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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1959,

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE SATURDAY 'MAIL FOREIGN AND COMMONWEALTH NEWS DESK

The Back-Seat Driver

Moves Up Front

New York.

A growing hobby among the U.S. motor- ing set puts the lady back-seat driver up front.

The result will be a sharp increase in the divorce rate, humorously predicted one male hobbyist, who currently is happily wed.

Sports car raltics, long a pastime in Europe, have spread

to America.

For the information of these distance requires détalled matho- who have not participated in this matical calculation and this is spurt, rally in contest in where the little woman usually which the driver and navigator comes in, as "navigator." of a sports car pt their skils ogainst a driving course outlined to the second by one of the numerous sports car clubs.

The aim of the rallyists: to travel a given distance in pre scribed time and at prescribed spced. The reward, In addition

Driving Easier

"Keeping the family budget la much easier," sighed Mrs John C. Conover, a

York young New wife.

to the fun, usually is a eup or Her husband, executive direc- other trophy.

tor of the trade group, the Comet

A rally may be as short as and Brassiere Association, re- four hours on a Sunday after-cently acquired a British sports

car.

noon or for a long as 3,000 He promptly joined a sports miles over a four-week period. car club, started on their railles. But to stay within the pre- and recruited her as assistant, -- scribed limits, on time and

Yugoslavia

Return Engagement⚫ By Popular Demand Is Longer

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Than She

Thought

Belgrade.

Yugoslavia has just

мед.

sured her coastline again -to find it is 106 kilome ters longer than she thought.

"I'll admit the driver bas much the easter job," saf Conover, "I know. As an old navy man, I have been both plot and navigator,”.

"I can see it now," he added good-naturedly. "As the rallies get more popular, there will be more lost tempers...separá- lions. .divorces."

Squabbles

Although husband and wife, or boy friend and girl friend, may | squabble over the way they finished in a rally (the mistakes are always hers of course), they go right on with their pastime.

Alan F. Bethell, former.rte. ing ear driver And now president of Britain's Stand- ard-Triumph Motor Co., esti- mated that between 50,000 and 89,000 sports cars now Aro Imported yearly.

"Bullies are for morC than Just fun," said Bethell. "They call for precision driving, Magymakers from the hydro-They're safety contests too, The graphic Institute of the Yugo- rallyist who violates uny traffic slav Navy Carried out the law is disqualified Immediately survey, using the latest methods. by his club. There are hidden

They found. that the Yugoslav observers all along the route. enastilna measured 2,099 kilo- meters, not 1,993 kilometers, as previously recorded,

The difference is a result of the extremely indented ture of the Adriatic coastline, which is a mass of bays, DÜYÜS and offshore islands.

The exact number of these

"Rallyists coine ip all ages. We have heard of some“ in. their 70's. But the average couple scems to be in the mid-thirties."

Equipment

Public Shame For Hooligans

Worried-like police in every other part of the wartd by increasing hooliganion among youths, the Athens police have hli on a new idea for punishment. This picture shows how it worked op two "Teddy-boys", 19-year-old Nicholas Diamantīdaicis (left) and 21-year-old Constantine Brandis. Heads shaved, they were forced to parade through the streets of Athens' Kifissia suburb bearing glacards saying: "I'm an ass, a Teddy Boy." Nicholas and Constantine were arrested for intuiting an old man and his niece-Express Photo.

FAMOUS SKID

ROW IS

ON THE

THE SKIDS

'New York.

The Bowery is on the skids as America's most

notorious skid row.

Prosperity is making the old street so respectable it might.

even get a new name.

Standard equipment for the offshore islands was not known navigator are the route map as recently as 1911, when the given at the start of a rally by results of

The survey made by the the sports car club; at least two Austro-Hungarian Navy were watches, one for clocking published.

Opinions Differed However, opinions the subject differed even after this,

ол

stup

for

Bowery has been either famous or infamous

the total time in covering the ever since it was establish- route, the other to check time ed.

covering each leg or lop; computation sheets: a clipboard for holding them; printed tables

Then it was the road to Peter It started as an Indian trail. Stuyvesant's

country estate,

of distances covered at various The Bouwerle," which is how

. The latest ineasurements give speeds and, an un adjunct to this, the total number of offshore circular slide rule for fast Islands as 725, of which only 66 | figuring.

numerous revis.

are inhabited. There are also "And." said Mrs Conover, Havigator," my case, a com- One nete item of Inforina puss when I really get us lost." tion turned up by the survVU__

"I would say from my ob-

QUET

1,000

to the the that erretinferenceservation of rallyists end, of these islands is 4,024 kilo- Bethell, "that the most inte mieters-lightly

portant equipment is general kilometera More then the agreement between husband country's land boundary,

and wife on tako is, driving which puranren - Siseloond-who-is-navljating. meters-U.P.I.

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It got its name.

George Washington's troops marched over the Bowery, Later America's first theatrical triumphs, of street music, shopping and wining and dining,

it was the scene of

After the turn of the semtury- whet elty. Ufo moved uptown,

the Bowery fell into disrepute.

It became more famous for flophouses and stumblabums. Thin anything élio," "Tourlat buses began including The Bowery as a sight tó be seen. Barber colleges altered 15-cent haircuts. Stolen clothing wAB hawked at the curb as "second- hand."

Skid Row

The scene of Lola Montez". American triumphs of the 1850's, of some of PT. Barum's biggest successes with the suckers and of the first stage version of uncle Tom's Cabin" became a skid row, complete suiih fake

auction rooms, cheap burlesque houses, 6-cent whisky spiked with knockout drops and sensa- tional dime_FYRISOLATES

People began to sing "The Bowery, The · Bowery I' nover to there any more." Times kept right on changing, and The Bowery changed will them.

Today, this 17-block tong, lower East Side Street that runs south from Third Avenue and intu Purk Row, is facing a faulti- million dollar face Uiting.

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Down will como the seedy fenement houses, flop Joints and

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Pratiyor.

Oooper: Unlan," one of the

puting up a new building si the head of The Bowery. Other structures a☛ due to go up and many of the remaining vid ones will be remodelled.— U.P.I.

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