THE NORTH Pole is the Nights are all DAY Long
&
Life in the North Pole is real Hard, & the Eskimos gotta go HUNT for WALRUSses, which is their main Sauce of Food,
© 1960 King Pzantes Síudicate inc, World rights Reserved.
Excepting in The Summer Time, when it's JUST THE OPPOSIT
Here is Some Sapistics, about The North POLE &
ALTITUDE:
SeaL LEVEL
(Mean Tempertures Yes Very
The
/LATE
Show
Day
Time
Night Time
(INHIBITANTS: → WalRUSSES &
Eskimos
(Ghief Export:
Santa
10
CLAWS
What does the future Transistors open up a
hold for Mr Antony
SIX
IX months have now gone by since Prin-
cess Margaret married. Her Royal Highness has returned fully to public
Armstrong-Jones?
life. She has represented of projected the Queen at the Belgian them royal wedding.
occupations
for Tet equally he cannel be ro- Mr Armstrong-Jorics,
He would not be royal highly ursuitable 10 even if he received A ducal outward appearance. Now le. It wield ring inlze it he the TUULY: ve performed the cathonl deles
of loyalty.
The problem arises even with consorts ef royal origin. Prince Queen Anne, was consoled by George of Denmark, husband to being put in charge of the Admiralty, much as we nowa. days employ Lord Mountbatten.
But what has happen- ven
stopped. ed to the Princess's hus- It is dimcult to believe that band? Mr Armstrong-
A young man so bubbling cver Jones sen, is not back- Jones will be content 12 spend with energy as Mr Anmirong- ward in providing stories the rest of his ilfe doing no for the Press. The lime- ting..
But there may well be those light plays on him.
in Court circles who think Not, however, ch Mr Antony that is how he should Armstrong-Jones. Until the his life. If this is so, Mr Arm- Hfe, But he managed before his Belgian royal wedding he had strong-Jones will render dict to build up an independent test srvice to royalty by reputation as a leader in such All we can learn about Febelling against such guidance. things as scientific advance and him to that he has atrained a The British Royal Touro is educational reform.
dedicated to a life of service.
almost vanished.
muscle by keeping his hands perpetually clasped behind his back.
That is why the
Prince Albert, the hur band of Queen Victoria, left thwarted spend and hamstrung through his
British peo- for
foot the bil
Advantage
Prince
Duke Philip, the of Edinburgh, too, has had to recof-
go out in the (highwaya
in and byways
order to Mr
He hes evaded a title. That Ple gladly
го It is by. is an admirable achievement. royal expenses, But hardly one that can last a means a small one.
No one can fall to whole life-time. I will be
tribirte to a democratic nise the ,poor
marriage if it ends in statti fying e Princess's husband.
The belief
A
The marriage was a great and popular aut because the Princess married commoner. Not only one who was a cominoner in origin. Nor one who has re- mained commoner in name.
of difficulties Aunstrong-Jones's position. He has undertaken an tremely delicate task, and one for which there is virtually no precedent. He has to fit into a
pattern of royal life, and yet remelt unmistakably a moner himself.
Princess Margaret
com-
And some effective activity,
succeeded.
Ile has
works an eight or ten-hour day.
celenco to scientists.
way to clear those
The World
of Science
by Peľom
Fairley
BRITISH invention
---shalved for the
past 20 years has sud- denly opened up exciting possibilities of clearer local telephone calls, and 2 shorter wait for people wanting a new phone.
It enables. 20 people-in- stead of the present two to speak simultaneously
down every pair of tele-
phone Enes laid between
busy lines
exchanges. Existing cables Propellers projecting below the
can be used.
Mr Antony Armstrong-Jones at
function in London.
a
prixe-giving
A (camera) shot in the dark
Recently I reported the
of
#
It is in stdra on long shafts. foot
hover-ship-Britain's The inventor, Mr AH. first. Reeves, of the Standard Tele-
This version is a 60ft-long, communications Laboratorics at One day he is opening Boy
Harlow worked out how to do wooden worlding model designed Scout camres.
smaller craft ca is explaining the importance of origin himselt so that
an indoor vention On another he he has the advantage of royal in inspiring the Covent Garden It just before the last war. But to confirm results obtained with
TV Damers the Opera. Now he has undertakenly today-when cheap. trau-
which needs only #invizibla" routine comes naturally to him. one of
the most responsible sistors can do the work of costly testing tank.
