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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL

1955.

All Parts Of The World

Interesting News Stories From

TAPE RECORDER INDUSTRY BOOMS IN AMERICA

THIS is a tale of tape

ineasure of us all.

New York.

a new kind of tape that is beginning to take the

Bables cry for it. They also itself. It's about seven years old. ¡artieles as they drive their cars laugh, crow, gurgle, and burp But it's growing like a glans, on long calls, steres information for at

And it laughs, crus, ¦ · These are some 1,500,000 tape | for the new brain-like electronic glisgics, and burpë back. Like a recorders in American homes, | calculators. perpetual sound-mirror. It will Mest are used for home enur

cd..

aro

on to 1 Autopsy surgeons all types of tape recorders, plùsound" will stay there without

held those baby-talk sounds | tainment.

The tape used in all this a forever, thecretical y as long 19 Retall sales of tape "come to thin plastic strip coated with its magnetic field is not dis.urb- $25 millen, last year. They iron oxide powder emulsion.

expected to reach 5135 Sound waves entering the Machines meve

at is beck.million within six years. The corder are changed To electric Tapped telephoties spill sterets Wall Street Journal said sales of pulses that remain as a magnetic the fron. The delving Into CAUSÉS of death tapes, totalled about $80 millien speak their notes on to it while last year, up $20 million from Ics of quality, unless the tape is their bands keep on the job. 1953 and nearly double the brought near a strong magnetic

Some mothers

record volume. of 1932. ever!

field that will wipe out the pat- their children's tantrums on it.

While tape recording shines tern. Later, they play them back so brightest now as a storehouse of Finally, there is the achieve- the children can hear how such things as baby's Arstment of video tape. Both Radio ridiculous they sounded

words, ez daughter's wedding Corporation of America and Bing The magnetic tape industry-ceremony, Dad's bathroom | Crosby Enterprises have de and tape recording is a child rendition

at "Girl

of my veloped machines that to both Dreams," the other uses form a the picture (in color) and the list that seems to run on forever, sound from a televisión. camera on the same Tape picks up information in and store them guided missiles and brings it¦ tape.. back to earth, records the! When perfected, this tape will sounds of heart disorders, helps virtually kiss goodlye to colour for oil by recording film for TV, eliminating the search vibrations from explosions, gives time and expense ct processing doctors abstracts from medical it.-United Press.

A Slump

In The Elephant Market

New Delhi.

In a manner of speaking, elephants on the elephant! market are white elephants. There are just too many of them up for sale, and not enough people want to buy them.

The Indian Government has banned the export of elephants, Their use in agriculture and forestry has declined because of the rise of mechanisation.

used to form the best market The many rich princes who for the huge pachyderms can no longer afford them der pomp and panoply.

Cost £1,300 During World War II, elephants cast as much as 20,000 rupees or about £1,300, Teday, the price has simped to 8,000 rupees, de about £200. Even at this low price, there buyers.

cr af

How Viennese Card

Sharpers

Sam, the snow leopard just doesn't like civilization! He roared into his cage at Copenhagen Zoo recently,

straight from the wilds of Asia. He's as rare as 'a genuine picture of a flying saucer and about as friendly! A Jab from one of his paws packs the .com bined power of a Marciano punch and the kick of a mule. Handsome, agile he may be but Sam's going to have to tone his temper down a lot before he gets a mate!-London Express

Witches Were Really

Very Bewitching And Benevolent

London.

Gerald Gardner, a cozy old gentleman who looks like somebody's benevolent grandfather, isn't. He's a witch who travels not on a broomstick, but on a commercial airliner from an island off the

Fleece The Unwary NOW FARMS only museum

Vienna...

A retired police Inspector and a professional

ARE MASS

magician have published a 150-page report on the PRODUCING

card rooms. art of crooked gambling as practised in Vienna

be summed up

a sentence,

Their findings can

"If you want a guarantee against being cheated, don't play."

Meebanisation

character

Detroit

of witchcraft in the

Coth

Whiches

arc generally very reticent about themselves aud you might live next door to oza for years without suspecting it.

But Mr. Gardner goes around freely admitting that he is a giving member of a witch "coven?" (13 America's forms the mass witches make a coven) and that of its he has participated in many production

strange rites including the As a resalt one" farmer "bewitching of Adolf Hiller, Working a 40-bour week can Be spends a lot at his time turn out enough food for fearrecting mistaken impressions 14 people: Oner, to took tur hands working

that all witches fromm farm

factories.

DOW

How To Play

Safe

With Smoking

Chicago.

Some 5,000 Vienna cafes and methods some as cubtia as the bars are licensed for card gam- delicate nick of a fingernail on

blog. Former inspecter Ernst the edge of a card... Sprung and is collaborator One gambler used the sun to are few Magician A. Ailen, estimate that mark his cards--by putting them dawn to dusk six days a week old crones who stir cauldrons of tar and nicotine would do

30,000 Vienna sharpers make chicas for varying degrees of

One Goverment officer com- plained that he could not feed Ats two beasts and wanted to sell them, but there were no takers.

