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THIS WEEK A PROVOCATIVE GUEST WRITER...

My Pets

Are women

spoiling dogs?

No toy dogs for the Douglas-Homes man's dog and still a man's friend by the looks of things here.

Just Fancy That

RUSH-HOUR crowds stared

when a

man dressed in pink pyjamas and dressing gown walked up to the ticket office at London Bridge station.

He bought "single" for Gravesend and calmly, boarded a train.

Up came an inspector and a team of police to coax kim off Le train into a sailon ofloe.

There it was found that he had walked out of nearby Guy's Hospital, where he was recovering from a leg operation. He was Laken back.

that

FOREIGN OFFICE Spokesman Mr Join Price was asked at a

conference about a Washington report Chuese speaking American diplomats coming to London would talk in Chinese to their British opposite numbers.

Reply in Chinese by Mr Price: "Warman mayer egin" The transistion had a familier sound: "No

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comment."

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and his once

MAN dog used to be an accepted relationship---a preroga- tive of the male.

But a dangerous trend is afoot, a trend that not to threatens only undermine the already dwindling authority of us men, but seems to bode ill for the dog world

too.

Since 1950 dog licences in Britain have dropped by 13 per cent. And during the last three years this drop

by ROBIN DOUGLAS-HOME

The poodle now tops the ledgeable popularity poll for the fifth equal. year in succession. On its coiffured heels comes that yapping. waddling busy

body, the corgi.

And the latest canine status-symbol is that snort- ing Caliban of the boudoir, the pug.

Odious

takes convergence

London Express Service.

Four to film

the route of Alexander the Great

confidant, an gical

and a collie and am assured He discusses politics, the that, given a nice long tail, the weather, and the garden 1 could safely enter with Fido, Because Cruft's show-ring as either. Fido knows, wags, and un- Pick a good-looking dog and derstands. Master is always you're all set. right.

FOUR Labrador place. I have a

When I used, in child- hood days, to tell my mother

that the only person I liked

Warning

After all,

it wag

(and they who onca more I gee of

students three from the London School of Economics set out with a camera, tape recorder and notebooks early in July on a 12,000- mile expedition to trace the route taken by Alexander the Great on his journey from Greece to India,

Starting from Constantinople Union, and Mr Panggis Your- they expect it will take thern loumnis, a third-year economie about B0 days to make the trip, student from Athens. leading through Smyrna. An- kara. Teheran Herat in Afghanistan, Kandahar, Kabul, the Khyber Pass, to Srinagar, capital of Koshmir, and Delhi. A film

in the whole wide world was my dog. I merely got a Frenchwomun What self-respecting man crisp, "That's only because should know) would dare be seen with one he can't answer you back." said: ""The

At men, the better I like dogs' of that odious trio at his She didn't understand.

this point

bock, and through Pakistan to where he died.

heels? So now it seems to The names women give Harsh words, but worth turned her their dogs too. Twinkie, digesting. be

Powder-puff, etc. I deg...."

"A woman and

This is clearly a bad thing. Women not only like odd dogs for odd reasons. They do. all the wrong things with them.

They over-indulge them with pampering attention. feed them with chocolates, kiss them, coo at them in a

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sup-

more

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of the some effeminate ones don't mind, but imagine a decent-mind- embarrassment dog's during all that smiling busi- ness at having to confess to a name like Twinkie,

Tragedy

ridiculous falsetto in fact Harding's late dog: because 1 felt so sorry for Gilbert

has accelerated slightly, treat them like toys.

(a) it had had the misfor-

But there is a trend Worst of all, they be tune to have been born a come far bigger bores about Pekingese and (b) it had their dogs than men ever been do,

within a trend here--with smaller, more closely packed

namod Shampoo. houses and the difficulties

Tragic. It was a male too, of feeding, large dogs have

Men have another lead been ousted from popularity A man and his dog have over women they have and numerical superiority a deeper, more dignified re- mastered the art of grow- by their smaller, less mus- lationship. He treats his ing to look like their dogo. culine cousins.

dog ns a comrade, a know- A sort of mutual physiolo-

UNDERSEA ARMY WILL

AN

TRAVEL BY "TAXI'

N under-water taxi" has been invented by a Detroit University student, the son of a US army engineer, who believes that military buses of the future will be built on

RAIDERS teuk over the U.S. Air Force baze at Bushey Park, the ocean floor, where they will be

They disarmed the guards, who backed against a wall withidden from probing satellites.

near Kingston-on-Thames.

their hands up. In 10 minutes the 11 raiders occupied the camp and 'dislocated its telephone system.

The black-faced ralders, "armed" with only thander-flashes, wers from the crack. Inns of Court Territorial Regiment American ofloor fuld After the "security check" joke, a senior them: "My mon are a trigger-happy bunch with orders to shpok Good job for you they didn't."

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BUTCH is just four years old. He has been ambling since he

six months old-about four clyaretten a day.

The other day he was smoking in the car of timber merchant And he caused such a sensation that there was nearly a iraffe

Ralph Spencer.

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jam.

"Now Mr Spencer has decided there must be no more smoking. when he was given a cigarette as a joke.

Military scientists who have studled designs of 23-your-old Charles Meldrum's self-propelled submarine car are inclined to agree with him, predictions.

Other marine experta bollove

tho

vehicle can be put to peacetime uno for

travel to under-water construction jobs, as well as in patrol, salvage and research work.

Meldrum began developing his

in the car for Butch-la cross-bred labrador who started smoking underwater craft after reading storica

of the dangers faced by wartime de- molition teams.

The answer came to hit while skin! diving off the coast of California, when he noticed the extraordinary MANOEUV. rability of the manta ray. He speared one and dissected it, then used its 8 ft. Bkeleton structure as the basis of bis craft,

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The "underwater_mule,” an Mel- drum calla 14 will be capable of travelling at 18 miles an hour on electric molors that leave no trail.

Men wearing standard akin diving equipment will operate the vehicle from a lying position, Flie craft will be ablo to carry 1,100 lb, and has a ballast system that will allow it to be moured at any depth.

No doubt the day is

far TOL

when discover the women secret and start looking like their pugs, and Pekes. poodles, Then we'll be in a right mess, won't we?

"We think that the whole venture will cost us about HK$8,000," said Mr Moore, "of which about one-difth will Into making a colour film and seund track.

"So far we have approached a number of embassies through Alexander whose countries we will pass and travelled they have shown great interest Babylon, and willingness to help."

Unlike

Alexander, the studente will not go to Egypt from Turkey,' but will mova straight across country bo Izan and

the "recapturo" known route at Teheran On those the way back from Delhi ther hope to cover the Egyptian the purt of Alexander's Journey Moore. and so have a complete RECOTO London of every section Students'

The object of the expedition is not merely 10 flm the route and record the life along

. but to try

And out to whether any any of the Greek

influence brought to areas remains today.

The two Leaders of party ato Mr John president of the School of Economics

Chou's Mop

(London Express Service).

PEACE WITH STEEL LEGS

Mariah, Gamer NÂN

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