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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1961-11-02, Page 6.occasionally led to some startling. casting (e.g., Jerry Lewis in Cyril Ritcherd'e role in "Visit ta a Small Planet"), is based on two theories: That Broadway stars are expensive in Hollywood d that their Broadway appeal oesn't extend to hinterland box Till the. movie be worth the money? if . "South Pacific's" movie career is any indicetione the deluge of dollars will con- tinue foe some time, "South Pacitice" released in 1050, al, ready has taken in $25 million. New Search Starts For "Lost World" ee DOOR WITH MORE — It looks as if the owner of this car customized it with the phrase "traveling broadens one" in mind, Actually, this is not the case. The auto was converted by thieves to transport heavy stolen safes. It is shown in Chicago. By WARD CANNEL Newspaper Enterprise Assn. NEW YORK—Histories of the computer usually exhume a trench mathematician and philo- sopher 'named Blaise Pascal as the first inventor in. 1642. But nobody bothers to mention that he renounced the world almost Immediately afterward and sign- ed himself into a, monastery. Today, with so few hiding places left, computer makers are trying to brave it out. Interviews are shot through with reassur- ances that the monster is only a giant adding machine with a Memory, an idiot merely doing What it is told by a progammer. But after Its fleet 18 years of lefe, it appears that electronic data processing is a little more Owe giant Idiocy. Computers tan — or soon will: Not only salve a problem, but seise find, it amongst the facts: Then, having found it, build a *'stein to work it out. And, finally, remember how to do it 'the next time it's needed. Taken all together and done at well over a billion steps per hour today, It adds up to sortie- thing pretty close to thinking -- and etea,tinge The machine isn't doing this 'put of thin air any more than the htimete Tithed does, Program- tern Waking with laboratory Lind office prOblems are building itimiense rriemory of 00erl- ionce into computers in the tourse of the day's work. And a machine that can simu- late the mathematical relation- ehiPe of the sea Mid submarine design, of air and airplane de- Stign, of voting records and party allegiances , Of Staling wax and Undeterred by the fate of twenty - five year - old. Richard Mason, the London medical We- dent who was recently killed by Indians in the dense Brazillian jungle, an American, Dana Lamb, Will set out soon on another ex- pedition into this dangerous ter- ritory, Lamb is convinced that some- where in the Mato Gtosso jun- gles is a "lost plateau," so high that it may never have been trodden by the feet of white men, where some prehistoric animals may still be roaming. Lamb believes that it was this plateau, long talked about by former eXplorers but never dis- covered, that inspired Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to write one of his most thrilling adventure stories. Sir Arthur called it a "lost world." He declared that "time and the foot of man have not touched these summits." Lamb will fly to Sao Paula, Brazil, and push from there into the Mato Grosso jungle. In his search for the "missing" plateau he is likely to pass through at least one region which last century was a reputed El Dorado and the scene of many thrilling searches for gold and precious stones in earlier cen- turies. kings — that machine has a. fantastic resource of alternatives and. systems. "We may never get all of man's experience and the peoba-- bility of all events onto a mag- netic core memory," a spokes- man for one of the largest com- puter builders says, "but we're coming closer and closer all the time." W h o l e fictional industries have been born, lived and crumbled in computers. The Sa- turn rocket for the moon shot will have been up and back thousands of computer times be- fore actual firing. Wars have been fought and millions have died in billionths of a transistor second. Arid the computer re- mernlbers them all — instantly, and, in every detail. Not so strangely, then, the first 15 years of the computer age have put time vastly out joint, The machine is now an inte- gral part of civilized man's en- vironment, But, says archeologi- cal histerian Kurt Marek itt his "Yesterrriorrow," this inevitably suggests the idea that man is a part of the machine's environ- ment. But, say the mathematicians, it will take another generation be- fore people begin to think in- stitictiVely about living in the