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...Automatic Factory. Businessmen already envision a day when the brains will be used not only for paperwork problems, but to operate factories, to run auto production lines or any plant where a process can be reduced to a preset, repetitive system. Swiftly and obediently, the big robot will start and stop production lines, supervise all the machines, correct faulty workmanship, inspect the finished product, package it and ship it out to U.S. consumers...
Automatic Toll-Taker. New Jersey's Garden State Parkway is using a robot toll-taker that collects fares directly from motorists, corrects improper payments, sounds an alarm if a motorist fails to ante up properly, and has a camera that snaps a picture of the rear license plate if a car tries to get by without paying the toll...
...Yugoslavs spoke up in his defense. One was Djilas' exwife, Mitra Mitrovic. The other was Vlado Dedijer, who dared to take issue with Edvard Kardelj, next to Tito the most powerful figure in the government. "To speak quite frankly," said Dedijer to Kardelj, "I am not a robot and cannot automatically accept a view simply because of the authority of the man expounding it." Dedijer taunted the Communist Party for fearing new ideas: "Let us be conscious of the fact that our revolution has become immortal because she has not eaten her own children, and because the children...
...bounce out. As in other years, dolls do almost everything that real babies can do-and one does something more: Ideal's Betsy Wetsy ($5.98) not only drinks, wets, weeps, coos and sleeps, but also blows her nose, helped by a quick squeeze of her middle. Robert the Robot, an Ideal flashing-eyed mechanical monster ($5.95), can be made to move forward and back, swing its arms and recite: "I'm Robert the Robot, the Mechanical Man." Ideal also has a "radio"-equipped FBI car that broadcasts "Calling all cars . . ." Among electric trains, the newest is Toyland Products...
...Monsters Gog (Ivan Tors; United Artists) is a tidy, legless little robot with five arms, a beer-barrel belly, and a head like a chrome-plated grapefruit with a gleaming red aerial on top. Gog is married-or something-to another robot named Magog, and they both work in a highly secret space-research institute, hidden somewhere underneath the great American desert, which Herbert Marshall runs for the Government...