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It Knows All The Answers
A
By Les Armour
HARVARD psycholo- children. No doubt, they
its wretched machine.
teach children
that he has built a machine which arithmetic.
This machnie, reports ita Dr B. F. Skinner, ercator,
aro
with
But just woll till he runs into a bright one,
The bright oues, divining im-
mediately that the machine al- ready knows
L
all the answers,
They will tel
the unhappy
professor that it is not customary
will wonder why on earth he knows all the questions should be expected to out-guess and All the answers. I flashes the question on the screen, then waits for the child to punch the answer on un adjacent keyboard. machine can dig holes, small
A right answer brings n new problem; ぎん wrong . answer simply brings the
old problem back.
to employ steam shovels to teach small boys to dig holes. If the
boys and even grown men are quite happy to let it get on with
It also flashes at appro- And the chilld will think i printe intervala — explana- much wiser to learn to run the
then and tions indicating how you go machine
about getting 1 right machine carry on happily
answer.
Very nice.
And De Skinner says that he has tried it on several "dull" children and that, in
case, thede arithme every theal skill increased rupidly
tel
the
Machines, after all, are sup- posed to relieve us of drudgery and hard work, not heap it upon us.
And it will not be long before the archus (being a muxtern urchin) has learned how to cross the wires and set up the right answer every time.
Moreover, uny school boy with more than half his wita about him will soon realise that
l not too hard
t
to build a
He How suggests Is other machines of the same machine which will issue forth kind can be devised to teach with the malterings uppropriate
To psychologists. spelling and improve readi ing.
But we suspect that he is running away with himself. He should not spend too totals Cine concentra111
1
Suchchine will cost Mar- vard University a lot less to run than D Skinner, and the trus ers whil nut be alow Install one,
Good day, professur .
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BEWARE,
SIR ANTHONY!
AM perturbed for Sir Anthony Eden in his glittering role as the
I advise you to keep a close
arbiter of world con- watch on two men who like whom he has helped to make to have it all their own way
ferences,
An
older mun,
a world figure, is about fo take
the leadership from the high
him in directing
policy of the free world,
into world affairs as an Indepen dent ataleanan.
By IAN
IAN COLVIN
on this
Foreign Editor of the Sunday Express (London) Dr Adenauer, 78-year-old geld of German affairs, Chancellor of Western Germany on to world affairs, and he can Adenauer plan.
He is comment to make his week in America ended, has
thus
even discuss with the President made his
flus Britain been kept in the first excursion
the role that Britain now takes, picture about this Adenauer visit since Sir Anthony Eden gave his to America? The Foreign Office
arranged for a long time, that it
recent eventa. informal it would be hard to at Britain into them.
his
And the Chancellor will keep
ascendancy in
affairs oven
foreign if he zoo hands the Foreign Ministry in Boun to a benchman.
over
For Adenauer is the dominant Agure in A country where Chancellors have traditionally run foreign policy over the heads of their Foreign Ministers.
No longer can the High Com- missionors
the Western Allies look over his shoulder,
This visit was an event little talked about in Britain, but i deserves the closest attention
For the scope of the White House talks between President Eisenhower, Dr Adenauer, and Mr John Foster Dulics large.
Was
And there is a close marriage of ininds between Adenauer and Dulles that forbodes a two- nation policy in the future, policy that may
drag Britain reluctantly in its wake. This American - German rapproche. ment has long been talked about in Washington. It is now be coming a hard
reality.
Same outlook
Dulles have downright Out- look on world problems. Both have an unalterable mistrust of the Communist Powers,
ADENAUER and
are
The remarks of Dulles "unforgettable for their moral value and strength of character," дауа Adenauer, appraising his role at the recent Paris and Lon- don conferences,
Dulles feels just that way about the German Chancellor, And both of them think that, by comparison, Sir Anthony is time,serving, and apt
Eden
to stand first on one foot and then on the other.
They would like to know that
Russia his views on
"realist" as theirs.
London Express Service
The German Chancellor If Adenauer and Dulles agree only to negotiate from strength, it will take four years before West Germany is a strong mill- tary State, Will they wait for
four
pledge to keep British divisions tells me that the visit had been the years? Must Britain wall
in Europe.
This is what a joint American-
the
German communique Adenauer visit says about the Eden
pledge. It
"greally furthers Franco-German under- and the basis for a standing. European community been established."
has thus
That White
House sununary seems to me to relegate Britain to a place in the European com- munity without Empire position.
to our regard
It
will em- barrass Sir Anthony Eden Freedom first
"FIRST
"We are convinced of the had no special reference to most towards peaceful reunification of necessity of continued efforts
Furthermore, as the talks were Germany,
П
says the joint com- munique of President Eisenhower and Dr Adenauer, "and ure agreed that such efforts will be made by the United States and the Federal Republic of Ger- many, together with the Govern- ments of the United Kingdom and France.