Machine's environment. rot the rest of us dislocated, the old frerrie of reference about time and space will simply have to grow more grotesque as the computer age moves on. If 10 masons cart build a. house in 160 hours, it is on y right that 100,000 masons call build it in 58 seconds. TABLE TALKS 47 Jane Andrews To add variety to spice cake made from a mix try substituting applesauce for the liquid nor- mally called for. Add any eggs or other ingredients (except, of course, liquid) as usual, then add applesauce in the same amount as liquid called for in the direc- tions adding 1/4 again as much. For instance, if the directions call for 1 cup of liquid, add 11/4 cups applesauce instead. Another tasty spice cake vari- ation is made by substituting mashed banana for the liquid in 'exactly the same way. It seems to me that veal is the neglected child of the meat family, not nearly as appreciated as it should be, In many- locali- ties it is almost impossible to obtain, and a butcher will say, "People around here don't use much veal." Perhaps its bland flavor is the reason, but given proper seasoning veal is de- licious'` states a writer in the Christian Science Monitor. Of the following recipes the first two are French and the others are American — all are delectable. VEAL CHOPS IN BUTTERED PAPER 8 thin veal chops 14 cup olive oil 2 teaspoons chopped parsley 2 teaspoons chopped onion 2 teaspoons chopped chives 4 tablespoons chopped mushrooms Salt and pepper to taste Unglazed paper Butter Marinate the veal chops in the olive oil for 12 hours, Combine parsley, onion, chives, and mush- rooms. Cut 8 pieces of unglazed paper — your best stationery is not too good for this — large enough to envelop the chop and have a margin for overlapping. Spread the papers with butter and sprinkle with a layer of the herb mixture. Place a chop on each paper, cover with another layer of the herb mixture. Sprin- kle generously with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Fold the paper over the chop so that no steam or juice will escape, Cook (bake) 30 minutes in 300° F. oven. Serve with the paper on, e e This recipe is one of the old- est known French recipes. It has been passed down through the ages and is honored by both his- torians and gourmets. VEAL CUTLETS 6 or 8 veal cutlets 3 tablespoons butter 1 cup stock 2 teaspoons chopped parsley 1 teaspoon chopped onion Salt and pepper Order individual, well-trim- med cutlets, cut 1/2 -inch thick. Ask the butcher to pound them. Heat butter in frying pan until it is sizzling hot, Sear cutlets 3 minutes on each side. Add stock, parsley, onion, sprinkle with salt and pepper and cover. Simmer 20 minutes, Arrange the cutlets in a crown around a heat- ed platter. Fill the center with the sauce left in the frying pan of- serve with a tomato sauce. HiiIVAHAN VEAL CHOPS 4 veal loin or rib chops, a- inch thick Salt and pepper -- 4 dried prunes 4 slices pineapple 8 nieditint-sized carrots 1/2 cup hot Water Brown chops in hot fat; season. Place pineapple slice on each chop, with prune in center, Ar- range carrots around chops. Add water, Cover and cook slowly 1 i12 hours. Serves 4, * * BREADED VEAL CtlitIttg 2 pounds veal round, 1/2 -to-s%,- Inch thick Salt arid -pepper 1, tap ebtii flake ertinuh$ slightly 'beaten eggs- 2 tablespoons water' IF WINTER COMES — When cold winds blow this casuel jump suit will rebuff their sting. The three-piece wool knit ensemble consists of slim pants, pullover sweater, hood. 6 tablespoons fat 1 cup milk 1 101/2 - or 11-ounce can con- densed cream of mushroom soup Cut veal in 6 pieces; season. Dip into Crumbs, then into egg mixed with Water, and again in crumbs. Brown in hot fat: then pour over the milk mixed with soup. Cover; bake in slow oven (300° F.) 1. hour, Serves 6, VEAL FRICASSEE 2 pounds veal steak, 1/2 -to-M- inch thick. Salt and pepper 1 teaspoon paprika 1 tablespoon flour 1 cup sour cream cup meat stock or'water if no stock is available, (Can- ned consomnie may be used instead of stock.) Cut veal in serving pieces. Sea- son With salt and pepper; dip into flour and brown in hot fat, Combine paprika, flour, sour cream and stock; pour over meat. Cover and cook slowly 1 hour. Serves 6. ,, MOLDED tad. AND vEOETABLE LOAF 1 envelope uriflaVored gelatin Vz Cup cold water 1 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons leirion Ake 1/4 teaspoon Tahaaeo Vt. clip Mayonnaise or salad dressing teaspoons grated onion 1/2 cup finely diced celery 1,4'cup finely diced green /aspire- la cup chopped liiiuiento 4 herd-cooked