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CHAPMAN PINCHER Column

These Robots Can See,

Feel.

Move And Feed

LMER and Elsie, two tortoise-like contrivances I

have just seent, are the most true;to-life robols yet devised in man's quest to create a machine with a mind of its own.

Without huminn heập they cant see, feel, move, and feed. They know how to avoid danger, get round obstacles, and And their way home They can recognise each other. They have some measure of free will

I

༥x them display al these nabunishing attributes recently when for the first time they were brought out of the backronta Inboratory in Mariners-drive, Bristol, where they were "born."

DR GREY WALTER, the Bit year old scientist who, lolped by his wife VIVIAN, bas built the pobola, pressed a switch monoval ed under Elsie's plastic shrit

A whirr and-

T

MIERE was a whegy whirr »t vegs and a Bush of light an the battery-powered robot stir- red from sleep. Then turning her tuplate neck to scan the darken - ed lubordury with her Cyclops eye, she moved majestically on her tricycle under-carriage to wards the open door of the Wat- fers living-room.

DOVINE

ils eye

care apart The Turekand assay

Hanna Surtdenly Flig they were not on speaking terms

Waller's theas

sala actres was simple

Each robot mach that peks up a ste me

beam is nie. Badught autoruifically goes o When Ehner and Rise get really

se, the power of their hend bight brams Terms Strug Sa before they gel near cough to rub poses they mutra matteally put each other's lights chat and shy away

Each robot reacts reflectam

2 MASTER

satan HALEYTET

D

to 1 own

In the

She "purred"

and

R WALTER

left the

robols fooling abou

dark corner of the room while

we sat talking by the Bre.

We

The sensitive photo-electrie had almost forgotten they were cell which makes up Elsie's eye with us when Eisir stealthily

Is linked through valves and Melled up between our armchairs,

wires with the wheels in such a way that the robot automatically seeks out shady spots, shunning bright lights wind complete dark- 1190

The sight of the "beast" est+ tating on the threshold as though

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To find the cosiest corner

BA

be-

When this happens she Jurve Jrz typically neurolie WAY saiking morowly or racing round in panle

Coupes

113 studying the electro- mehanical

of Elsie'n meer behaviour Dr Walter hopes to set some

the new clues to ature of the conflicts which occur between the 10,000 mullion nervous elements in the human

She "pired"

shie rubbed gainst her minster's leg, stared at the fir, looked at the, then benin. wandered out to rejoin Elmer.

Dr Walter and us wife are

all this. སྐངས། །i

found it rather frightening

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רי

Eliner begab su trel kare beene bl butlery was vurdufig down So he honed wearily towards the light outside his plastic bulch, basket, and turgest himself into his electin-

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12-hour

What an

the purpose of the Matly to provide new evidence about how the human brian works As research chief of the famed Burdens

glent Institute, Dr Walter investigating the elvetical hare of brain taste,

Elements

Neuro

10

-

Conflict DISIE Hos only two nervous ... Unked with sight and touch-in her “bratu.” But she sentime Guds herself the victim of "mental confllet" between them

And from earth

Chapter 17 OF

The

Greatest Story Ever Told

By Fulton Oursler

read what his wife had written:

"Have nothing to do with that righteous man; for I have suffered many things this dry and dreamed a dream because of Him.”

Anarchy, Treason

the counts against the prl-

N the dark and early chill of Friday, Pilato was waiting. Because of what was going on in the Hall of Hewn Stones, he had to remain up all night in hia gloomy reception hall. He must be ready for the official hearing he would A T once he began to think of soon be called upon to give roner. He was suide to be a the Nazarene prisoner.

seditionist. By all reports Ile stood for demolishing establish- Pilate felt a persecuted mair ed socio ideas: a rebellen, himself. The Borman governor, After wh

which a now sovereign 23 warrior And 11 mosl dis- would take over, a God-anoiny. tinguished soldier. hated the rd

ca king

with his throno menn fale that had sent him to Jerumiem, Did Proculn X- rule a poor colony like Pales. pect her husband to encourage tine. In the present turmoil he that? Now the governor look- knew that while he was facing ed at Jesus with a restive oye, n local situation, It neverthe- while his thick dagers tore the Ira bod explosive political letter.

Messianiem, that WES aspects, dangerous to his own what it was! And messianist interests.

meant anarchy and treason—a ter terrible thing in this spot of infecu infection In the empire. The heart of Pilate hardened. One more com-

Unhappily for him, Annns and Calphas held him actually at their mercy.

