1961-01-31 — Page 6

Industry is told:

ADOPT

ROBOTS

OR ELSE

Science Reporter Peter Fairley

THE Government has be

gun an intensive drive to persuade British industry to adopt automation more quickly.

Government money is to be plunged into the developtnent of n now breed of computers which witt

within bring automation

the reach of the smalf man, as well as the big combine.

Ministers will run home, In conversations with industrialists, two things that will happen H matemation is delayed;

→ Progressive worsening

Britain's trading competitors beat us.

position

да

Certain defeat in the cold war with Rumsla. Soviet in- dustry JN automating-regard. less of need--under Kremlin policy. The fralis of this are ex pected to pour out in five lo 10 years.

LINKED IN DOZENS

Details of the new industrial robots will be announgud snort-

They are being sponsored by the National Research Develop

nent Corporation, the Board of Trade offshoot witch hacked hovercraft, with an initial sam of around £75,000. Most of the cost will be borne by Elliott- Automation Ltd., the computer specialists,

The robot will be a range of atandard "black boxes"—cheap, compact onl self-cuntained- which can be inked in dozens of different ways to control ony kind of industrial plant.

-London Express Servic#).

THE CHINA MAIL,

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1961.

HANDFUL

HARVARD

of my Family

"Congratulations my dear fellow !

You shake a Cabinet cock- tall as well as I do."

Now

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THE INVISIBLE MAN

unrecognisable non-existent

43

"Don't be disheartened if it's diMcult to walk at first. little chap-remer- ber ilfe begins at 85!"

}

I am, I hope you'}}

see me Boon 1"

TALKING FRANKLY FOR THE FIRST TIME

that she's gone

by

ARTHUR

MILLER

AIR-INDIA

AIR-INDIA's Boeing 707 Intercontinental

GOING

IN AN

INTERVIEW WITH PETER EVANS

New York.

ONE bellboy, one maid,

and Arthur Miller were on their knees when I arrived. They

MILLEA

"Ah, mon vieux, if you want

to give me some advice on my Integration problem, I'll give you some advice on yours!"

Cummings!

"Hope we got

on like a house

ou fire your house!",

men ten pa mu da - - - - 40 10 10 10 1 London Express Service.

A LONELY VIEW...

house Marilyn

and

and I had in

alone. Four or five hours a day

Gaitskell on

'What I think of Kennedy...

By ROBERT CARVEL

HUGH GAITSKELL is a

punctilious fellow.

most polite,

There he was at Transport House the other day, just back from his highly successful visit to America, and obviously keener than ever on Kennedy,

But would he say a word ngainst the Eisenhower Govern- ment? Not he. "It would not be appropriato to make corn- perisoris," he told a news con. ference with a diplomatie smile.

bammer out a common Western pjolicy about Interest rates.

It appears that the new Ameri- can Government does not take well to the present differentials between Europe and America, Mr Gaitskeli thinks there should be on carly conterence between the Americans, the British and Nor did he and I appro- the Germans on this problem. priate to disclose many de because America's dollar dum-

conversations higher European rate.

were looking under the bed for Mr Miller's mis- He thought for a moment sing shoe. "I had it sold: "Well, I don't know. The when I arrived," said Connecticut is much

Snowbound 100 large Miller, his face a picture for just me. I don't like being of confusion. "Anyway, when you work it's fine. let it go. I'll just have to "Those hours are the most tails of what were obviously culties are being made worse by go to the party with one mut, boy, the other 18 or 19.with the new President and his shoe. Maybe nobody'll it really gets lonely." notice." The maid and the bellboy left.

"Life," said Mr Miller, "is mounting perplexity leading to an anti-climax. I've been in- vited to a dinner in Washington. Leaving tonight.

be

strange going back without lawyer." He smiled a smile that was too tired to leave his

pleasurablo hours of my life. most revealing

Light

men.

The Kennedy men, it appears,

A hundred correspondents made it clear that they consider bursting for inside information tabaurd for the Westem Powers straight from Washington found to be labelled as "Colonialists"

by the Com:nunists. Labour's Leader ready to talk leader thinks that Mr

Labour's Mac-

He stood up and waiked to freely only on one subject -- the millan ought to take more care

the window. "It's a nice view

from, here. See-the reservoir in the park. I was born over of the there. The other side

weather.

Poor Mr Galtakell. He was

a Washington snow storm.

to see that Britain's attitude · on

stuck in a car for five hours in this point is never open to mis-

representation in UN debates,"

As for U.S. foreign policy generally, Mr Gaitskell has the impresion that will now be more flexible so far as neutral areas like Laos and the Congo are concerned,

"The last time I was there park. I played in the park as His description of the ordeal I was before the Un-American boy. One of the few things was graphic, but just how great Activities Committee.

which haven't changed a bit." it was only came out when he 1 asked him how much he added: "I missed the pleasure of changed. He going to a gala and listening to thought he had come away from

Summit prospects? He thinks the window Mr Sinatra,"

That appears, however, to have the Americans will want to and although it was. stil day- light outside he pulled down been Mr Gaitskell's only real have the ground properly pre- U/e blinds and shut out the day disappointment in the five days bared before another top level he spent in America. He la back conference with Mr Khrushchey. and switched on the light.

home now, not only ene up on

BOEING!

