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One Hears

23rd January 1959
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

That last year the three Triplex factories produced 23m. sq. ft. of toughened or laminated safety glass.

That, according to the chairman and managing director, Sir Graham Cunningham, this represents some 500 acres, which would more than cover London's Regent's Park.

That it is little use providing first-aid kits unless those expected to use them have been suitably trained.

That powdered-iron magnets were made in the eighteenth century and references to them published in 1779.

That a " novel " type of permanent magnet made from powdered oxides of iron was referred to in 1938—it seems that little is completely new.

Of a suggestion that Durham's partly empty buses should be equipped with television receivers as an attraction. Of "smoke signals " from Pirelli announcing a new giant tyre---" Chief Lasting Tread."

• That the U.S.S.R. claims to be advancing industrially at four times the rate of the U.S.A.

That cybernetics—the science of connection and control —will become the key to efficient management.

From a draughtsman promoted to chief engineer, that thought alone is static and uncreative unless supported_ by dynamic emotional power.

That some of these "human dynamos" are apt to short at awkward moments.

That the average percentage of accidents involving skidding as a factor has risen from 19 to 26 in three years, and this despite improved road surfaces.

That in a steel bridge built in Germany, bolts, rivets and other conventional fastenings have been replaced by polyester-resin bonding.

Of a milkman in Parliament Square who created an " appreciated " traffic obstruction as he picked up glass from broken milk bottles.

That bus passengers remarked "There's a fine fellow."

That people who turn their dogs out into the streets to obtain exercise alone, add to the risk of children and adults being maimed or killed.

That Fremlins, the well-known brewers, have returned to the sides of London buses after an absence of 20 years—now London Transport would like some more passengers to return.

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Locations: Durham, London

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