In

plaint to Rome, one more up- The Temple aristocrats would Palestine, And he all like Pilate batter if he con-

TISINA

be out of the imperini demned this Nazarene straight

Hils position enraged to the cross. he could help Jesus, he

"Are you,"

repented

would

I be

Pilate all chuckle zone

would, just to frustrate Annas truculently,

The alt of the dark houso from his voice, "are You the before down was damp and King of the Jews?" cold. Pilate thivered a little on

this of yourself?”

tell it you

Say you

othern

suddenly he heard a tantara asked Jesus calmly.

sounded

on R born; n

were at the gate.

signal

that Annas and his prisoner Me?"

new

JIN ค

"Or did concerning

He was startled at the ap- Atude with which JesUS had met the first question. The prisoner had demanded. that

con-

to

Like A Friend JESUS. bound send delivered, Pilate make clear his own posi- Was 11 that he WTA lifted His keen face to meet lon Itis

Judge. Plinte. well searching into the political side of this problem, which would robed against the morning chill,

be east Him a brief but appraising Roman judge? Or was he

a proper position for П then stopped. Where Klance,

this man before? charge of

cerned with blasphemy, A had he seen}

no importanco He had 1473 insane impulse 1

ift his hand in the salute and

Rome but abominable in the eyes of Jerusalem? Hun

In effect, greet

friend. He

"Do Jesus was asking Pilate: turned to Annas with a cynical

you ask Me this, fearing that expression and asked for the to the stars

an earthly pretender to Indieimeni

earthly crown and hence WHAT makes Ch star ★ twinkle? Selenists

you an enemy of Caesar's empire, or have

do you want to know if I claim "WP long believed that hot and cold bring against this man?“

this mha to be the Messiah?" have fourk! atmomplerte currents cated i

perverting our nation and for- intending the star-light bidding to give trilate to Caesar "Not Of This World"

lient Ho

19 Christ and saying The King.

"Take Him you," he sugges- lenicnt clearing of ted, with

and judge in Lis throat, wholly according

aw

Pl vision expert PROFESSÓR HAMILTON HARTRIDGE has destroyed this theory with a sim-

les experiment.

He found that gearby lights to the which the not twinkle Whiten t

immediately did eye naked when viewed through the wrong end of a telescope.

"What necusations da

But Caiphas angrily:

an

ПHEN Jesus replied with Anal THEN

explicitness:

"My kingdom is not of this world."

to your own In those seven forthright words Pilate had his roply; yet shouted back it was hardly the answer he

wanted.

for us to You

Hartridge's alternative twinkle

"It is not lawful theory: The eye always quivers slightly when viewing small dim But any man to death.

know that." lights

The resulting movement 151 the image

the on causes the twinkle.

retina

"Put forteard in the scienti fie journal "Nature"

The Ghost in Brown.

a shady nook when she touches She seemed

parition disappeared

In her

Three Facts

peeing.

A re-

Like Grand Jury

PILATE turned to the accused

and with a wry turn of his outh, which showed a broken tooth, he suddenly roared:

"Are you the King of the Jews!

Jesus answered:

"You say it."

"We know this

God

#

Jesus was explaining:

"If My kingdom wore of this world, My servants would cer- tainly strive that I should not be delivered to the Jews, but bow My kingdom is not from

Pilale's blue eyes blinked as

heper."

he grated in bard repetition;

"What

I want know 13-

are You, then a king?"

To this question Jesus made

an answer for the ages:

You say that I am a king. To this end was I bom and

E

"He Forgave!”

Again Calphas stepped for- Angeln Just had me to ery, of the other three had beet ward and lifted his forefinger for this cause I came into the THE brightly lit office on

the top floor of the "Don't open it," before the ap- covered with brown blankets. warningy.

world, that I should bear wit- To Osborn all this evidence

man to be less to the truth. Everyone three-storey concreta Angela saw the

Wornanongly FURFits that the the son of Joseph the carpenter, that is of the truth hears My more intelligent than the be building in the busy shop- Brown en times after that Woman in Brown was nothing born of Mary, but His followers voice."

supernatural than When the girl cried, "Who are more haviour of many living crea- ping street did not seem a

say that He is the son

Ari Pilate, hearing His voice, you? What do you want the current hallucination Anand a king."

feeling the pear presence of likely place to see a ghost. Woman 12 Brown Dul het gela's mind, A moth connot escape the lure But that was where 27-year- Angers

Agatu Pilate chuckled,

that mystery that had duded ents, cringed But if Elsie

Why it was so lifelike may be

him for so long, leaned forward "Tell me how I being ANGELA decides that a light is not to her old

BENSON against the wall, and vanished,

new discovery explated by

and asked in a deep whisper; procurator, can try a king?” This eerie incident convinced reported by British scientists Ilking after close-up examination repeatedly saw

"What is truth?" Chiphas, having no sense of the Woman Angela that the figure was the she will go off in search of in Brown.

experimenting with "bram humour, protested: ghost of someone killed when wave recording machines,

"We do not say that He is a The first time the figure up- the bullding had been hit by a

