Valley Canoe Products have located a source of indestructible deck elastics and hope to offer them in 6 and 8mm sizes. At Crystal Palace they also showed their Silva compass for mounting on a hatch cover and Attwood WaterBuster electric pump for sea kayaks. Blowing in the wind Reed Canoes & Camping of Cambridge have [...]
Reviewing these discs was an unusually rewarding and enjoyable experience. Paul Tortelier was a great cellist and it is good to hear his 1960 recordings of the six solo Bach Suites . These are intense, dramatic readings which lack nothing in conviction and though I imagine some listeners will prefer a less overtly “expressive” approach [...]
Although that crisis seemed serious then, compared with the present threat to the world banking system, it was small beer. I count myself fortunate in having met both generations of politicians and scientists. For a raw young MP to be confronted by Sage Bernal was an experience and a half. Already suffering from physical ailment, [...]
And in the advertisements that the company places in magazines for Atari enthusiasts, it reminds customers to respect Atari’s trademarks. And the firm has its own worries about pirates: it has erased the serial number of all the chips in the device. But at least one British pirate, who works as a computer engineer, is [...]
Well, all that is changing. Within weeks you will see the changes resulting from the computer’s invasion of our printer. And, with luck, not long after that we will have in our very own editorial offices an electronic excuse for the mistakes that occasionally slide into these pages. But more of that when it happens. [...]
In 1880 Queen Victoria had been on the throne for forty-three years; Gladstone began the second of his four terms as Prime Minister; Great Britain was at the zenith of its powers. In 1880 and the industrial revolution was at its height, and the Forth railway bridge was opened in Scotland. Unfortunately, in the year [...]
Good pressure produced a string of short corners, and a goal. In a sweet movement of speed and motion and the ball was left to run long to Patel who deftly feinted with his left shoulder before picking out David Mayson. With true brotherly love, he provided a cross for Anthony Mayson to finish in [...]
The losses increase dramatically as the frequency rises. They are, for instance and twice as large at UHF frequencies as they are at VHF frequencies. And high frequencies must be used to carry a number of TV channels because each is 8 MHz wide and they are “stacked” one over the other in the frequency [...]
But along with the miniature conifers come miniature hitch-hikers. Popillia Japonica is an insect found in the soil which is brought from Japan with the tree. Scientists fear that the Oriental bugs could attack European conifers, which have no immunity against the pest. The EEC has laws to stop harmful organisms in plants coming into [...]
“As I said, we threw rocks and sticks, but were lucky if we hit anything. From the cricket and football games Jack and Rod have taken me to, I’m amazed how you modern people can throw and kick things where you want them to go. Tools, yes. We used sticks to dig up roots, and [...]
