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From
caveman
Nerja, Spain.
Fare
to ballerina September
His four friends—Jose Torres
FEW contrasts could better emphasise man's 15, and Manuel and Miguel tourists visit the caves.
evolution than the drastic difference between Munoz a modern ballerina, pirouetting before footlights, crawled through. and a skin-clad caveman hunched over a smoky fire in a dark cavern.
They explored fairy-tale caves until the light slipped from Francisco's hand and smashed.
September
n- A month of gentle
breezes,
Of swaying trees and
sunny days:
When
:
school begins
and childrea
Skip to classes gaily.
As the scientists moved Cardenas, 18, Jose Luis Barbero, side, plans were made to let
18 and 14-followed. enlarging the hole as they Early this year, lighting was
installed and five
huge halls were opened to the public. September
They are the "Hall of the Elephant Tusk," where archaeol- ogists found a fossil imbedded In the world's history. that turned up major finds, including
in a wall; "The Hall of the change froin near-beast to pre-historic paintings which That night they told school Cascade," where giant stalactites beauty took untold centuries. rank with the world's finest, the teacher Carlos Saura Garre drop from a 90-foot high But in the recently discovered caves were thrown open to the what they had found. Saura dome to form a petrified Caves of Nerja it happened al- public.
Garre drove to Malaga, 30 miles waterfall; "The Hall of the most overnight-or so it seems. The opening was celebrated by away, and reported to provincial Ghosts," where nature twisted
One day, roughly 6,000 years a modera dance festival the officials, who organised the first stone into fantastic
ballet
shapes; ago according to scientific esti- first time that the
has of many expeditions to the site. "The Hall of the Throne," mates, the earth trembled here been performed in a pre-historic
which thrusting stalagmites form and sent tons of rock crushing cave.
a regal seat, and "The Hall of down on the entrance of the
caves.
PRIMITIVE
Artists from the Le Tour de
not
permitted
EXTINCT
the Cataclism," where order was danced Paris company
Scientists worked for a year crushed and broken by some Tchaikovsky, Drigo and Mous- studying wall paintings and internal upheaval, sorgsky amid stalactites and turning up stone weapons, bones Tourists are stalagmites that had once mea- belonging to long-extinct beyond the Hall of the sured the domain of primitive animals and an early-edition Cataclism, although the network silo heaped with wheat, pottery of caves runs on for countless and other material typical of miles. It is there that the primitive man's dwellings. scientists work today-UPL.
man.
The primitive man who lived in them were either trapped in- side and perished, or were caught outside and forever.cut The 20th Century history of off from cave-mates and family, the caves began when five
The tumbling rocks did more teenagers from this village than that. They blotted out the Mediterranean coast stole human contact with the caves into a rarely visited ravine to for 60 centuries and ended act share one cigarette. one of their history.
Then, in quick succession, came the next two acts in the underground 'drama.
On Jan. 12, 1959, five Spanish boys stumbled onto the long- hidden entry to the caves, and history resumed.
on
a
As they puffed, the earth be- side them cracked slightly, startled bat flew up and warm air rose from the ground.
Francisco Navas
September
With lovely memories
for some
But heartache for so
many others.
September
Month that I love, rich
in harvest, Month of sentiments
and dreams, Beautiful September.
-Credit Card, to Linda
Ann Wu, Hongkong.
Signs of the times
Montesinos, HAVE found in many old corners and out-of-way places quaint sign-
boards that are most amusing to read.
Early this year, after months warmth of archaeological study which carried a small flashlight.
of the the 19-year-old leader group, squeezed into the cavity from which the long peat
I remember seeing in a village -up was escaping.
He cnce a signboard that read "Come here for burials. Em- balmings a speciality." It was meant to hang outside an under- taker's shop, but removed pur- posely next door outside a doc- tor's surgery, with what effect on his practice I do not know.
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Can my learned Speaker, Mr Leang tell me this. What is the local teenagers talk every day-picnics and dancing-for they are too much involved in these things and they have no time to read or listen in other problems. What have you to say Mr Moron! ! !