But if all goes well, William futra-red lighị to photograph a Prince Philip is on duty oven But is not necessary for those cultural tasks in the country. He valves has it become cominer-
Denny Bros. of Dumbarton will bank robber at work in a dark has not when enjoying himself. On his associated with royalty to has become director of the Edin- cially attractive. given up her royal position, revini irip
It works like this:
move swiftly into production of vault. the Continent he limit themselves to decorative burgh Festival. He has achieved It was generally believed that is would happen in rome other has been bury, restoring a some- functions.
all this on his own merits.
If you telephone me now, a a much bigger hover-ship to
and freight Today comes news of * countries under similar circum- what tarnished glamour to same
pair of lines between your ex- ferry Eassengers Mr Armstrong-Jones would re-
Lord Harewood is the Queen'a the
change and FLEXrt Street is over water at speeds up to 40 camera which needs no light at German ninor main a commoner its real life, stantes. On the contrary,
princes, as first cousin, not all that far re-
for the conversation, knots
all--the evaporograph. This in needed her full playing leading an independent exis- is
part, though we were still living in moved from the direct line of
converted into The Denny
craft is pushed the kind of picture it 'takos. tence and finding on effective Though her husband is a com- the
glittering times when succession. Yet he has managed
Our voices are continuous cheoirical waves by through the water like a ship. It simply picks up the heat outlet for his talents.
moner, he cannot be an
or Edward VII was to be seen at without fuss to play a role in
the hindset microphone.
by screws. But water-triction radiated by the human body Instead there has been this dinary commoner whose do Marienbad.
cultural life of the first in-
Using the now system, our is cut down by "noating" it and focuses it on a thin film of almost completo withdrawal.
one can complain that, portaner.
oil ings concern nobody but ini-
According to the yoices would be changed into on an air cushion. rumours self. He is embedded in royalty. Prince Phillp is litle. Of course,' He has achieved great things
short, sharp electrical pulses
ita pallern received, so
At first there were
No
MANAGING DIRECTOR
* Remember "me, dreamboat-office party- Christmas Eva?"
The solution
Here is an example for Mr Armstrong-Jones to follow. No two men are built on the same paltern, And it would be foolish to suggest that Mr Armstrong- Jones, Loo, should direct a *festival or induence a theatre,
8,000 times
"Curtains" hang from
a to suck in fresh supplies,
htt
the
+1
and back into specch at the sides into the water, trapping molecules evaporate to a vary- Dolour other end. Equipment in the much of the escaping, cushional ing degree, giving a But there are many ways in
exchange would sample our air so that less power is needed image, which connection with the Royal conversation
--{London · Express Service), Family can lead
to some second to produce this pulsed rewarding and yet independent code. activity.
It would bú easy
MY Armstrong-Jones were content
What emerges ls. In fact, broken conversation. But the brerks between pulses are sa short that the human car can- new dilect the differents from normal.
No mix-up
to patronise the racecourse or
the boxing-ring. But he is not export in these sports, And it does not enstitute a life's work 10 patronize the University The breaks are long enough, Hoat-race, aven. though Mr however, to allow 13 other Armstrong-Jones caxed the people's conversations Cambridge. boat, not all that inted in without any mix-up, long ago.
WHY WOULD THE SPEECH BE CLEARER?
for
be
PORTRAIT STUDIO
The best thing. Mr At present, local calls are not Armstrong-Janes eau do both amplliled. So a person on, the royally and for kinself the side of London inay sound 'I to walk ont of Kensington | faint. But in the new sysitim, Palace one morning, hatlees | litilo repenters are fixed at and hands not clasped behind tavaks down the lino and the his back. And then And pulsed,code fa "Preshaned up" somto work which he wants at ecch. to do for ita, own sake,
Manholes exist in most, tele phone areas where there can be Inatafiled-carlly,
It it be professional photo- graphy, so much the better, But Mr Reeves's invention is now let it be something which will being tried out in two telephone give him a real place in the exchange in Madrid, if the commanity. This will be a fine GPO adopts it, it should mean demonstration that being that overcrowded exchanges can married to royalty nowadays quickly tako on new subscribers. enables a man of talents to turn
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HOVER-SHIP
Instead of bringing his indiviNUMBER ONE
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