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Suddenly the Tories have a lot to do: they must negotiate cleverly with Europe; they must devise a planning apparatus sufficiently radical to deal with the 50 per cent tariff reduction that will hit British-Common Market industry by 1963. They must, in short, get efficient, for they are not so capable as their better newspapers to cope with the new concepts of economic life...
...economist, has been made Chief Secretary, and it is assumed that he will be responsible for executing modern ideas of economic planning. But as the Economist (which has a strong technocratic bias) lately pointed out, it is difficult to trust either the efficiency or the usefulness of the planning apparatus as now conceived, because authority over it may well be given to an amorphous body of temporary experts rather than to a permanent commission of technicians...
...responsible for the present apparatus is of course not Mr. Brooke, who probably agrees with the Economist, but his boss, Selwyn Lloyd. And the Chancellor is a special problem in himself, because he has become a political liability. His approach to planning, his clufsy attempts to impose a wage pause and to throw cold water on arbitration agreements have all drained vital support from his party, the sort of support that even a competent administrator like Mr. Brooke cannot easily restore. Voters at the next election will scrutinize the Exchequer hardest...
Most of the apparatus is hidden ten feet below the ground. A linear accelerator will start the process by firing electrons into orbit inside a 240 ft. diameter doughnut." Attached to the hollow tube are huge electro-magnets which will further speed up the particles in radio frequency pulses. After eight milli-seconds and 10,000 turns, the high-energy electrons will be directed in bursts at targets in the experimental hall...
Catching the meteoric dust particles on their way down from space was a far more difficult job. In 1958-59, Bowen got Australian air force jets to carry dust-collecting apparatus up as high as 45,000 ft. There they found plenty of dust, but higher flights were needed for rigid proof that the high-altitude dust had not merely been blown aloft from the surface of the earth...