Page 10, The Herald, Friday, August 24, 1979

The gadget

CAMBRIDGE, Mass,
(AP) — The people who
invented fivemlnute cream
of wheat also take credit for
teaching hospitals In Bracil,
refrigerators on spaceships
and the world’s first plaatic
Petese and a stupefyi

ese and a 8 g
collection af other gadgets,
ideas and innovations are
turned out steadily by Arthur
D. Little Inc., probably the
biggest profit-making
consulting firm in the world.

For a fee, the company
will invent, analyze, add up
or think through practically
anything.

These are the technicians
who make sure all Anheuser-
Busch breweries make beer
that tastes exactly the same.
In the same breath, they
mention that they helped
Owens-Corning invent
Fibreglas and created the

stills used by submarines to

turn salt water to fresh.

They Invented Cap'n
Crunch cereal and the first
bottled bloady mary mix,
Not to mention the charcoal
briquet. Or  noknock
gasoline,

And they say there are
plenty of other foods, gizmos
and whainots that everyone
has heard of but that the
clienta want the world to
think resulled from thelr
own creativity.

Companies come to Little
and other consulting firms
when they have problems too
big, technical or unusual to
sobve themselves. They
range from testing drugs and
creating flavors to designing
machine parts and
out whether the world is
ready for new products. -

The engineers here seem
to enjoy sniffing ont new

Smugglers still trade

MONTREAL (CP) —It'sa
peaceful night in Quebec's
Eastern Townships, south.
west of Montreal,

A van driving along a
backwoods dirt road paralle]
to the Vermont border slows
down, stops, and six people
~~ four men and two women.
— get out. No one says a
word. : ,

Furtively, they, start along
& small trail used in winter
for cross-country skiing. Ata
spot where -the trail winds
briefly acrosa the in:
ternational border into the
United States, they head into
the woods and make their
way through the thick un-
derbrush for about a
Kilometre.

Eventually they reach an:
other narrow road where a
large, late-model car awaits
them. Five members of the
group get into the car, the
sixth talks briefly to the
driver, then darts back Into
the woods.

These people, known to au-
thorities as ilegal aliens,
have paid between $500 and
$2,000 each to have them-
selves smuggled into ‘he
U.S. where they will live a
clandestine exiatence,
probably in New York City.

Most are from Greece,
Portugal, Italy, Jamaica,
Haiti or Guyana where they
probably had made initial
arrangements to have
themselves smuggled from

Take it off first

HAMILTON (CP) — Spot
reducing? Forget it.

Let specifics wait until.
your whole body is fit, then
concentrate on problem
areas, says Bill Gvoich,
president and coowner of a
local sport and fitness
academy.

“We have to re-educate the
public to forget about spot
reducing,” he says. “Over-
all fltness must come first.”

Gvoich says that the body
works a8 a unit and people
can’t get fit by exercising
just one small part.

“Once you slop exercising
that one part, all the flab will
return,” he says.

, Cardio-vascular strength,
meaning heart and lungs, is
the most. important,

“Heart and lungs should
be worked for about 20 to St
minutes about three Himes a
week, working up to ualng 78
per cent of your heart
capacity.

“That takes a while — six
months or more depending
on your atarting condition —
but it can ba done, But no one
thould start out exercising
and try to achieve that
immediately — they'd kill
themselves,"

Beginners should start
with a few minutes exerciae
every second day, always
using Warm-up exercises |
firat and slowly increasing
the length
working 2u!, he advises.

- and

of time spent -

ways to solve old problems,
The is why president John
Magee likes to talk about the
plastic pencil,

It looks ordinary enough;
it writes and sharpens like
the standard wooden
variety. But unlike any
before it, this one is plastic.

“What's spectacular is not
thesoclal impact but the fact
that we take a traditional
product and employ modern
technology and make it in a
new way that ismore
economical, c of
resources and efficient,”’

Magee says.

Emplre Pencil Co. turns
them out by ‘the millions.

Little is one of a group of
consulting firms loosely
lumped together as ‘“‘think
tanks,” .

Magee cringes at this label
— “it conveys an image of

isolation," he says.. ‘We're

out in the real world,”

But these are companies
that trade In brain power.

Other big ones include the
nomprofit Batelle Memorial
Institute and Stanford
Research Institute a3 well as
profit-making Booz Allen
and Hamilton Inc.

Moat of Little's thinking Is
done in eight drab brick
buildings next door to a
bowling alley on the in-
dustria) fringe of Cam-
bridge. About 1,000 profes-
sionals, almost half of whom
boldadvanced degrees, work
in a maze of 153 laboratories
offices.

The place looks like a
small college campus, and
the tweedy atmosphere |
more like a college campus
than a company that earned
revenues last year of $120.9
million and profits of $5.9
million.

Canada Into the U.S,

It is easy to enter Canada
as a tourist, explains the
police official. Then, with the
help of smuggling rings in
Montreal, Toronto and other
cities, they sllp across the
border.

Last year, 2,200 illegal

-pliens are estimated to have

‘crossed the boundary from
‘Quebed. OF those, about 1,400
were caught by U.S. border
patrols. The other 800 went
through undetected, despite
a sophisticated network of
electronic sensors designed
to monitor all border-
crossing activity.

“Some people come: ta
Canada with the express
purpose of crossing the
border into the U.S.,” says
John Anderson, ciierieethe
U.S. border patral for the 275
kilometres of boundary
known as the Swanton Sec-
tor, which takes in New
Hampshire, Vermont, New
York and part of Maine.

