RANDOM AT LARGE

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32145, 14 November 1969, Page 15

RANDOM AT LARGE

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

AU of us are spoilt these days. We take for granted what our forefathers would have looked upon as a miracle. Today's housewife sets the dials of her cooker and washer, checks her clubs are in the boot of her car and then drives off to some golf club, accepting as fact that her machines will function perfectly, that on her return the washing machne will have washed and dried her washing, the cooker cor-

rectly cooked her dinner and that her husband will have the table set and the sedatives poured. But probably, the field in which most advances have been made is that of communications. The early settlers waited for months to hear from their loved ones from back home, and it was absolutely impossible to set your watch by the arrivals of the old sailing ships because they circumnavigated the big world at the whim of the wind.

However, in the wizard, wizened world of today, modern jets zoom in from Denmark or Dacca with stop watch precision which brings us to the point that, having for so long accepted the reliability of the mails, you can imagine our abject grief and consternation when nothing arrived from Random at Large in India. Hence these hurried lines to fill what otherwise would have been a blank in our paper and your day.