"We received no special notice of subjects being discussed," Foreign Office
Office spokesman said. "We have no idea either what has been agreed." That cannot have been because they are not important. For
As Germany is now our ally the U.S. State Department stresses that the and partner, that is not an extra- importance of the talks between ordinary statement, though Bri- President Eisenhower and Chan- tain does lie third in the wording cellor Adenauer at
the White of it. House was emphasised by the prese
Powerful
Washington their
❝IRST the people of the
West must secure
freedom and peace by combin- ing for their omrnon defence, Adenauer told the National Press Club in Washington.
he Then
propounded his own master plan for an approach to Russia. It would be made only after that, and it would be made
the peoples of the West, jointly as a regional group."
In such an approach Germany, with most to bargain about, would play a key role.
I
The Foreign Office had
no
on on
four.
of
visit Adenauer does not show any immediate dissent with Britain. It is simply that two men who think very much alike are now engaged in world talks.
of top U.S. and German Adenauer has also discussed THE with the President the latest Soviet Nota suggesting a Power conference German pence settlement.
all Their "Inițial view" is that "it
They form a powerful com does not seem to offer any new bination. Neither of them is fond proposal on Soviet Union."
the
Part
the of compromise, and they repre- On that the Western Powers their own way.
sent two nations that like to get are agreed.
Adenauer has flown home as But after the Western treaties the head are ratified, how long can the pollee combine.
of U.S.-German
Q rebut be kept up, especially if Sir Anthony must take cure the wily Molotov comes back that British Interesta ずむ not with better terms?
swamped.
A TASTY DISH is
this pest of
a SQUIRREL
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
Jean Simmons
F
Her story begins TODAY-a story of happiness wrested from despair
AND THEN
IT SEEMED TO HAPPEN SUDDENLY
I GREW UP
ROM an impersonal sister-after all, to then I was
business point of just doing a job of work. view Jean Merilyn
"There was one dreadful day Simmons (profes- when I couldn't do the
Kochu
10
was
Next
the
was fine.
sionally Jean Simmons, ac- in which Hamlet has to tell me
ret to n numnery.
Sir tress) is a proposition worth
Laurenco cleared the cel and paying £30,000 a film and went to work with me on it. guaranteed to bring in at erled nearly all day. I felt it least £120,000 a picture at
end of everything. day we shot the British box office alone.
It--and i Put more humanly, Jean Simmons is a lively young girl of 25, who likes to kick that her shoes off at parties, calls her friends "chuma,' understood then what acting and until four years ago meant.” lived with Mum and the family, in
"The Sir Lourence explain-
he had to completely to
down
performance
bronk mo get the cut of me.
And at home Mings WC70 Bemi-detached changing too. A special phone
house in Golders Green (or was mut in her bedroom--for Cricklewood, which is more the studio call geographically correct).
Somewhere it between is the true
Simmons, story of Jean young woman of two worlds. The world of the stinging glaro
of the spotlights in which
has to live a private life in public. And the world of family many and husband and friends
helped from
who have her develop FL highly pald teenager to a sensible citizen,
Far Hollywood, when the weathere, did not
it
Granger introduced her to a JW circle of people---more sophisticated, like Michaci wilding and Glynis Johns,
"The new
was.
she than I
The
Jean Simmons
story is told by
DAVID
LEWIN
swing her head dizzliy on her shoulders. did not make of her a puppet like Marilyn Monroe, or a headline snatcher,
Lipe Zsa Zsa Gabor.
chums were older
I didn't know
what to talk to them about. But Jimmy brought me into it all gradually.
Не
made to music,
He told
me Usten good music. me about paintings,
"I went to all the parties I Was about
parties
and I grew up."
her
mad then-
Then, just before 21st birthday, the decisive which
every
came
stop
young girl must take. To leave home-or stay in the back bed- room unul she is married.
One man more than anyone Diso "gave То confidence, kept me cue, and cut out the nonsense." That man is tave a place of your own," he ("Jlm- said. "It will be better for you
The idea camo from Mr all Granger. "It is time for you to
her
husband, Stewart
my*"*)
Granger, 15 years older in the
married her than she is, who
the four years ago and made professional gloom-casters pre- dict dienster.
Jean first saw Jimmy in the studios when she was 14. When
she way 18 she had a on him.
"crush"
Her Ophelia
had
boy
long run."
wing
with
Jean дур: "Mother against 1. Naturally enough she wanted me to stay her" There were arguments... fears. - dissaprociments. "Then mother let me have my way.”