SPELLING
I have seen a shop just off a busy main road, bearing this freshly painted on cheap
Mr. Leung also says that the teenagers are interested in notice, political and scientific developments, may 1 ask my learned speaker, | wood; how many of the local teenagers read the daily newspaper every day.—not 2 per cent-I assure you Mr Leung, for if you ask them what's happening in the Congo, they are dumb on the matter, for many of them have not even heard the name of Congo and Mr Lumumba.
If I were to ask them how many husbands has Elizabeth divorced-they will reply with up to minute details including why divorced, how many children ète. So, there Mr Anonymous is perfectly right in calling the teenagers Moron!
I also challenge Mr Leung when he says that Mr Anonymous Is a coward. "Per contra" I think you are coward, because you did not have the courage in the first place to start such a subject, and having realised that It's true, you are now trying to put the blame on Mr Anonymous by calling him a coward.
I shall accept your challenge or any other member's, who is for the opposition, to meet me "vis-a-vis" in the matter of Moron! Just in case you want to know who I am, well here's my name: A. H. AHMED.
I shall keep for the motion and once again before I disappear, say that Mr Anonymous is perfectly right in calling. H.K. Teenagers MORON!
The rest I shall leave for you, Mr Editor and Chairman.
WAWAY
Credit card to Dawin H. S. Wang, Hongkong.
Manuface Turer & Order
Supplyer
of
Difaret Varity
&
Furnicher Varnise
&
Repair of Chane Chair.
In basic English it means that he manufactures and supplies different kinds of furniture and varnishes, and also undertakes the repairs of chairs.
The word “turer," I think, means "turner" one who works with a lathe.
The Piece de resistence if I may say so, is, however, word "furnicher."
the
Anyone who has ever heard an Englishman, pronounce this word and had never seen it in print before would have spelt
it likewise.
OPTICIAN
can
Once I read on the tailboard of a touring car "If you read this, you are too damn close" which I considered, with the extra words, "Step in!" could have quite easily adorned an optician's shopfront.
One of the most amusing was to be seen in Johnson Road. It has long been removed which is a pity, for with its passing pershied a landmark known to many and mourned by count- less more. In large black letters on a board was:
Mosquito Shop
Please).
(Inside
Retail, Wholesale at Cheap
Rates. Trial Solicited.
This was in the bad old days | when mosquitoes were more plentiful than now and so one would expect to get them at cheap rates. How many people took advantage of the free trial I do not know, or how many developed malaria after being bitten by મુ group of tame anopheles.
Outside competition most people being adequately bitten in bed-must have forced the shop to close down eventually. Anyway, with its disappearance died an enterprise that is not likely to be emulated.-Credit card to A. H. Ahmed, Hongkong.
Reel Corner
ΚΑΤΕ
O'REILLY
HIS week, instead of looking at the usual run of film discussed a strange artist who became the subject of the Stars, I thought it would make a change if we
Japanese film that was shown here a short time ago.
The name of the artist is. Kiyoshi Yamashita born
in
who was. the working class suburb of Asakusa. He would
be what we should call in Eng- ~- land, mentally retarded; the Japanese use the term feeble minded.
He was born terribly poor, his father was a confirmed al- cobolic. So young Kiyoshi was bundled off to an institution for mentally retarded children.
GIFT
But he had a wonderful gift and an eye for, bright colours, and his medium was scraps of coloured paper which he formed into pictures.
The result is a picture which cannot help but remind a westerner of the work of Van Gogh.
Keiju Kobayashi as - he appeared in the film "The Naked General" in the role It has that sharp definition
of Kiyoshi Yamashita. found in Cincent Van Gogh's if he could only purge his life work, and also that preference of its 21st year, be would no for vivid yellows.
longer be liable to conscription, Kiyoshi Yamashita did not which was due when he was 21. 1 share that martial yearning Unfortunately, the authorities which thrilled Japanese youth hád other ideas, but he was re-
World War II.
during the years approaching jected on medical grounds. His joy was expressed · in creative The idea of violence and art, but he cares nothing for and there came the fixture that art's sake. killing preyed upon his mind, adulation. He is an artist for
Credit card to Linda Lai, Kowloon,
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