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...Force announced today. The C-54 robot plane landed in Newfoundland after the 2400 mile from England...
...Without Memories. Until Gromyko's entrance, a successful diplomat was a subtle, imaginative artist, who could improvise a stiff note to a fractious government as quickly as a compliment for a fat lady. But Gromyko behaves in chancelleries and council chambers with all the charm of a misanthropic robot. He is blunt, aloof, without imagination, without the right (or apparently the will) to independent thought. He refers every decision to Moscow. His diplomacy consists in executing Moscow's will to the letter, to the accompaniment of paraphrased Pravda editorials. He is assisted by Physics Professor Dmitri Vladimirovich Skobeltsin (Atomic Energy...
...jovial, rotund engineer and industrialist; of cancer; in Boston. Maxson, for 15 years a U.S. Navy officer, was blessed by dyers for two big aids in long-distance flying: 1) his invention of a process to precook and quick-freeze complete meals for easy preparation during flight; 2) his "robot navigator," a mechanical computer for quick solution of complex celestial navigation problems...
...underdog, helped the colonial rebels against French imperialism. Later, as a member of the Canton Committee of Twelve, he helped the Kuomintang and Communists revolt. All along, he had a romantic streak and a deep concern for the individual, which foreshadowed his later stand against Communism's robot ranks...
...Figures alone it accepts, in floods and mazes. Quick as a midget's wink, it adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides, raises to powers, extracts roots (square or better). It blends the figures together, mixes them with constants such as the speed of light. "It's a robot," says Dr. Aiken, "and does just what it's told...