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 — \'2 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 Jerrace . et Terrace dio Lenouvel émetteur FM de Terrace sera en ondes lundi le 27 aodt. La radio - francaise pourra donc étre captée penoant une période de transition > ala fois 2990 AM et a 96,9 FM. Prince-George 95,5 FAA 96,9 EM ort an Grace au Plan accéléré de -rayonnement, votre région est ay 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 de CBUF-FM a Vancouver méme. _ Croque-matin, de 6 a 9h, place information et musique sous le signe de la bonne humeur matinale. .. Pacifiquement, & 11h30, prédispose a l'heure du midi en charmant vos - oreilles... . Pacifique-Express, a 16h, livre l'information qu'il faut aux auditeurs du Pacifique, y compris celle du Réseau-Ouest reliant, chaque jour, toutes les communautés francophones de |’Ouest du pays... Décibelles, 4 19h, vous en met plein les oreilles avec des rythmes d'aujourd'hui qui ont |"heur de plaire... Prince-Geo 14. 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