eggs, chopped. Soften gelatin in cold Water. Place over boiling water and Stir until gelatin is dissolved. Add salt, lemon jUite, -and Pre- basce. Cool. Add mayonnaise; inlet in remaining ingredients._ Torn Into loge or individual -Meat, and chill until firth. ttn, Mold, on Crisp ,greens, Some New Ways Of Using Honey Honey is the only unprocessed, ready-to-eat sweet; it is also the most ancient, according to the Florida State Development Com, mission, For those who prefer unrefin- ed foods, honey is a natural sub- stitute for sugar. It is quite ver- satile too, for it can be used as a topping and spread, as well as a sweetener for pies, cakes, cookies. Here are several recipes that contain honey and require no cooking. Tart Honey Salad Dressing Combine 1/2 cup honey, 1/2 'tea- spoon salt, 1/3 cup chili sauce, c u p vinegar, 1 tablespoon grated onion, 1 tablespoon Wor- cestershire sauce, and then add slowly 1 cup salad oil, Beat until well blended. Honey-Orange Sauce Blend well 1/2 cup honey, I/4 cup orange juice, 1 teaspoon grated orange rind, and a few grains of salt, (Excellent on gingerbread.) Honey and Cream. Cheese Filling Mix 3 tablespoons honey with a 4-ounce package of c r cam cheese. Add a generous handful of chopped pecans. Lemon-Cream Frosting. Cream until light 3/4 cup but- ter and add alternately 2 cups sifted confectioner's sugar and 3 tablespoons of honey. Blend in 3/4 teaspoon ,each of salt and vanilla and 2 tablespoons of lime juice and beat until fluffy. Use honey for a sweetener in a rich vanilla milk shake — add a dust of netmeg. Sweeten a lime punch with honey — top with a mint leaf and lime wheel. Scoop out the center of half a grapefruit, fill with honey and broil. Serve with a green cherry, Use a tablespoon of honey in the batter of pancakes or waf- fles, Serve with butter and more honey. Pour a generous amount of honey on a very hot buttered biscuit. DEFINITION A politician was asked by his son what a man is called who leaves another party and comes over to yours. "He's a convert, lad," answer- ed the father, "And what is a man who leaves your party and goes over to the other?" persisted the boy. "He's a traitor!" was the, scowling reply. The man still seeking a place in the sun probably postponed his . vacation until winter. Huge Auto Plant In Bonnie Scotland Up there in the legendary hills Of old Scotland, the world's big, gust .exporter of motor vehicles is building a new and revolu, tionary type of industrial plant, The British Motor Corpora- tion's latest venture Is revalue lionary in more ways than one, it is introducing a brand new industry into the land of kilts and bagpipes, It is 4 tradition- breaking step, toward -decentral, lzetion of Britain's industry — both for national .defense and foe urban traffic. relief, Furthermore, it will absorb 5,600 workers in the heavy un- employment region of Bathgate, hardly more than 15 miles south- West of castle-crowned Edin- burgh, Finally, the Bin train, ing program will add immeasur- ably, to Britain's growing back- log of skilled workers. That answers most of the ques- tions this writer carried • with him all the way from London to Edinburgh, among them; why did the world's fourth largest manufacturer . of motorcars de= cide to build a £11,000,000eplant (about $31,000,000); so far from its traditionally 'centralized oper, ations around, Birmingham and Oxford? It seemed completely incompatible with the long-time British policy of industrial co- ordination and .economy, The strange thing is (strange to others than Britons) that the BMC did not go there volune tarily, The growing demands for its Austin; Morris, Riley, and Wolseley motor vehicles called for some sort of expansion be- yond the current boundaries, But 260 Bathgate acres of "bog-burn" to be drained -from which 130,000 tons of peat and 500,000 tons of soil must be rernovede-hardly seemed the kind of land upon which the industrial giant would care to expand. Sir Leonard Lord, chairman of. the BMC; thought of all that when he leaned across the desk toward. General Manager G. W. Harriman about a year ago and said: "We can no longer increase • production without • new factor- ies." But he. did not add; "Let us find a new building site and get started." Building any sizable project in Britain is not that simple. This is a workaday world of some 50,000,000 people living on a tiny island only slightly larger than the state of Iowa (886,485 pop- ulation). Land is Britain's most valuable and scarcest commodity. All construction plans requiring the taking ever o>~ huge chunks .of land must be Vct,:gitoci care- fully anti caution:Ay in torms..ot the general national Welfare, So, a firm wishing In build at feetoty i n extehsion o more. than 5 .000 eq. ft., must .oWain art indtoerial Development teertifi- eate from the Levernmenl and be assigned a spot in some 4801(1-. ted development Thie, gives government control of industrial expansion, An industrial devel- opment area is where uncmploy- • ment is rampant — and weere traffic congestion is not yet 4 disturbing factor, 'writes. W. Clif- fora Harvey in the Christian Science Monitor. One of these areas is Bathgate. "Build your plant in Bathgate," the government said to BMC, "and your construction site and financing are assured." The cor- poration agreed for many rep- sons.. Down in England's midlands, BMC's major Austin and Morris operations are bursting their in- dustrial seams. Squeezing every ounce of „eerning power from every equate' foot of factory space- is common practice for hardy Britons. Wasted floor area, wasted materiels -end wast- ed time cannot be tolerated in. limited land operations. But e v en hard-headed production practices sooner or later require the augmentation of new con- struction—somewhere. "That somewhere is no longer business-booming Birmingham," the goyernMent said, "Labor there is short and new plants have the tendency of pulling labor away from outside indus- tries and further jamming an area already jammed with tree, fie," All things considered, "let it be Bathgate," the BMC responded. The pattern is now set for Britain's new industrial revolu- tion. Thousands 'of idle workers get jobs where jobs are most needed. Industry heads toward decentralization. Urban traffic . jams are discouraged instead of increased. The national backlog of skilled workers is swelled. Scotland gets an entirely new industry. And the highland coun- try's highway and rail transports, shipping, maintenance. services. and industries, supplying the myriad needs of the new plant are given a powerful boost. Not 1)..d for the construction of a single industrial plant along the lowland road between Edin- burgh and Glasgow, ISSUE 44 — 1961 Liza, Doolittle Goes To. Hollywood For a Cockney flower girl who Broadway insisted ,2,306 times On 4 Broadway etage that "all I went Is a room somewhere," Eliza, Doolittle has done remarkably Well, "My Fair Lady," as the longest - running musical in , Broadway history, has collected some $18 million from 3 million patrons so far and is still going strong; in addition, road tours have brought in 03.5 million end Columbia Broadcasting Sys- tern, which put up the entire $360,000 cost of the Broadway production, has sold more than 3.2 million copies of the original- east album, grossing another $15 The rain of greenbacks on that plain in Spain threatened to reach a new pitch last month. Warner Brothers offered CBS and Herman Levin, the show's producer, $5.5 million for the mo- vie rights—more than twice The previous high for such a deal, set when Twentieth Century - Fox paid nearly $2.3 million for Broadway's "South Pacific." The studio also offered 41,5 per cent of the film's gross receipts over $20 million, and 5 per cent of the gross for the estate of George Bernard Shaw (from whose 'Pygmalion" Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe wrote the musical). And for a Cockney flower air], Eliza was being remarkably coy. Before closing the bargain with Warner Brothers, Levin in- sisted on 26 days to look around for a better deal, He didn't say where he might find it. The studio has made no firm plans for production of "My Fair Lady," but Warner executives are eenown to be considering Audrey Hepburn as Eliza, and Cary Grant as Professor Higgins--the parts Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison originated on Broad- way. This substitution, a famili- ar Hollywood practice which has Computers Are Smarter Than We Think THE ITEM held by the scientist is called Thin-Film, which Increases the internal speed of electronic computers from millionths to billionths of a second. INTERESTED OBSERVER — Mike Surber ponders over soma heavy third grade assignments as his pet hamster, Pepe, makes an effort to see what has attracted his master's at- tention, Mike brought Pepe along to Winslow Elementary School as part of the nature study. HEAD-ON MEETING Witi-1 DEATH A 20-ton steel girder protrudes from the front of .9 passenger titilri de' ill Hamburg, Gerrtiony. In o collision with d work train, the girder tore through the cor, killing 'dozens of torrim'UterS,