Smuggling rings generally
are made up of four to eight
people. Allens generally are
driven from Montreal or
Toronto to some remote,
wooded section of the border
where a guide meets them
and takes them across the
line. Then someone else
picks them up and drives
them to a large American
city where, supplied with
false identity papers, the

Good Warm-tips, which
should last from two to five
minutes, includé‘ slow but
steady running on the spot or
squat and thrust (in a squat
position leaning forward
with hands on the floor,
thrust legs out straight then
back to squat position).

Cardio-vascular exercises
include running, swimming
and jumping: rope, em-
phasizing the intensity and
not duration of the exercise.

Rest is vital to physical fit-
ness, 60 exercise should be
done on alternate days with
two additional days off to
reat. For example, he ad:
visea that people work out
Monday, Wednesday and

Friday and take the weekead

But being fit isn't a lasting
state Lf exercise isn’t con-
tinued, he warns,

“People often say they're -

fit because they used to play
professional football or used
to swim regularly. But that
doesn't mean they're still fit,

“Tt must be continuous ex-
ercise with occasional rest, 1
tually recommend taking a
week off afler about eight
weeks, then starting again,"’

* his sector. However, some of

_ term, he says,

Unlike many other big

guys

consulting firms, less than a

quarter of Little's work is for

the federal government. §&

Almost half the customers
are private American
businesses, and the reat ar
stata government agencies
and clients in forelgn
countries, oe

The company was founded
in 1886, when Arthur D. Little
himself set "p a chemical
testing Jab in downtown
Boston. _
oon a demonstration jo ha

e power of cl siry,
Little made a synthetic silk
purse from a bunch of sows’
ears, The small Victorian-
style handbag now Is in the
Smithtonian Institution in
Washington.

“After the Second World
Wer, Little expanded into
management consulting and
other kinds of product.
development.

-In the 1950s, for inatance, it
took om the problem of
Puerto Rican rum. The
liquor being .sold in the
United States did not appeal
to American tastes, so Little
developed the light variety
that now Is the standard
Puerto Rican product.

Tn the 1060s, it took a

similar hand in helping the

Iriah distill a whiskey light
enough for Americans to
appreciate. ,

Stewart offers interesting scenes for the photographer

Little’s work changes with
the times, and now a large
part is concentrated on
helping clients save energy
and prevent pollution.

Each year, Little takes on
about 1,000 new projects.
Magee says most of the fees
fall in the $50,000 to $100,000
range,

aliens can attempt a new
life

But staff Sgt. George Ru-
genius, head of the Mon-
trealbased 19-member
RCMP team that in-
vestigates illegal immi-
grants, says many people
come to Canada with little
money and. sell their:
passport-to help pay for the
tip to’. the US.

Radio-Canada

estarrivee
dc Prince-George

aed

‘Once they do croas the bo
der, he adda, they often have
no money and carry little
more than the clothes on
thelr backs.

But the number of illegal
aliens apprehended by
authorities has actually
declined recently. It could
mean that either fewer
peopleare trying to cross the ©

r, or simply that fewer
are being caught.

In 1877, a0 individuals
were picked up by patrols in
the Swanton, Vt., area
compared with 2,000 the year
before and 2,500 in 1975.

When someone crosses the
line, sensing devices trigger
lights on a seven-metre-long
‘intrusion panel" in the
patrol’s main office in
Swanton. They also set off a
series of beeps over the
radios of border agents in the
area.

But Anderson says that
only 65 per cent of the alarms
are followed up. The main
problem, he explains, ia a
lack of manpower.

Normally about 50
patrolmen are stationed in

them have temporarily been
sent to the California-Mexico
border to beef up operations
there.

Also, .some of the elec-
tronic sensing equipmént
was shut down In the last
month while new, more

owerful equipment was

ing Installed.

But last summier,
following a six-month in-
vestigation, the RCMP and
border patrol did break up a

é illegal aliens
across the border for two

yeara,

Catching the smugglers in-
volves close co-operation be-
tween authoritles in the two
countries. Sometimes appre-
herded illegal allens reveal
the names of the Canadian
smugglers and U.S.
authorities advise thelr
Canadian counterparts of
these details, as well as
issuing warrants for their
arrest in case the smugglers
should cress the border —

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However, Anderson
complains that judges don’t
treat peoplesmuvgiing as a
seriou! crime, Unually the
sentence is a aixmonth jail

“Moat of the time they get
a light sentence and they go
right on smuggling again

As for tho illegal aliens,

thelr home countins

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francaise pourra donc étre captée
penoant une période de transition >
ala fois 2990 AM et a 96,9 FM.

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96,9 EM

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Grace au Plan accéléré de
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maintenant reliée aux réseaux francais
de radio et de télévision de
Radio-Canada.

Vos émetieurs-relais diffusent la
programmation de nos stations de
Vancouver qui ont pour mission de

"‘relayer les réseaux, sans décalage

horaire, et de refléter le mieux
possible l’actualité en
Colombie-Britannique.

En radio: Une quarantaine d'heures
d'émissions, chaque semaine,
prennent naissance dans les studios
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Croque-matin, de 6 a 9h, place
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telavision rebroadcasters in the araas listed above. |.

These transmitters are part of the Accelerated
Coverage Plan which allows all communities of at
least 800 English or French speaking persons to
raceive broadcast services In thelr respective
officiat language. In British Colurnbia, transmitters
aré linked to CBUF-FM and CBUFT in Vancouver,