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The Case

of the

Smart-Alec

Cat

EWILDERED by the complexity of human conduct, psychologists have been studying cats to see how a simpler mind works. Their findings, just reported in a scientific document, show that the average cat's reactions to social life are disappointingly near-human.

The psychologists trained their cats Each

to operate an automatic fectler. time a cat pressed a spring-loaded elee- tric switch the feeder dropped a tasty pellet of tinned salmon.

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which had a feeder at one

It was always the socially figured end and a switch to work it conscious cat who

at the other.

out this answer to the hun-

"Anything to avoid a fair share of work...♬

Each cat quickly realised Ker problem. The spiv-cat, corner

which ended leading a could make the feeder func of gullies often fails to stop soil

answer to:

IS IT EASY TO PUT A BOMB IN AN AIRLINER?

By GROUP CAPTAIN

HUGH DUNDAS, D.S.O., D.F.C.

A

LONDON. bin with with n timu-bamb

N airliner AllCA off placed in a plane's baggage hold.

Tho across the sea. In the

ease of the Viking was chbin men and women different. It is no certain ag

lie back in armchairs, ent- thing can be that the explosive was planted in the toilet com-

ing, reading or sleeping. In the cockpit the radio opera- tor checks his position, re- ports all well,

Then disaster.

the plane

rartment of time before flight.

Kotte

How could such a thing be dotte? Who could get at the plane to do it? The answer is that could be dane with the greatest case.

what happens, A kla from abroad.

What happens? Ingenious minds and slide-rule experts This think up every kind of Viking! answer. Only the men who Passengers get out and freight say "Sabotage" are labelled unloaded at the terminal on as crackpots.

the south side of the airport. The plane is then towed to the hangars on the north side, in- On the night of January spectel and prepared for the After that t is next flight. 30, 1948, Star Tiger. four-engine Tudor, bound parked, unattended. from the Azores to. Ber- Hundreds go in daily muda with 25 passengers

11

COULD the

and a crew of seven, radioed NOW, HOW

I would its position: "380 miles N.E. saboteur get aboard?

make up an old pair of H.E.A. of Bermuda, and all well."

overalls, and

boldly welic through the rates used by hun- dreds of workmen every day.

After that silence. No more was heard of Star Tiger.

If possible I would choose moment when a bus or lorry After that would One fine day, a year later, drove In a sister ship of the same plain sailing. There would belle difficulty about getting line climbed out into a clear into one of the waiting planes.

blue sky over the Sarga980 Sea between Bermuda and Jamaica, carrying 20 people.

If you were seen you would

be tale for one of the truny medinics about their business.

Last heard of, she was at And saboteurs, Ramber, are hour out armed with quick answers ns well as with bombs.

une

18,000 feet, from Bermuda.

Then, from her, too, silence.

IF THIS could hoppen so ently at one of London's two malt airports--and my own ob- servations are confirmed by On June 23, 1919, & Con- people who work ther-how stellation of the Royal: much more easily could it happen I have seen every

Dutch. Airlines, bound from elsewhere. Athens to Rome, crossed the kind of rag-t and bob-tail

hanging runch Italian seaport of Bari, when abroad.

an explosion blasted plane.

the

airports

Last year 1 went to Rome to pick up a Tempest fighter and ly it to Karachi. The machine The pilot turned back to was nearly stolen from under sea and the great machine my nose by an impostar hired into the to take it to Israel. Only the fell, cavorting,

Adrintie, a total loss with vigilance of a Britim mechanic working on the plane thwarted all abourd her.

hls' plan.

Last month, the Viking Vigilant, of British European making off with

If you can come so close to a brand new Airways, flew peacefully 2,000 horse-power warplane, it should not be difficult to hide a across the Channel towards small bomb in the lovalory of an France. There was a flash airliner.

travelling

and a violent explosion in

IT IS to be hoped that the the back of the cabin. Only Viking outrage will have alarm- superb airmanship saved ed the authorities as much as her from plunging into the has alarmed the waters and adding to the public. long list of airliners which have mysteriously appeared.

Waterspouts?

Structural dls. fallure? Lightning or turbulence?