It seems that the nervous im-king, but they say that He is." was sitting In bumb the living-room Elsie searched peared Angcin

ls seul 1g the back of the Pilate looked down at Jesus, H

rose from his chair, bent with her colleague the ground methodically. When the office

brain from the eyes have to be and this time it was n long over Jesus and said plead- ever she felt her shell touch angret

MARGARET WATSON. Mar-

projected on to the brain sur- scrutiny. He made a brusque Ingly: hart just picked up obstacle she immediately made

The Angela's dramatic description fee to produce the sensation of mallon; the prisoner was to go

"Do You not hear how great throaty growl, then moved away. Angelo suddenly realised there the Society

telephone to answer a call when of it convinced Margaret that

Inside: Pilate would talk with testimonies they allege against Her mechanism is so

for Psychical 204- ingeni-

Someliines due to an electro-Jesus alone.

you? Look in how many things sly contrived that site HULO-

was a third woman siting in a search should be called m

mechanicnt fault

they ап entirely Mr EDWARD OSBORN, an

accuse You Do You anatically forgets" her queal for chefe by the window,

Inuiginary picture gets project-

Man To Man answer nothing?” tall, about 30, offeer of the society, who has

ex this way. When that hap

Jesus answered nothing. and was dressed in brown. hunted many ghosts, agrßed to

pens the person involved has no

THE big,

heavy-breathing Pilate threw up his hands. take on the job.

of means

the distinguishing

ofciai,

You discovered three

dont He quickly

with his clinking

ANSWOT me? mental

image formed from a bracelets and perfumed armpits. Don't

you know that signißent facts

I led the way boldly Inside to the have the power to crucify you Nobody had been killed in

same fireplace from which hor I have also power to re the bulding when the bomb

had just been called. He kick lease you?" fell, though people had

been

Then Jesus answered: chair toward the blown to bits outside,

In his official report of the ed a second

༤མ་ hearth and with

"You rough, almost

should not have any None

published,40 Just of the other 17 people investigation

threatening motion of his arm, power against Mc, Osborn

unless it would suggests: "It tho in

arm had seen the

bade Jesus be seated, facing were given to you from above. appear that a particular com- though some of the more ghost,

Kim. One was the judge and Therefore, he that has delivered imaginative thought they had;

bination of factors was respon the other the condemned pri- Me to you has the greater sin." sible for the hallucinations: Angela Was

fooling foundation of past experiences,

Pilate's eyes gleamed. When the Woman in Brown actual or imagined: elements in

"Are you," he repeated, "the reasmiring Pilate, It

Was appeared she seemed as real as the

no longer for Procula's sake Immediato reality itself.

surroundings King of the Jews? those experi- associated with

Jesus, back and head erect, only, it was for the sake of Then, by hypnotising the girl ences; and fe general back-leaned forward, palmas on knees would try to free Him, Past the prisoner Himself that Pilate and asking her

questions, ground of a building thought to Pilate was conscious of the in- Osborn found she had

been have been the scene of acath." tense personal magnetism in the the torches of the guards they deeply impressed by four traple events in

Whatever the precise cause great eyes. In that moment of marched, the accused which wonen had of Angela's experience there is deepening attraction a soldier Judge, and out again into the died,

no doubt in Osborn's mind-or appeared between the drapes of open courtyard. One of them-an bir-raid in mine that the Woman in the farther door and gave a cident-was linked in her mind Brown existed only in imaging its breast, they raced towards pseudonyms to prevent personal with the ringing of a telephone on. each other. But when they were distress.

in obstacle and concentrates all her energy into getting out in the She got up, turned towards the

open again.

She does

not butt stubbornly at chair placed in her path, but seeks a way round it like a liv- ing fortoise,

Angry roar

window, then vanished.

"Horror"

Angela

FLW the ghost મ second time. And a third time. But the third time the Woman in Brown showed herself thera the tinge of horror to

WHILE Elsie was manoeuvring was a

herself out of a difficult situation. corner photographer crept up Again she appeared as though behind her to take o finsh-light conjured up by the ringing of picture. We jumped away in the telephone, This time the stinctively as she twisted round reached the window and tried with an angry roar in response to open It with panic deter- to the sudden glare.

mination that could only mean It was then that Elsie spotted she blended to jump out. Eimer, the handsome brown-

ugo.

sheiled robot built by Dr Walter

as a prototype more than a year • As in Mr Osborn's report

the real names of the women Mutually attracted by the dim Involved in this investigation headlight each robot carries on have been replaced

by

NANCY

COME HERE, NANCY--- I

WANT TO EVEN THE HEM ON THIS NEW

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A-hem

not

but. She said that the bodies

YOU USUALLY

BUSHMILLET...

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CROOKED

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No Such Things

-London Express Service)

By Ernie Bushmiller

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