R707

Going Boeing's quite the thing to do-especially if they are 707 Intercontinentals!!! Done in the best circles. Done in the best airlines. We've got a few of 'em. Very proud too, quite a feather in the old turb'. Rolis- Royce Engines. Quite vibrationless, see what I mean. You've never experienced anything quite like it. We've outdone ourselves on the decor Modern, with a little touch of India. Looks gorgeous. And those a-a-ab-so-luu-

Mm-mmm-m! And- tely scrumptious new menus.

and-Oh, well we could go on and on. The real thing Is to experience it.

*

JAPAN — INDIA — EUROPE ·

- U.S.A.

AIR-INDIA

Picture

We were talking in his small hotel mille overlooking Central Park, which is now his home.

His pipes were in a rack on

his desk with his typewriter and

notebooks. A large, framed

picture of his two children --

which he took himself-was on

a side table,

"I think I know mote,

suppose everybody thinks that. Ged, it would be tragie if you didn't feel that way. No, I feel I've grown younger.

A fog

what. "I know better after. I should. I mean,

Mr Macmillan for having seen the new President, but convinced that Kennedy's arrival is a good

thing to the whole world,

Confident

1

Summing up is visit to Washington, Mr Caltskell eald, This was Mr Galtikell's way "The atmosphere is exciting, of calling the new President a One han lot of confidence in great guy. "I found him highly President

the Kennedy and intelligent, well informed, alert, leam he has chosen. I como practical, very much on the ball, back hopeful that the new

without being administration I'm open-minded

going 10 I'm cynical, quick, a man of great pursue peaceful and imaginative

polleles for peaco,” zines on a coffee table was one life is a fox and it never really off his chert Mr Gaitskell went think. Me

Having got that testimonial It sitbolls down to this, I And on top of a pile of maga- now-what?-46 years old. But competence."

Galiskell reckons with a picture of als estranged litis wife, Marilyn Monroe.

The main thing to me now on to prolse the Kennedy team Kennedy and his men are very There was also a copy of "The is my work. I want to write in the most fulsome way. They much the sort of chaps whozn he would like to see in power in Misals." He stretched across play which really sums up what too were highly intelligent and

the competent men. But, sald Mr Britain. and lifted it, then let it fall with I feel about the world and

| Galiskell, we should not expect And also the sort with whom people in it. a slap track on, 10 the table.

he is utterly confident he could "I want to pluck from

the too much of them all at once.

have mcst cerdial working "I wrote this for Marilyn, chaos of experience-my cx-

relations if he were in office It's about the inabilliy of people perience--some enduring human

himself. to relato to each other in any values," reepro way. It's about tragedy of separation.

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Given time.

It is hard to predict the couZGO What else happens now?

After all, he explained, as of Anglo-American relations over Again the slow smile. Then: "I might move out of here. There cloquently as any Democratic the next few years. Nobody can Govern- Bay yet how the dynamie young Party PRO, thę now "I worked on 11 for a year, is an old rat-trup holel down-ment had inherited certain attu- Kennedy will reset to the old Longer than most of my plays," forn, which I faney,

Miller's new "home" is very. "It's cheaper than here and allons and allowance must be men of Western Europe - to much an hotel muile-too much the rooms are high and old and made for that. They must have Adenauer, de Gaulle, and, yes,

timg to solile down,

Macmillan. central healing and too neat and comfortable. It's vot real

Mir Gaitakell⋅ has come home For the Prime Minister the unilved-in.

character, I might move into

how I said: "Are you really going there. It suit my purpose. 1 with a pretty good ides, I would change at the White House has the Kennedy brought new doubts and uncer- to settle here--in this suite?" could just loke up and leave administration will shape up to tainties. Gone are the days when without worrying too much most of the pressing inter- ho could pick up the telephone, ask for Washington and be

about the expense."

NEJ, Of

national problemis,

He said: "Where are you go- Modestly he salt today that cimost certain of a sympathetic I told him anut he nobody in the British Govem response to whatever he wayment has asked him to report suggested. The Inst dividends

ing now?" said: "I have to go that

TALKING

POINTS

Can I give you a lin?"

Whom God loves, house in swest to him.

hla

CERVANTES.

So he pulled an overcoat over on his visit, his aloppy cardigan and we

went out into the street. and he maid: "I had forgotten it," was still light out”

Button

Private talk?

have now been drawn from the good will fund created in the last

war.

2

A fresh start has to be made.

There will no doubt be many

But it is pretty obvious that Mr Macinillon will be very, very ups and downs.

Ono tune is certain. Thero curious indeed. The odds are will be a general election bare that they will have a private during Mr Kennedy' real- sale behind the scenes in the doney. Don't be surprised if she Mr Gaitskell has come back old czy "Loft can gorek to left." hear again in that cómppig the

The key wind whipped, off ra frext day or two. park. We builoned spour overcoats and searched for a with three points very much, là

mind. He is salised Kennedy' belleves he could get on better Mearing that Mr Gatigkeit Ohatinacy is the result of "I must," goth Mr Miller, men are anxious to eat, the

with the Kennedy Goverment economy 001 the than the Torien, will. That, I ar the will forcing itself into “get somebody to sew a button American the place of the inlellest. - |on this coại, It's been off Corinxpansiunist fack again."

quie, is the personal imprenelas ife believes, 190, that it will be has brought bank [ba în everyone's Interest to

konden äggawks Kerster.)

SCHOPENHAUER.

(London Express Sarutos),

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