Word: robotized
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...will not proceed to take the step I suggested." The faces of party members were wreathed with smiles, but Nehru was grim: "An atmosphere is growing in India that I found not only disturbing but suffocating." His own work had come to be the work of "some kind of robot or automaton ... I was physically fit but getting querulous. I sense coarseness and vulgarity growing in our public life. In the Congress Party and the whole country idealism is fading out. We in India suffer from a split personality. One part is of the highest moral standard. The other part...
...tried to escape. I went out for House dramatics, hoping that I could enter into the world of Bohemia but I was cut off from that land by the glass wall. My acting--like a robot, they told me. I tried growing a beard but it was no use. I knew it was wrong, knew I was nothing but a Pyrex flask with a fiberglass beard. So I gave up and shaved it off. I began to think that perhaps it was my fate to become an Erlenmeyer flask. But fate or not, still I struggled...
...missile-age warfare, a military commander will have only minutes to launch his rockets before a target moves on-or attacks him first. Last week the Army Signal Corps announced an ingenious electronic device that will tell him whenever a target appears: the RP-71, a flying robot that can take off from a launching rig, spy on the enemy from altitudes up to 3,000 ft. at more than 200 m.p.h...
...ROBOT BAG-FILLER for supermarkets is being tested by Kroger Co. to end bottlenecks at check-out counter. The ideai bag lies on side next to cashier, and conveyor belt slides groceries into bag. When full, bag pops upright, is ready to be carried away...
...transistor radio kit ($8.95), which operates on power drawn from sunlight or artificial light, supposedly can be assembled by a nine-year-old, but it includes a booklet of diagramed directions that many a parent will be hard-pressed to decipher. Other toyland marvels include an electronic robot ($8.95) that picks up pieces of metal by remote control and drops them onto a motor-driven conveyor belt; an electronic teletyper ($16.95) that prints messages sent from another room or house; a Pan American clipper ($15.95) that automatically starts and stops its four engines separately, revs up its motors before scooting...