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LORD DOVERDALE Droitwich, England...
...commanding robot was a snarl of electronic equipment affectionately known as "the Brain." Everything it did on the long flight was "preset" before the start. In mid-Atlantic, the Brain picked up radio signals from a U.S. Coast Guard cutter. Later it picked up a beam from Droitwich, England, and followed that for a while. When the plane neared Brize Norton, the wide-awake Brain concentrated on a special landing beam from an R.A.F. radio and made a conventional automatic landing...
...Impney, Droitwich, Oct. 26, 1889. MISS WAKEMAN: When I paid a visit to the United States of America some years ago, I had the great pleasure of a charming interview with your talented and distinguished countryman, the late Henry W. Longfellow, and promised to send him, for presentation to Harvard college, a miniature on silver of General George Washington, purchased at the sale of a celebrated collection of pictures, curiosities and articles of virtue in London. But shortly after my return to England I saw, with deep regret, in the Times, the death of America's great poet...
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