Perhaps we thould have put a simple question to the Home But Vigilant landed safely Secretaries and Ministers

Aviation: "Arc at Northolt. Explosive ex- Civil

later puris

their properly protecting our gave

liners from sabotage?" verdict: "A bomb."

of the enge they land to cut down the formation that under these conditions leisured life lolling by the tion continuously, to provide damage. The only pressing the switch brought feeder, would seemingly n rich feast without further splash-erosion on hillsides is to

with mulches of straw to break Sabotage was ignored

no

because

the have starved to death rather effort on their part. reward other eat always got to the than do its fair share of fish-ball first.

work.

The crater...

bowls."

caver

newly cultivated Belds

the force of the rain,

Brain waves...

ut why

Neuro-

Int brain-research Survey.

*Perspectives in psychiatry.”

Ho

• PEOPLE SCOFFED at Air | Vice Marshal Don Bennett, then Chief Executive of British South tom-lom rhythm ing that the Tudors might have

Every conceivable theory was from structural put forward, men Tudor was pulled, apart nut by nut and tested for weakheas: an investigating committee was set up under Lord Brabazon: the whole fleet was withdrawn from

air corporations.

But, in its long report, the to pin-point committee failed the root of the mysteries. was brushed aside. Sabotage

no evidence.... “There was though the possibility of an In

of formal machine could not. course, be entirely eliminated."

fotlure to waterspouts; a speci

has proved that

The experiments, which Most pairs of cuts soon solve this social problem by were carried out by a team ★ THE split-second pic- ture on the left of a rain- friendly co-operation. They of U.S. psychologists and

the alternately worked

doctors led by Professor drop splashing into wet soil AN INGENIOUS explanation American Airways, for suggest- switch to feed each other, JULES MASSERMAN, also illustrates a most important rends jungle dancers into its of been 'sabotaged. But this happy arrangement proved that, ns with people, discovery in the scientists absurd acrobatics has been put

forward by Bristol's brillian rarely insted long.

Home cats are far brighter fight to stop fertile lands brain - researcher, DIL GREY degenerating into "dust WALTER, writing in the excel- One of the cats ultimately than others. turned spiv, refusing to do

Of 14 pairs of cats tested. its turn of work after

The crater-shaped shower snapping up the food pro- two solved the problem of

when duced by its partner's communal life in the glass of spray carries thousanda

rate which matches efforts. The worker then cage by a stroke of genius. of soil particles with it. On

the went on strike until hunger They found that by wedging sloping land about 75 per

the electric switch into a cent of these particles end rhythm of certain electrle waves

little forced it to think out

further downhill generated by their brains, many of them undergo a deep emo- solution to the stalemate,

In some the when they fall back to tional disturbance.

disturbance is so severe Il causes earth. Usually it discovered that,

convulsions, by rapidly operating the switch eight or nine times the and then racing to

get there feeder, it could just before the spiv had time to gobble up the last of the fish-balls released.

It meant a lot of work for littic reward, but even- tually both sated spiv and half-starved toiler accepted

NANCY

Small Fry

NANCY ---WILL YOU

PEEL THOSE POTATOES FOR OUR DINNER

PARTY 3

O.K.

Splash.

running

of during

people watch a light flick ring at passenger service wills, British

A heavy storm may shift up to 100 tons of soil per nere this Grey Walter suggests that any

ELLISON has steadily

stimulus, repeated way, Dr W. D. discovered.

whether of sight, sound, or of rain, touch,

may set of near- Previously, rivulets

heavy showers, were believed to be the paroxysmal behaviour, if it hap- to synchronise with the main cause of soll erosion on brain-wave rhythm. hillside. Now It has beca

Hence the maddening effect of proved that raindrop-splash can the nleely timed tom-tom and the torture of sustained tickling

-London Express Service)

be nine times more damaging.

This explains why elaborate "terracing" leping systems of

HAVE YOU

FINISHED

PEELING THEM?

YES

penn

By Ernie Bushmiller

BUT ARE YOU SURE

THIS WILL BE ENOUGH?

1 wonder what the report of

committee would have been had Vigilant disappeared into the Channel.

OUR MINDS were tuned to the possibility of sabotage by the case of Albert Guay, sen- tenced to death for murdering

BALD SPOTS!

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