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...Time for Change. For young King "Freddie," as his London friends call him, it was a proud moment and sweet revenge for the humiliation back in 1953, when he watched Uganda's British Governor Sir Andrew Cohen touch a button in his office to summon a policeman. Then, King Freddie was unceremoniously hustled aboard a plane for exile in London without so much as a chance to change his clothes or say goodbye to his wife. King Freddie's sin was that he had dared defy the governor's plans for Uganda, of which Buganda is officially...
...floor of the Chicago Amphitheater one night last week, a machinist pushed a button on a large lathe, then stood back, hands in pockets. In seconds, the automatic lathe fed itself a piece of roughly shaped metal, turned it into a stator (the stationary part of an electric motor), inspected it to make sure it was perfect, swept the waste metal into a receptacle, then started work to make another part. If the finished part had not been perfect, the lathe would have discarded it and made the proper corrections o make sure the next part was exactly to specifications...
...building, Westinghouse installed its first "phantom voice" for operatorless elevators, which calls out messages recorded on magnetic tape. The "voice" can announce, among other things, "This car up," "Going Down" and the floor number. It also doubles as a warning device. If a passenger forgets to press his floor button as soon as he steps into the elevator, the voice reminds him: "Press your floor button, please." The passenger who holds open the doors gets a quick command: "Release the doors, please." Cost of the voice...
...limited field. He can neither fashion the future nor alter the past. His only power lies in the immediate present, and every effort to extend it ends in failure and frustration . . . Malraux seems to resent it that man fails to qualify as God's private secretary or chief button-pusher for some nuclear Jove. There is some evidence that man is approaching the latter, but unfortunately the only button on the horizon is destructive. Doubtless some Malraux will push the damn thing to prove his importance ... I'm glad I don't have such an abnorMalraux...
...farmers appreciate your fine July 4 article, ''Automation on the Farm." However, lest the urban public think that farming has become a soft, push-button operation, let me emphasize that today's farmers work as hard as their forebears, and under much more tension, to keep the expensive machinery and larger herds producing...