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...Telephone charges and railway fares are up, some London subway fares have doubled, and postage for a first-class letter will go up from 5d. to 7d. in January. The nationalized coal and gas industries have publicly warned that substantial rate increases are in the offing. Inflation, says Robert Carr, Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, "is out of control. Until we can get it under control, the country will be heading for economic disaster...
Insatiable Headmaster. England's egg-throwing mania began in February at Carr Mill Junior School in Lancashire after Headmaster Douglas Appleton proved to his students that they could not break eggs by pressing them between their hands. Soon the children were throwing eggs from the school's second-floor windows. Eggs that hit the concrete were smashed, but those that fell on the lawn were undamaged. Says Appleton: "The excitement and wonderment were intense...
Pressing on, the Carr Mill experimenters talked a fireman into climbing a fire-engine ladder and, from a height of 70 feet, tossing eggs in a gentle arc down onto the grass. Seven out of ten eggs survived. Now the sky was the limit. The insatiable headmaster made contact with the R.A.F. liaison officer at the nearby U.S. air base at Burton Wood. Soon an American helicopter (at a cost of $400 per hour) was hovering 150 feet over the school grounds, dropping eggs onto the lawn. Only three out of 18 were broken...
Elephant Bird. Responding to the U.S. challenge, the Daily Mail arranged for Cricketer Freddie Trueman to bowl eggs before the thrilled pupils at Carr Mill. With stumps set up for added authenticity, Trueman sent one egg after another whizzing down the cricket pitch at 90 m.p.h. Remarkably, only a few broke. To keep up with its Fleet Street competitor, the Daily Express hired a Piper Aztec to drop five dozen eggs at 150 m.p.h., dive-bombing over an airfield near Carr Mill. Three dozen remained unbroken, leading the school's headmaster to remark: "The ancestor...
Egged on by all the activity, one Carr Mill lad has compiled a list of 60 puns containing the word egg (eggsperiment, eggshausted, eggcetera). Others are learning egg statistics (record number of eggs eaten at one sitting: 47) and making a large model of the egg of the extinct elephant bird. Says Headmaster Appleton: "In this school, it is eggs with everything...