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We all know that a magician does not really depend on ¡°magic¡± to perform his tricks, but on his ability to act at great speed. ª©___ 1,ªªthis does not prevent us from enjoying watching a magician ___ 2 rabbits from a hat. ___ 3the greatest magician of all time was Harry Houdini who died in 1926. Houdini mastered the art of ___ 4. He could free himself from the tightest knots or the most complicated locks in seconds. ___ 5 no one really knows how he did this, there is no doubt ___ 6 he had made a close study of every type of lock ever invented. He liked to carry a small steel needle like tool strapped to his leg and he used this in place of a key. Houdini once asked the Chicago police to lock him in prison. They ___ 7 him in chains and locked him up, but he freed himself___8 an instant. The police ___ 9 him of having used a tool and locked him up again. This time he wore no clothes and there were chains round his neck, waist, wrists, and legs; but he again escaped in a few minutes. Houdini had probably hidden his "needle" in a waxlike ___ 10 and dropped it on the floor in the passage.   ___ 11 he went past, he stepped on it so that it stuck to the bottom of his foot. His most famous escape, however, was ___ 12 astonishing. He was heavily chained up and enclosed in an empty wooden chest, the lid of ___ 13 was nailed down. The ___ 14 was dropped into the sea in New York harbor. In one minute Houdini had swum to the surface. When the chest was___ 15, it was opened and the chains were found inside.ª¤  
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