That flat was off Manchester Square... A 90-mile-an-hour sports car (NPFZ) went with it. Jean Simmons furnished a home for the first time, And the last. (When she was mar➡
BDavid, who was het dried, Jimmy add the lot him-
DUT
school and who asked her to
self)
marry him. Their engagement With Jean Stimmons indepen- was signified by a piece of dent and running her Own cotton strung round her third artabitshmerit, CAMIO ochor finger; left handi
changes. Sha started saying "No" to her employers. Sho "David went along to see my vetoed parts and directore. bosses at the Rank Organisa tion," says Jean, Ho s'd very
The girl from simply: I want to marry Min Green had grown up fast. Simmons and
want you to release her SO she can give up
acting!'
London. certainly colour-blind and see There was a disastrous ep!- TASTED squirrel ple for red as just another shade of dele among red squirrels in
the first time yester- grey
the first 30 years of this century, Did
you know that they would when thousands died from some are as day. It was excellent-like be hard put to find a grey hair kind of mange as rabbits are
the tendercst chicken baked on a grey squirrel? The grey dying from myxomatosis now. Both are pessimistic when it)
with mushrooms, comes to discussing a change of
bacon, new of the fur is due to a mix-
The grey squirrels which had heart in the Kremlin rulers. hard-boiled egg, and parsley, ture of black, white, and brown been released or had escaped Neither Dulles nor Adenauer My reason for trying squirrel haire, Miss Shorten reports, from private zoos took over the think that West Germany can which is a national dish in
empty territory, and when the The grey squirrel is now a reds began to recover they had Both hold America was a recipe in a new post with a price (18) on it to contend with a severe housing become too strong. that Germany has big claims on book" al! about
Britain's tail, but every crime it is mortage. the eastern map of Europe. The squirrels bo Mine
Monica accused of was blamed on the Impact of German competition Shorten, a young naturalist. 'red squirrel 50′ years ago. in world export markets does
Miss Shorten is so fond of
that wo Both creatures damage trees mystery of the red decline, how not worry them,
squirrels as pets as well as to by eating the ups off seedlings Vor, for there are still plenty ent that she once let one tear and by going bark to drink of fir plantations which red down her Christmas decorations the sap. Both sometimes cat quite like and greys tend and build a nest with them in birde eggs. Both will rob to avoid. the grand plano.
garders and out on. PROFILE-PROUD
Agrey squirrel
His belief BOTH are convinced that West
his
There must be more to the
Dro
still
thick
Golders
Her laughter
"The Bank people naid NO.
needs strength for a girl to "Y WILA No. At that time I thought whirl of a film busineæ. acting was all right, but I was Rita Hayworth could never more interested in the,£5 a take the strain. Her marriages day I was being paid. It wasn't broke up fast, her films de
were poor st home, teriorated. Now the, is merely a but the money was useful." memory. Hollywood is full of
furious about that I remata humans in the money
Curce like it,
When she started Alming "Hamlet"
play sho had But Jean Simmons had bet- found nover seen—her home life and for balanco, At 21 cho. her profesional
the first world...' star :- outlook herself changed rapidly. No
one want created in Britain insoo the ed me to pay Ophelia except war. And she kept her foot on Sir Laurenos Olivia, Jimny— the ground beeaims she ́ kielcad I was pooing quite a bit of him off her shock and played":"her" by now was against it. And emophone records and mpared Ronk."
71 with laughter ne the thought
"Me with my funny Sir Laurence (ikus, always
#golding all thim ́adbedition.”; called him that) bonched her I never heard Rita Hayworth with mgoniafrag Attention laugh at herself. But that af thefall,
inughter- helps keep deats Elm- would go home at night mans a star--although it did
not look that way whah marfled and went. West.
BREEDING FAST".·· Germany must be reamed
only In spite of shooting campaigne She rightly objects to grey about 1lb. but it can eat 216. sponsored by the Ministry of before there is any serious «talk: of reunifying the two halves. squirrels being called tree of nuts in a week. It can sense Agriculture, there
The creature is as much whether a put is worth opening countless thousands of Whatever concessions Adenauer rate." may make to culoten
frue squirrel, as our nativo by lirung it to judge its well. Squirrels in our woods. They tion; that is his profound
red species, and is almost as Grey squirrels, which were seem to be able to brood faster Adenauer has been discussing handsome except when it is introduced from America. last then they are shot.
are hated because they Being In the male grey squirrel to believed to have routed the skinned the pin of the back of vital Interest to Great Britain.
exceptionally Of course, we have safeguards is so proud of his profile that written Into the revised Western takes up a poddion which shows that British natives even red stay where they are not wan
|'stop, shotgun pelists at close is natural resentment range they are determined to but the most important treading, things in high politics are never it off to best advantage,
coes-- should be, elbowed out by Red squirrels may look more American Invaders But Mia campaign to get rid of them almost hysterical,
Maybe the CloverridentJU written into troullos, entorn
That Is because they are almost look grey to any other squirrel reduculod
Moti
In Washington matters that are moun p
when he in wouing ho always variety :
red
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTDey go by feel and touch, by active to us, but all squirrels: Shorten believes that the would be more successful Live HONG KONG
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