The Mysore Government has a bigger problem.

It is keeping 40 elephants which were captured in a round- up 3 year ago. At that time, about 70 elephants were taken but only 30 were sold.

Now, it is costing the Mysore Government 18,000 rupees a ment to keep them in hay. And with the high cost of living, that's expensive hay.

Back To The Wilds

Assam in north-eastern India

усат

a crocked living at the tables.... Things have reached the point, they say. where crooks pety upon crooks. In euch games, all players know trickery is afoot and try to cutmatch each other in dallduggery. The crook with the craftiest technique wins.

A smouldering cigarette, anile, the clearing of a throat these or any of 1,000 other seem ing commonplaces may be the gimmick that takes the pot.

cardsharpers.

bleaching.

been

and.

zoom around

are

Cigarette smokers... who ugly want to inhale a minimum on broom-

sticks, Men can, be, witches, well to keep an eye on the too, and since the powers are length of the butt, the believed to be hereditary there American Medical Associa must be quite a few sons of tion has reported. witches are and

The female

う

The demand is for WHITE HORSE

of course!

Smoothness, favour and fragrance are qualities well understood by the judge of this superb Scotch Whisky..... Have you tried it?'

true

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HILLS

strides bave Coloured Spectacles

made in mechanising the farm within the past year as manufacturers jcinedin Sprung and Allen warn parti- production race rivalling that witches are often "damnably laboratory found in a sciles of

The association's chemical "Right-Size" models for all requirements. cularly against two kinds of the passenger car crusiness. pretty" as än, old

new Eg- tests that, the satest type cards in common use in Europe.

Carbines that can harvest lander wistfully chronicled cigarette was a king-sized oma the "stotch" and the "lightning)"..

named, because their backs are on the market.

more than 100 different crops before burning two 18-year olds with Hminated asbestos

One man

at the stake. decorated with Scottish

a tractor can operate а

are

claim.,

ConsulTLETS.

and

the

paper filter. But this applied only it was thrown away when the buit was an inch and

half long the

the association

tine and tar than from a regular-size cigarette.

The report also showed:

The her.

cigarettes

equipped with

100

the laminated asbestos-paper screen let a

little m more nicotine and tar

through.

tartans and lightning flashes. corn Ficker that will સવ Benevolent People. Those types are more easily almost everything but spoon

Mr Gardner insists that in-armed. tampered with than most, they the corn into the mouth of the

stead of trafficking with the

If it was smoked any shorter Sleight Of Hand The book also describes a

powers of darkness, witches are then the smoker gets... more Highly-Skilled

incurably cumber of gambling gadgets the

benevolent people Sprung and Allen 53y the inspector and the magician en- The American farmer has who got a bad name centuries а hight skilled адо only because pridist purpose

of their book, titled countered during the years they become

Me Irving A. citizens were jealous of the fun "Luck-Adjusted," is to reveal prowled gaming haunts in search technician," various forms of trickery and it of. evidence. One pipe-smoking General Manager of the Ford

Dully. Vice President and they had at their secret rites.

You see, used to market a number of tries to show the amateur how crock had a tiny mirror built in

be murmured, <lephants Bach

at the helpless he is against experienceded spectacles have been part to

Tractor 20 his pipe, for instance, Colour-

Implement wagging his grey goatee and Division said Sonepur Fair in Bihar State.

twirling a heavy ring engraved But things are tough these days. "There is an old saying that many shady purposes,"

"He can use and repair with a secret cabalistic sign,

• Å regular-length cigare- Special rall transportation is ex-if a man is determined to mur Sprung and Allen say that of complicated mechanical devices witches always

perform their

ette, screens out still less but nude. that make his life easier. He rites in

They pensive for the

1,000-mile (der you, you cannot prevent him all crooked gaming practices,

if it is

it is sucked down to, only become SO an inch and a half, less nico- journey from the jungles to from getting you in the end," the hardest to detect and beat takes hydraulics and electronics threatened to

in his stride. Sonepur, and the sale prices are Sprung said:

And when he popular in mediaeval times that tine and tar is absorbed than are signals. A cigarette that art buy a piece of equipment the authorities got worried ahd too low.

through a king-sized cigarette "It is the same if you insist drugs from one comes of the

he needs, he makes it himself." on gambling."

the spreid

falsehood tha

the player's mouth may signal dia-

ked right down to Pecan farmers in The Sprung-Allen book de mods. A casual pluck at a

Georg

witches were ugly.

**Tais

he added. smugly, "i "This means," the association scribed a long list of sieight-of-sitzer's lapel, could mean ace grew tired of knocking nus

tricks, including hand

of trees with long old of spades. A finger bent a certain They devised equipment to it personally.

dony pales can

emphatically and said, "that you can't get more fashioned card-up-sleeve devices, way might mean anything is the hydraulic

'But I can

under protection and a longer smoke rland the Puritans'. and illustrates them with photo cwner Intended it to,

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