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...VEHICLE. A robot-like, driverless device on which work is well in progress. The 15,000-lb. behemoth "sees" through a television camera linked to a built-in computer that matches images to data in its memory and decides which way the vehicle should go. The blue-and-white ALV successfully lumbered down a Denver test track earlier this summer. Though it negotiated the narrow, half-mile course at just 3 m.p.h., that was far faster than in any previous trial...
...Russia, rushed Socialist Sir Stafford Cripps to the Kremlin, where he is well liked. But was there time to get help from Russia? To smooth relations with Spain, His Majesty's Government sent Sir Samuel Hoare as Ambassador to Madrid. He got a chilly reception and exiled Loyalist Alvárez del Vayo cracked: "The mission of a failure." Women and children were already being evacuated from Gibraltar, whose garrison the German-planted guns in Algeciras may try to blow into the sea before long...
...year prison term for his courage. In France are ex-Presidents Niceto Alcalá Zamora and Manuel Azaña, ex-President Luis Companys of Catalonia, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Generals Juan Sarabia and José Asensio, many others. Premier Juan Negrin and Foreign Minister Julian Alvárez del Vayo are in Mexico, as are some 6,000 of the more Leftist Republican supporters. Madrid's Savior, General José Miaja, is also in Mexico. General Vicente Rojo is in Argentina. Corps Commander Enrique Lister, famed Communist fighter, is believed to be in France or Russia. Dolores...
Loyalist Foreign Minister Julio Alvárez del Vayo flew from Madrid to France to persuade Senior Azaña to return to Loyalist Spain and thus rob Britain and France of an excuse to withdraw recognition. Long and heated conferences took place in the big, flat-faced brown stucco Spanish Embassy on the Avenue George V in Paris. But Don Manuel, who has been wanting to surrender since the Rebels took Teruel a year ago, flatly refused to leave the safety of Paris. Peace at any price was his line. General Vicente Rojo, Loyalist Chief of Staff who crossed...
Died. Serafín Alvárez Quintero, 67, prolific Spanish playwright (Malvaloca, A Sunny Morning, A Hundred Years Old); of hemiplegia, a form of paralysis; in Madrid. Still alive is Brother Joaquín, 65, with whom he collaborated on more than 200 plays...
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