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Y heart warms to the Diesel Engineers and Users' IVIAssociation, not because I can understand what they are talking about, but because they had their origin in a City pub. And the friendly atmosphere in their proceedings persists, as their annual luncheon last week testified. Mr. Julian Tritton, the urbane honorary secretary, casting around for a new approach to the toast of the guests, personified them in their products and divided them into three groups—high-powered medium-sized and small. If he had 'widened the classification to include the insignificant, I should have known where I stood.
Babe in Science
THE principal guest, Viscount Bruce of Melbourne, came to the luncheon straight from a reception to General de Gaulle, which explained his morning dress. With florid good humour he confessed that, although he was a Fellow of the Royal Society, in scientific matters he could not compete with the average modern child of 10. On his own admission, he was
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